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4/30/08 http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31595/title/Molten_salts_give_biofuels_a_boost Read the article to see how our energy unit and our atoms unit are related.

4/29/08 Guidelines for Hyperstudio
 * Draw Bohr models for Atoms #1-10, 11-18 are extra.
 * Demonstrate understanding of the arrangement of atoms on the periodic table in terms of atomic number.
 * Determine whether an atom will gain, lose, or share electrons to complete their outer shell.
 * Extra - Keep track of the 4 lab activities in your Hyperstudio notebook.

4/23/08

4/23/08 [|Link to Podcast on Biofuels.] [|Link to House of the Future.]

4/15/08 Listen to the podcast of the Marketplace Morning Report. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/15/tax_cheating/ Did you know there was such a thing as Behavioral Economics? Listren for elements of a good scientific investigation.

More Podcasts! Listen to the Scientist Converstation Podcasts on our podcast server. One group even made a movie! http://podcast.qcsd.org/weblog/claguna/

4/9/08 Here is a link to the new [|Page Flake for Atoms]. Please post links under messages. Also, period 4 is podcasting about the scientists! Having trouble keeping them straight? Listen to our podcasts. [|Scientist Conversation 1]by KM, KP, KH, JK [|Scientist Conversation 2]by SM, BK, EH, SF [|Scientist Converstaion 3] by MF, MB, BW

4/8/08 Play the [|Atom Builder Game]. Learn the terms Ion, Isotope, Ionized, and Radioactive. Read the tutorial to become smarter than the average bear.

4/7/08 Look under the word **Elements** in the [|Science Links] to find good information for the element project. Also, [|here is the game] we played in class.

3/26/08 In period four science we found a fun website! http://web.visionlearning.com/dalton_playhouse/ad_loader.html

3/17/08 In Algebra I we are studying Exponents. Here is another resource. [|Click Here]

3/15/08 The online class that our own Mrs. Ellis co-facilitates was mentioned on George Lucas's Edutopia. [|Read the article.]

3/13/08 Here are some [|solubility curves] to use with our lab.

3/12/08 Today we ran a lab to Identify and Unknown Solid using solubility. Solubility is a characteristic property of matter. It is a property that is the same for a substance no matter how much of that substance you are testing. Characteristic properties help us to identify a substance. Be sure to read about solubility curves in your book to help you understand our lab this week.

3/7/08 Use [|Chem4Kids] to find out why dissolving a solute affects the temperature of a solution. New simulation - [|Dissolving Salts in Water] [|A Background Essay on Dissolving Salts in Water] - Scroll Down and read the background information.

3/5/08 What are three of the ways we learned to separate the parts of a mixture? Does this picture remind you of one? What is the name of the compound that forms these blue crystals?

Here is a picture of some of the data from our Temperature vs. Dissolving Lab. 

3/3/08 Virtual Chem Lab http://www.chemcollective.org/vlab/vlab.php

2/29/08 Our Objectives: 1. Learn the difference between a solvent and solute. 2. Sort Materials into the Categories of Element, Compound Mixure

2/28/08 Voice Thread - [|Soluble or Insoluble?]

2/27/08 We tested the solubility of several compounds in water today.

2/26/08 We have started Chapter 4 and we began a new lab on solutions.

Nuclear Reactor Drawing