Week 19 Blog Reflection

This week got its start with a lab where we mixed 2 things (zinc and hydrochloric acid) to test how they would react to each other. They ended up creating Magnesium Oxide. (There's a picture of my notes from this lab below). Testing combustibility, we realized how chemical properties change when you mix two different chemicals. This concept is a bit fuzzy but I think I mostly understand it. This week we also did some skill practice and building. This consisted of things like balancing equations. It's very important I think to be able to go over these ChemQuests as a class, to give every group a question and have them share it with the class is more effective than overwhelming them with a 20 question worksheet to do all by themselves. This really allows us to do the problem quickly without losing focus and we get to fully understand each problem by our peers explaining them to us in terms we're able to understand. This helped us learn these skills and we will hopefully be using them for the rest of the year!