In our school there are only 5 grades that matter, your four Report Card Grades and your Regents Exam Score. Your final grade for the course is determined by adding up the five grades and then dividing by…

A funny pick sent to me by Evan F.  that is only funny if you are smart. The best jokes are like that, you can laugh at them, and laugh at those who don’t get it too.  (haha)…

This is a great short video which describes the gold foil experiment to you. Here’s another video, also way good. 

Reading the Precipitate Labs and some of the Bonding HW’s I realize that some of you are a bit in the dark about a few important details in chemistry.  Read and learn, or at your own peril, guess…

There is no such thing as magic, but I recently saw a video showing me magic.  Here it goes, you can learn this “trick” in minutes, and wow your friends. The number 6174 is special.  Keep that in…

You need to use this software to check your grades in my class, and all of the rest of your classes. If you can’t get in (duh!) let’s fix this ASAP by calling the number below. Tell them…

The point of this lab is to use the concept of percent composition by mass of water in a hydrated ionic compound to discover which compound is our unknown in lab. You will measure our any amount between…

This link jumps you to a short, guide to recognizing the first 5 kinds of chemical reactions. Print it, and read it twenty times.  I’m not kidding. 20x = 79 (that means you’re golden).    

Measurement Blog What did we do?  What were you supposed to learn?  What was our Homework?  When’s that stuff due? Friday  9-23 We “celebrated” today. Most of us did.  Some of you were not prepared and your grades…