Chemistry
There are a lot of things that I am passionate about and one of the things that I am most passionate about is science. I take my educational opportunities very seriously and I always try to learn as much as I can inside and outside of school.
I really like my chemistry class because it forces me to think logically and think about how things work and when and why things happen. What I really like about Mr. Huang's class is that he gives us lecture notes and he tries really hard to make analogies and examples to explain different concepts, and he makes us take notes for homework. I really like that he gives us class notes and homework notes so that when I read from the textbook its a little easier because I have a sense of familiarity with the material.
I also really like that in chemistry, I constantly have to apply knowledge from previous chapters in future chapters so that I am constantly reviewing material.
Our science timeline looks a little like this:
gases and structure of water> balancing equations > gas laws> gas stoichiometry > percentage of solution, molarity, molality > different types of solutions
I really like that each lesson is actually useful. I remember my "aha moment" in chemistry and we were learning about average kinetic energy and one of the laws about average kinetic energy is that if more heat is applied then the faster the particles will move and escape and water will evaporate faster. So I was blow drying my hair and I was just wondering about evaporation and I realized that because there is heat from my hair dryer, the heat causes the water molecules to move faster and collide with each other and an increase in temperature means that there is an increase in average kinetic energy which means that evaporation is taking place! As silly a this all sounds, it was a very exhilarating moment in my life to finally answer the "will I ever use this in real life?" question.
I really like my chemistry class because it forces me to think logically and think about how things work and when and why things happen. What I really like about Mr. Huang's class is that he gives us lecture notes and he tries really hard to make analogies and examples to explain different concepts, and he makes us take notes for homework. I really like that he gives us class notes and homework notes so that when I read from the textbook its a little easier because I have a sense of familiarity with the material.
I also really like that in chemistry, I constantly have to apply knowledge from previous chapters in future chapters so that I am constantly reviewing material.
Our science timeline looks a little like this:
gases and structure of water> balancing equations > gas laws> gas stoichiometry > percentage of solution, molarity, molality > different types of solutions
I really like that each lesson is actually useful. I remember my "aha moment" in chemistry and we were learning about average kinetic energy and one of the laws about average kinetic energy is that if more heat is applied then the faster the particles will move and escape and water will evaporate faster. So I was blow drying my hair and I was just wondering about evaporation and I realized that because there is heat from my hair dryer, the heat causes the water molecules to move faster and collide with each other and an increase in temperature means that there is an increase in average kinetic energy which means that evaporation is taking place! As silly a this all sounds, it was a very exhilarating moment in my life to finally answer the "will I ever use this in real life?" question.