/ Kealakehe High School
Q1 Chemistry Pacing Guide
School Year 2014-2015-Fall Semester
with Dr. Carroll
/

Topic / Chapter / Time / Description / Activities, Labs, and Assessments / HCPS III
Classroom Policies
and
Lab Safety / Teacher
Directed / 2 weeks / Students will learn:
·  Classroom rules, procedures, and expectations will be discussed and reviewed
·  General safety rules in the chemistry lab
·  Students will learn to identify and use appropriate lab equipment
·  Students will learn to safely use a Bunsen burner in a chemistry lab setting / ·  Q1 Pretest (used to assess students’ starting point)
·  Safety Quiz
Including the safety fashion show!
·  Lab Station Activity:
What Is It & How do I Use It?
Leaning about lab equipment
·  Formal Lab: The Bunsen Burner
~Where’s the Hot Spot? ~ / Standard 1:
Scientific Investigation
Benchmarks
SC.PS. 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. 1.6
What is Chemistry? / 1 / 2 weeks / Students will learn:
·  The basic concepts of chemistry, such as identifying acidic or basic substances
·  How to approach and solve a problem scientifically using The Scientific Method / ·  Class activity:
Using the Scientific Method
·  Lab-Station Demonstrations: Everyday Chemicals
·  Quiz on Chapter 1 and
Q1-Benchmark Quiz 1 / Standard 1:
Scientific Investigation
Benchmarks
SC.PS.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7
Matter
versus
Energy / 2 / 5 weeks / Students will learn:
·  How to recognize the difference between
physical & chemical properties
·  How energy is related to physical & chemical
changes of matter
·  How to classify matter
·  How to perform physical separations of
mixtures
·  How to identify different substances using density
·  How to find the density of a substance using mass and volume / ·  Group Activity:
How Do We Read an MSDS?
·  Lab-Station Activity:
Is it Hot or Cold: Physical or Chemical?
·  Q1-Benchmark Quiz 2
·  Lab-Station Activity:
Pure Substances & Mixtures
·  Q1-Benchmark Quiz 3
·  Lab-Station Activity:
Physical Separation of Mixtures
·  Formal Lab: The Densities of Things
·  Density Quiz & Q1-Benchmark Quiz 4 / Standard 1:
Scientific Investigation
Standard 6:
Nature of Matter
Benchmarks
SC.PS.1.3, 1.4, 1.7
SC.PS.6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Review / 1-2 / 1 week / In-class review time and catch-up.
Prepare for Q1 Exam an Benchmark Test / ·  Q1 Exam: Chapters 1-2
·  Q1 Benchmark Test / See above Standards