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Course Syllabus for 1^st Quarter

CHEMISTRY ONE

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

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