Chemistry Honors
First Aide Video Project
In the beginning of the year, we were studying first aide procedures and learning about the chemistry lab setting and how to effectively utilize lab materials and chemicals. This is a group project I completed with Kota Cook, Saul Perez, Ryan McGill, and Joshua Ramos, and our topic was on First Aide. In this video we showed all of the basic must-knows for first-aide in the chemistry lab. I hope you enjoy it!
Facebook Timeline Project
When we learned about the most famous scientists in atomic chemistry, I was assigned Antoine Lavoisier, who is known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry." He developed the system of chemical nomenclature, and discovered oxygen is the essential constituent of all acids. Although later proven to be wrong about this fact, he set the basis for further atomic study in the 18th century onward, having also named hydrogen and silicon as well as constructed the metric system and helped in the compilation of the first extensive list of elements. This project is meant to look like a Facebook account, where Antoine Lavoisier interacts with other scientists and possible "friends" of his time, and some of his notable discoveries are listed in the notes and news feed sections.
All About Electron Affinity & Ionization Energy Podcast
When our class learned about nomenclature and periodic trends, I was assigned Electron Affinity and Ionization Energy to create an informational podcast video. For this project, I worked with Mira Chen, who worked on Ionization Energy while I worked on Electron Affinity. Together, we combined our knowledge of both topics and created this video. I hope you enjoy!
Reaction Wars PowerPoint - Single Replacement (Group 4)
As an exciting competition we did in Chemistry, our class did what was called "Reaction Wars." Each group received a topic concerning chemical reactions, and we had to identify each reaction as being a synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, combustion, etc. Our group received single replacement, and in this experiment we had zinc metal and reacted it with copper chloride. This reaction is a single replacement because zinc is an element and it is replacing the copper in copper chloride, in turn yielding zinc chloride plus copper. For this project I worked with Kenneth Reichenbach, Jackson Tenney, Dane Detommaso, and Joshua Ramos.
Stoichiometry PBL Activity - I Bought The Farm
During our last chemistry unit, which was stoichiometry, otherwise known as the "math" in chemistry, I received a topic called "I Bought the Farm." Basically, if you have a farm of 340 acres, and you are planting corn, you must put fertilizer in the soil before you plant this year's crop. On a fertilizer bag, 1 of these weighing 10,000 grams, a molecular formula reads C(2)P(2)H(14)S(2)O(21). I had to find percent composition of phosphorus, as corn removes a tremendous amount of phosphorus from farm soil, each acre approximately 6 kg. Next, I had to find the amount of fertilizer I need in grams, the molar mass of a bag of fertilizer, how much I needed to purchase, and how much it will cost to add the necessary fertilizer to the fields.