Fall Chemistry Class
November 23, 2025
The chemistry class has covered a significant amount of content this year. We have covered density and how it manifests itself at the particle level, as well as how gases behave under different circumstances, and how air pressure affects a straw. We have also completed our exploration of the gas laws. All of this content has been grounded in observations and data from laboratory exercises completed by the students themselves. We also proved that a straw of approximately 20 feet is possible to drink from by climbing to the top of the football stands and drinking from the ground. Overall, we have had fun with our learning and explained several different phenomena in detail.
Our current unit of thermodynamics and transfers of energy began with the Icy Hot lab, where we observed the behavior of ice and water while heating it with a Bunsen burner. The resulting graph behaved differently from what the students anticipated and led to several interesting, in-depth, and thought-provoking discussions. We will continue to ask questions about energy and transfers until winter break.
