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=Chemistry 101-High School= Introduction: __**Hello everyone!**__ Welcome to chemistry 101! This is going to be a great year for all of us and I am excited to be your teacher for this amazing course. You will learn how the world works in this class. How things change from one item to another. Chemistry is a long and storied science and I hope to share some of its excitement with you.

You are expected to fully participate in every class and to follow the classroom procedures that I'll share with you on the first day. This Wiki will be a great learning and education tool for yourself and for me. That's right. I don't know everything about chemistry so I am looking forward to learning from everyone's contributions to this class.

A neat surprise with this class is we are going to be collaborating with ITA's high school chemistry class on several labs. This has been very fun in the past and I am sure you will really like it. ITA high school photo below:
 * __Collaboration with ITA high school:__**
 * || [[image:http://www.kusd.edu/img/page_photos/s_ita.jpg width="155" height="100" caption="Indian Trail High School"]] ||

__**Collaboration with Parents:**__ I will show your lab results on this wiki to each of your parents at the parent-teacher conference session next month. It will be an important way to show your parents what you are learning in chemistry. I will send your parents a link to the wiki the week before conferences so they have time to review your lab work and ask me with any questions they might have.

__**Just a little background about myself:**__ I have worked as a chemical engineer for 22 years before deciding to go into teaching. I did basic research on storage batteries for 2 years in graduate school getting a masters degree. Then worked for 2 years at a company that makes meat casings (we can talk more about this in class) in the food industry. Then worked 18 years at Abbott Labs doing process chemistry research, manufacturing, process safety (involved blowing up stuff!), and regulatory (working with the FDA).

__**Here is a list (and corresponding links) of our first assignments (I will put all assignment links here so you can easily track what you need to do next):**__ @Chemistry Journal (5 pts.) (weekly) @Lab Number 1-Limiting Reactants (40 pts.) @Poll of how Successful Wiki was for Limiting Reactant Lab (10 pts.)

I can't wait to start this chemistry class so I'll see you all this Monday! Thank you and kind regards, Kurt Pearl-chemistry teacher My photo