Chem 130: Chemistry for Funeral Services

Flash Cards

There are two documents that can be used to produces a set of thirty flash cards for common ions. They will allow you to work on learning the ion’s formula, charge and name.

To make a set of flash cards:

  1. Download the two flash card documents from the website. One is for the front, the other is for the back of the cards.
  1. Use perforated business card paper that is compatible with Avery 8371. If you don’t want to use card stock, you can print on regular or heavy 8 ½ x 11 paper and then cut out the cards after printing.

(Regular paper is probably the worst to use because it’s not very stiff and you may be able to see through the cards. If you need to use regular paper, you might consider printing on two separate pages for the front and back and then using something like a glue stick to fasten the two sides together before cutting out the cards.)

  1. Use regular paper to do a test printing of the cards. Use the front document to print the first side of the cards. You will get three pages of ten cards each. After that, feed the pages back into the printer so that the back of the cards can be printed and then print the back document.

Every printer is a little different so you may have to do several practice runs before you get the paper turned the right way and the page order correct when you print the back pages. Depending on your printer settings, you may even need to re-sort the pages before you feed them into the printer to print the back page.

  1. Once you have determined how to feed the paper to print the cards front to back with the proper back page lined up with the proper front page, print the cards on your final paper.

Be careful if you are using business card stock. The perforations can loosen while the first side is being printed and it can happen that the paper stock separates and jams when printing the backside of the cards. It is helpful to fully support the cards as they come out of the printer from the first printing. Try to avoid anything that would cause the perforations to bend between printing the front and back of the cards.