Science at Bangor & in the News
This was a super short week! In chemistry we spent the week taking what we learned from our particle lab and applying it to problems with numbers. For instance, we learned that pressure is directly proportional to temperature. So if we double the temperature, the pressure doubles as well. Since we know how pressure, volume, temperature, and number of particles are related, we can figure out what the end result for one of those variables will be if we are given enough information about the other variables. We will spend the beginning of the week solidifying this idea and reviewing what we learned about particles moving so that by Wednesday we are ready for the Unit 2 assessment. This week all of the Science 9 groups wrote survey questions and then each class took a survey containing each group's questions. Each group then took the responses and is working to create a bar graph and pie chart from the data they collected. They will finish making the graphs early this week and then will present the graphs to the class. Our assessment on graphing will take place at the end of this week. This weekend I attended a fall reunion meeting with the teachers I attended a chemistry teaching workshop with over the summer. I really enjoyed getting back together with all of those teachers as well as being put to the test with our own lab challenge. We had to dust off some skills that many of us hadn't used in a while and worked through some common challenges we face in the classroom while being put in a similar situation we put our students in daily. Get ready for Monday everyone, we'll be trying a few new things as we review for assessments and start new units. VICTORY! We found the concentration of an acid & then figured out how much acid we needed in a reaction to make enough carbon dioxide to exactly fill a ziplock bag.
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