Rotation One
Computer: Chemical Valley – Share your thoughts…
Why is knowledge about chemicals and chemical reactions important to everyone in society?
Ontario’s chemical industry directly employs over 50 000 people, who created and sold products worth over $22 billion in 2008. The chemical industry has had many positive effects on Ontario’s economy. However, as with many human activities, the chemical industry can have unintended negative effects…
Read page 152 in textbook – look through the links posted in the ‘Hood…
The Aamjiwnaang First Nation Reserve and Chemical Valley – chemicals are everywhere, but the use and disposal of chemicals comes with a responsibility to the environment
- Aamjiwnaang First Nation – the website for the Aamjiwnaang First Nation
- Environmental Health Perspectives – the magazine where Ada Lockridge published her results
- Canadian Natives Blame Toxins for Fewer Sons – a MSNBC report on Chemical Valley
- EnvironmentalChemistry.com – a collection of resources and news about chemistry and the environment
- The Fragile Y of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation – a podcast and information about Sarnia’s Chemical Valley
Create a podcast or video blog to share your thoughts about this issue and how understanding chemical interactions and reactions within the environment (and us) is important to society!! This will be posted on the website under the post (due in two days time).
Smart Board: Böhr Diagrams
Read the review article – Böhr ‘n’ Diagrams note. Practise the diagrams on the Smart Board – check with Ms Faulkner. Complete the ‘Böhr Diagrams’ worksheet and the ‘Bonding Capacities’ (collumns 1-3).
Low Tech: Review Reading
Use your textbook ‘Investingating Science 10’, read and note p142-144 and 146 (do questions 1-4), and 148 (do questions 1-4).
Physical Lab:
Use your ‘Investigating Science 10’ – page 151 – ‘Calcium and Water’. Follow the procedure and complete the question set of 9-14.