Wish

If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be?

P.I

What are polyatomic ions?? How are they used in chemistry?

IDE

What is the rule for using -ide???

Bonds

What is the difference between an ionic bond and a covalent bond?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today?

Ions

What is an ion and what type of bonds do they form???

Chemical Formulas

What are chemical formulas?? Give an exmaple.

Colors

What did you think of colors???

lab

What did we do in lab today? What did you learn from lab?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today??

Lab

What did you learn from lab today?

Allotropes

What is an allotrope? Give an example of allotrope that you would see and use everyday?

Elements

What is one thing that you learned about the elements yesterday in class?

Synthetic

What are synthetic elemetns and how are they created?

ITM

What are the inner transition metals??

The Halogens

What are Halogens? What is the importance of this group?

Alkali Metals

What are the alkali metals?? What are some of their properties?

Metals

What are some of the properties of metals? chapter 19

Guys

Who was Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and what did they do for science?

Meitner

Who was Lise Meitner and what did she do for chemistry?

Changing Elements

Yesterday was it hard or easy to change an element into another element? What was to process of change called?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today??

Tracer

What is a tracer and how is it used?

Detectors

What are the different types of radiation detectors? Explain each of them.

Half-life

What is half-life of an element??

Transmutation

What is transmutation? How is it related to alpha particles?

Radioactivity

Who discovered radioactivity??? page 540

Smoke Detector

How does a somke detecor work? Hint on page 542

Alpha

What is an alpha particle?

Strong Force

What is a strong force??

Table

How are the elements are arranged on the periodic table?

Wondering

What are the two elements that scientists believe are the bluiding blocks of the universe? Explain. Hint:: look on page 524

Mosely

Who was Moseley? What did he do for science?

Elements

How was the first guy to arrange the elements in a useable way?

Warming

On page 528 "A Chilling Story", What is a piece of evidence that shows that the Earth is warming?

H.I.R.L.

What happened at the Heavy-Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany in 1994? You can look on page 523 of your text book.

Electron Cloud

What is the structure of the electron cloud? page 520

Element

What element did you pick to do a report on? What did you learn about that element?

Project

What is something that you have learned about your science fair project in the past two days?

E.T.D.

Explain how the electron dot diagrams are used in chemistry? Also tell me what it is?

G vs P

What is the difference between groups and periods?

Isotope

What is an isotopes? Given an example of an isotope.

Protons.

Why are protons so important to an element?

Quarks

What are quarks and how many different types of quarks have been discovered?

Atomic Component

What are the atomic components? Explain what they are?

Dalton

Who is John Dalton and what did he do?

Tell Me

What is the atomic number and the mass number represent in an atom?

Why

Why do we need to know the properties of atoms?

Importance

Why is it important to turn your homework in on time? What are the benefits of asking questions?

P.T

What is the periodic table and why is it important?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today? What was lab about?

Charles's Law

What is Charles's Law? Why is it important to our daliay lives?

Boats

Tell me what you thought of the boat lab. Is this a lab that I should do again or not? Explain.

Boyle's Law

What is Boyle's Law? What could it be used for in our daily lives?

Boats

Why is your boat the best boat in the whole class?

Pascal

What is Pascal's Principle and why is it important?

Lab Today

What did you learn from today's lab? What didn't you like about today's lab?

Plasma

What is plasma and what does it mean to be in a plasma state?

TE

What is thermal expansion? How does it refer to your life?

Ideas

What are some of the crazy science fair ideas that you found but didn't want to do for this year?

Science Fair

What will you be research to in class? Why is it the best project ever?

KT

What is the kinetic theory? Explain.

Tyndall Effect

What is the Tyndall effect and how does it relate to mixtures?

Lab

What was the goal of the lab that was done today in class? Was this a good lab or not?

Physical vs. chemical

Why is it so important to know the difference between a physical and a chemical change?

Lab

In today's lab we will be mixing HCl and baking soda. What do you think is going to happen or what did happen?

Math

Why do we have to do story problems? Why can't we do something that is easier? Do you wish that science was more like math, where everything is given?

Chemical vs. Physical

What is the difference between physical and chemical changes in science? Are they the same or do they differ some how, explain?

Mixtures

What are the different types of mixtures? How do they differ and why are some more complex then others?

Matter

What are the different forms of matter? How do they differ?

Unit of matter

That is the smallest unit of matter and why is it important? Why do we study it?

Easy blog

Lets do an easy blog today. What was something that you did over your first three day weekend?

Lab

What is the point of the lab that we did today?

Conversions

Why is it important to learn conversion in science? Why do all sciences use S.I units of measurements instead of their countries units?

Scientific Method

What are the steps to the scientific method? Why would you use it?

Science Fair

Why is doing a science fair project important so important to this course?

Good Morning

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

This Summer

Since this is the last blog of the year, why don't you tell me one thing that you are going to do this that you think is going to be fun?

Kasimir Fajans

Who is Kasimir Fajans?

Kasimir Fajans

Who is Kasimir Fajans?

9-12.P.3.1.

Describe the relationships amoung potential energy, kinetic energy, and work as applied to the Law of Conservation of Energy.

Sound

How did you song go? Was it good or could you have worked on it a little bit more? Did you like this lab, explain why?

William D. Coolidge

Who is William D. Coolidge?

Today's Lab

What did you think of the lab that we did today? Was it fun, what did you learn, and should we do it again next year?

Chapter 10

What is the difference between constructive and destructive interference? (page 309)

Electromagnetic Spectrum

What is the electromagnetic spectrum? What is on it and why is it important to know this model?

Open and Closed

What is the difference bewteen and open and closed circuits? Which one would you find in your homes?

Energy and Magnets

How does energy relate to magnets? Why do they work together? How did we come up with this theory?

USA and Resources

How does it make you feel when you think about how wasteful the USA is when it comes to resources? How is this going to affect your life?

Your thoughts

How does it make you feel to hear yesterday that some of our energy sources are going to be gone in about 50 years? How do you think that people are going to start changing their ways of life?

Nuclear Energy

How is nuclear energy created? What are some of the problems with nuclear energy?

Energy Sources

How are the projects comeing? Tell me something that you have learned about your energy source.

Renewable Resources

What is a renewable resources? What are some renewable resources and what are they used for?

Nonrenewable Resources

Why do you think our courntry uses so many nonrenewable resources? What is one thing that you think that everyone one could do to help save on the use of these nonrenewable resources?

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! :) What are three things that you can do in our home to help save the Earth and to would help your parents save money?

11th Hour

How do you feel about the movie the 11th hour? What did you learn, do you agree with the message, and did it change your view of how you live?

Petroleum

What are something that we use petroleum products for? Do we use them for too many of our items? What can we do to recycle and reduce our use to products?

Energy

What is the main sources of energy within the United States? Make sure that you include percentages. Also what can we do to help change some of your energy sources?

Generators

What is a generator? Why is it important to electricity? When would you use a generator?

Solenoids

How is an electromagnet created? How many paperchips do you believe you can pick up? Did the amount of solenoids matter?

Magnets and Electricity

How can magnets be used to produce electricity? Why is this a benefit in creating reusable energy?

Humans and electricity

I would like for you to think of a design that we could use the energy produced by humans to generate electrical energy. Be creative and come up with a new idea.

Earth Day

What do you feel that our school can do to help out the community of Warner on Earth Day? Do you feel that this one day of difference can help create change for the rest of the year?

Magnets

From going over the chapter what are somethings that you found have magnets in them that you didn't know about before?

Magnets

Compare and contrast magnetic forces, fields, and poles. Then explain how they compare to the Earth's magnet.

Your Energy

Where and how is the energy created that powers your homes?

Your House

In your house you have either fuses or a circuit breaker. What is the difference between the two of them and why are they in your home?

Electric Power

Electric Power is used in our homes and everywhere around us. What are some ways that you are able to lower your energy bill to help lower the electric bill for your parents and to help save the environment?

Batteries

What are the different types of batteries in your chapter and how do they differ? Also what is some that you could use each type of battery for?

Ohm's Law

Who is Ohm and what is his law? Also what does his law have to do with how electricity move through your home?

Congrats

Congrats to everyone that was at Science Fair Yesterday. I'm really proud of all of you, a job well done. How is static electricity created? Is their any place in your home in which you get a shock when you walk through it?

Electricity

What is the best type of choice for generating electricity?

Open vs Closed

Which is the best types of circuit system for you home a open or closed circuit system?

Electricity

How is lightning formed???

Internal Combustion Engines

How does and internal combustion engine work? And what is an example of what they are used for?

Thermodynamics

What is thermodynamics and what are the two laws of thermodynamics? How do they apply to your lives, examples?

Solar Heating

What are the two types of solar heating and how do they different from one another?

Insulators

What is an insulator and how is it built? Also what are they used for?

Controlling Heat Flow

Why do we need to control heat flow? Give an example of something that controls heat flow.

Radiation

How does radiation travel through the different stages of matter? Give an example to go along with your definition.

Food

Does the food we eat have energy in it? If so how are our bodies able to use that energy? How can we determine that amount of energy that is found within our food?

Measuring Specific Heat

What is used to measure specific heat of an object? What are the steps that are to be able to measure the specific heat? If this something that you can use to help measure specific heat of an object at home, why?

Different Parts of the Country

In different parts of the U.S, there are different types of heating systems. Why is this and what are some of the different types of heating systems that are found around the different parts of the U.S.

Lava Lamp

How does a lava lamp work? And if you could make your own lava lamp what materials would you use?

Heating

What are the three main heating systems and how do they compare to solar heating?

Its over

Now that science fair is over what is the best part about being done with science fair? And what was the coolest project, other than your own, that you saw yesterday?

Thermal Energy

From the video that we watched on Friday explain the procedure of determining the specific heat of an object.

Heat and You

How does your body produce heat energy and why is it important for your body to produce heat?

Compare and Contrast

How does doing a science fair project compare to doing research in industry, a university, or in a research facility?

How does doing a science fair project relate to scientific method and does it really help you understand this key concept of science?

Solar Power

How is solar power being used to lower energy bills for homes that have them?

Science Fair Projects

Well today was the first day of presenting what are somethings that you might have been able to improve on with your project? Even if you didn't present you should have seen some other peoples projects and learned something from them.

Preview

Why is your science fair project the best? If you don't think it is the best explain why.

Specific Heat

What is specific heat and why it so important to know?

Thermal Energy

What is the difference between thermal energy and temperature?

Ideal Machines

What is an ideal machine? Is it something that does everything you want because that would be ideal.

On-line Lab

What do you think of the online lab that you are doing right now. Do you like it? Do you hate it? What do you think could be improved on it?

In or Out

Input vs Output force
When using simple machines to do your work which is always going to be higher you input or our output force and why?

Lever

Yesterday you did a lab on levers. What is your favorite type of lever, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class lever, and given an explain on that lever?

Efficiency

How does efficiency related to machines?

Machines

What is a machine and how does it make your life easier?

Two Different Types of Power

Did you know that there are two different equations for power? Explain the difference between them.

Power?

What is power and how it used with energy?

Work

What is work and how do you use it everyday?

The Impossible Dream

People in the early 1800's had been trying to create a perpetual-motion machine for hundreds of years, but what is a perpetual-motion machine and what was the most famous fraud of the 1800's?

You and Conversation of Energy

Give one example of how your body follows the law of conservation of energy.

Conservation of Energy

What is the law of Conservation of Energy and how does it work?

Energy

Why is energy always conserved and does that follow a rule?

Potential Energy

So did you know that where are different types of Potential Energy. Why don't you tell me what they are and what they are related too?

What is the best type of energy?

If you had to compare Kinetic Energy to Potential Energy which would be the best?

Newton and You

How does Newton's Laws of Motion relate to you and things that you do everyday?

Newton's 3rd Law of Motion

Describe the action-reaction pairs that are related to this law.

Momentum

Why does the force change the momentum?

Weight

Can you explain why your weight on Earth is different then your weight on the Moon?

Centripetal Force

What is centripetal force and can you tell me an explain of it?

Momentum

What is momentum and how is it conserved?

Einstein

What was Albert Einstein's view of gravity?

Air Resistance

What is Air Resistance? How does it affect falling objects?

Science Fair

What is the best part about your science fair project?

Gravity

What is gravity, why is it important, and why can't we live without it?

Friction

What is friction, how many types are there, and what does it do?

Newton's Laws

What are Newton's three laws of Motion?

Assignment

This blog is designed for the physical science students to blog on topics that are related to topics beginning discussed in class. What is something that you want to learn this semester?