Welcome To Our Class

Hello, my name is Charlie Arbuiso, and I’ll be your chemistry teacher.     This website is full of stuff, like… The Class CALENDAR Your Homework Assignments (which you better do) Your Lab Reports (which you better do…

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Classroom Seating

You can sit wherever you want at the start of the year, but please don’t move around until I learn your names.  If you need to sit in the front, do that.  If you can’t find a seat…

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Cheaters Cry

I grew up in Queens, which is part of New York City.  We played a lot of games as kids, mostly with a ball, a stick, popsicle sticks, bottle caps and chalk.  We were poor but we had honor. …

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Copying from the internet is cheating.

I read stuff in lab reports that often makes NO sense to me.  Not to some of you either, but at least I know it was junk.  Some of you will be tempted to copy from the google…

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What is Chemistry?

This is the introductory course to matter: what is it, how does it act and react with other matter, and why doesn’t it react sometimes? Regents Chemistry provides you with a practical and useful overview of the elements, the…

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No Tests In Regents Chemistry

Sounds like a good deal, and it is. We will not have one test all year, and there will be but one EXAM, the Regents Exam, in June. From time to time I will announce special dates when…

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Extra Credit

There is no extra credit in Arbuiso Chemistry. Do your work when you are supposed to, don’t let yourself lose points for silly delays, study ahead of time,etc. If you need extra credit, you might be in hot…

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Reference Tables

You will need a reference table packet every single day.  I will give you one, and then likely another.  You could print them yourself from a link at the bottom of every page on this site. There is…

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Lab Report Requirement

The State Education Department requires you to do a minimum of 1200 minutes of lab to qualify to take the Regents Exam.  You have to do these labs (without copying them) and earn passing grades on them for them…

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Best $20 I Ever Spent…

There was an art show at the high school, and my favorite piece was painted by a third grader from Vestal Hills.  His name was Dylan W., and he is in Mrs. Adam’s art class.  I emailed her…

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