Welcome to Chemistry 101!

Take a seat anywhere for now.

Agenda for Today

• Seating chart

• Meet the teacher

• Ice Breaker

• Dialogue – classroom rules

• Overview of trimester

• A look at the periodic table

Seating Chart

• Arrange yourselves in alphabetical order by first names.

• A’s in the back– A – C– D – F – G – I

Meeting G• Taught at Wayland for 11 years!

• Graduate of South Christian – ’95

• Western Grad – ’99

• Mother of Two– Cierra and Jordan

• Enjoy – Swimming – Snowmobiling– Gardening

Room

• Pencil sharpener – in back

• Kleenex – in front

• Exits

• Paper, stapler, hole punch – top drawer in front

• Other things?

Half Sheet• On one side, write your name.

• Come up with a word to describe yourself using the first letter of your name.– Bonus for using each letter!

Mysterious Ms. G

• Time to Share!

Half Sheet1. Name, hour

2. Hobbies, interests

3. Why are you taking this class, what to do intend to take away from this class for life?

4. Difficulties I should know about: hearing, sight, math skills, ADD, ADHD, lack of organization, etc.

5. How do you learn best?

6. Your email address

7. What do you remember about chemistry? (PT, atoms)

What are typical classroom rules?

Guidelines for Chemistry

Date:

G’s Rule

•R E S P E C T!

G’s Guidelines

• Be prepared

• Begin with bell

• Homework – see side board, wiki, phone a friend

• Respect– Do your own work– Be here

Chem Is Try

• How am I going to be GRADED?– Tests 30%– Homework 10%– Labs 20% – Notebook 10%– Quizzes and Participation 10%– Final 20%

Wayland High School ChemistryWikispaces

• All power points

• Homework assignments

• Lab Rubrics

• Other resources

Knowing the symbols

• Over the next 5 weeks we are going to work on learning the element name, symbol and location.

• This will make life easier later on.

• You and your table partner will need a red and blue colored pencil.

• Element song

Elements

• H, hydrogen• Li, lithium• Na, sodium• K, potassium

• Be, beryllium• Mg, magnesium• Ca, calcium• Sr, strontium• Ba, barium

Demos

• The alkali metals react vigorously with water to produce hydrogen gas, which is flammable.

• Experiments on video – H, Li, Na, K

• Flame test– Ca, Sr, Ba– Burn Mg

• Alkali Family in water– Rb, Cs, Fr

Homework

• Elements

• Notebook

• Get registered on Wiki – use your name as user name so I know who is who!– Web site on wiki for preparing for element

quiz