Course Syllabus for 4th Quarter

 CHEMISTRY I

Prerequisites:  High School Biology

 

Text:  Holt, Rinehart, Winston, MODERN CHEMISTRY

 

Required Materials:  Scientific Calculator, Lab Goggles, Notebook

 

Fourth Quarter Topics

Topic 1:  Gas Laws

Topic 2:  Solutions

Topic 3:  Thermochemistry

Topic 4: Acids and Bases

 

STUDENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

-How to write a lab report

-Basic algebra

-First, Second and Third Quarter topics

STUDENT OBJECTIVES

 ASSESSMENTS:

Chapter tests

Quizzes

Lab reports

 

LAB EXPERIMENTS

Course Syllabus for 3rd Quarter

 

CHEMISTRY I

 

Prerequisites:  High School Biology

 Text:  Holt, Rinehart, Winston, MODERN CHEMISTRY

 Required Materials:  Scientific Calculator, Lab Goggles, Notebook

 

Third Quarter Topics

 Topic 1:  Chemical Equations

 Topic 2:  Activity Series of Elements

 Topic 3:  Introduction to Stoichiometry

 

 

STUDENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

-How to write a lab report

-Basic algebra

-Second quarter topics

 

STUDENT OBJECTIVES

 

-composition stoichiometry, reaction stoichiometry, limiting reactants, percent yield

-word equations, formula equations, balancing equations

-types of chemical equations

-activity series of elements

  ASSESSMENTS

-Section reviews and vocabulary

-Chapter tests

-Lab write ups

 

LAB EXPERIMENTS

-Ion exchange lab

-Chemical reactivity of pennies lab

-Composition of hydrates

-mole and mass relationships

-Heating and cooling curves

 

GRADING

40% exams, 20% quizzes, 20% Lab reports, 20% homework

 

 

Course Syllabus for 2nd Quarter 

CHEMISTRY ONE

 

Prerequisites:  High School Biology

 

Text:  Holt, Rinehart, Winston, MODERN CHEMISTRY

 

Required Materials:  Scientific Calculator, Lab Goggles, Notebook

 

SECOND Quarter Topics

 

Topic 1:  Chemical Bonding

 

Topic 2:  Lewis Structures

 

Topic 3:  Chemical Names and Formulas

 

Topic 4:  Chemical ions

 

Topic 5:  Oxidation numbers

 

STUDENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

-How to write a lab report

-Basic algebra

-First quarter topics

 

STUDENT OBJECTIVES

-ionic bonding

-covalent bonding

-metallic bonding

-octet rule

-Lewis structures

-multiple bonds

-Polyatomic ions

-formula unit vs molecules

-intermolecular forces

-common ions

-making compouns

-acids

-oxidation numbers

 

 

ASSESSMENTS

-Section reviews and vocabulary

-Chapter tests

-Lab write ups

-Collins writing, Career Project

LAB EXPERIMENTS

-Determining an empericalformula

-Determining the atomic mass of an element

-Emission Spectra and Energy Levels

-Heat of fusion of ICE

 

GRADING

Tests, homework, Collins writing, lab reports.  All reduced to quality points and added.

 

 

 

Course Syllabus for 1^st Quarter

 

CHEMISTRY I

 

Prerequisites:  High School Biology

 

Text:  Holt, Rinehart, Winston, MODERN CHEMISTRY

 

Required Materials:  Scientific Calculator, Lab Goggles, Notebook

 

First Quarter Topics

 

Topic 1:  Matter, Energy, Change

 

Topic 2:  Measuring and solving problems

 

Topic 3:  Atoms:  The building blocks of matter

 

Topic 4:  Arrangement of electrons in atoms

 

Topic 5:  The Periodic Law

 

STUDENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

-How to write a lab report

-Basic algebra

 

STUDENT OBJECTIVES

-Branches of chemistry

-Scientific method

-Energy Changes

-Heat and Temperature

-Density

-Specific heat

-Dalton’s theories

-Structure of atom

-Wave particle nature of light

-Electromagnetic radiation

-Spectroscopy

-Quantum numbers

-Mendeleev and Moseley and periodic law

-Periodic properties

 

ASSESSMENTS

-Section reviews and vocabulary

-Chapter tests

-Lab write ups

-Collins writing, Oxidation and Reduction

LAB EXPERIMENTS

-Densities of Metals

-Oxidation/Reduction

-Make a long form periodic chart

-Law of conservation of mass

-Specific heat of a metal

 

GRADING

Tests, homework, Collins writing, lab reports.  All reduced to quality points and added.