Week 18 Blog reflection

This four day week started out with some very new concepts like Dalton and his ideas. In the Dalton's playhouse lab, we were able to work through experiments as he did to figure out what they revealed about the chemistry of certain substances. This lab was really informative and I thought pretty fun, it had experiments that first didn't click with me why they were important, but as I worked through the worksheet and took the mini-quizzes after each section I was able to understand how much these experiments made chemistry what it is for us today. We also discussed Avagadro's Hypothesis along with working more on Dalton's atomic theory in a worksheet testing skills and understanding in these concepts.  On a side note,  most students have negative feelings toward using worksheets for learning, but when we do them as a class and all participate, I think it really benefits our learning and gives us a really solid base to study off of.  This week continued with learning Chemical Formulas based on gas volumes, this basic concept seems to be one that many things will depend on us knowing. This week ended off with an assessment of these concepts, and again, I think having the online lab and the worksheets to look off of helped me to better grasp these concepts before the assessment.  Also, when studying I found this really simply designed website summing up exactly what Avagadro studied and learned to benefit the world of chemistry: http://library.thinkquest.org/12596/avogadro.html

Pictures of my notes for the week are below.