CHEMISTRY
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General Overview: Chemistry is designed to be a hands-on, minds-on course of study that emphasizes skills needed to succeed at the high school level and to prepare students for honors, advanced placement, or basic college chemistry. This course is designed to support lessons done at home using a curriculum of your choice. Our program supplements your curriculum with virtual and hands on labs and materials from Apologia, Glencoe, McGrawHill, and Holt. Students are expected to complete a new module/chapter every 2 weeks. This course may be taken individually or as a group.
Course Overview
This hands-on course is a 2 sessions high school class that gives students a strong foundation in chemistry, preparing students for college-level work. Labs cover topics such as: nomenclature, significant figures, units, classification, molar calculations, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, pH, redox reactions, solutions, atomic structure, Lewis structures, molecular geometry, and equilibrium. Lessons will consist of projects, scientific calculations, and labs. A vital skill in any upper-level science course, students will be instructed in the process of writing, revising, and producing formal lab reports, for which the instructor will provide feedback to be added to students’ portfolios. Target Grades: 10-12.
CHEMISTRY CONTENT:
Course Outline:
1. Periodic Table-Review
2. Bonding-Review
3. Chemical Formulas and Naming Compounds
4. Gas Laws and Kinetic Theory
5. Chemical Equations
6. Solutions
7. Energy
8. Chemical Kinetics
9. Acid and Bases
10. Electrochemistry
11. Organic Chemistry
Quick peak at Chemistry lessons.
Are you up to the challenge?
Today's humor:
Hey!:
Two Hydrogens walked into a convenience shop. One says... I think I lost some electrons...The other one says...Are you sure?...The first one says:Yes, I'm positive!! (GET IT? GET IT?)
Hey!:
Two Hydrogens walked into a convenience shop. One says... I think I lost some electrons...The other one says...Are you sure?...The first one says:Yes, I'm positive!! (GET IT? GET IT?)
NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Nuclear Decay:
Be careful with your endings and Roman numerals...You must use the right numeral to name the correct compound (kind of like using the correct last name).
LIMITING REACTANTS!
LIMITING REACTANTS
Do you remember the chocolate chip recipe above? You didn't have enough chocolate chips so you had a LIMITATION as to HOW MANY COOKIES you could actually bake....Guess what? the chips were the limiting reactants because they limited how many cookies we could bake.
The same idea holds when preparing hamburgers at home...You need the right amount of cheese, meat, tomatoes, and buns to make the correct amount of burgers...the one you do not have enough of is called the limiting reactant. The excess reactants are the left over....
Well, baking, recipes, and quantities are all based on chemistry...
Do you remember the chocolate chip recipe above? You didn't have enough chocolate chips so you had a LIMITATION as to HOW MANY COOKIES you could actually bake....Guess what? the chips were the limiting reactants because they limited how many cookies we could bake.
The same idea holds when preparing hamburgers at home...You need the right amount of cheese, meat, tomatoes, and buns to make the correct amount of burgers...the one you do not have enough of is called the limiting reactant. The excess reactants are the left over....
Well, baking, recipes, and quantities are all based on chemistry...
STOICHIOMETRY
Copy and paste the site below. Then, review what we learned in class by using this EXCELLENT tool to solve stoichiometric problems!! Have fun learning!
http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/Powerpoint2/Stoichiometry.ppsx
http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/Powerpoint2/Stoichiometry.ppsx
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