Monthly Archives: February 2014

Atoms Test: How to Prepare

There will be an atomic structure/chemical bonding/periodic table Friday March 7, 2014 We have been covering a lot of new information and you will need to study for this test for sure. If you have missed some days, I advise you to come in and get some help from me before school asap. Here are […]

Electron Orbital Diagrams

In class, I will be teaching students how to use Bohr Model Diagrams to determine how many valence electrons some elements have. This is an outdated understanding of where the electrons are located in an atom, but is useful to  figure out how many valence electrons there are (electrons in the outer energy level). It […]

Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song

Online Grades

Students: I graded science notebooks (SNs) this weekend, but did not enter the grades yet so that you could see your progress report grade which was the grade posted before the new grades are added. I will enter the SN grades on Monday February 10th after school. If you did not turn in your SN […]

Hands-on Test Postponed

I am home sick and so the hands-on test will be postponed until Wednesday. I will not be available before school Tuesday morning February 4th. Please by respectful to my guest teacher.

Why have grades changed?

As I was entering in your test grades, I noticed that the overall grades were not responding the way I thought they should. What I realized is that I had to set up new weighting categories for this term. In our old system they were automatically carried over, but with the new system, I apparently […]