Solubility Rules

I found this to be a very helpful link to memorizing the solubility rules!!! 

http://youtu.be/VJoKQ3ULCVs

Chemical reaction lab

Today we did a lab combining ionic compounds. Here's a glimpse pf what it looks like 

Review Sheet

This is a practice sheet I found that helped me identify types of chemical reactions

Practice Sheet

Describing Chemical Equations

Today in class we learned how to describe chemical equations through molecular, complete ionic, and net ionic equations. The hardest part of this was identifying the polyatomic ions and writing the nomenclature. Also, I could see the rules of aqueous solutions becoming an issue because there are 11 of them and all of them all have exceptions. I really hope anyone reading this will say a prayer that this all comes together in my mind before the quiz and test.

Finding products from reactants

Today in class we learned how to find the product of a solution simply by seeing the reactants. And I'm going to use this lesson to predict that this unit will be now asier than the last. There are 11 rules to know of there will be a double replacement reaction or not and it was just a very discouraging leason all around

Chemical composition test

We took our unit test yesterday, and I feel like I am speaking on behalf of the majority of our class when I say it was terrible. I have had nightmares not as scary as this test. We barely had enough time to finish an 18 question quiz over this material, so a 36 question test was essentially the death of my grade. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who had to suffer for those grueling 55 minutes. 

BFFLS

HAD FUN WITH MY FRIENDS IN CLASS TODAY!!!!

Mole conversions

This is a variation of a chart that we have been using in class

Formula of a Chloride Lab

Yesterday we had a lab in class over the mass and formula of Zinc chloride. My partner and I did not pass our pre lab quiz unfortunately but that was simply because once we realized how we had to solve the equation we had ran out of time. We were then given data by our teacher and asked to find the amount of Cl in the starting substance. Having just practiced how to do this type of problem on the pre-lab quiz, finding this answer was quite simple.

Chemical Composition quiz

Today we took the chemical composition quiz and it was pretty rough. Even the problems I knew how to do nd set up were a struggle because I kept second guessing myself. The multi step problems were also very tedious and I always felt like I was messing something up. We'll see what the grades look like...

Pre Lab quiz

Today we took a pre quiz before performing the Formula of Hydrate lab. I was not here in class on Friday so I had to get the notes from someone else. I didn't recieve teacher instruction so it took me much longer to complete the equation and I eventually ran out of time before completing the problem. I now feel like I understand the process and am confident that I will do good on the quiz tomorrow about the material we've covered this past week. Here's a picture of what we did instead of the lab today with data provided by the teacher. 

Mole Conversion Lab

Yesterday we did a lab in class to practice converting grams of elements into moles, those into representative particles, and a bunch of different variations of that. We had to measure actual objects and find out how many particles in it, or figure out a mass and gather that quantity of material. Here is a picture of our lab set up

Chemical composition Pre-test

Today we took a pre test and I literally did now know a single question. There isn't much to say about something I don't know anything about other than say a prayer for the next 2 weeks!