Welcome to Mrs. Kasparian's site for

Pre-AP Chemistry!

In addition to the attachments for the Instruction Management Plan and the latest calendar, please refer to the attachments listed below to help increase your success in this class. You will find an attachment to assist you in writing a meaningful lab report and in writing a cohesive conclusion within the lab report. Also check out the notes for each chapter.


You can also click the links below to access the Flinn Scientific Website to find homework help or to look up the safety hazards of chemicals.

Click on the attachment "Chem Demos" to watch alkali metals and phosphorus in action!

Go to the following link to watch more alkali metal action: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Group_1_Alkali_metals_and_water&video_id=51068 

"My Robot is Better Than Your Robot"

Click on the following link, watch the video, "My Robot is Better Than Your Robot" and write a paragraph (at least five good sentences) on the presented material. Include the answers to these questions in your paragraph:  What is the thesis of the video? Do you agree with the thesis of the video? Why or why not? Give one example of what you think illustrates that "science rocks"! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYuOKb3gO7E&feature=related

Watch the Periodic Table Rap:  

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20089585-10391705.html

Pre-AP Chemistry calendars

Textbook PowerPoints

http://portsmouth.ri.schoolwebpages.com/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=Q2hlbU1hdHRlcnNfMTAtMDlfQ05CUF8wMjI5NTAucGRmOjo6L3d3dzcvc2Nob29scy9yaS9wb3J0c21vdXRoL2ltYWdlcy9hdHRhY2gvMzQ3Ny8xNTg5XzM0NzdfYXR0YWNoXzE1OTgucGRmI.  Chem in the News - Click on the link below to read an interesting article in ChemMatters online:

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=2119&use_sec=false&sec_url_

var=region1&__uuid=222db54d-ec70-4d9e-850d-3801bcdef3ff

II. Watch this Teacher Tube video to learn about supernovas:

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=40951&title=Supernova

III. Click on the link below to read the article, Where Do Chemical Elements Come From?

http://portsmouth.ri.schoolwebpages.com/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=Q2hlbU1hdHRlcnNfMTAtMDlfQ05CUF8wMjI5NTAucGRmOjo6L3d3dzcvc2Nob29scy9yaS9wb3J0c21vdXRoL2ltYWdlcy9hdHRhY2gvMzQ3Ny8xNTg5XzM0NzdfYXR0YWNoXzE1OTgucGRm

Chem in the News - Click on the link below to read an interesting article in ChemMatters online:

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=2119&use_sec=false&sec_url_

var=region1&__uuid=222db54d-ec70-4d9e-850d-3801bcdef3ff

I. Watch this Teacher Tube video to help you understand mass defect, fission and fusion. Cut and paste the link below.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=132360

Watch this Teacher Tube video to help you understand how a nuclear power plant operates. Cut and past the link below.

http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=184060&title=Nuclear_power_station  

II. Watch this TeacherTubevideo to learn about supernovas.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=40951&title=Supernova

Click on the attachment below for instructions on how to log onto RI-ITEST

Study Guides for assessments are attached below. 

Food Project documents are attached below.

Click on the link for the Atom Builder Activity:

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/diamond/insidewave.html

Click on the link to do the PhET "Build an Atom" activity:

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-an-atom

Study the PowerPoints from your textbook attached below:

Click on the link below to take the reading survey:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGhkYlpwTjlNOGQyam1jMS1RcHZPTkE6MQ

Activity on National Geographic Magazine article, "The Gulf of Oil"

1. The Virtual Cell computer lab.

Go to the website 

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm

to do the activity.

2. Go to the link below to learn about how cell structure is related to function:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cell.lp_strufx/ 

3.Karyotype activity: Go to the website

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/karyotyping/karyotyping.html 

4. PBS Computer Lab:  DNA to Protein. Goto the website  

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/shockwave-nojs.html

5. Go to this website to translate a polypeptide:  http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/transcribe/

Write its sequence down at the bottom of your DNA to Protein worksheet (PBS activity above).
 6. Go to this  website to study the Cell Cycle:

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html

7. Play the game, DNA - The Double Helix. Go to the link below for the Official Website of  the Nobel Prize:

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/dna_double_helix/dnahelix.html

8. Watch a short video clip on nondisjunction:
http://www.biostudio.com/d_%20Meiotic%20Nondisjunction%20Meiosis%20I.htm

Watch the animations on these websites to better understand the cell membrane, diffusion, osmosis, and active transport and the function of cell organelles:

 http://www.northland.cc.mn.us/biology/biology1111/animations/passive1.swf

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cell.organelles/ 

Click on the attachment, Protist_Fungi videos Teacher_You Tube to see protists and fungi in their natural environment.

Study the PowerPoint for the chapter(s) that we are studying in class.

Click on the attachment below for instructions on how to log onto RI-ITEST

Click on these links to watch videos about the endocrine and immune systems.

Endocrine system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrMi4GikWwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fh2HmdxQjQ

Immune system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNP1EAYLhOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90hSVkaOG_w&feature=related

Click on the various links in the attachment below for help with Mitosis, meiosis, and DNA.

Click on the attachment for the Final Exam Guide 1011

"My Robot is Better Than Your Robot"

Click on the following link, watch the video, "My Robot is Better Than Your Robot" and write a paragraph (at least five good sentences) on the presented material. Include the answers to these questions in your paragraph:  What is the thesis of the video? Do you agree with the thesis of the video? Why or why not? Give one example of what you think illustrates that "science rocks"! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYuOKb3gO7E&feature=related

Go to this website to do the gel electrophoresis virtual lab:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/

  Do the computer activity on how to engineer a crop - Transgenic Manipulation:

·  http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.gen.engineeracrop/