Southside High School

Leslie Freeman

Course: Pre-AP Chemistry

Lab Fee: $30.00

What I Expect From You:

1.  Daily Attendance

2.  Follow Classroom Rules

3.  Bring Materials to Class

What You Will Need For This Class

1.  Calculator

2.  3 Ring Binder (NO Composite Notebooks Should Be Used For This Class)

3.  College-Rule Paper

Things To Remember:

1.  Students cannot afford to be absent in an AP class.

2.  Make up work will be available upon request.

3.  Assignments and labs are due on due date.

Tutoring:

Tutoring will be made available on Tuesdays and Thursday from three till four. If this schedule does not work for you or you need some immediate help, please come talk to me during a time that is convenient to me. Do not interrupt my classes.

Student Center:
At the back of the room I have a student center. There is where all students will turn in assignments. This is also where they will get things I handed out on a day they were absent. There are items such as a stapler and a hole punch that the students may use at any time. My desk is completely off limits to students. Students are to take care of items made available to them or the items will no longer be made available. Students must ask permission to leave their seats to visit the student center unless they have special instructions such as turning in a test when they are through.

Pre-AP Chemistry Schedule: Students will spend approximately one week in each unit

Unit 1: Math and Measurement

·  Scientific notation

·  Scientific digits/math operations

·  Metric Prefixes

·  Factor Analysis

·  Percent Calculation

Unit 2: Matter Classification

·  Density

·  Classification of matter

Unit 3: Atomic Structure

·  Nuclear composition

·  Isotopes and nuclide symbols

·  % abundance

·  Atomic structure experiments

·  Bohr atom and Rydberg equation

·  Periodic structure

·  Light behavior and equation

Unit 4: The Modern Atom

·  Major atomic theories

·  Quantum numbers

·  Orbital shapes

·  Pauli’s exclusion

·  Electron Configuration

·  Lewis Dot Diagrams

·  Recognizing excited states

Unit 5: Periodicity

·  Predicting oxidation states

·  Size of atoms and ions

·  First and multiple ionization energies

·  Electronegativity

·  Metallic Character

·  Reactivity

Unit 6: Bonding

·  Lewis dot diagrams of molecules

·  Exceptions to the octet rule

·  Carbon bonding

·  Resonance

·  Basic Organic Nomenclature

Unit 7: Molecular Structure

·  Molecular geometries

·  Bond angles and polarity

·  Advanced organic nomenclature

·  Isomers

Unit 8: Chemical Nomenclature

·  Binary molecular nomenclature

·  Binary ionic nomenclature

·  Acid nomenclature

·  Stock vs Old system

Unit 9: Chemical Calculations

·  Mole Concept

·  2 step mole problems

·  % composition

·  Empirical formulas

·  Molecular formulas

·  Hydrates

·  Molarity

Unit 10: Chemical Equations

·  Balancing and writing equations

·  Recognizing types of equations

·  Recognizing states of matter

·  Predicting products

·  Special cases of predicting

·  Net ionic equations

Unit 11: Stoichiometry

·  Mass problems

·  % yield calculations

·  Energy calculations

·  Mass/volume problems

·  Volume/volume problems

·  Limiting reagent problems

Unit 12: Gas Laws

·  Kinetic Theory

·  2 and 3 variable gas laws

·  Graham’s Law

·  Ideal gas law

·  Gas density and molecular mass

Unit 13 Solutions

·  phase diagrams

·  intermolecular forces

·  Units of concentration

·  Colligative properties

·  Determining MM and FPD and BPE

Unit 14: Electrochemistry

·  Oxidation numbers

·  ID redox reactions

·  Balancing redox in basic and acidic solutions

·  Voltaic Cells

·  EMF calculations

·  Nernst Equation

·  Electrolytic Cells

·  Faraday’s calculations

Unit 15: General Equilibrium

·  Concepts of equilibrium

·  LeChatlier’s Principle

·  Equilibrium Calculations (RICE)

Unit 16: Acid, Bases, and their Equilibrium

·  Review of acid concepts

·  Anhydrides

·  pH scales and calculation

·  Weak acid pH calculations

·  Titration and calculation

·  Hydrolysis

·  Common ion effect

Unit 17: Thermochemistry:

·  Heat transfer and calculations

·  Enthalpy

·  Hess’s Law

·  Entropy

·  Gibb’s free energy and spontaneity

·  Relationships between E, K, and free energy

Unit 18: Kinetics and Nuclear Chemistry

·  Factors affecting rates

·  Method of initial rates

·  Reaction pathways

·  Time Integrated rate laws

·  Graphing zero, 1st, and 2nd order

·  Nuclear decay reactions

·  Mass defect/binding energy

·  Half lives

·  Fission and fusion