This is going to be a busy week. If you didn't see it over the weekend, the liquid nitrogen experiments made the local newspaper (Homer Horizon and Lockport Legend)!
Extra Credit is still availble using both my Recycling and Drop Box extra credit. See posts below. Time is running out.
Monday: Today we'll go over the Half-Life Practice problems from last week. We continued our notes by discussing the discovery of radiation, as well as thre three types of nuclear radiation. Tonight's homework is to work on the front of the Radiation Practice Problems worksheet.
Tuesday: Today we did an activity in class known as Radioactive Decay Cards. This gave us some practice with alpha and beta radiation in nuclear decay equations. This lab was finished in class and turned in If you have to make it up, you will also need a copy of the cards.. Homework is to finish the Radiation Practice Problems workheet, work on your Reading Study Guide, and to estimate your personal annual radiation dose.
Wednesday: We went over the problems from the homework, had a discussion on the difference between nuclear fusion and fission. I also passed out the review for the test. Here is the link to the review.
Thursday: We'll finish up the important notes/discussion from chapter 12.2. We'll also go over questions from the Review. Answers to the review are here.
Friday: Today is our Test on Unit 13 - Nuclear Chemistry. The Reading Study Guide and Review are due today. Today I also introduced our last mandatory project of the year: what I like to call Chemopoly.
