Chemistry (Period 1) Assignments

Everyone,

I wanted to take a few minutes to say thank you for sharing this school year with me.  I have appreciated every one of the individuals I have had the honor of teaching about God's Creation thru science.  If there is one lesson to remember, always be in awe of the massive world He made for us, never stop trying to understand more and more. And don't forget to thank God from time to time.

For those seniors who have moved on, I wish you a future of love and success.  Make sure you come and visit for lunch one of these days.  For everyone else, I can't wait for us all to be back together again in a few months.

 

Always,

Dr. Spence Wieman

Team,

Keep working on the assignments that are due Friday.
If there isn't a current video lesson to watch, it'll be posted soon.
Make sure you are reading the next chapter in the textbook.
I'm looking forward to more email questions.
Our Zoom class is scheduled for Thursday, starting at 2:20. The meeting ID and password has been sent in a previous email.

God Bless

Congratulations team,

We have made it all the way thru the textbook.  You have put in a lot of hard work and understand God's Creation a lot better as a reward.

Always remember to keep that awe inside you for the awesome world He has made for us, always keep striving to understand more.

Next week we will review the 2nd half of the semester and talk about how our final will work.

 

Vocabulary:  Radiation, alpha particle, beta particle, neutrino, transmutation

Homework:  31, 33, 36, 43

 

Celebrate with me! 

My daughter graduated college this weekend and I commissioned her as a 2LT in the Army. (Notice the clean shave)

Gang, this lesson should blow your mind.  What is the blueprint for you?

God's Creation is unimaginably complex, wait and see.

 

Vocabulary:  Nucleic Acid, Gene, Peptide, Protein

Homework (page 793):  62, 65, 66, & 67

 

 

Team, 

Attached are the boards for today's class.

 

On the vocab section, the confusing one is the nucleic acid.  These are those links in the middle of the DNA double helix, the CGTA are the nucleic acids.

 

Homework, 62.  Notice the difference in the middle of the DNA vs. the RNA chains.  That extra Carbon in the middle make the chain more rigid.  It is joined in three places instead of just one.  It lets them include more information, instructions for more complex organisms.  

 

On the last board, problem number 67.  DNA is written in terms of the order of the nucleic acids.  In a human genome there is a list of about 3 billion bases.  Just to show how big that is, I counted the characters on a page of my Bible.  DNA is as long as about 850 Bibles, 2000 characters per page.  Yes, that is correct, 850 Bible worth of information is included in how to make you.

The next bit is controversial, so be ready.  The fact that every life form on earth is defined by these same four nucleotide bases, makes people think we all come from the same source, evolution.  As these letter bases just reorganize it makes all the different forms of life, mutations. 

However, there are way too many of these characters to allow for a random process.  Making changes to 3 Billion characters of DNA would take ridiculously longer than the anyone's estimate of the age of the Earth.  God controlling the mutations as they occur would work, this is known as the invisible hand.  Once again, science and theology come closer together.  Not surprisingly, our invisible God is clearly seen in the visible things of Creation, being understood through what He has made.  As a result, people are without excuse (Romans 1:20).

Chapter 23:  Introduction to Functional Groups

 

Before you watch the video, Vocabulary:  Functional Group, Alkyl, Alcohol, Ether, Ester, Polymer

After you watch the video, Homework:  38, 43, 45, 49

              Optional Question:  59

Happy Easter LCA family

He is Risen

 

"Being an Intentional Christian"

I posted a recorded sermon from a couple years ago, in case you need encouragement. 

Especially now, we need to be intentional about our relationship with Jesus.  It's easy to lose yourself in the isolation.

(Its not an Easter message, but I don't have that many of the old sermons recorded.)