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:
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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
WATER B: Looking at Water and It’s Contaminants
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Second Quarter: |
Standards/Learning Goals: WATER C : Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill
WATER D : Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill
FINAL PROJECT- Game board creations |
Third Quarter: |
Standards/Learning Goals: FOOD A: Food as Energy
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Fourth Quarter: |
FOOD B: Energy storage and use
GLOBAL WARMING
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Revised
Sedlick