Anti-Bullying Story from Washington Post – READ THIS

This story was copied without permission from the Washington Post Newspaper, to teach you.  Please share this story. INSPIRED LIFE   By Sydney Page    Washington Post 6-3-2022 Classmates wouldn’t sign his yearbook. So older students stepped in.  An impromptu swarm of…

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Copy of a Great Story on the Vestal School Website

Nobel Laureate Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham guests lectures to Chemistry classes Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Distinguished Professor in Chemistry at Binghamton University, and Honorary Fellow at New College in Oxford, England, spoke to…

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Acid Base Videos that might help you.

Inside this post are a few videos that will likely help you grasp some of the chemistry we’re learning about.  What is an acid-base indicator, how do they work, and how to do a titration – which we…

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A SLOW but excellent video on acid base indicators

I call this “slow” because it’s not too exciting, but I WISH I could have produced it.  It gives me hope that I might figure this out and one day I too will be able to make movies. …

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Super Endothermic Reaction

You will see this in class Thursday, but you can see it via youtube also. You don’t need to “know” the chem, or even what type of reaction this is, just enjoy the amazing coldness produced by this…

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Twelve Important Ideas that are not in all of your heads right now.

After grading for a few hours, it came to me that there are some very important ideas that are not in all of you heads, where they belong. It didn’t fit nice with the website software, so I…

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Stoichiometry – For Fun and Relaxation

It’s all about the MOLE MATH, the SHARK, and more ISLANDS to visit. Or, it’s about the balanced chemical equation, the Law of Conservation of Matter, and mathematics. And you, of course. This is ALL REVIEW, but connects…

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Chemical and Physical Changes Lab

This lab is worth 80 lab minutes of a required 1200 to help qualify you for the Regents in June.  That means this alone is 6.7% of your whole total for the year.  Since the answers are in…

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SPDF electron configurations

Many students are not paying sufficient attention to class, or reading the BASICS, and are copying junk from the internet.  Some junk, like the spdf electron configurations are good chem, but they are copied, not taught. We do…

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27 minutes of Phases Phun – Demos to prove gases are real…

No notes, no math, just watch, laugh, and even see how to proved to your family in the kitchen that gases exist and phases changes happen and have importance. Enjoy, please watch this before you begin phases chemistry…

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