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CHECKING YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF SYLLABUS FOR CHM-130LL (Lab)

Below are some questions regarding the Syllabus for CHM-130LL (Lab)

If you are in section 20598, which starts Aug. 19th, then email your answers to Quinn Thacker at QRT2004@yahoo.com.   If you are in section 20930 which starts Sept. 9th, then email your answers to Loree Cantrell-Briggs at lor2060912@phoenixcollege.edu

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Question 1: Is this kit available at the Phoenix College bookstore?

 

Question 2: One of the chemicals in the kit is citric acid. Do a search for citric acid in one of your favorite search engine programs (Google, Yahoo, Altavista, etc.). Give a short description of what you found.

 

Question 3: In labs on campus, children and pets are not allowed, so they don't pose a problem. But for the labs you do at home, your children or pets might be around. So what will you do to make sure they don't get hurt by something in the chemistry kit?

 

Question 4: What is the cost of the portable chemistry kit?

 

Question 5: Can you share the cost of the kit with another student by doing the labs together?

 

Question 6:  There are two extra chemicals you will need to purchase to do the labs.  What are those?

 

Question 7: The syllabus says that you need access to a digital camera or cameraphone, so you can take pictures of the lab and yourself doing the lab. Can you tell us what brand and model camera or cameraphone that you have access to?

 

Question 8: From the list of disciplines that use field chemistry name the three that most interest you?

 

Question 9: Is there a lab book to purchase? If not, where will you get your instructions for doing the labs?

 

Question 10:  Your progress is shown at the Sapling Learning website.   If your lab has a start date of August 19th, then you will choose the lab titled, "Phoenix College - CHM130LL (Lab) - Fall13 - THACKER/CANTRELL-BRIGGS." If you lab has a start date of September 9th, the your class title is "Phoenix College - CHM130LL (Lab) - Fall13 - CANTRELL-BRIGGS/THACKER". Note, the last names are reversed.  Have you created your Sapling Learning account yet for your lab class?

 

Question 11:  The Home Page and Progress Page get updated from time to time.  Also, lab instructions may be updated regularly.  What do you do to make sure you are looking at the most recent version of those Web pages?

Again, if you are in section 20598, which starts Aug. 19th, then email your answers to Quinn Thacker at QRT2004@yahoo.com.   If you are in section 20930 which starts Sept. 9th, then email your answers to Loree Cantrell-Briggs at lor2060912@phoenixcollege.edu.   They will email the graded answers back to you and record the score in Sapling Learning.

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