Chemistry Semester A
Chemistry Semester A
Guide Sheets
It also has ideas on how to do some stuff in Courseware.
Make sure you submit documents that can be opened by a PC. I cannot open .pages or .key files. They are Mac files.
Honors Chemistry Additional Activities
Note the Extension Activities are worth 30% of your weighted grade.
Unit 1: Atoms and Elements
Discussions should not be done first. Write a minimum of three complete sentences. Include citations if you research ideas. Many guide sheets include links you can use.
The activity has new data, and other parts are revised. Be sure to use the information on the Guide Sheet.
Task 3 has been completely rewritten. Do not use any other teacher's version of this task. Do not find answers to the old, retired questions and put those as the answers to the new questions.
Use the Guide Sheet for instructions.
This activity has been revised. Use the Guide Sheet for instructions.
Do not use the alternate activities provided by other teachers. Use this version, please.
Unit 2: Chemical Bonding
Discussions should not be done first. Write a minimum of three complete sentences. Include citations if you research ideas. Many guide sheets include links you can use.
Unit 3: Chemical Reactions
Discussions should not be done first. Write a minimum of three complete sentences. Include citations if you research ideas. Many guide sheets include links you can use.
This unit activity has been completely rewritten. Do not follow Courseware, but still put your answers in Courseware. Upload any files Ms. Getz needs to see, like images or slides. You can upload mp3 or mp4 files in Courseware.
Other possibly useful information:
List of resources available online that may be useful
Electron Configurations This is something I wrote to help students envision electron configurations by looking at the periodic table. It may help you get faster with writing electron configurations. Here is a video from Office Hours about Electron Configurations
EOS review sheet provided by Edmentum for Chem semester A
How to attach a document to a submission.
How to set Google docs or slides so they can be shared with anyone with a link to the document
Categories and Weights
pretest: 0% of your final course grade
Modules (14): 20% of your final course grade
20/14 = 1.42 so this means each Mastery Test is worth 1.42% of your final course grade
Discussion (3): 20% of your final course grade
This means each discussion 20/3 = 6.67% is worth 6.67% of your final course grade
Course Activity (6): 10% of your final grade
This means 10/6 = 1.667 so each course activity is worth 1.67% of your final course grade
Unit Activity (3): 10% of your final course grade
10/3 = 3.3333 so this means each unit activity is worth 3.333% of your final course grade
Post-Test (3): 20% of your final course grade
This means each post-test 20/3 = 6.67% is worth 6.67% of your final course grade
End of Semester Test (EOS): 20 % of your final grade
Students unlock Mastery Tests by redoing the tutorial that goes with it.
Discussions can be redone by adding more to your response. You have to send your revised discussion answers as a message to your teacher so she can regrade them. Course and Unit Activities show up each time they are resubmitted. Discussions can't be formally resubmitted. The teacher has to go into the gradebook, find the discussion, and manually add points. Courseware will not notify the teacher if anything is added to a discussion after it has been graded.
Post-tests and the End of Semester test can be taken twice and require the teacher to reset them. The reset has to be 24 hours after completion of the first try.
Academic Integrity- what you should or should not be using for answers in discussions or constructed response questions
How you can use the research you did when using artificial intelligence software: https://bit.ly/AIuseForClass.
Make sure you show independent thought when you use information based on research you did using artificial intelligence software.
End of Semester Exam Review Guide video, slides (there is a link for the video and a separate one for the slides)
End of Semester Exam review document
Links for EdOptions Academy Course Resources http://bit.ly/EOAResources
Do not do an alternate activity the way they are written in EOAResources. I adapt everything for my students. It may be identical to an alternate activity on the EOAResources chemistry semester A page. Then again, the guide sheet may be different.