The 3 things that we covered in the past week include balancing equations, types of reactions and the activity series or a form of special equations. The first thing we did was balance equations. We got a sheet of unbalanced equations and we were taught in class how to balance them in class. I struggled with this part a little bit in class, but than some practice was handed out and that helped me understand how to balance equations a lot better. The second thing we learned in this unit was what kind of reaction types there were. Single and double replacement, synthesis, decomposition, and combustion. We had a in class whiteboard discussion after a series of experiments to demonstrate how these reactions work. I thought this aspect was easy enough to grasp because it is a pretty straight forward idea and was presented in a good way. We learned about elements in the aqueous  and a demonstration to help with this was the sliver and copper demonstration. This was shown by placing a piece of copper in a solution of silver nitrate. The piece of copper in the solution bonded with the silver atoms and the silver atoms collected to the copper and left chlorine in liquid form.

      The third thing that we learned about was the Activity series. This was I think a pretty nice thing to learn. It was wasn't to hard to understand and the sheet with the list of metals is extremely helpful. It was nice that they were in order of reactiveness. That made things very clear and easy to understand.