ROBERT S. WELCH CENTER FOR GRADUATE AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
©2010 GOUCHER COLLEGE
Syllabus: July 12-16
ED 522.002 Preparing Students for the AP Exam (Experienced AP Teachers) :
Chemistry (Instructor: John Hnatow)
Dates and times that the course meets: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Note required texts or supplemental readings: Brown, LeMay and Bursten Chemistry,
10e (included in supplied course materials,) and a familiarity of the information available
on the AP Chemistry Homepage on AP Central.
Course objectives: This course is recommended for teachers with three or more years
of AP Chemistry teaching experience. Similar in nature to the course for New AP
Teachers, <522.001.>, this course will model an AP chemistry curriculum in which
participants will be introduced to both the hands-on and theoretical aspects of specific
content areas. The workshop leader will share the most current information regarding
the AP Chemistry exam. Topics selected for advanced study will be thermodynamics,
electrochemistry as well as acid-base equilibria with emphasis on weak acids and
bases, buffers, hydrolysis reactions, titration curves, molecular structure and
descriptive chemistry. A full, daily laboratory component will complement the
selected topics. Participants will also have the opportunity to work both individually
and collaboratively on homework problems and problem-solving strategies, and to
review past AP exams. Chapter tests that mirror current AP Exams will be provided
as frameworks for group work. (There will be about two hours of homework daily).
Group discussions will center on strategies for presentation, and the integration of the
laboratory component with the content. The class ultimately is intended to inspire
teachers to motivate their students to achieve at the highest possible levels.
Attendance policy: If you are taking the course for credit, no absences are permitted.
You must attend all five days all day to receive graduate credit.
Instructor contact: email at apchem307@gmail.com
Detail Breakdown of course
Day 1
AM
1. Overview of plans for the course: content, structure, depth, and breadth.
2. Assignment of selected problems from AP exams, Brown and LeMay and Bursten
textbook, electronic homework, and DVDs for participants to complete.
3. Brief discussion of lab safety and lab reporting methods.
4. Hand Warmers™ thermochemistry lab with LabQuest™
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PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
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PM
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
AP laboratory programs: style, equipment, timing, reports, statistics, etc.
Making labs effective, pre- and post-labs, design, evaluation.
Thermodynamics
ThermoBorax Experiment
Use of Spreadsheets to analyze data, as applicable to Hand Warmers™ and other
AP labs
6. HW: Complete 1/3 of the “Norton Publishing Chemical Bonding Tutorials”
worksheet problems, as an overview of the on-line program found at
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/chemistry/gilbert/home.htm`
Day 2
AM
1. Analysis of the AP exam. Multiple Choice and free response questions with
specific reference to Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics Activities
2. Build and/or draw Lewis dot structures for the reactants and products formed by
the chemical reactions described on the Covalent Molecules and Thermodynamic
Changes worksheet. Use thermodynamic data to calculate the net changes in
enthalpy that occurs during each reaction.
PM
1. Analysis of the AP exam. Multiple Choice and free response questions with
specific reference to Molecular Structure
2. Draw Lewis structures for the reactants and products in the chemical reactions
provided. Use the model building kits to construct each molecule in order to
visualize their shape and structure. Then answer the related question for each
reaction and justify your answers.
3. HW: Complete the TI83 / TI84 graphing calculator statistical analysis of the
“Standardization of NaOH Lab data” in order to learn the operations of the
calculator.
4. Optional: Open the LoggerPro 3 Computer program. Then open the Tutorials
folder. Click on Lesson 8: Stats, Tangents, Integrals and complete the tutorial.
Day 3
AM
1. Grading Standards and test construction.
2. Analysis of the AP exam. Multiple Choice and free response questions with
specific reference to Acid-base equilibria with emphasis on weak acids and bases,
buffers, hydrolysis reactions, titration curves
3. Microtitration of strong and weak acids with standardized NaOH ; Calculate the
Ka of a weak acid from titration curve.
ROBERT S. WELCH CENTER FOR GRADUATE AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
©2010 GOUCHER COLLEGE
PM
1. Titration of a solid diprotic acid, determine its molar mass and two Ka values, and
identify the acid from a list of possible compounds.
2. Preparation and testing of an assigned buffer solution.
3. HW: Internet Electronic HW Lesson #154, “The LeChatlier Effect”
4. HW: Internet Electronic HW Lesson #74, “Solutions of Acids & Bases- Word
Problems”
Day 4
AM
1. Lab Practical- Titrate a saturated solution of Ca(OH)2 with standardized HCl and
calculate its Ksp value.
2. Analysis of the AP exam. Multiple Choice and free response questions with
specific reference to Electrochemistry: electrochemical cells and electrolysis.
PM
1. Separate of a KI solution by electrolysis, and determination of products are
formed.
2. Electrolysis to determine the Faraday
Day 5
AM
1. Determine the rate of decomposition of H2O2 and analyze the kinetics of the
reaction using graphical analysis with a TI83 Graphing calculator.
2. Analysis of the AP exam. Multiple Choice and free response questions with
specific reference to Descriptive Chemistry. Equation writing for AP exam
questions. AP style grading exercises.
3. The AP Qualitative Lab Practical to identify 4 unknown solids.
4. The use of Interactive Web sites in Chemistry
5. Evaluation and wrap up
ROBERT S. WELCH CENTER FOR GRADUATE AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
ED 522.001 (TI71.01) and ED 522.002 (TI71.02 ) Preparing Students for the AP
Exam: Chemistry (Instructor: John Hnatow)
Jack Randall, Advanced Chemistry with Vernier, ISBN: 1-929-075-36-7 (Vernier
Software and Technology 2004) )
James E. Brady and Fred Senese, Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes, 4th Edition
ISBN: 0-471-21517-1 (McGraw-Hill 2004)
Jo Beran , Laboratory Manual for Principles of General Chemistry, 7th Edition
ISBN: 0-471-21498-1 (Wiley 2004)
Raymond Chang , Chemistry, 9th Edition, ISBN 0073221031 2007, (McGraw Hill 2006)
Theodore E Brown, H. Eugene LeMay, and Bruce E Bursten Chemistry, The Central
Science ISBN: 0-13-109686-9
(Prentice Hall 2006)
Steven Zumdahl and Susan Zumdahl Chemistry, 7e ISBN: 0618713700 (HoughtonMifflin 2005)
John C. Kotz, Paul M. Treichel Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity 6th Edition (with
General Chemistry CD-ROM) ISBN: 0-534-99766-X (Thompson Brooks Cole) 2006
See http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/51929.html for
appropriate textbooks
Requirements for Graduate Credit
ED 522.002 Preparing Students for the AP Exam (Experienced AP Teachers) :
Chemistry (Instructor: John Hnatow)
Description of requirements: Each participant will be expected to do Pre-work before
attending the class, to work daily on questions from previous AP exams, a supplied
chemistry college textbook, and an electronic Chemistry Homework website. These
questions will be presented and discussed in class each day. Each participant will be
required to 1) Annotate and present a useful chemistry web site. 2) Complete lab
calculations. 3) Design an AP wet lab practical exam or an AP dry lab using sample data
for analysis and interpretation or develop an AP “design your own” inquiry experiment
for presentation to the class. Somewhat subjectively, the quality of each participant’s
class time will be evaluated.
Due date for final project(s): received by instructor by July 23, 2010, which will be sent
in electronic format to J. Hnatow at apchem307@gmail.com
ROBERT S. WELCH CENTER FOR GRADUATE AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
©2010 GOUCHER COLLEGE
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approximately 3 weeks after concluding the course by going to the
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ROBERT S. WELCH CENTER FOR GRADUATE AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
GOUCHER COLLEGE
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
©2010 GOUCHER COLLEGE
Pre-institute assignments:
 Register on AP Central (if you haven't already done so.)
 Prior to this workshop Read/Review any/all of the following topics from a
college-level textbook if necessary: thermodynamics, electrochemistry, acid-base
equilibria with emphasis on weak acids and bases, buffers, hydrolysis reactions,
titration curves, molecular structure
 Print hard copies and solve all twelve questions from the Free Response portions
of both 2010 AP Chemistry Exams. (There are 6 questions on the Operational
Exam, and 6 additional questions on Form B of the exam.)
 Print or obtain a hard copy of the AP practice exam from AP Central (Audit page)
 Request via email and fill out and return a participant survey
(apchem307@gmail.com) at your earliest convenience.
Participants are asked to bring the following
 A laptop computer
 A jump drive with files of your favorite classroom activity or experiment to share
with other participants (also try to bring 25-30 hard-copies along)
 A Texas Instruments TI83 or TI84 Graphing Calculator
 Safety Glasses or goggles
 A Chemistry related web site which you have found to be useful in your
classroom to share with other participants. (One week prior to the start of the
APSI, email the address of the web site to John along with a short description of
the value of using the site in a chemistry class, so he can include it on his Goucher
Chemistry APSI web site prior to the start of class)
 Although you will receive at least one textbook when you arrive, you might want
to bring a College-Level Chemistry book. Be prepared to solve and present AP
test questions and textbook problems, perform experiments that correlate with and
help teach content, and use the new Vernier LabQuest™, and we will discuss
many ways to be successful teaching AP chemistry!