Grade+9+Chemistry+201718

Grade 9 Chemistry Autumn 2017
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 * Assessment task dates: **
 * Test week: **

dangers and warning signs
 * Week || Date || Lesson content || Sheets/resource links || Homework ||
 * 33 || Aug 14 || Laboratory safety and working practices;

Introduction to carbon chemistry. Atomic structure recap. Position in the periodic table. Bonding. Ionic and molecular (covalent) bonding. ||

Equipment sheet - bilingual



Monday mixed group notes Thursday group notes Friday group notes || Read through all safety sheets || Bonding in diamond and graphite Properties of diamond and graphite
 * 34 || Aug 21 || Carbon allotropes - natural forms of carbon

Graphene -its potential

The Carbon Cycle - atoms are not lost or created (except by nuclear processes) so recycle in the Universe || Article from 'The Week' Magazine

Primo Levi - excellent short story about carbon as audio and text

Lifegem

Monday single lessons



Mon Thu Fri || Read the article on graphene <<<<<<<---

and complete this form before the lesson next week. || Watching 'An Inconvenient truth' Fossil fuel formation Uses of fossil fuels || Fractional distillation video link Mon Thu Fri || Ask 4 adults if they believe that climate change is real, and what evidence do they have for their beliefs/response. ||
 * 35 || Aug 28 || Gases in the air. Sensitivity of atmospheric conditions to carbon dioxide volumes
 * 36 || Sep 4 || Hydrocarbons: alkanes - structures, properties

Isomers

Naming: meth- eth- prop - but- pent- hex-

Saturated compounds

Alkenes - names, structures, properties, isomers || Mon Thu Fri Karin absent || Complete this form ||
 * 37 || Sep 11 || Alkynes

Cracking alkanes

Polymerisation (not Friday group) || Cracking hydrocarbons video

Polymerisation of ethene video

Mon Thu Fri ||  ||
 * 38 || Sep 18 || Lecture given by Hannele Savela during Monday class lesson.

Alcohols - structure, uses || Links for information from the talk given by Hannele Savela INTERACT project

PDF of the book 'Stories of Arctic Science'

Free online course based on the Stories of Arctic Science information 'The Changing Arctic'

Mon Thu Fri || Spend 15minutes writing a reflection/notes on the talk || Dangers of methanol
 * 39 || Sep 25 || Distillation of ethanol

Carboxylic acid - structure, uses ||



Article about carboxylic acids

All about methanoic acid in everyday life Mon Thu Fri ||  || 9A - we finished watching An Inconvenient Truth
 * 40 || Oct 2 || Finishing off the organic molecules: esters, fats, sugars, carbohydrates, proteins || Mon - no lesson 9B, 9AB

Thursday

Friday: || Complete this form ||
 * 41 || Oct 9 || Finishing off the organic molecules: esters, fats, sugars, carbohydrates, proteins || Saving Planet Earth Documentary

Monday: Thursday: || Study for the test: 6th November ||
 * 42 || Oct 16 || TET week - no lessons ||  ||   ||
 * 43 || Oct 23 || Autumn break ||  ||   ||
 * 44 || Oct 30 || Revision week

The test has been cancelled. There will be an assessment in a lesson before the end of term. Do not worry, do not study. The assessment will be open book and designed for you to show your knowledge and understanding across all of MYP chemistry. || Monday lesson Thursday and Friday lesson ||  || Metallic bonding (electron clouds)
 * 45 || Nov 6 || Metals - what are typical metallic properties

Reactivity series of metals starting with the least reactive (platinum, gold, silver) Appearance of metals in nature. || Monday lesson Thursday Friday || Visit a //kivipuisto// - sometime, in your life, please do! Wonder at the magnificent variety of rocks and minerals native to Finland || Extraction by reduction
 * 46 || Nov 13 || Ores of more reactive metals

(iron, zinc, copper) || Monday whole class lessons Rare earth metals and their significance to modern life

Monday: Thursday: Friday: ||  ||
 * 47 || Nov 20 || Assessment activity ||  ||   ||
 * 48 || Nov 27 || Introduction to Electrochemistry (9A Monday)

Long lesson - formation of the elements talk ||  ||   || Mon9a Monday mixed group Thursday mixed group Friday mixed group
 * 49 || Dec 4 || Electrolysis || Mon 9b[[file:9b 20171204.pdf]]

Aluminium production

Hungarian aluminium processing disaster

Video - aluminium extraction ||  || 9A In the double lesson Simon is giving a talk on his work. ||  ||
 * 50 || Dec 11 || Electricity from chemical reactions || 9B
 * 51 || Dec 18 ||  ||   ||   ||