Rogers High School Honors Chemistry

This blog is designed for students at Gov. John R. Rogers High School in Puyallup, WA. taking the Honors Chemistry Course. The class is intended to be first year Honors Chemistry course which will best prepare students for a first year College Chemistry or High School Advanced Placement Class.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

January 18 - 22

Learning Targets:
  1. Students will be able to read for comprehension abstract text as it relates to the topics
  2. Students will outline the chapter material being able to gather only the relatively important material as it relates to class information and topics discussed
  3. Students will work collaboratively to deepen their understand of abstract concepts in chemistry
  4. Students will be able to write descriptively about concepts and topics that are conceptually difficult

Tuesday 1/18 - Notes Chapter 8
  • Review of electron configuration
  • Abbreviated electron configurations
  • Periodicity
  • Ionization Energies Tendencies
  • Atomic Radii Tendencies - Effective Nuclear Charge
  • Electron Configuration Handout Problems
Wednesday 1/19 - Class begins at 8:30
  • Review of Periodicities
  • Ionization Energies - First, Second, and Third
  • Review of the Names of Main Group Elements
Thursday 1/20 - All Extra Credit is Due
  • Test Review
  • Worksheet Completion
Friday 1/21
  • Chapter 8 Test