Thursday - December 11th, 2025
Thursday - December 11th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will create Lewis dot structures to represent covalent compounds.
Bellwork:
What is the molecular geometry of the molecule H2O? Is this shape symmetrical or not?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Notecard due at the end of the period on Monday, 12/15!
Tuesday - December 9th, 2025
Tuesday - December 9th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will create Lewis dot structures to represent covalent compounds.
Bellwork:
Draw the Lewis dot structure for carbon dioxide (CO2)
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Friday - December 5th, 2025
Friday - December 5th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will create Lewis dot structures to represent covalent compounds.
Bellwork:
Predict whether the compounds below would be Ionic (I) or Covalent (C):
1) NaNO3
2) NF3
3) SCl2
4) Mg3N2
5) K3PO4
1) NaNO3
2) NF3
3) SCl2
4) Mg3N2
5) K3PO4
Daily Plan:
- Finish Lewis Structures Notes
- Lewis Structures Practice #1
- Lewis Structures Practice #2
Homework:
Wednesday - December 3rd, 2025
Wednesday - December 3rd, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze the properties of compounds to determine if they are ionic or covalent.
Bellwork:
Compare and contrast the properties of ionic and covalent compounds.
Daily Plan:
Homework:
N/A
Monday - December 1st, 2025
Monday - December 1st, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze the properties of compounds to determine if they are ionic or covalent.
Bellwork:
How is an ionic bond formed? Predict the chemical formula of the ionic compound formed between strontium (Sr) and phosphorus (P).
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Monday - November 24th, 2025
Monday - November 24th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze the properties of compounds to determine if they are ionic or covalent.
Bellwork:
What do metals want to do with their valence electrons? What do nonmetals want to do with their valence electrons? What do you think may happen if you put a metal together with a nonmetal?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - November 20th, 2025
Thursday - November 20th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to identify trends on the periodic table, and explain these trends using Coulomb's Law.
Bellwork:
Which element would have a greater ionization energy: nitrogen (N) or arsenic (As)? Explain.
Daily Plan:
- Unit 5 Work Time
- Unit 5 Test
Homework:
N/A
Tuesday - November 18th, 2025
Tuesday - November 18th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to identify trends on the periodic table, and explain these trends using Coulomb's Law.
Bellwork:
Which element would have a greater electronegativity: Palladium (Pd) or Iodine (I)? Explain.
Daily Plan:
- Unit 5 Kahoot
- Unit 5 Review
- Science Department: Periodic Table CFA
Homework:
Prepare for the unit 5 test!
Friday - November 14th, 2025
Friday - November 14th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to identify trends on the periodic table, and explain these trends using Coulomb's Law.
Bellwork:
What happens to the force of attraction of the nucleus as you move left to right across a period? Why does this occur? What happens to the force of attraction of the nucleus as you move top to bottom downward through a family? Why does this occur?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Wednesday - November 12th, 2025
Wednesday - November 12th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to identify trends on the periodic table, and explain these trends using Coulomb's Law.
Bellwork:
What family are the alkaline earth metals? How many valence electrons do they contain and what ions do they form?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
N/A
Monday - November 10th, 2025
Monday - November 10th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze the periodic table to determine how it is organized and where groups of elements are located.
Bellwork:
How many valence electrons does phosphorus have? Draw its Lewis Dot Structure.
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - November 6th, 2025
Thursday - November 6th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be assessed on their knowledge of unit 4 topics.
Bellwork:
N/A
Daily Plan:
Homework:
N/A
Tuesday - November 4th, 2025
Tuesday - November 4th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to predict the number of particles in a substance and convert using chemistry specific units.
Bellwork:
A sample of copper (I) sulfate (Cu2SO4) is found to contain 4.88 x 1024 atoms of oxygen. What is the mass (in g) of this sample of copper (I) sulfate?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Prepare for the Unit 4 Test!
Friday - October 31st, 2025
Friday - October 31st, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to predict the number of particles in a substance and convert using chemistry specific units.
Bellwork:
A sample in a lab is found to contain 1.35 moles of diphosphorus hexachloride (P2Cl6). How many atoms of chlorine are in the sample?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Wednesday - October 29th, 2025
Wednesday - October 29th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to predict the number of particles in a substance and convert using chemistry specific units.
Bellwork:
What is a mole? What is the representative particle of an element? What is the representative particle of a compound?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Monday - October 27th, 2025
Monday - October 27th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to predict the number of particles in a substance and convert using chemistry specific units.
Bellwork:
How did you do on the Unit 3 Test? What do you need to do to either keep that same level or improve for Unit 4?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Moles Practice #1
Thursday - October 23rd, 2025
Thursday - October 23rd, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be assessed on their knowledge of unit 3 topics.
Bellwork:
What do you want to work on for the next 15 - 20 minutes to prepare for our unit 3 test?
Daily Plan:
- Unit 3 Review
- Unit 3 Test
Homework:
Tuesday - October 21st, 2025
Tuesday - October 21st, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
Write the electron configuration for the following elements: K, P, and Fe.
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Prepare for the Unit 3 Test!
Friday - October 10th, 2025
Friday - October 10th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
Using your electron configuration activity, what did you notice about how electrons filled into the orbitals for the nitrogen atom? (Hint: This was question #7 on your activity)
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Tuesday - October 7th, 2025
Tuesday - October 7th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
Where are electrons located in an atom?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Friday - October 3rd, 2025
Friday - October 3rd, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
1) Please complete the Science Department: Atomic Structure CFA on Canvas.
2) What is average atomic mass? How is it different from mass number?
Element X is known to have two dominant isotopes X-131 and X-133. The percent abundance of X-131 is known to be 24.611% and its mass is 130.998 amu. If X-133 has a mass of 133.019 amu, what is the average atomic mass of element X?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Wednesday - October 1st, 2025
Wednesday - October 1st, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
What particle gives an element its name or identity? Which particles affect the charge of an atom? Which particle has no affect on the mass of the atom?
An atom is found to contain 34 protons, 36 electrons, and 40 neutrons. Write this atom's isotope notation (symbol with all numbers around it).
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Monday - September 29th, 2025
Monday - September 29th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the structure of an atom and predict the number of subatomic particles in atoms.
Bellwork:
What are the three subatomic particles that make up an atom? Where is each located in an atom?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - September 25th, 2025
Thursday - September 25th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be assessed on their knowledge of unit 2 topics.
Bellwork:
Using the classifications of matter that we have discussed the past few days, classify the following substances:
1) Chicken stew 5) Water
2) Gatorade 6) Magnesium
3) Carbon dioxide 7) Lemonade
4) Platinum 8) Sugar (sucrose)
1) Chicken stew 5) Water
2) Gatorade 6) Magnesium
3) Carbon dioxide 7) Lemonade
4) Platinum 8) Sugar (sucrose)
Daily Plan:
- Unit 2 Test
Homework:
N/A
Tuesday - September 23rd, 2025
Tuesday - September 23rd, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will able to classify various types of matter and will prepare for their unit 2 test.
Bellwork:
What are the three classifications of matter?
Daily Plan:
- Classification of Matter Lab
- Unit 2 Kahoot!
- Unit 2 Review
Homework:
Prepare for the Unit 2 Test!
Friday - September 19th, 2025
Friday - September 19th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to predict if a substance is an element, compound or a mixture.
Bellwork:
Compare and contrast physical and chemical properties.
Daily Plan:
- Classifications of Matter Self-Discovery
- Classifications of Matter Activity
- HQ: Matter (DUE 9/23 @ 3:00 PM)
- Unit 2 Review
Homework:
Wednesday - September 17th, 2025
Wednesday - September 17th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to predict if an observed change in a substance is chemical or physical.
Bellwork:
What is a physical property? Give an example. What is a physical change? Give an example.
Daily Plan:
Homework:
N/A
Monday - September 15th, 2025
Monday - September 15th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will critically think and use problem solving skills on questions involving density.
Bellwork:
An object is known to have a density of 3.85 g/mL. A graduated cylinder is filled with water to a volume of 22.6 mL. The object is placed in the graduated cylinder and the volume in the graduated cylinder is measured to be 29.4 mL. What is the mass of the object?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - September 11th, 2025
Thursday - September 11th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will analyze data to determine the density of metal samples.
Bellwork:
If an object has a lot of matter packed in to a very small space, what would that mean about the object's density? Explain your answer.
Solve the following problem:
The density of an object is measured to be 0.115 kg/mL. If the mass of the object is measured to be 45.8 g, what is the object's volume (in mL)?
Solve the following problem:
The density of an object is measured to be 0.115 kg/mL. If the mass of the object is measured to be 45.8 g, what is the object's volume (in mL)?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Tuesday - September 9th, 2025
Tuesday - September 9th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the physical properties of matter and predict when a physical change is taking place.
Bellwork:
How do you feel the first unit test went? What is something you feel you could do to improve (or maintain) to do well on the next test?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Friday - September 5th, 2025
Friday - September 5th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able assessed on their knowledge of unit 1 topics.
Bellwork:
N/A
Daily Plan:
- Unit 1 Test
- Matter Self-Discovery
Homework:
Wednesday - September 3rd, 2025
Wednesday - September 3rd, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to convert quantities using units as a guide.
Bellwork:
What has been the most difficult part of this unit for you? What do you plan on doing today to address that?
Daily Plan:
- Unit 1 Kahoot Review
- Unit 1 Review
Homework:
Prepare for the test on Friday!
Friday - August 29th, 2025
Friday - August 29th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to convert quantities using units as a guide.
Bellwork:
1) Please complete Dimensional Analysis CFA #1 via Canvas.
2) Perform the following conversion:
3.2 lbs = ? g
Conversion Factors:
1 kg = 2.2 lbs
Daily Plan:
- Dimensional Analysis Practice #2
- Dimensional Analysis & The Metric System Activity
- HQ: Dimensional Analysis #2 (DUE 9/3 @ 3:00 PM)
Homework:
Wednesday - August 27th, 2025
Wednesday - August 27th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to convert quantities using units as a guide.
Bellwork:
Perform the following conversion:
13.5 g/mL = ? lbs/gal
Conversion Factors:
1 oz. = 28.35 g
16 oz. = 1 lb
1 cup = 236.6 mL
4 cup = 1 gal
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Monday - August 25th, 2025
Monday - August 25th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to convert quantities using units as a guide.
Bellwork:
Try to solve the following problems. Make sure to be able to SHOW work and EXPLAIN how you solved them!
a) 48 inches = ? feet
b) 6 feet = ? inches
c) 8.17 feet = ? inches
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - August 21st, 2025
Thursday - August 21st, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to determine which digits in a number contribute to its accuracy.
Bellwork:
1) Measure the following volumes AND add the two volumes together. Report your answer with what you think would be the correct number of significant figures:
Daily Plan:
- Measurement & Significant Figures Activity
- Significant Figures Kahoot!
- HQ: Significant Figures (DUE 8/25 @ 3:00 PM)
Homework:
Tuesday - August 19th, 2025
Tuesday - August 19th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to take accurate and precise measurements
Bellwork:
Write the following numbers in scientific notation:
1) -210,000
2) 0.000355
Take the following numbers out of scientific notation:
3) -3.21 x 10-5
4) 4.7 x 107
1) -210,000
2) 0.000355
Take the following numbers out of scientific notation:
3) -3.21 x 10-5
4) 4.7 x 107
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Significant Figures Practice 1 & 2
Friday - August 15th, 2025
Friday - August 15th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to convert numbers in and out of scientific notation.
Bellwork:
What volume is contained in the graduated cylinder below?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Wednesday - August 13th, 2025
Wednesday - August 13th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to take accurate and precise measurements.
Bellwork:
How are accuracy and precision different when it comes to scientific measurement?
Daily Plan:
- Finish Measurement Self-Discovery (Uncertainty Section)
- Measurement Practice #1
- Uncertainty Activity
Homework:
Monday - August 11th, 2025
Monday - August 11th, 2025
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to take accurate and precise measurements.
Bellwork:
What is one thing you are excited about in chemistry this year? What is one thing you are nervous about in chemistry this year?
Daily Plan:
Homework:
Thursday - August 7th, 2025
Thursday - August 7th, 2025
Welcome to chemistry at Fishers High School! This blog will serve as our course page for the year. The blog will be updated daily with what we did that day in class including any necessary documents. Please make sure to the check the blog often, especially if you are unable to attend class for any reason.
Daily Objective:
Daily Objective:
Students will be able to describe the layout and expectations of their chemistry course for the 2025 - 2026 school year at Fishers High School.
Bellwork:
Daily bellwork assignments will begin here next week!
Daily Plan:
Homework:
N/A
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