Clayton Bradley Academy

Periodic Updates

Week 1

     This week was so exciting. It is always fun to get a new year up and running. When you add to that all the excitement of the new buildings and new students, we have really had a lot of fun. The students spent this week getting to know each other and how to work together.  This site will be devoted to parent updates for Chemistry at Clayton Bradley Academy.

 
     This week we spent time learning about our focus word for our 10th grade class, Perseverance. We discussed how we will need to use perseverance in chemistry to create an understanding for the molecular world. My goal is for each student to create their own understanding of the molecular world and how they interact with that world everyday. We all showed perseverance in an activity we called, "Barbie Bungee."  Students worked in groups for this activity in more of a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach to the scientific method. All groups had challenges to overcome and successes. One main lesson that we learned as a class was to trust the math to work!  

     This coming week will be our, "Week of Density." We will start our first unit of understanding matter. We will be doing experiments in class that deals with density and how we can use density to understand some common household items we come in contact with daily. We will be seeing the difference between salt and salt that contains less sodium. We will also see how we can use density to determine the sugar content of different drinks. Finally, we will conclude the week by seeing how we can use density with metals. Because of class time being devoted to labs and experiments, there will be reading assignments and educational videos assigned as homework.  Please check in with your students and make sure they are completing these assignments.

     If you need to contact me for any reason, please email me at terryk@claytonbradleyacademy.org or call the school and leave me a message.  Have a great week!