Isa Stress

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been working on these Isa worksheets. The first worksheet was called Not A test, which I horribly failed. Even though it wasn't a test, I still did really bad on it. The next one was called Isa Practice. That worksheet helped me out a lot because we worked on the problems and we learned how to solve them which helped me because I did not get the work. Then came the Isa Quiz. Isa Quiz was the actual quiz and it was going to be graded on the same problems that we did on the Isa Practice. However, I did not do so great. My chemistry grade went pretty down and that was not good at all. Thankfully we got to retake it. The worksheet that we just did was called Isa Test. I felt comfortable while I was doing the problems, but I have no idea how I did. I'm not too sure if I completely did worse than the Isa Quiz, or if I did a lot better and saved my grade. I'm not sure when we will get the Isa test back, but I hope that I did well and better than the last time.

Web Element Project

This week was pretty hectic because we had to do a project involing an element. We choose an element and we have to do a lot of research on it and present it on a 3x3 table along with pictures. This project seems easy, but it was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Organizing the table and the pictures in the table was totally hard! The research was hard to find because the questions were complicated to find the exact answer for. Then I did the table too big and the pictures were too big, so the table was running off of the page! I had to start over and re-layout the whole thing. But by the same token, i did learn a lot about my elemnt, helium. I learned that when you inhale it, the helium vibrates the vocal chords at a big amount of speed to make your voice become a lot squeakier. I also learned that we use helium in scuba-diving tanks to help us breathe, which is really useful. I guess this project was helpful and I did retain some information on helium that I did not know. This project was hard, but it was worth it!

"Got to write the units cause the units are so KEY!"

So, this week in chemistry we did music videos for conversion factors. The song was really catchy and it worked if you wanted to remember the rules on conversion factors. In the video we sang the song and we had to make it fun and exciting. Our video was pretty nice, however when i had to scream the part that goes "Got to write the unis cause the units are so key!", it was not the best moment. The video was fun at the time but once we looked at it, it didn't look the way that i thought it did. But once Mr.Olson put all of the videos together, it looked really nice. I liked how all of the students were shown and i liked how it seemed like we were all singing at the same time. It was funny, and an interesting way to learn about conversion factors. I didn't really favor it at the time, but overall it was pretty fun.

these past weeks..

We took a quiz called "Isa Quiz" and i must admit that i was pretty surprised. I knew some of the questions, but overall, it was harder than I thought it was going to be. Maybe I wasn't very prepared, but I'm anxious on how I did.

We also learned how to measure the volume of a liquid. It was kind of confusing at first because you have to look at the meniscus and see where it lands on the measure. Your first instinct is to look at the top of the water and measure it from there, but you have to remember to look at the lower point of the water. That part, the remembering, was probably the trickiest.

Learning how to weigh an object in grams was another thing that we learned in chemistry. That was tough too because you had to be really exact with the weight. If the weight of something wasn't exact, you had to turn the dial and then look at where it lines up to find your weight. I though that I was never going to get it, but I'm starting to understand it now.

These lessons were just the beginning of what I'm going to learn in chemistry. At this point, chemistry is going to be an experience!