Archive for April, 2009


Final Project Due May 18

Hawaiian EruptionYou received your rubric today.  This should be fun.  Please do not choose something you are not interested in.  Any topic can fit the criteria… GUARANTEED!

 

Earth Day in the House

What will you do today to celebrate the Earth?

You can do anything you want and show me what you did for credit.  Examples include:

   – Awareness through Banners, Posters, Songs, Raps, T-Shirts, Poems

   -Reducing pollution by cleaning litter, cleaning a water source, recycling, educating others, reducing water use, or energy use, etc.

  – Come up with your own ideas.  Let’s see how creative you can be. 

Homework 4/16: Earth Science “The Beginnings”

Colosseum 

vOn a separate piece of paper, write down which of the 7 Natural Wonders you would like to visit and explain why.  Ask someone in your family to do the same below yours.

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XC: Look up any other “7 Wonders” (i.e. Ancient World, Medieval World, Industrial World) you are interested in and tell me which you would like to visit.

 

 

 

Practice Balancing

Remember, we will be finishing Chemistry on Wed. April 15 and we will begin Earth Science the next day.

The final quiz will include everything we have done since December (minus the whining).

Here are some balancing problems:

1.  H2 +  O2 --->  H2O            26.  N2   +   H2  --->   NH3
2.  S8 +  O2 --->  SO3            27.  N2   +   O2  --->   N2O
3.  HgO --->  Hg +  O2            28.  CO2   +   H2O  --->   C6H12O6   +   O2
4.  Zn +  HCl --->  ZnCl2 +  H2   29.  SiCl4   +   H2O  --->   H4SiO4   +   HCl