Spring Semester- Week 1- January 10, 2019 Parts of a Chemical Reaction

This week we will be reviewing a few of the concepts we covered last semester in order to build up to this week's unit covering balancing chemical equations. Therefore, I thought it would be best to provide some preliminary notes and review material for students to study prior to class this week.

In the above video, I cover how to differentiate between elements, the parts of a chemical reaction, and how to count atoms. Additionally, the link to a worksheet on counting atoms that we did in class, but will be helpful when we balance equations.

Counting Atoms

Lastly, below are the notes for this week that need to be included in student's interactive notebook. The first two pages of notes are for Parts of a Chemical Reaction. The last page of notes covers Balancing Chemical Equations.

Chemical Reactions Notes page 1

Chemical Reaction Notes page 2

Update:

We had an awesome class last week! We started the class with a video that introduced The Parts of A Chemical Reaction (see below):

Then we used gum drops to build molecules so that we could have a visual of how basic chemical compounds are structured. This also helped us as we reviewed counting atoms.

Next, we went over the parts of a chemical equation and how to read a chemical equation. We used the graphic organizer page in our notebooks shown below to cover the states of matter, reactants, products, subscripts and coefficients.

Here is the link to additional copies of the graphic organizer for those who missed class or need an extra copy.

Parts of Chemical Reaction Graphic Organizer