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Week 20 Resources/ Assets

Updated February 11, 2019
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Week 19 in Review

On Tuesday we continued through Chapter 11 - Thermochemistry - Heat and Chemical Change. This wonderful chapter is chunked accordingly:

Section 11.1 - The Flow of Energy - Heat
Section 11.2 - Measuring and Expressing Heat Changes
Section 11.3 - Heat in Changes of State
Section 11.4 - Calculating Heat Changes

We were able to get through all of Section 11.1. Hopefully, you are all very clear on the difference between the heat capacity of a substance, versus the specific heat capacity. Section 11.2 is linked by way of screencast at right. If you get the chance today, please take the time to watch this screencast, so that you are prepared for the lab on Tuesday, February 12th. I will take the time to play this in class for all, again, but it doesn't hurt to watch it two times!

Upcoming Week 20

As already discussed above, we will perform a calorimetry experiment in our classroom. Please print out the lab (linked right), read thoroughly and bring with you to class, so you are prepared. After we conduct the lab, you will need to complete the analysis, answer all the questions, and return Tuesday, February 19th.

Scientific Paper in APA Format
We mentioned in class that from this laboratory, you will write a scientific paper in APA format, using the IMRAD style, which has the following sections:

Introduction - provides the theoretical basis for your investigation, along with a hypothesis, and summary of what you did.
Methods - provides the materials used, and the protocol. Do not include any results in this section - state only what you did and state it in a way that anyone reading your protocol could replicate your results.
Results - include visuals, such as data tables, graphs, calculations - along with written verbiage of these elements.
Discussion - here you present an interpretation and evaluation of your results; then draw inferences and conclusions from them.

Mechanically, the APA format is very similar to MLA. The reason we don't use MLA for this paper is because when submitting manuscripts to scientific journals, they expect an APA format.

Remember I told you all that I would mercifully hold your hands through this entire process, so that you can author a paper you will be proud of! You will turn in individual sections (about one per week), I will issue feedback but NOT post a grade, you can then make the edits and changes, and turn in the entire manuscript. Here are the due dates for these individual constituents:

Tuesday, February 26th - Methods and Results (Data) Section
Tuesday, March 12th - Discussion section
Tuesday, March 19th - Introduction
Tuesday, March 26th - Complete revised paper (if you submit an Abstract, I'll give you some extra credit)

While I will be merciful with respect to IMRAD style and APA format, I will not be so with grammar. You all need to proof read your papers, or have another student/ parent do this - I will provide feedback only on mechanics - not on grammar. Please take time to look at The OWL at Purdue Online Writing Lab website for tips on writing papers in APA format.

You can expect one more paper in this format due in Trimester 3.

Upcoming Assignments Due
Tuesday, February 19th: