Ap Chemistry Syllabus 2016-2017
Ap Chemistry Syllabus 2016-2017
Ap Chemistry Syllabus 2016-2017
CR1
Students and teachers use a recently published (within the last 10 years) college-level chemistry
textbook. Page: 1
CR2
The course is structured around the enduring understandings within the big ideas as described
in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework. Page: 1
CR3a The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 1: Structure of matter. Page: 9
CR3b The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 2: Properties of matter-characteristics, states and forces of
attraction. Page: 9
CR3c The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 3: Chemical Reactions. Page: 9
CR3d The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 4: Rates of Chemical Reactions. Page: 9
CR3e The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 5: Thermodynamics. Page: 9
CR3f The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 6: Equilibrium. Page: 9
CR4
The course provides students with the opportunity to connect their knowledge of chemistry and
science to major societal or technological components (e.g., concerns, technological advances,
innovations) to help them become scientifically literate citizens. Page: 2
CR5a Students are provided the opportunity to engage in investigative laboratory work integrated
throughout the course for a minimum of 25 percent of instructional time. Page: 7
CR5b Students are provided the opportunity to engage in a minimum of 16 hands-on laboratory
experiments integrated throughout the course while using basic laboratory equipment to support the
learning objectives listed within the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework. Page: 8
CR6
The laboratory investigations used throughout the course allow students to apply the seven
science practices defined in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework. At minimum, six of the required
16 labs are conducted in a guided-inquiry format. Page: 8
CR7
The course provides opportunities for students to develop, record and maintain evidence of
their verbal, written, and graphic communication skills through laboratory reports, summaries of
literature or scientific investigations, and oral written and graphic presentations. Pages: 2 and 7
Portfolio
Students will organize their classwork and other assignments in a portfolio/binder. To develop
communication skills [CR7], every three weeks the students will hand in an essay (analysis, summary and
opinion) of a scientific article that has to do with any environmental, technological or societal
applications of chemistry [CR4]. These short essays will be kept in the portfolio along with other
documents that the teacher will inform during the school year.
Laboratories
The labs completed require following or developing processes and procedures, taking
observations, and data manipulation. See lab list provided for lab details. Students communicate and
collaborate in lab groups; however, each student writes a laboratory report in a lab notebook for every
lab they perform. A minimum of 25% of student contact time will be spent doing hands-on laboratory
activities. [CR5a]
Laboratories List
The following labs [CR5b] will be completed during the school year. Guided Inquiry Labs are indicated
with an asterisk (*). [CR6]
1. Lab: Observations of Physical Properties [SP: 1, 4, 6]
2. Lab: Properties of Hydrates [SP: 1, 4, 5, 6]
3. Lab: Spot test for Common Anions. [SP: 1, 4, 5, 6]
4. Lab: How Can You Determine the Percentage of Sugar in Soft Drinks? [SP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
5. Lab [*]: Using the Principle That Each Substance Has Unique Properties to Purify a Mixture: An
Experiment Applying Green Chemistry to Purification. [SP: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
6. Lab [*]: Sticky Question: How Do You Separate Molecules That Are Attracted to One Another?
[SP: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
6 examples for activities outside the lab to meet the learning objectives [CR3 a to f]
Big Idea #1, Learning Objective 1.4:
Students are given a problem set and asked to determine the limiting reagents for a chemical
reaction (e.g., interconverts particles, moles, mass, and volume of given substances.
Big Idea #2, Learning Objective 2.17:
Given combinations of atoms, students use the periodic table to predict the type of bonding
present (i.e., ionic, covalent, metallic).
Big Idea #3, Learning Objective 3.2:
Students observe a demonstration of a series of chemical reactions and then write
appropriately balanced chemical equations.
Big Idea #4, Learning Objective 4.5:
Students view a computer animation and provide explanations for effective and ineffective
collisions that lead to chemical reactions.
Big Idea #5, Learning Objective 5.14:
Students solve problems in which they qualitatively and quantitatively predict the signs and
magnitude of H, S, and G from a set of thermochemical data.
Big Idea #6, Learning Objective 6.8:
Students predict the direction of the shift resulting
from various possible stresses on different
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examples of systems in equilibrium.