Conceptual Chemistry

Avon Lake Curriculum Framework

Chemistry in the Community

Course Overview:

Chemistry in the Community is a high-school general chemistry course.  Its units cover a full scope of science content and process standards, developing major concepts with laboratory investigations, modeling activities, practice problems, and critical thinking exercises.  ChemComm presents chemical principles on a need-to-know basis.  Each unit opens with a real-world community issue, then introduces and develops chemical principles within this context.  Each unit concludes with a consolidating activity requiring the application of all the tools and techniques learned throughout the unit. The student is responsible for a class notebook, a composition notebook with graph paper and a calculator.  Prerequisites: Biology. This class meets one period daily for ½ unit of credit each semester. Fee: $25

Textbooks:

  1. Chemistry in the Community American Chemical Society

Assessments:

Midterm-project

Final exam - project

First Quarter:                                 

Standards/Learning Goals:


WATER A: Sources and Uses of Water  

  • Uses of water

  • Water use in the United States

  • Water Use Analysis


WATER B:  Looking at Water and It’s Contaminants

  • Physical Properties of Water

  • Density

  • Mixtures and Solutions

  • Particulate view of water

  • Modeling matter - pictures in the mind, symbols, formulas, and equations

  • Skills - symbols, formulas, and equations

  • Electrical Nature of Matter

  • Ions and Ionic Compounds

  • Water Testing

  • Pure and IMpure Water

  • Environmental Clean-Up

Second Quarter:

Standards/Learning Goals:


WATER C  : Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill

  • Solubility of Solids in Water

  • Solubility and Solubility curves

  • Creating solubility curves

  • Dissolving ionic compounds

  • Solution Concentration

  • Describing Solution concentrations

  • Heavy-Metal Ion concentrations

  • pH levels

  • Molecular Substance Concentrations

  • Dissolved Oxygen levels

  • Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Life


WATER D  : Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill

  • Natural Water Purification

  • Municipal Water Purification

  • Chlorination of Water

  • Chlorination and THM’s

  • Bottled Water Versus Tap Water

  • Water Softening

  • Water and water Softening

  • Purifying Water




FINAL PROJECT- Game board creations 

Third Quarter: 

Standards/Learning Goals:



FOOD A:  Food as Energy

  • Food Groups

  • Diet and food groups

  • Snack food energy

  • Energy flow:  from the sun to you

  • How does your garden grow?

  • Energy release and storage

  • Energy in action

  • Energy in, energy out

  • Gain some, lose some

  • Energy intake and expenditure

Fourth Quarter:  

FOOD B:  Energy storage and use

  • Carbohydrates

  • Fats

  • Saturated and unsaturated fats

  • Calories from fat

  • Hydrogenation

  • Fats in the diet

  • Fat-free food?

  • LImiting reactants

  • LImiting reactants in chemical reactions

  • Analyzing fats and carbohydrates


GLOBAL WARMING


  • Carbon emissions

  • Carbon footprint

  • Greenhouse gasses

  • Renewable energy vs. non-renewable energy

  • Solar power 

  • Solar Car Challenge PBL

Revised 

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