Biodiesel video

Our video for the biodiesel project was cantered around a outdoors informational type idea. We had each person in our group contribute. Ajay had a wicked camera and David edited it, i provided for driving us on location and Zuri was onscreen. Doing this project was quite fun and i'm sure almost everyone learned something about the subject matter. I haven't seen any of the other videos, but I feel that someone at our school could win some prize money. Our video can be found HERE and hope we win!

Beginning biodiesel.

This unit is going to be a little bit different than most of our previous ones. it is going to be based off of making a boat, and propelling it with fuel we make. the other part of this unit revolves around making a video promoting biodiesel. Our group for the video is me, Ajay, David, and Zuri. 

The unit exam (pre-biodiesel)

The unit exam was a doozy. Some of the structures I just wasn't confident on their properties, but most of the test really wasn't that bad. Alarge part of this unit was solely based on structure. But one of the major components was quickly recognizing what the problem was dealing with and applying the proper steps.

Modeling lab work

Yesterday we did a lab in the library on physically modeling the molecules we have been working on. Some of them were quite confusing, but with team spirit (and mrs Frank giving us the answers) we prevailed. Altogether this was an interesting experience that reminded me of the random desk toys of molecules in movies. This little project was making figure molecules properly and identifying all of the bind and electron placement. It is good practice for the test and is putting us up against problems we haven't seen before. The Sf6 molecule for instance has 6 bond but 8 planes altogether. this can be easily confused and is a good area to start studying for the test.

Intro to bonding

Our new unit is all about bonding. This means we are going to go into the shape and structure of each molecule. So far though we have only had simple molecules like CO2, nothing large like NaHCO3. i believe we will start to get into more of these larger molecules later into the unit. This unit does not seem like it will get much harder. The key to it will be remembering the patterns of the molecules, and the labels that go with them. HERE are some of the basics to the bonding process to go over.

Unit exam and rockin party

The unit exam was a fairly easy one compared to others. The large amount of study sources helped with that. Along with the fact that this unit itself was an easier one. Many of us did quite well on the quiz and i hope this transferred into the test. There were only a couple of questions that stumped me completely.

Today was Mrs. Frankenbergs birthday (pretty sure she's turning 27). We had a rockin party that comprised of ha on doing scholar bowl while everyone looks at him dumbfounded. It was a good relax day for us to recharge on brain snacks. Hopefully this next unit won't be hard. 

This week (so far)

Starting off with a Couple more lessons this week was the follow up to the quiz on Friday. Letting everyone fill up on them brain snacks. Two lessons happened which we will need to memorize for the unit test. Also we have had to do two different periodic tables (fake). To study for this test i will be going through all of the online quiz's, and doing the large packet with all the questions. The second periodic table made no sense to me at all. Some better explaining could have been useful there.