The first part of this worksheet was relatively easy for me, I referred to the attached list of charges and names. The second part was a little harder because it was the opposite way around, but I still got through it and if I keep practicing this skill they'll both become natural to me.
Because of the magic sand lab introductory lesson, I already knew how to make formulas for ionic compounds. For the first part of the worksheet I looked at the columns in the table and found the charges of the elements I needed. In the second section I changed the suffixes of the second elements to "ide." For the last part I just had to do the opposite as I did in the second section.
The first part of this worksheet was a little more comprehensible because all to took to understand was looking at the name of the first element in the compound and adding the correct number depending prefix. Then I had to change the second elements suffix to "ide". The second part was little harder but overall it helped me understand covalent compounds better.
This worksheet was hard for me, especially the second half. I found it interesting to learn the new definitions and label the atom/molecule, but it was hard to fill in the atomic diagrams. I had some trouble with the first one and the third one but with some help I was able to better understand them, I still need to follow up to get a full understanding of this kind of topic.
By doing this worksheet I was asked to break things down enough that a five year old could comprehend them. Because of this I had to actually understand each prompt well myself, and I learned things I might not have otherwise if I didn't have to make it so simple.
For a fun and groovy spring break experiment my partner and I made a lava lamp! After a couple tests to see how food coloring would react in our lava lamp, we got a tall Voss water bottle and filled a quarter of it with water. We then then filled the other 3 quarters of the bottle with vegetable oil, leaving a small amount of room at the top. We waited for the oil and water to separate and then added a couple drops of blue food coloring and one Alka-Seltzer for extra bubbly fun. The bubbles were a little more scattered than we hoped, but it looked like a real lava lamp for some time! We focused on the question, "what properties keep the water from mixing with the oil." |
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