General Chemistry

General
Chemistry provides students with an introduction to the fundamentals of
chemistry. Students build data analysis, critical thinking, and science
communication skills while exploring various forms of matter, the composition
of the atom, and organization of the periodic table.

They will learn
about properties of matter and use patterns to predict the behavior of atoms
undergoing chemical reactions.

They will
understand chemical bonding and other interactions between atoms and molecules.
They will explore the laws of conservation of mass and energy through
calculations, including stoichiometry and calorimetry.

Students should
take this course concurrently with, or after taking, Algebra II or Integrated
Math III (Geometry).

• Chemistry
  Is a Laboratory Science
• Math
  for Chemistry
• Matter
  and Change
• Physical
  and chemical properties and various states. Physical and chemical changes on
  microscopic, macroscopic,
• The
  Building Blocks of the Universe isotopes, and atomic and molar mass
• nuclear
  stability and decay, fission and fusion,
• The
  photoelectric effect, spectra, the Bohr model, and the quantum mechanical model
  of the atom.
• Calculations
  involving electromagnetic radiation, Planck’s constant, energy, and the speed
  of light.
• Chemical Bonding – Ionic and Metallic
  Bonds
• Covalent Bonds, Chemical Reactions
• The Mole, Avogadro’s number
• Stoichiometry, mole-to-mole, mole-to-mass, and
  mass-to-mass calculations
• Gases,
  kinetic molecular theory, pressure, and Dalton’s law of partial pressure.

• calculations involving the various gas laws