Science

It has been awhile as I have learned that I can only seem to access the blog from home, my office is a blogging black hole. Even Beaver tried and his whole computer practically froze. I blame the breaker switches and excessive number of electrical outlets (roughly 50). I am likely growing a nice, big brain tumor due to my time in the 8th Grade Dean’s office.

Since my last post we have covered the following topics, the kids are going to be tested on them on Wednesday:

Phases and phase changes
Gas Lawes (Boyles, Charles, Combined)
Atomic Theory (Democritus, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr and Electron Cloud)
Components of an atom
Atomic number, mass and isotopes
Energy shells, excited and ground state electrons

Once they get past this test (and Bowman and I are trying to make it challenging) we will come up with some fun capstone activities for Thursday and Friday. Then, next week, we are moving on to the Periodic Table and then bonding. Fun!

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