Grade+9+Chemistry+autumn+2013

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 * //**Week/date**// || //**Activity**// || //**Resources**// || //**Homework**// || //**Deadline**// ||
 * //33// || //Introduction and safety rules// || [[file:Safety rules suomeksi.doc]]

|| //If not finished, complete the safety rules 'cut and stick// || //By next lesson// || //Recap on carbon's atomic structure (nucleus, electrons) isotopes.// //Combustion products: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide; soot// //Principles of balancing chemical equations// ||  || //Balancing equations sheet (sorry not available electronically) Qns a-m// || //By next lesson// ||
 * //34// || //Carbon: friend or foe ?//
 * //35// || // Forms of carbon - allotropes //

// Graphite, diamond, bucky balls, graphene // // Properties - hardness; conductivity. //

// Carbon cycle - processes involveed. // // Fossil fuel formation. // // What are fossil fuels ? Why are they so important ? Friend or foe ? // || // Ilmiö p.233-236 //

|| //Complete carbon cycle sheet.// || //By next lesson// || //How distillation works.// // Alkanes - names, properties, structures Isomerism // ||
 * //36// || // Fractional distillation of crude oil //

//Video clip about fractional distillation//

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//Pitch drop (liquid bitumen) experiment // || //Ilmiö questions p. 240: 1-7// || //By next lesson// ||
 * //37// || // An Inconvenient Truth film // ||  || // Discuss the film with each other and as many people as you can. At the end of it, you will be asked to write a reflection in class. This will be assessed in week 38 // ||   ||
 * //38// || //Single lesson: Written task on issues raised by An Inconvenient Truth. This is an assessment to be done in the lesson so is not available beforehand on this website. //

// Double lesson: // // Alkenes - structures and formulae // // Saturated/unsaturated compounds - testing with bromine water // // Alkynes // // Cracking alkanes to make more useful products. // || //Lab demo of fractional distillation of crude oil// //Cracking video also shows bromine water test.//

//YOUR TASK!!!!: // ||  ||   || //Plastics - environmental issues; definitions - thermoplastics ( kestomuovit ) and thermosetting plastics ( kertamuovit )// ||
 * //39// || //Cracking and polymerisation//

//Answers//

//Ilmiö p. 317//

//Plastics information sheet// ||  ||   || //Carboxylic acids// || //Structure of alcohols.// //Balancing the combustion reactions of alcohols.// //Structure of carboxylic acids// //Variety and occurence of carboxylic acids// || //Properties of alcohols// || //By next lesson// ||
 * //40// || //Alcohol structures and reactions; balancing equations//
 * //41// || //Esters formulae and structure//

//Production// //Uses// //Fats, carbohydrates and proteins// || //Ilmiö p271- 294// //Solution to ester sheet://

//Ester naming powerpoint://

//At this point the work can seem really complicated but you simply need to remember the main points about structures of fats, carbohydrates (monosaccharides, polysaccharides) and proteins. You do NOT have to learn any detailed structures.// //Information about proteins// ||  ||   || //AUTUMN BREAK// ||  ||   ||   ||   || // Ions. The Reactivity Series. // // Oxidation and Reduction. // || // Ilmiö p.193-210 //
 * //42// || //TEST: In the computer room Thursday 17 October// || //TEST LINK: this will be activated during the lesson// ||  ||   ||
 * //43//
 * //44// || // Metals: recapping their properties. Chemical reactions with metals. //



|| // Ilmiö p.193-210 // ||  ||
 * //45// || // Electrochemistry // || // Ilmiö p.193-210 //

//Electrolysis. Movement of ions in solutions. Electrochemical cells.//

//Ilmiö p.211-218//

//Thursday lesson: Metal extraction task - in the Technology Computer Room// ||  ||   || //Go to the tech computer room on Tuesday and Wendesday// || //Deadline:23.59 Nov 24th// ||   || //Displacement reactions// || //Electrochemistry - cells// //Ilmiö p. 219-225// //We cover some general chemistry principles - displacement reactions and balancing equations.//
 * //46// || // Metal extraction // || [[file:MYP Gr 9 Chemistry Assignment How are metals produced from raw materials2013.doc]]
 * //47// || //TET week// ||  ||   ||   ||
 * //48// || //Corrosion prevention//

//thermite lock// || //Revision for national test.// ||  ||
 * 49 ||  || **//NATIONAL TEST DATES://**
 * //9A 4 DEC (this week)//**
 * //9B 10 DEC (next week)//**


 * //The test will help determine your grade. If you do extremely badly, your number may drop. Good performance in the test may raise your grade. The test is in English, but the original Finnish text will be available to you. It is a test covering all aspects of grade 7-9 chemistry.//** || //Read through the chapters in Ilmiö on environmental chemistry p.297-320// ||  ||
 * //50// ||  ||   ||   ||   ||