reminderz

Periodic Table unit is neverending...go over a PowerPoint in Regents tomorrow for review and put it to bed for good....
starting bonding with them...do lots of examples...

Still trying to catch up in Honors....need to finish the unit by Thursday and give a test on Friday and next Mon. or Tues....

on the quantum/pertab mc exam , TWO YEARS IN A ROW, you asked the wrong ion size comparison question! Change the F- vs. Ca 2+ question!

can't go into bonding in AP until final periodic trends are discussed...never did Moseley and x-rays or did I?

t-metals

glossed over transition metals on the PT in Honors today...re-emphasize the colored solution and DO more demos of elements...AT LEAST have some samples ready!

notes...

this year is quite different....it's like year one, part II... lots of prep and test-writing, fixing (improving?) what isn't broken...what happened to last year's tests? at least, I'm keeping track of everything this year...still, a neat notebook of transparencies would be nice...get started with VLOGGING!

First In First Out

Do the fifo rule for TM's...then get into the new clean notes but supplement with examples from (PRINTED) old notes....

in Honors, do n, n, n^2 and n^2 *2 for the atomic model.....

1st quarter synopsis

DO ELEMENT BLOCKS WITH HONORS AND REG ON MONDAY!
s,p,d,f blocks!
Honors: finish quantum unit and IMMEDIATELY move on to periodic table!
do spdf ordering mnemonic.
also , recall magnetic spin and show silver experiment video. bring up powerpoint that you just re-dated.
READ LAST YEARS BLOG BEFORE TESTS!

is it worth it?
writing has to be taught but perhaps online vids and written FULL BLOWN EXPLANATIONS have to be developed, put online, and COPIED for HW. That may be the ONLY solution to the trail of yearly tears!
Spelling needs to be heavily warned about and penalized early on!

first quarter over

here till midnight last night...too many last minute tests this year...plan ahead and give that third ac test much earlier!
have to refine explanation of emission...put up explanations DAY OF lesson and show in class....stress limited number of energy differences in MOST energy ranges!
G: forgot to do mnemonic of sublevel energy order! do that tomorrow and FINISH Aufbau exceptions, silver metal experiment that proved electron spin, valence definition reiteration, isoelectronica and para/diamagnetism.
same with D.

get back to general pre-printed notes!
do more practical questions in Regents tomorrow and assign text hw

H Test

was WAY too easy...
require more specific labelling of Bohr Model particles...relative energies and orbits...
major simplification...forgot to VARY intensity in photoelec. question!
redundant Bohr question...replace with a mol question next year.

ap thermo test

balance equations! just because the question doesn't say to check....!
q abs = NEGATIVE q rel DRAW!
dE does NOT require and end around nRT calc....ONLY EVER do that if dH is needed from a bomb
in Hess LAW diagrams ALWAYS USE AND LABEL UNITS!!!!]
Hf is NOT Hcomb ever
explanation requires you to answer why....there is no Cl2 GAS in a SALT!!!
the BIGGEST problem is not understanding basic stoichiometry of moles of a given substance versus moles of REACTION!