Kettle Falls High School Science

Class schedule – Monday we have school with shortened periods for our Veterans day assembly.  No school on Tuesday for Veterans day, then the rest of the week as normal.

Biology – Water Cycle Lab on Monday, followed by a review of the chapter Wednesday & Thursday.  We will have the test on Friday the 14th.

Chemistry – Practice, Practice, Practice – naming compounds.  On Monday we will make a flow chart in order to help organize the different ways of naming molecular formulas and formula units.  We will then review using the interactive CD and finish with group (2s) naming compounds.  You will also have a quiz on the rest of the polyatomics on Wednesday.

Students, this is a short week due to conferences and other activities like the Veterans day assemble.  I will be gone to training on Wednesday, Thursday is a half day and no school on Friday YEAH!

Biology – quick review of demos we completed on Friday and then we will move forward on section 3.2

Chemistry – Remember you have a quiz on the “Metals with more than one charge” chart on the back side of your periodic table, the quiz is on Tuesday.

Biology – Please finish your pictures and definitions for section 6.1.  On Friday we will do a few demonstrations with Dry Ice (Carbon dioxide), which should prove to be fun.  Remember you can retake the last test if you would like to improve your grade!!!!  Also you can get extra credit points for viewing you grades using your Skyward access.  Just print the grades off and have your parents sign them.

Chemistry – Tomorrow we will go to the computer lab and look up information about sublimation of dry ice.  After looking at different labs we will come up with a Dry Ice lab we can complete on Friday (Halloween).  Remember in order to participate in the Dry Ice lab you must have your safety contract signed and turned in.  You will have a quiz next Tuesday on the metals with more than one charge (chart on back side of periodic table), start studying now!

Students you can recieve extra credit point for getting onto Skyward using your password and printing off your grades.  Have you parent sign and bring it back on Monday.

Biology – Remember you have a make up test Monday the 27th on Chapter 2. We will also be starting our enzyme lab with the potato puree, so dress for a lab – hair back, toes covered.

Chemistry – We will review section 6.2, complete a handout and interactive CD.  Remember that after the section review using the CD we will have a short quiz on the information. 

Hope you all did well on the PSAT!  Tomorrow we will review for the chapter 2 test in Biology and try to start the enzyme lab.

In Chemistry we will do a quick activity on bonding and do a pre-test to see what you know about naming compounds.

This week of October 13th will be a bit crazy for the biology classes.  We start off Tuesday with the Healthy Youth survey, and Wednesday with the PSAT test, on Thursday we will do a test review and hopefully a lab and then on Friday the Chapter two test.

Chemistry students we will review your test from chapter 5 and then start chapter 6.

Hope you all had a great Monday off.

Happy October, In Biology we will be looking at chemical bonds and why elements form bonds.  Chemistry will be looking at the design of the periodic table and why it looks that way.

Have a good weekend and make wise choices.  Monday Biology has a make up quiz on the Metric System and Chemisty needs to complete the “Candium” Lab.

Remember how to use the Metric chart I showed you.  Place your pencil on the starting number (given) and count until you get to the unknown number and move your decimal in the same direction that many places.

Kilo     Hecto     Deka     _____     deci     Centi     Milli

We have a guest speaker today.  He works as a CSI agent in California and will be here to discuss what his job includes and what type of school he needed to get where he is today.

On Friday we will be completing the Candium Lab, learning about isotopes.  Make sure that you have complete all the handouts for this section.

Happy Homecoming!!!