School closure and retest meetings

Luckily, I did not have any meetings scheduled this morning since I thought we were setting up the lab today, but about 8 people were signed up for this afternoon. If you are able to come tomorrow (Friday) afternoon instead, I will fit you in then, or you can hand me your worksheet during the day tomorrow and I’ll grade it and you can just stop by on your way out of the building Friday and pick it up with the feedback checklist. If you need to reschedule, that’s fine too as long as there’s an open slot.

I do not know if anyone had signed up for a morning test on Friday – if so, the test will NOT be there for you since I was putting them down there the day before – if you see this, get in touch with me via FirstClass and we will figure something out.

Resources for Equilibrium Help

I’m going to be adding any decent resources I find to help you prepare for the retest – sometimes seeing a bunch of different presentations of an idea can help turn on the lightbulb! Keep an eye on this space – I’ll just edit the post as I find new things to add.

1. ChemTeam Equilibrium help - Recommended by Marina! She said she particularly found #6 helpful in figuring out common ion problems.

Practice worksheet for Equilibrium worksheet

Here is the practice worksheet for the Equilibrium retest!

Equilibrium ReTest Assignment

Equilibrium practice key

Remember that the first 3 questions on the last page are not something we have covered yet!

Equilibrium Problems Key

Here is the earlier worksheet on common ions/PPTs

CIE key

Hess’s Law key

I have uploaded the key to my public Evernote folder, if you would like to see it.

Hess’s Law key

Link to Honors folder if you’re an Evernote user and would like to add it and automatically get anything I share there.

 

Here’s the original handout, by the way: Hess’s Law Practice 2

Titration Tutorial video

Titration tutorial.mp4

Naming Review and Study Tips

Be sure and check out the Helpful Tools and Links page (bottom of right column) – there is a link to an overview of naming rules and organic naming rules there which you may find helpful.

Some general tips:

1. Make sure you know the rules for each kind of naming (ionic, covalent, acids, organic).
2. Be able to identify the kind of compound, so you know which set of rules to apply.
3. Just like learning a new language, practice! practice! practice! is the best way to get good at it. Try extra problems at the end of Chapter 3 (odd answers in back of book), or try a friend’s WebAssign if they have different problems than you do. “Practice Another Version” appears after the Webassigns close.
4. The Mr. Guch’s website (on my links page under General) has many practice worksheets with answer keys to use!