Week 22 In Review

Periodic Updates

Week 22 In Review

Important Dates & Assignments:

• STEM Fair:
• All students should have submitted their proposals Friday.
• We will begin to make calendars this week.
• Help your student with their calendar and planning.
• Rocket Candy:
• Students were assigned chapter 5 of "Rocket Boys" for the weekend.
• Discussion questions are on google classroom and students are expected to post comments and questions on each chapter.
• Mr. McCarter and I launched a practice rocket Friday. All systems worked as expected. We will be firing for the students soon!
• Students will be working on this project in the Chemistry lab under the my supervision of the supervision of Kendal McCarter. No student should be making this fuel at home! This fuel can be very safe but it is used as fuel for a reason. It is combustible and burns hot.
• If anyone has any contacts with a model rocket club in this area, I would love to partner with them for this project.
• Gas Laws:
• Student presentations lead to a better understanding of the ideal gas law. PV=nRT
• Practice problems were given to the students to be completed over the weekend.

What happened last week?

• Review:
• We continued to review stoichiometry and limiting reagents.
• Stoichiometry Lab:
• Students were given the lab rubric used to score the written lab.
• Corrections can be made and the lab can be resubmitted for review.
• Gas Laws:
• Students did really good descriptions of various gas laws.
• We then put them all together to get the ideal gas law.
• Students seemed to really understand it in class.

From the desk of Mr. Terry:

Mr. McCarter and I had a lot of fun Friday testing launching our first rocket. The rocket did as expected and set the stage for the next phase of our "Rocket Candy" project. We will be demonstrating launches with the students this week, weather permitting! 

I am available to help during lunch and Flex on the "A" day schedule 4th block. Students can make arrangements to miss their 4th block class to meet with me.

terryk@claytonbradleyacademy.org