Today we did an escape room style check for understanding about toxicology! I don't want to post answers here yet, since one class has not had a chance to see all of the questions yet.
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Today Class C and Class D did their labs on Pesticide Residue. After this, we looked at how chronic toxicity is measured and learned how to label a graph properly.
Today we finished up our slideshow from the previous class, and reviewed what types of toxicologists there are, as well as watched the video on the last slide of the slideshow - an historical incident of murder solved through chemistry! Classes A and B did their labs today since they were not working yesterday.
We then did a toxicology review so everyone could check their current understanding! Today we will finish our slideshow from yesterday and start investigating chronic toxicity. We will review our toxicology notes, and hopefully start on our escape room!
Today we started to investigate forensic toxicology. We used these slides, and we watched the videos linked in them. We got through slide 10 today. We also finished working on webquests for anyone who had not yet finished.
Today we worked on our Toxicity webquest (this can be found on google classroom). Today was also the first notebook check to see where people were at with all of their work. What should be in your notebooks?
Activities With Risk Determining Environmental Risk One Fish, Two Fish Disappearing Dye Acute Toxicity Two sets of class notes - death by sugar and penguin conversions. Chemistry Plan #1 - this should be your plan for how to do chemistry math problems, read scientific texts, and how to practice science vocabulary. All questions from these should be answered in your notebook, and all data tables should be completely filled out. Today we did a lab with classes C and D, and had a little team time to work on the webquest with Class A and B. After today's lab with C and D, we reviewed the math found in the lab (good practice for unit conversion!). The lab can be found here.
Today we reviewed how to set up an equation to convert units! Notes will be posted shortly. Here is a handy video to review the concepts we covered in class in case you missed the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRe1mire4Gc
The other thing we began today was our webquests! This is Google Classroom and is titled Toxicity. These are due on Monday, 9/13 at 3:30pm. Today we learned about toxicity! This means we looked at how dangerous different chemicals are. We started by learning about how toxic candy can be (specifically sucrose). First, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOycTzN-fg
Second, use this formula to calculate how much candy it would take to kill you: (W x 13.5)/19.5 = amount of fun-size candy bars it would take to kill you W = weight of the person Calculate how many candy bars this would be for you own weight, then write that in your lab notebook. Class A and B did a lab today. This one is titled Acute Toxicity. Acute toxicity just means an exposure to a chemical over a very short amount of time. We did a lab to investigate how much of a potentially toxic substance it would take to kill 50% of a population of rats (this amount is referred to as the LD50 of that substance). On Thursday I will post a photo of the lab results for anyone who missed it. Finally, today everyone joined google classroom! Here are the join codes for the different classes. We will complete the assignment here tomorrow! Class A: a5uow7g Class B: qpq7sws Class C: mr67yfc Class D: mjqfbvb If you are not sure which class you are in, please email me! Today in chemistry we talked about a fun fact: Granite is made of three different minerals - quartz, feldspar, and mica. Quartz is what most beach sand is made of, and its chemical formula is SiO₂. The black mineral found along the beach after waves sink is the mica. It is perfectly flat even at the molecule level. It can look like gold, but floats in water!
Today we wrapped up our work for the week with some open work time and creating a plan. To be graded in the class, you need to write a plan each week, and then check if your plan works the following week. You will either update your plan if it didn't work, or try it on a challenge question. |
Daily AgendasHere you can find all of the daily agendas as we complete them. Missed a day of school? Check here for what we talked about, what we did, and how to make up work! Archives
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