Everything for this course lives here, and the structure is deliberate rather than decorative.
| Where | What is in it |
|---|---|
| All Classes | One page per class: agenda, links, what to do next |
| Concepts | The explanations, stated cleanly. Start here when studying |
| Investigations | Labs: the question, the safety, what you design, what you record |
| Exercises | Practice, with answers you open after you have tried |
| Reference | The tables you will use all semester — ions, solubility, the activity series |
| Tasks | The assignments that are marked |
| Discussions | The arguments with no answer key |
| Tutorials | How to do a thing — the label, the glassware, the report, the digits |
| Portfolios | Your own record of how your thinking changed |
| Setup | How the course runs, and what you need |
Three things worth knowing
- Links go both ways. At the bottom of every page is a Backlinks list showing which pages link to it. Land on The Mole and you can see every class, investigation, and exercise set that used it.
- Hover to peek. Hovering over a link previews the page in a small window without leaving the one you are on. Useful for checking one value or one definition mid-calculation.
- Search is fast. Press Ctrl + K — or ⌘ + K — and start typing. It searches the text of every page, not just the titles, so searching a formula or an ion name finds the page that discusses it.
The Reference folder is the one to bookmark
This course leans on a handful of tables far more than Grade 10 did. You will open Polyatomic Ions, Solubility Rules, The Activity Series, and Significant Figures and Units dozens of times between now and January — during class, during homework, and in the middle of a lab with wet hands.
They are all short, they are all in the same place, and they are all searchable. Learn where they are in the first week and you will save yourself a great deal of hunting later.
The order pages get written in
Concept pages assume you have already met the idea. That is on purpose: in this course you do the investigation first, we compare what different groups actually measured, and only then does the idea get its name and its clean statement. So a concept page will often open by referring to the lab you have just finished. If you are reading ahead and it feels like it starts in the middle, that is why.
The habit that gets you unstuck fastest
Lost on a class page? Follow its link to the concept. Lost on a concept page? Scroll to its backlinks and find the class where we did it, then read what we actually did that day. Between them, those two directions answer most “when did we cover this” questions in under a minute.
Curious what else these pages can do, or want to build your own? What This Site Can Do shows every feature with its source. If you are stuck on the chemistry rather than the site, go to Getting Unstuck.