Hi, everyone!  Thanks for posting your ratings of last week's tutorial animation on nerve gases (posted on Moodle...check it out if you haven't yet).  Thought I'd share the results of my little survey with our scientific community (see below).  Looks like the group overall gave it a C for interest level and a D for ease of understanding.  I thought it was interesting that the average scores for both classes on ease of understanding were identical.

           Thanks again for participating!

	Survey of Animation Tutorial on Sarin Gas	Number of participants	Average score, 1-10, “Was it interesting?”	Average score, 1-10, “Was it easy to understand?
	Period 4	16	7.3	6.2
	Period 5	24	7.0	6.2
	Periods 4 and 5 together	40	7.2	6.2

Hello, Period 5!  

Congratulations on completing your first unit test in Honors Chem!  You get a little bit of a breather for a day or two...your next big assignment is the lab write-up, which is due on Monday, 9/16.  So that you are clear on the expectations for this assignment please be sure to review the lab report directions, which are posted in the Unit 1 Labs and Activities folder.

A word about the blogs you have done so far:  they are EXCELLENT.  I am truly impressed at the fantastic job everyone is doing and the amount of very helpful detail you are including.  Please keep up the good work!  For those who have not yet blogged, be sure to review the existing posts for inspiration and follow the examples of your peers.  There is no need for anyone to blog tonight, since we took our unit test today.  FYI, there will be no need for a scribe post tomorrow, either.  The next scribe will be posting on MONDAY, 9/16.

Your homework for tonight is to click through the animation (posted on Moodle) explaining the physiological effects of nerve gases.  The link to this animation is the bottom-most item posted in the Unit 1 box on Moodle.  

After you have viewed the animation, I would like for you to put a comment under this post answering the two questions below.  Include your first name and last initial in your comment, please!

1)  Did you find the animation interesting?  Please rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "It was completely boring, I could hardly get through it," and 10 meaning "It was very interesting, I really enjoyed clicking through and reading it".

2)  Did you find the animation easy to understand?  Please rate it on a scale of 1 to 10  with 1 meaning "I didn't get it at all, it was much too difficult to understand," and 10 meaning "I feel like I completely understood it even though I've only had one year of biology and three weeks of chemistry".