5.3 ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: How to Speed Up Reactions (Due February 22)

ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: How to Speed Up Reactions (10 points)

This Week's Science Blog Topic: For this week's blog entry, watch the video and answer the questions that follow.

• This analogy of a dance representing chemical reactions can help make understanding reactions easier, but it does not represent actual chemical reactions. List three examples of actual chemical reactions and for each example explain how the reaction can be manipulated to increase the reaction rate.

• Explain how a chemical catalyst helps change the rate of a chemical reaction and give two examples of actual chemical catalysis.

• In what ways is being able to control the rate of a chemical reaction useful to the following chemistry-rich professions: chemical engineer, physician, chef?

Blog Guidelines: 

• Each blog post should be at least one paragraph (3-5 sentences minimum).

• Use complete sentences, proper grammar and punctuation.

• All posts/comments must be respectful.  Vulgarity or rudeness will result in school disciplinary action.

Instructions:

1. Find the Blog Menu block.  Click Add an entry about this course.

You can enter a title for your post and then write your post.  You can insert images or links to help explain your ideas.  When you have finished, click Save Changes.

2. Get link to your course blog

After you save your post, highlight and copy (cntl +c) the url at the top of the blog.  You can also get the link by going to the Blog Menu block and clicking View my entries for this course

2.  To submit in Moodle, Click Add Submission.

3.  Paste your blog URL into the submission box.

4.  Click Save Changes to submit your assignment.

Are you interested in knowing how to read and comment on other students' science blog posts?  Just go to the Blog Menu and choose View all entries for this course.  You can add comments and also read comments others have left on your posts.

After you have completed this assignment, it will be marked as complete with a checkmark after it has been graded by the instructor.