Lab

Reports

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NYS requires you to provide a minimum of 1200 minutes of lab, complete with passing lab reports.  These reports must be kept in the classroom once they pass, and remain the property of Vestal High School.  Make sure they end up in the file cabinet in our room after you get them back.   

You are expected to do ALL the lab reports for grades, which count for (or against) you on your report cards.  You do not become "exempt" from any lab reports when you reach the state minimum.  Our minimum is all of them.  If you lose one, you can reprint them from below.  
First Quarter Lab Experiments
  1. Measurement (density, percent error, and significant figures) [40]
  2. Temperature (three scales, more percent error and significant figures) [40]
  3. Density (old vs. new pennies) [80]
  4. Physical and Chemical Changes (indicators of chemical reactions) [80]
  5. Electrons (spectra and flame tests) [80]
  6. Review #1 (as the name says!) [40]
  7. Moles  (the biggest numbers you ever saw, molar masses, Avogadro) [80]
  8. % Composition of a Hydrate (copper II sulfate pentahydrate) [80]
  9. % Composition by Mass (how much sugar is in bubble gum?) [40]
  10. % Composition of a different hydrate (magnesium sulfate heptahydrate) [40]

[1200 lab minutes required for year, 560 lab minutes 1st quarter]

Second Quarter Lab Experiments 
  1. Zinc Removal From a Penny Lab [40]
  2. 12 Chemical Reactions [160]
  3. Precipitates (Double Replacement Reactions & Ionic Compounds) [40]
  4. MgO Lab - Stoichiometry I  [40]
  5. Stoich 2 Lab (CuSO4 + Fe)  [40]
  6. Phases Lab (Lauric Acid & Cooling Curve) [80]
  7. Specific Heat Capacity Lab (C of Cu) [80]
  8. Thermo-chem Lab (Heat Content in Doritos) [80]
  9. Boyle in a Bottle Lab (Gas Lab) [80]

[1200 required for year, 640 lab minutes 2nd quarter, 1200 minutes total]

Third Quarter Lab Experiments 
  1. Periodic Table Puzzle Lab [80]
  2. Review Lab #2  [40]
  3. Bonding Lab [80]
  4. Water Lab [40]
  5. Review Lab #3 [40]
  6. Carbon Dioxide in Soda Lab [40]
  7. Solutions Lab [40]

[1200 required for year, 360 lab minutes 3rd quarter, 1540 minutes total]

Fourth Quarter Lab Experiments 
  1. Clock Reaction (Kinetics and Equilibrium)  [80]
  2. Color Chase Lab (acid base indicators)  [40]
  3. Acid Base Titration Lab (titration and titration math)  [80]
  4. Organic Smell Lab  (drawing and interpreting organic molecules)  [80]
  5. Redox Lab (batteries, electroplating, transfer of electrons)  [40] 
  6. Nuclear Lab (no radioactivity but plenty of simulation!)  [40]   
     

                              [1200 required for year, 360 lab minutes 4th quarter, 1940 minutes total]

Possible extra labs...

Gas - Stoichiometry Lab [40]

chemical & physical changes lab explained in detail.   look at your lab report as you read my notes.