Parents/Students End of Year Survey - Chemistry Pearson 2011-12
Please print and send to school with your child or e-mail to me for 10 pts extra credit
(I won’t read responses until summer fold over or put in envelope)
Over the course of the year your son/daughter has had many lab experiences, and studied many topics. To help remind you and your child here are some of the experiences we have had.
If you remember and think I should keep it put a “+” if you remember and think it wasn’t worth it put a “–“
Here are some of the lab activities we have done:
Sugar in gum (% composition) ______
Density of objects (Sig Figs) ______
GOLD penny______
Isotopes of pennies ______
M&M isotopes (weighted portions) ______
Bean “Bunches” (mole concept) ______
CuSO4 hydrate lab ______
Empirical formula of MgO ______
H2 and O2 Rockets ______
Making salt from baking soda ______
Pseudo putty ______
Specific heat of metals ______
Calories in a peanut ______
Snow globe w/ chemical twist______
Solubility of an unknown ______
How low can you go? Freezing pt depression______
Flame test (colored fires) ______
Periodic puzzle ______(cut and paste elements in order)
3-D molecular models ______( model setss)
Polar/non-polar solvents ___ (dissolve in baby oit or H2O)
Flaming gummy bear demo______
Molar volume of H2 gas (Mg & HCl) _____
IODINE CLOCK DESIGN A LAB ______
Design a single replacement lab ______
LeChatalier principle (“blood”) ______
Titration of vinegar ______
Salt hydrolysis (strong parent acids and bases, the salts make the indicator change color) ______
Take home pH lab ______
18 CHEMICAL SEMISTER Final ______
Properties of selected gases (air, O2, H2, CO2, methane) ______
Cu Sequence (all week; started in the hood ended with tiny bits of copper) ______
Electro chem. potential (Air battery) ______
Slime lab _not this year______
Using clickers to help review ______
( not yet % water in popcorn ) ______
This year we had a student teacher Ms Newman; was this experience a good one?
Topics my son/daughter enjoyed include:
Topics my son/daughter struggled with: (how did they find the level of math required?)
About how many hours per week (outside of class) did your child study chemistry? (too much/too little)
If your child missed class did they find the teacher available for extra help?
Additional comment: