circuit demonstrations: SNC 1D AND SNC 1P

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Circuit_Construction_Kit_DC_Only

powerpoint: find a job

make a powerpoint presentation about a job you would like to have. required information is contained in the textbook, page 19, questions 4-7.

Required nformation: 50%
Appearance/presentation: 50%

SNC 1P: Static electricity webquest links

• Finding Static Electricity http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/static.htm
• Causing Sparks and Lightning http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/staticspark.htm
• Uses for Static Electricity http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/staticuse.htm

investing money

savings:

GICs

mutual funds

finding planets

Here's how we do it.

Finding a car and making payments

Answer the following questions in a word document.

1) Name 10 features in a car that are important to you.

2) List these in order from most important to least important.

3) Using car company websites, find a car that satisfies at least 5 of your favourite features. Print the specification page for the car and highlight these features. You can choose any company, but here are a couple:

ford.ca
toyota.ca
mazda.ca
dodge.ca

Find out how much the car will cost you.

4) Use this site to figure out a loan that works for you, given the following:
-the price of the car that you found in 3)
-you will be paying 5.4% interest
-you need to keep your payments under $400/ month

5) how long will you loan take to pay off? What is the total amount that you will pay over this time?

SNC 1D: webquest on Ionic and Covalent Bonding

1. check out this video clip, which shows all of the group 1 metals reacting in water.


2. Go to this page. Click on the link and use the page you find to anwer questions 1-7. Hand this in on paper (hand written or typed) by the end of the period.

3. Any remaining time can be used to work on your lab report, which is due tomorrow.

Assignment: Online shopping in Canada and the U.S.

I want to buy some specialized camera equipment. I want to figure out if I should buy it from an online store in Canada, or from one in the states.

I need:
1 Canon EOS 7D camera body
1 Canon 50 mm f1.2 lens

1. Find the items at www.vistek.ca. Add them to your cart to find the total price after tax and shipping. Enter fake shipping information, and choose "bank draft/money order" as the payment method. Print the cart page, showing this total. (Don't submit the order!!)

2a. Find the same items at b&h photo in NYC. Check out as a guest, and enter fake shipping information. Print the "payment" screen, where your total is listed. (Don't actually buy these things!!)

b. This amount has to be converted to Canadian dollars. The exchange rate is $1 USD=$1.03 CAD. Find the price in Canadian dollars.

c. You will be charged both PST and GST at the border. GST=5% and PST=8%. Find the amount of each tax.

d. Find the total price for these items purchased from B&H, including exchange, GST, and PST.

SNC 1D: Resources

Web Elements
Links to Periodic Tables
LennTech Periodic Table
History of the Elements from Los Alamos National Laboratory
History of Chemistry
Nifty clip art
Clipart Connection
Atomic Structure
Pictorial Periodic Table
Environmental Chemistry.com's Periodic Table
Google.com Search Engine
Elementymology
Chem4Kids
ChemicalElements.com

Using Microsoft Excel

First, find microsoft excel. It is in the desk tools icon on your desktop. You may have to search through a sub folder or two, but it is there. Promise.

While it is open, check out this video on the basics of microsoft excel. The narrator is british, which makes the video entertaining as well as informative (he calls them "crisps"). Keep the video open in a browser window, and work along with him in your excel window.

Click on book 2 at the bottom of your spreadsheet to start a new page. Turn to page nine in the text, and copy the chart there into excel.

To calculate Len's regular earnings, select cell E3. Then type the following formula:
=C3*D3 and hit enter.

the number that shows up will be equal to the number in C3 multiplied by the number in D3 (the star is used for multiplication).

Use a similar method for finding his overtime earnings and total weekly earnings.

Now figure out the earnings for the five people in page 10, question 4b (copy this spreadsheet into book 3 and complete the chart).

Work through questions 3 and 5 on page 15.