2011-2012 Dates

Aug18 3-6:30pm       Freshman Focus

Aug19 9-2:00pm       Freshman Focus

Aug24 Freshman               School Starts

Aug25Upper Classmen School Starts

Aug 30   FHS     Open House 6-7pm

Sept5 No School Labor Day

Sep 6:30 FHS       Senior Trip Mtg

Sept 9                  Unity Day

Sept16 No School Inservice Day

Sept 20                  Picture Day

Sept26 (40min)      Early Dismissal

Sep30 Midterms

Sep 30                      Homecoming Game

Oct 1                      Homecoming Dance

Oct 6 3-6:30pm        PT Conferences

Oct14 No School  WOEA Day

Oct23  National Mole Day

Oct26 End Q1

                        Quarter 1

 INTRODUCTION

 CAREERS & EDUCATION

 SAFETY

 LAB EQUIPMENT

 MEASUREMENT, MEASUREMENT2

Length

Volume

 SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

 UNIT 1 SUPPLYING OUR WATER NEEDS

Unit 1 Objectives Reading Guide  

 A. The Quality of Our Water PPT                                 

1. Measurement and the Metric System

Your Turn: Meters and Liters            

2. Laboratory Activity: Foul Water                              

3. You Decide: Information Gathering              

4. Water and Health                                                   

5. Water Uses

Your Turn: U.S. Water Use            

6. Back through the Water Pipes                         

7. Where Is the Earth's Water?                        

8. You Decide: Water Use Analysis                             

9. You Decide: Riverwood Water Use             

 Part A Summary

 B. A Look at Water and Its Contaminants PPT                    

1. Physical Properties of Water                        

2. Mixtures and Solutions                                           

3. Laboratory Activity: Mixtures                               

4. Molecular View of Water

Your Turn: Matter at the Microlevel            

5. Symbols, Formulas, and Equations

Your Turn: Working with Symbols, Formulas, and Equations                      

6. The Electrical Nature of Matter                              

7. Pure and Impure Water                                         

8. Laboratory Activity: Water Testing               

9. You Decide: The Riverwood Mystery                      

10. What Are the Possibilities?                         

Part B Summary 

 C. Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill PPT                    

1.Solubility                                                                

Your Turn: Solubility and Solubility Curves

2. Solution Concentration                                           

Your Turn: Describing Solution Concentrations

3. Oxygen Supply and Demand                        

4. Temperature and Gas Solubility                               

5. You Decide: Too Much, Too Little?             

6. Acid Contamination                                     

7. Ions and Ionic Compounds

Your Turn: Ionic Compounds

8. Dissolving Ionic Compounds

9. Heavy Metal Ion Contamination

10. You Decide: Heavy Metal Ions

11. Molecular Substances in the River

12. Laboratory Activity: Solvents

Part C Summary 

 D. Water Purification and Treatment PPT

1. Natural Water Purification

2. Laboratory Activity: Water Softening

3. Hard Water and Water Softening

4. Municipal Water Purification

5. Chlorine in Our Water

6. You Decide: Chlorination and THM's

 Part D Summary

 E. Putting It All Together: Fish Kill-Who Pays?

1. Directions for Town Council Meeting

Oct27 (40min)      Early Dismissal

Oct28 No School  Teacher Record Day

Nov 6                    Daylight Savings (clocks 1hr back)

Nov 9                    Science Fair 4:30pm

Nov 10 6:30              Financial Aid Night

Nov 10                     PT Conferences pm

Nov23-27              No School ThanksGiving Break

Dec 7                     ROTC Dinner 6pm

Dec 5 (40min)    Early Dismissal

Dec9 Midterms

Dec19-21     Semester Exams

Dec22-Jan2            No School        Winter Recess

Jan12 End Q2

Quarter 2

 UNIT 2 CONSERVING CHEMICAL RESOURCES

 Unit 2 Objectives Reading Guide Vocabulary

 A. Use of Resources PPT

1. Laboratory Activity: Striking It Rich

2. Using Things Up

3. Tracking Atoms

Your Turn: Balanced Equations

4. Laboratory Activity: Using Up a Metal

5. Resources and Waste

6. Disposing of Things

7. You Decide: Consuming Resources

Part A Summary

 B. Why We Use What We Do PPT Notes

1. Properties Make the Difference

Your Turn: Properties: Physical or Chemical

2. The Chemical Elements

Your Turn: Element Crossword Puzzle

3. Laboratory Activity: Metal, Nonmetal?

4. The Periodic Table

5. You Decide: Grouping the Elements

6. The Pattern of Atomic Numbers

Your Turn: Periodic Variations in Properties

Your Turn: Mendeleev's Periodic Table

7. Chemical Reactivity

8. Laboratory Activity: Metal Reactivities

9. What Determines Properties?

10. Modifying Properties

11. You Decide: Restoring Ms. Liberty PPT

Part B Summary

 C. Conservation In Nature and the Community PPT Notes

1. Sources of Resources

2. Conservation Is Nature's Way

Your Turn: Writing Balanced  Chemical Equations

Coin Project

3. Atom, Molecule, and Ion Inventory

Your Turn: Molar Masses

4. Conservation Must Be Our Way

5. You Decide: Recycling Drive

Part C Summary

 D. Metals: Sources and Replacements Notes PPT

1. Copper: Sources and Uses Copper Mines PPT

Your Turn: Uses of Copper

2. Evaluating an Ore

Your Turn: Percent Composition

3. Metal Reactivity Revisited

Your Turn: Metal Reactivity

4. Metals from Ores

5. Laboratory Activity: Producing Copper

6. Future Materials

Your Turn: Alternatives to Metals

Part D Summary

 E. Putting It All Together: Making Sense of Cents

1. What Is Money, Anyway?

2. Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Semester Exam Review

Semester Exam Objectives

Semester Exam Key Terms

Exam Schedule Revised 4/8/08

Jan 13 (40min)    Early Dismissal

Jan16 No School Martin Luther King Day

Jan26            FAFSA Night 5:30pm

Feb 6 (40 min)        Early Dismissal

Feb9 Midterms

Feb 11              Sadie Hawkins Dance 8-11pm

Feb 14                  Valentines Day

Feb 16 No School        PT Conferences am

Feb 17 No School

Feb20 No School Presidents Day

Feb 24                  FHS Blood Drive

Mar5-9 OGT Boot Camp

Mar11           Daylight Savings (clock 1hr ahead)

Mar 12-16          OGT Testing

Mar 22 End Q3

Quarter 3

 UNIT 3 PETROLEUM: TO BURN? TO BUILD? PPT  Notes

Let't Try these Again PPT NOTES

 Unit 3 Objectives

 A. Petroleum in Our Lives

1. You Decide: It's a Petroleum World

2. Petroleum in Our Future

3. You Decide: Who Has the Oil?

Part A Summary

B. Petroleum: What Is It? What Do We Do with It?

1. Laboratory Activity: Separation by Distillation

2. Petroleum Refining

3. Laboratory Activity: Viscosity and Density

4. You Decide: Crude Oil to Products Chart

5. A Look at Petroleum Molecules

Your Turn: Hydrocarbon Boiling Points

6. Chemical Bonding

7. Laboratory Activity: Modeling Alkanes

Your Turn: Alkane Boiling Points

8. Laboratory Activity: Alkanes Revisited

Your Turn: Alkane Boiling Points: Isomers

Part B Summary

 C. Petroleum as an Energy Source

1. You Decide: The Good Old Days?

2. Energy: Past, Present, and Future

Your Turn: Fuel Sources over the Years

Your Turn: Energy Supplied by Various Fuels

3. Energy and Fossil Fuels

Your Turn: Energy Conversion

Your Turn: Energy Conversion Efficiency

4. The Chemistry of Burning

5. Laboratory Activity: Combustion

6. Using Heats of Combustion

Your Turn: Heats of Combustion

7. Altering Fuels

Your Turn: A Burning Issue

Part C Summary

 D. Useful Materials from Petroleum

1. Beyond Alkanes

2. Laboratory Activity: The Builders

3. More Builder Molecules

4. Builder Molecules Containing Oxygen

5. Creating New Options: Petrochemicals

6. Laboratory Activity: Petrochemicals

Part D Summary

 E. Alternatives to Petroleum

1. Alternative Energy Sources

Your Turn: Energy Dependency

Your Turn: Prized Petroleum

2. Builder Molecule Sources

Part E Summary

 F. Putting It All Together: Life without Gasoline

1. Confronting the Prospects

Mar 23              Early Dismissal  

Mar 19-23         (10th-11th)        OGT  Testing cont'd

Mar 22-25          Senior Class Trip

Apr 13 6:30pm  Senior/Faculty Game

Apr27 Midterms

Apr2-9 No School Spring Break

May 19 Prom 8-11pm May 20  After Prom  12-3:30am

May16 6:30pm       Sr Award Night

May21-24              Sr Exams  

May24 7am-1pm      Grad. Practice

May25 7pm Graduation

May 28 No School Memorial Day

May29-31          Final Exams 

Jun 4 End Q4    Last School Day   Early Dismissal

Quarter 4

 UNIT 5 NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY IN OUR WORLD

 Unit 5 Objectives

 A. Radiation. Energy, and Atoms

1. You Decide: Should You Eat Irradiated Food?

2. Kinds of Radiation

3. The Great Discovery

4. Nuclear Radiation

5. Laboratory Activity: The Black Box

6. Gold Foil Experiment

7. Architecture of Atoms

Your Turn: Isotope Notation

8. Laboratory Activity: Isotopic Pennies

9. Isotopes in Nature

Your Turn: Molar Mass and Isotope Abundance

Part A Summary

 B. Radioactive Decay

1. Laboratory Activity: alpha and beta rays

2. Natural Radioactive Decay

Your Turn: Nuclear Balancing Act

3. Ionizing Radiation-How Much Is Safe?

4. Radiation Damage: Now and Later

5. Exposure to Radiation

Your Turn: Radiation from Foods

6. Radon in Homes

Your Turn: Your Annual Radiation Dose 

Part B Summary

 C. Radioactivity: Natural and Artificial

1. Half-Life: A Radioactive Clock

2. Laboratory Activity: Understanding Half-Life

Your Turn: Half-Lives

3. Benefits of Radioisotopes

4. Radiation Detectors

5. Laboratory Activity: Cloud Chambers

6. Artificial Radioactivity

Your Turn: Bombardment Reactions

Part C Summary 

 D. Nuclear Energy: Powering the Universe

1. Splitting the Atom

2. The Strong Force

3. Chain Reactions

4. You Decide: The Domino Effect

5. Nuclear Power Plants

6. Nuclear Fusion

Part D Summary

 E. Living with Benefits and Risks

1. You Decide: The Safest Journey

Your Turn: Assessing Risks and Benefits

2. Nuclear Waste: Pandora's Box

Your Turn: High and Low Level Waste Disposal

3. Catastrophic Risk: A Plant Accident 

Part E Summary

 F. Putting It All Together: Long-Term Nuclear Waste Storage

1. A Sign for the Times

2. Looking Back 

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UNIT 4 UNDERSTANDING FOOD PPT1 PP2 Reading Guide Notes

 Unit 4 Objectives

 A. Getting Started

1. You Decide: Labels and Daily Values

2. The Food Pyramid

3. You Decide: Keeping a Food Diary

Part A Summary

 B. Food as Energy

1. Laboratory Activity: Food Energy in a Peanut

2. Food for Thought-and for Energy

Your Turn: Calories In

3. You Decide: Energy In-Energy Out

4. Fats: Stored Energy with a Bad Name

Your Turn: Calories from Fat

Your Turn: Fats in the Diet

5. Carbohydrates: A Way to Combine C, H, and an O

Part B Summary  

 C. Foods: The Builder Molecules

1. Foods as Chemical Reactants

2. Limiting Reactants

Your Turn: Limiting Reactants

Your Turn: Limiting Reactants Chemical Reactions

Your Turn: Limiting Reactants in Plants and Humans

3. Proteins

Your Turn: Molecular Structure of Proteins

Your Turn: Proteins in the Diet

Part C Summary

 D. Other Substances in Foods

1. Vitamins

Your Turn: Vitamins in the Diet

2. Laboratory Activity: Vitamin C

3. Minerals: An Important Part of Our Diet

Your Turn: Minerals in the Diet

4. Laboratory Activity: Iron in Foods

5. Food Additives

6. Laboratory Activity: Food Coloring Analysis

7. You Decide: Food Additive Survey

Part D Summary

 E. Putting It All Together: Which Food Is Better?

1. Food Labels

Your Turn: Finding Your Daily Values

2. You Decide: What Kind of Food Am I?

3. Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Final Exam Objective Summary

Final Exam Key Terms

Key Terms Combined by Chapter - Terms & Definitions

Final Exam Review

Exam Schedule 12/6/11

Combined School Schedules (Word Document) Revised 12/6/11  

End of Year Schedule

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