Reflective Blog #5

Reflective Blog #5

This week was one full of big tests and lots of reviewing.  The one big test that we took only in chem was the unit one chapter test and that one was pretty easy at least for me it wasn't and a hard one that took up half of our day.  On Monday we presented our boards of what we had learned through the unit, our boards were filled with stuff like sig figs and volume, mass, and density. This review was nice because some of the stuff we covered I had either forgotten about it or needed a refresher about it.

This wasn't my group's board but this was the group I thought did the best job of review

On Tuesday we took the big test, I while feeling prepared couldn't help feeling a little nervous about not getting a very good grade.  For me it was smooth sailing through the test and only one problem tripped me up but I skipped it until everything else was done and solved it later.  When looking at my grade I am a little mad that I was a half point off from a perfect score but am happy for the good grade.  After the test I was really bored so I took it out on a mechanical pencil, completely  stripping it and destroying the innards.

On Wednesday there is almost nothing to report, we just sat around in Mrs. Warner's room eating our lunches and sitting on our phones.  On Thursday though we did 2 fun activities.  First we smelled popcorn and whiteboarded how the smell particles moved across the room and while we white boarded that we ate popcorn then we presented them to the class.  After that activity we put food coloring in hot and cold water and saw which one moved faster.  The hot one moved faster and we concluded that warmer molecules move faster than cold ones

our white board for how the smell particles moved across the room

On Friday we finished whiteboarding how the dye moves through the water in cold and hot situations and presented them to the class.  Also on friday we watched some videos and went over how mass is always moving and how they move in a solid and liquids but didn't get to gases at least not in my class.  So all in all this week I learned a few things like how molecules move and we gained the ability to call them molecules, so it was a good week