Weekly Blog

Monday: Today we started out by pulling out our worksheet we started last week. It is about atoms and elements. We did this in class, this was a good way to know better about how the read the periodic table and more about electrons,protons, and neutrons. We started this mini project by figuring out how many protons,neutrons.and electrons there are in a certain element. My element was beryllium. It has 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and 5 electrons. We first put a circle in sharpie on a plastic plate, we put it at the crease of the plate. Then we put different colored protons,neutrons, and electrons on the plate. I put two green Fruit Loops in the middle, and I also put 2 red Fruit Loops in the middle. With the electrons I put 5 blue Fruit Loops on the circle that I drew with sharpie. Here is what one of them looked like. I think that this was one of the fun experiments we do this week. Today we also talked about the project we have due on Monday. We basically make a 3-d model of an atom.








Tuesday: Today we had a nice surprise. This experiment was really fun. So Mrs.G gave us a flame test lab. This seemed like another usual lab, but it ended up being something really fun. Mrs.Giacommelli was soaking popsicle sticks in different element dissolved in water. We had copper,lithium,strontium,sodium,potassium,sodium and potassium mixed, sodium and potassium seen through cobalt glass, calcium, barium, and finally an unknown. So Mrs.G talked to us and showed us a bunsen burner aka blow torch. I think that this was a pretty cool tool. It makes a very hot flame when you turn it on. When we put copper throughout the flame it made it jade green flame, when we put lithium it was a crimson red, when we put strontium through it was a really bright red. When we put sodium through it was a regular orange, when we put potassium through it was purple violet color, when we put sodium and potassium mixed through it was a orange Then we did something different we had cobalt glass so when we put the sodium and potassium mixture through again it was a violet. When we put calcium through it was a deeper orange that the sodium, then we put barium, it was a yellow greenish color. Here ar some pictures.

 This is the one through cobalt glass.

Wednesday: Today we continued doing our blow torch fun. Today we did the unknown and we did some of the elements again. Overall this lab was really fun i had a lot of fun myself. I think that everyone else had a lot of fun to. Today we also talked about the quiz that we have tomorrow. The quiz is going to be about the people who figured out the atom and about the atom. I have been studying and hope I do well.

Thursday: Today we had the quiz. I think the quiz was a little hard, I didn't study as well as I should've. I didn't have a lot of time. I don't think I am going to get the best grade. Today I started on my atomic project which is due on Monday. My element is neon, and I working independently. I think this project id going to be fun.


Friday: Today we got our tests back, talked about mole day, and TGIF! When I got my quiz back I wasn't so happy about my grade. We went over our quiz and I realized that the mistakes that I make were careless errors. I think that I should've studied more. Today we also talked about Mole day. It is next Tuesday. We bring in a white shirt and we decorate and put jokes on it about Avogadroes number. That concludes my blog!

What I could improve on:
I could improve on making my study habits better and making my handwriting better.

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Monday:Today we finished the expire mental part of our lab that we got on Friday. This lab requires two different graphs. One is Boyle's law and the other is Charles's law. A reason why we did the graphs were to practice the laws for the test on Wednesday.  Hopefully when I get to that part I will make it neat and organized. This was the graph that was last week, but it is the same layout of what we had to do this week. Today we also finished all of the experiments that we started last week. These were very fun and interesting. One of them was Ivory Soap Soufflé this what it looked liked.

We made this Soufflé by putting Ivory Soap in the microwave, when the air in soap expanded the soap imploded, this was a really cool experiment that Mrs.G chose. When we touched the soap it felt warm and mushy. It also felt soft and it was still hot in the middle. I think everyone enjoyed this experiment. Today we also reviewed and talked about the test on Wednesday.  I feel good about the test.That is all we did today.

Tuesday: Today we study a lot for our test.  We started with going over review questions from our science starter. Then we played grudge ball! if you remember we played it last test. It is basically when you answer questions and you get other people out. We divided into three teams and one person from each team answers a different question and they cross other peoples x's. I think this is really fun game to play and a good way to review. Even though our team got eliminated we still had fun, I didn't  get to answer a question but I still payed attention to the other questions. This did help me review  a lot and I feel very confident about what my grade is going to be. Tonight I am going to study the science tech book and do the assessment. Today we also went over our study guide that we did on Friday. We all went over diffrent questions on it.

Wednesday: Today we had our last test of the first nine weeks. This was not as hard as I thought it would be. Since I studied good I thought it was easy. I also went over the vocabulary before the test. The night before I also took the assesment on the science tech book. I feel good about my test and hopefully I get a good grade. This was one of the quotes Mrs.Giacommeli said to us.                          

Thursday: Today we got our tests back and began Unit 3! So when I got my test back I was really excited and feeling good. I got a 94!! I am so proud of myself and i think Mrs.G is proud of me too. Our class average was a 94, isn't it legit same score I got on my test. We went over our tests and the mistakes I made were some careless errors. I am very happy so I brought it back home and my parents were very happy too. We had the highest average in all the other classes. I got to put my name on the wall of champions because I got an A. Today we also got started on our new unit. It is about atoms and periodic table. She asked someone to stand up and juggle some oranges. This was a demonstration about the atom's orbitals moving around it. Today we also talked about our atom project and what element we are going to do. This project is about making a 3-d model of an element of an atom. It is due on October 20th. 

Friday: Today is my birthday! Today we talked more about our project and we chose our element. My   element is Neon. This is how to read an element on the periodic table.  Neon has 10 parts to it. I am excited about making this model. Mrs.Giacommeli talked about what to do and what not to do and not to make it last minute. She had some good advice on how to do the project. I think this is also a good way to review and learn about atoms for the test. Today we also went over the people who figured out the atom. There names were J.J. Thompson,Niels Bohr, James Chadwick,and Ernst Rutherford. I was interesting learning about them.

What I could improve on... 

I could improve on making things more neater and not craming things in. Overall I think that this week was a pretty good week.

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Monday Today we got a new lab called the heating curve lab. This lab required a graph so that was a little different. The graph was a little hard to do at first but when I got everything labeled it was easy. I didn't like this lab to much because we didn't have a lot of expirements. The one expirement we did was basically turn cold water with ice water into boiling water. I learned that a thermometer could be something besides mercury. We used some black substance, I forget what was.

Tuesday: Today we did so more work on our graph that we started yesterday. The fun of today was that we blew up a balloon and we didn't pop it but we let it go, it hit Mrs.G in the face! That was the funny part. Today we had fun. It was a calm day. 

Wednesday: Today we had fun with a marshmallow. Mrs.G put a smiley face on a regular marshmallow and she put it in the microwave for a minute. When she took it out the marshmallow was puffy the smiley face was still there but it was big. This was a great idea that Miss Giacomelli had.  I thought this was a really fun experiment. This was probably the best experiment we did this week. The science behind this experiment is that when gas rises in temperature it expands. We chose a marshmallow because it is very full with air.  Today we also talk about Charles's law in Boyle's law. We took notes on this to. 

Thursday: Today we didn't do much. We got a new lab and we only got to do one station, that was a little boring. Today we really didn't do a lot. Today went over our homework from last night about Charles's law. This was a lot of math even though we were in science class. 

Friday: Today we didn't have any fun at all. All we did was work on our study guide.

I could improve on making my things more organized.