Teacher Contact Information
Ms. Julie Hadler
[email protected]
tfnorthchemistry.weebly.com
Instructional Philosophy
Every student is entitled to a safe, productive learning environment. My role is to teach them the tools to have a successful education. Students will participate in various methods of teaching, including cooperative learning, differential instruction, and traditional instruction. My goals are to challenge students through exposure to all aspects of chemistry and to help students view the world with a different perspective. Students will also be challenged through various activities throughout the year.
Ms. Julie Hadler
[email protected]
tfnorthchemistry.weebly.com
Instructional Philosophy
Every student is entitled to a safe, productive learning environment. My role is to teach them the tools to have a successful education. Students will participate in various methods of teaching, including cooperative learning, differential instruction, and traditional instruction. My goals are to challenge students through exposure to all aspects of chemistry and to help students view the world with a different perspective. Students will also be challenged through various activities throughout the year.
Major Course Units
Unit 1: Matter & Energy
Unit 2: Atomic Structure, Nuclear Processes, Periodic Table
Unit 3: Chemical Bonding and Nomenclature
Unit 4: Chemical Reactions
Unit 5: The Mole & Stoichiometry
Unit 6: Gases
Unit 1: Matter & Energy
Unit 2: Atomic Structure, Nuclear Processes, Periodic Table
Unit 3: Chemical Bonding and Nomenclature
Unit 4: Chemical Reactions
Unit 5: The Mole & Stoichiometry
Unit 6: Gases
District 215 Grading Scale
100-90 A 89-80 B 79-70 C 69-60 D 59 & below F |
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Evaluation Structure
Students will be assessed in multiple ways through lab reports, activities, projects, classwork/homework, and classroom participation as well as with quizzes and tests. Each grade is calculated by utilizing a weighted average:
15% homework/classwork; 35% lab; 50% tests/quizzes
Students will be assessed in multiple ways through lab reports, activities, projects, classwork/homework, and classroom participation as well as with quizzes and tests. Each grade is calculated by utilizing a weighted average:
15% homework/classwork; 35% lab; 50% tests/quizzes
Course Description
Chemistry is the study of the composition of substances and the changes they undergo. It is also a class where math is utilized in conjunction with scientific processes. The class is taught using a combination of traditional teaching and modeling. Modeling is a technique which focuses on the process of evaluating data and trends. It is a technique which encourages students to think and devise their own ideas, which can be very frustrating because students are not necessarily given a right and wrong answer. Along with a variety of student-centered classroom instructional processes, an integral part of chemistry is laboratory work. The purpose of the laboratory work is not only to convey information and to teach important laboratory techniques, but also familiarizes students with the proper attributes necessary for any successful laboratory experience: how to follow directions carefully, how to organize time efficiently, how to record and analyze data, and how to work in a manner that is hazard free to themselves and others in the laboratory.
Chemistry is the study of the composition of substances and the changes they undergo. It is also a class where math is utilized in conjunction with scientific processes. The class is taught using a combination of traditional teaching and modeling. Modeling is a technique which focuses on the process of evaluating data and trends. It is a technique which encourages students to think and devise their own ideas, which can be very frustrating because students are not necessarily given a right and wrong answer. Along with a variety of student-centered classroom instructional processes, an integral part of chemistry is laboratory work. The purpose of the laboratory work is not only to convey information and to teach important laboratory techniques, but also familiarizes students with the proper attributes necessary for any successful laboratory experience: how to follow directions carefully, how to organize time efficiently, how to record and analyze data, and how to work in a manner that is hazard free to themselves and others in the laboratory.
Course Objectives
- Understand what chemists study and explain the relevance of chemistry to everyday life
- Identify laboratory safety equipment and explain the appropriate safety procedures
- Apply the steps of the scientific method by formulating and writing a hypothesis, conducting an experiment, writing and interpreting observations and data, formulating conclusions, analyzing results and identifying experimental errors
- Understand and utilize the metric system
- Use dimensional analysis to convert between units
- Define and compare accuracy and precision
- Use significant figures and rounding to reflect the certainty of data
- Interpret and create graphs to reveal patterns in data
- Express numbers in scientific notation
- Understand the characteristics of matter and substances
- Distinguish between physical and chemical properties and changes
- Differentiate between the physical states of matter
- Distinguish between pure substances and mixtures
- Identify types of matter
- Apply the Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy
- Calculate the density for various types of matter
- Interpret graphical data to determine the density of a substance
- Compare and contrast the early atomic models
- Distinguish between the subatomic particles in terms of relative charge and mass
- Describe the structure of the atom including the location of the subatomic particles
- Use and understand the symbolic language of chemistry
- Explain the various features of the periodic table
- Define an isotope and explain why atomic masses are not whole Numbers
- Recognize and balance nuclear equations.
- Apply and utilize the rules and principles of electron configuration
- Explain the origin of the subatomic emission spectrum of an element
- Define valence electrons and draw Lewis dot diagrams
- Apply the rules for naming and writing formulas for ionic and molecular compounds and acids
- Account for the physical properties of ionic and molecular compounds
- Use electronegativity of atoms to predict bond type
- Write and balance chemical equations correctly using symbols and formulas
- Classify chemical reactions
- Define solubility and describe the factors that affect solubility
- Predict products of the various types of chemical reaction
- Utilize reactivity series and solubility charts in predicting products of reactions
- Explain how mass is conserved in a balanced chemical reaction
- Define the term mole and describe how it is used in chemistry
- Calculate the mass of a mole of any substance
- Use the molar mass to convert between mass and moles of a substance
- Use the mole to convert measurements of mass, volume, and number of particles
- Calculate percent compositions and determine empirical and molecular formulas
- Identify the quantitative relationships in a balanced equation
- Use stoichiometric calculations to determine the limiting reactant
- Calculate the percent yield of a product.
- Apply the postulates of Kinetic-Molecular Theory to the behavior of the states of matter
- Explain the relationships between pressure, volume, and temperature using the gas laws
- Perform calculations using the gas laws
- Distinguish between ideal and real gases
- Relate numbers of particles and volumes by using Avogadro’s principle
- Perform stoichiometric calculations using the gas laws
- Describe solubility and the factors that affect it
- Calculate the concentrations of solutions using molarity
- Describe how to prepare dilute solutions from more concentrated solutions of known molarity
Next Generation Science Standards
- HS-PS1-1 Use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms.
- HS-PS1-3. Plan and conduct an investigation to gather evidence to compare the structure of substances at the bulk scale to infer the strength of electrical forces between particles.
- HS-PS1-7. Use mathematical representations to support the claim that atoms, and therefore mass, are conserved during a chemical reaction.
- HS-PS1-8. Develop models to illustrate the changes in the composition of the nucleus of the atom and the energy released during the processes of fission, fusion, and radioactive decay
- HS-PS3-1 Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
- HS-PS3-2. Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative positions of particles (objects).
- HS-PS3-3. Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.
- HS-PS3-4. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics
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