AP® Chemistry Syllabus 2013-14
Ms. Maria Toner
Room 317
maria.mastro3@gmail.com
Curricular Requirements
CR1 Students and teachers use a recently published (within the last 10 years) college-level
chemistry textbook.
CR2 The course is structured around the enduring understandings within the big ideas as
described in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework.
CR3a The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 1: Structure of matter.
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.
CR3c The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 3: Chemical reactions.
CR3d The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 4: Rates of chemical reactions.
CR3e The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 5: Thermodynamics.
CR3f The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 6: Equilibrium.
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
CR5a Students
citizens. are provided the opportunity to engage in investigative laboratory work integrated
throughout the course for a minimum of 25 percent of instructional time.
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.
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.
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.
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Course Description:
The purpose of Advanced Placement Chemistry is to provide a college level course in chemistry
and to prepare the student to seek credit and/or appropriate placement in college chemistry
courses. Laboratory work and activities will average two to three days per week. Little time is
spent on lecture. Students are engaged in hands-on laboratory work, integrated throughout the
course that accounts for more than 25% of the class time. [CR5a] Emphasis is placed on depth
of understanding of a topic, rather than breadth of topics. Students will be expected to read
each chapter and take their own notes.
Objectives:
Students will:
1. Learn the inquiry process through numerous laboratory investigations.
2. Gain an understanding of the six big ideas as articulated in the AP Chemistry Curriculum
Framework. [CR2]
3. Apply mathematical and scientific knowledge and skills to solve quantitative, qualitative,
spatial, and analytic problems.
4. Apply basic arithmetic, algebraic, and geometric concepts.
5. Formulate strategies for the development and testing of hypotheses.
6. Use basic statistical concepts to draw both inferences and conclusions from data.
7. Identify implications and consequences of drawn conclusions.
8. Measure, compare, order, scale, locate, and code accurately.
9. Do scientific research and report and display the results of this research.
10. Learn to think critically in order to solve problems.
Textbook:
Zumdahl, Steven S., et. al., Chemistr y, 7th Edition. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company,
2007. [CR1]
Lab Manual:
Carolina Investigations for AP Chemistry
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Laboratory Work:
All of the laboratory experiments in this course are hands-on. Students will work in groups.
They collect, process, manipulate, and graph data from both qualitative and quantitative
observations. Inquiry is emphasized in many of the experiments that students complete. The
laboratory work requires students to design, carry out, and analyze data using guided inquiry
principles. For all labs, students are required to report the purpose, procedure, all data, data
analysis, error analysis, results, and conclusions in a lab report that is submitted for grading.
[CR7]
Laboratory Notebook:
A laboratory notebook is required for the course. All completed lab reports documenting all lab
experiences must be included in the notebook. [CR7]
The 10 Parts of a Laboratory Report [CR7]
A specific format will be given to the student for each lab. Students must follow that format and
label all sections very clearly. AP Chemistry lab reports are much longer and more in depth
than the ones completed in the first year chemistry course. Therefore, it is important that
students don't procrastinate when doing pre-lab and post-lab work. Late labs will not be
accepted. Labs not completed in class must be done at lunch or before/ after school by
appointment.
Pre-Lab Work
Pre-lab work is to be completed and turned in on the day the lab is performed.
1. Title
The title should be descriptive. For example, "pH Titration Lab" is a descriptive title and
"Experiment 5"is not a descriptive title.
2. Date
This is the date the student performed the experiment.
3. Purpose
A purpose is a statement summarizing the "point" of the lab.
4. Procedure Outline
Students need to write an outline of the procedure. They should use bulleted
statements or outline format to make it easy to read. If a student is doing a guided
inquiry lab, they may be required to write a full procedure that they develop.
5. Pre-Lab Questions
Students will be given some questions to answer before the lab is done. They will need
to either rewrite the question or incorporate the question in the answer. The idea here is
that when someone (like a college professor) looks at a student's lab notebook, they
should be able to tell what the question was by merely looking at their lab report. It is
important to produce a good record of lab work.
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6. Data Tables
Students will need to create any data tables or charts necessary for data collection in
the lab.
During the Lab
7. Data
Students need to record all their data directly in their lab notebook. They are NOT to be
recording data on their separate lab sheet. They need to label all data clearly and
always include proper units of measurement. Students should underline, use capital
letters, or use any device they choose to help organize this section well. They should
space things out neatly and clearly.
Post-Lab Work
8. Calculations and Graphs
Students should show how calculations are carried out. Graphs need to be titled, axes
need to be labeled, and units need to be shown on the axis. To receive credit for any
graphs, they must be at least half a page in size.
9. Conclusions
This will vary from lab to lab. Students will usually be given direction as to what to write,
but it is expected that all conclusions will be well thought out and well written.
10. Post Lab Error Analysis Questions
Follow the same procedure as for Pre-Lab Questions.
Tests:
A chapter test is assigned for each chapter. A comprehensive, standardized semester exam is
administered at the end of 1st semester and a final exam at the end of the year.
AP Exam Review:
The final ten full class days before the AP Chemistry Exam are used for exam review and
practice tests using old AP Chemistry exam materials. Students work in cooperative groups to
solve a packet of free response problems from previous exams. Students practice net ionic
equations and are quizzed on their progress. Several practice AP Exams are administered as
part of the two-week review prior to the AP Chemistry Exam.
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Course Outline: [CR2]
Chapters in Zumdahl Chemistry
1. Chemical Foundations
AP Chemistry Topic Covered
None
2. Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
Atomic Theory & Atomic Structure (BI 1 & 2)
3. Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry (BI 3)
4. Solution Stoichiometry & Chemical Analysis
Reaction Types & Stoichiometry (BI 3)
5. Gases
Gases (BI 1 & 2)
6. Thermochemistry
Thermodynamics (BI 5)
7. Atomic Structure and Periodicity
Atomic Theory & Atomic Structure (BI 1 & 2)
8. Bonding -- General Concepts
Chemical Bonding (BI 1 & 2)
9. Covalent Bonding: Orbitals
Chemical Bonding (BI 1 & 2)
10. Liquids and Solids
Liquids & Solids (BI 1 & 2)
11. Properties of Solutions
Solutions (BI 2)
12. Chemical Kinetics
Kinetics (BI 4)
13. Chemical Equilibrium
Equilibrium (BI 6)
14. Acids and Bases
Equilibrium (BI 6)
15. Applications of Aqueous Equilibria
Equilibrium (BI 6)
16. Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy
Thermodynamics (BI 5)
17. Electrochemistry
Reaction Types (BI 3)
Nuclear Chemistry
18. The Nucleus -- A Chemist’s View
19. The Representative Elements: Groups 1A Descriptive Chemistry (BI 2)
Through 4A
20. The Representative Elements: Groups 5A Descriptive Chemistry (BI 2)
Through 8A
Descriptive Chemistry
22. Organic Chemistry
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AP Chemistry Exam Review
(BI) refers to Big Ideas. Big Idea 1 – Structure of matter, Big Idea 2 – Properties of matter- characteristics,
states and forces of attraction, Big Idea 3 – Chemical reactions, Big Idea 4 – Rates of chemical reactions,
Big Idea 5 – Thermodynamics, Big Idea 6 – Equilibrium.
Assignments:
Chapter 1: Chemical Foundations
Read and take notes: Pages 1-28
Key Terms: Page 29
For Review: Page 29-30
Problems: 6, 29, 30, 42, 57, 88.
Labs:Safety/Lab Skills/Lab Preparation
Kool Aid Chromatography (SP 1.4, 6.4; LO 2.13) [CR5b] & [CR6]
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Week 1 9/3
Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
Read and take notes: Pages 39-67
Key Terms: Page 67-68
For Review: Page 67-68
Problems: 3, 41, 65, 69, 72, 74
Labs: Inquiry Chemical and Physical Changes (SP5.1, 5.3; LO3.1) [CR5b]
Activity: Rutherford PhET simulation
Week 2 9/9
Chapter 3: Stoichiometry
Week 3 9/16
Read and take notes: Pages 77-113
Problems: 25, 29, 33, 57, 65, 68, 73, 83, 87, 94, 96, 99, 104
Key Terms: Page 113-115
For Review: Page 113-115
Labs: Guided Inquiry: Determination of the Formula of a Compound (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 3.5) [CR5b] &
[CR6]
Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions (SP 2.1, 2.2, 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 3.3, 3.5)
[CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: LO 3.6: Use data from synthesis or decomposition of a compound to confirm the conservation of
matter and the law of definite proportions. The students present problems to the class in which they
demonstrate how to find the empirical formula of a compound from data on the percent composition by
mass. [CR3c]
Chapter 5: Gases
TBD….
Read: Pages 179-214
Key Terms: Page 215
For Review: Pages 215-216
Problems: 23, 31, 36, 43, 46, 48, 52, 55, 57, 60, 63, 66, 69, 71, 73, 75, 79, 81
Labs: Gas Laws: Reaction of Zinc with Hydrochloric Acid (SP 1.3, 1.4, 6.4, 7.2; LO 2.4, 2.5) [CR5b] &
[CR6]
Activity: Gas Properties Gas Laws Quantitative [CR 4]
Chapter 6: Thermochemistry
Read and take notes: Pages 229-263
Key Terms: Page 264
For Review: Pages 264-265
Problems: 29, 32, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 50, 44, 47, 53-55, 56-58, 84, 86
Labs: Fundamentals of Calorimetry (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 5.6, 5.7)
[CR5b] & [CR6]
Guided Inquiry: Molar Heat of Fusion of Ice (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 5.6, 5.7)
[CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: LO 5.2: Energy Forms and Changes Simulation [CR3e]
Chapter 12: Chemical Kinetics
Read and notes:
Pages 527-563
Key terms: Page 564
For review: Pages 564-566
Problems: 19-21, 23-25, 26-28, 29-43 odd, 65, 66, 71, 73
Labs: Factors Affecting Reaction Rates (SP 4.2, 6.4; LO 4.1, 4.2) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Chemical Kinetics (SP 5.1, 6.4; LO 4.1, 4.2, 4.4) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Guided Inquiry: Factors that affect reaction rates and determining reaction rates and reaction
mechanisms (SP 6.2, 7.2; LO 4.5, 4.9) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: LO 4.8: Translate among reaction energy profile representations, particulate representations,
and symbolic representations (chemical equations) of a chemical reaction occurring in the presence and
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absence of a catalyst.
Students create energy diagrams to explain why catalysts and raising the temperature can increase the
rate of a chemical reaction. [CR3d]
Chapter 13: Chemical Equilibrium
Read and take notes: Pages 578-610
Key Terms: Pages 610-611
For Review: Pages 610-612
Problems: 19, 21, 25, 29, 32, 34, 37, 39, 44, 45, 46, 49, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 66, 67, 71
Lab: Le Chatelier's Principle and Equilibrium Shifts (SP 4.2; LO 6.9) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Guided Inquiry: Factors Affecting Reaction Rates
Activity:
LO 6.1: Given a set of experimental observations regarding physical, chemical, biological, or
environmental processes that are reversible, student is able to construct an explanation that connects the
observations to the reversibility of the underlying chemical reactions or processes.
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.
CR6—The laboratory investigations used throughout the course allow students to apply the seven
science practices defined in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework.
CR3d—The course provides students with opportunities outside the laboratory environment to meet
the learning objectives within Big Idea 4: Rates of chemical reactions.
Students view the NO2/N2O4 Equilibrium simulation available on the General Equilibria Animations Index
page at Iowa State University and verbally report and discuss their answers to teacher supplied questions
regarding the number of reactant and product molecules present at a particular point in the equilibrium
process, the breaking and forming of bonds during the process, and how the reactant and product
molecules
are changing in order to illustrate the dynamic nature of equilibrium. [CR3f]
Dueling Graduted Cylinders ****NEEDS CR AND SP
Chapter 4: Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry
Read and take notes: Pages 127-154 (Up to Oxidation-Reduction Reactions)
Key Terms: Page 168-169 (Up to Section 4.9)
For Review: Pages 169-170 (1-8)
Problems: 36, 45, 71, 17, 19, 25, 37, 39, 41, 44, 51, 53, 55, 74, 87
Labs: Observe a Decomposition Reaction [CR5b] & [CR6]
Guided Inquiry: Identification of Chemical Reactions (SP 1.5, 2.2, 4.2, 5.1,
6.4; LO 1.19, 2.10, 3.2, 3.3) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: Net Ionic Reactions *** NEEDS LO
Chapter 14: Acids and Bases
Read and take notes: Pages 623-667
Key Terms: Page 668
For Review: Pages 668-672
Problems: 28, 30, 37, 44, 47, 50, 54, 81, 84, 59, 63, 66, 71, 73, 76, 87, 90, 95, 100, 103, 109, 111, 116,
117, 119, 121
Labs: Guided Inquiry: What is the Concentration of the Acid in this Drink? (SP 6.4; LO 6.20) [CR5b] &
[CR6]
Activity: Acid-Base Macro Particulate Symbolic
Acid Base Solutions - Concentration and Strength
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Chapter 15: Applications of Aqueous Equilibria
Read and take notes: Pages 681-736
Key Terms: 736-737
For Review: 736-738
Problems: 13, 24, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 39, 42, 43, 44, 55, 59, 61, 63, 70, 78, 82, 85, 90, 93, 96, 97, 100,
102, 115, 121
Labs: Preparation of a Buffered Solution (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 1.20) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Guided Inquiry: Evaluating Lemonade as a Buffer (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 1.20) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: Titration Curves of Strong and Weak Acids and Bases (SP 1.4, 6.2, 6.4; LO 1.18, 6.12) [CR5b]
Determination of a Solubility Product Constant (SP 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1; LO 1.4, 3.3, 6.12,
6.20) [CR5b]
Buffered Solutions (SP 2.3, 4.2, 6.4; LO 1.4, 6.18, 6.20) [CR5b]
Chapter 16: Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy
Read and take notes: Pages 749-779
Key Terms: Page 780
For Review: 780-782
Problems: 17, 21, 24, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46, 48, 51, 53, 55, 58, 62, 65
Labs: Complexometric Titration of Calcium in Milk (SP 4.2, 5.1, 6.4; LO 1.19) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Chapter 4.9-4.1 and 17: Oxidaton-Reduction and Electrochemistry
Read and take notes: Pages 154-168 and 791-829
Key Terms: Page 169 and 826-827
For Review: Page 170 (9-10) and 826-829
Problems: (Chapter 17 only) 25, 27, 29, 31, 35, 37, 39, 44, 49, 51, 54, 55, 57, 61, 66, 79-82, 88, 92, 94,
116
Labs: Vitamin C in Fruit Juices by Redox Titration (SP 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1; LO 3.3) [CR5b] &
[CR6]
Corrosion (SP 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1; LO 3.3) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: Voltaic Cell Lab Simulation
Chapter 10: Liquids and Solids
Read and take notes: Pages 425-471
Key Terms: Page 472
For Review: Page 472-474
Problems: 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 79-83, 84-87, 89, 91, 92, 104
Labs: Vapor Pressure and Enthalpy of Vaporization of Water (SP 6.4, 7.1; LO 2.3) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Chapter 11: Properties of Solutions
Read and take notes: Pages 485-516
Key Terms: Pages 516-517
For Review: Pages 516-518
Problems: 27, 29, 31, 33, 36, 40, 43, 47-58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69
Lab: Freezing Point Depression (SP 1.1, 1.2, 6.4; LO 2.8) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Chapter 7: Atomic Structure and Periodicity
Read and take notes: Pages 275-318
Key Terms: Page 318-319
For Review: 318-320
Problems: 37, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 60-64, 67, 68, 70, 73, 77, 79, 82, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 97, 126
Labs: Guided Inquiry: Molecular Spectroscopy (SP 4.1; LO 1.15) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Beer’s Law (SP 4.2, 5.1; LO 3.4) [CR5b] & [CR6]
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Activity: LO 1.10: Justify with evidence the arrangement of the periodic table and apply periodic properties
to chemical reactivity. Students are given several elements pairing them by families or by period and are
asked to rationalize the change in electronegativity of each group based on the electronic structure of the
atom [CR3a]
Chapter 8: Bonding: General Concepts
Read: Pages 329-379
Key Terms: 380
For Review: 380-381
Problems: 19, 21, 26, 29, 34, 35, 36, 41-45, 46, 47-50, 54, 59, 63, 64, 67, 69, 72, 74, 77, 78, 79, 81, 83,
91, 92, 95, 109, 119
Lab: Guided Inquiry: Types of Chemical Bonds (SP 4.2, 6.4; LO 2.22) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Activity: LO 2.21: Use Lewis diagrams and VSEPR to predict the geometry of molecules, identify
hybridization, and make predictions about polarity.
Students construct models of the arrangement of pairs of electrons around a central atom. They then
draw 2D pictures of these arrangements and apply these to predicting the shapes of molecules. [CR3b]
Chapter 9: Covalent Bonding: Orbitals
Read: Pages 391-415
Key Terms: Page 416
For Review: Pages 416-417
Problems: 23, 24, 27, 28, 30
Lab: Determination of the Formula of a Hydrate (SP 2.1, 4.2, 6.4; LO 3.5) [CR5b] & [CR6]
Chapter 19: The Representative Elements: Groups 1A Through 4A
Read and take notes: Pages 875-895
Problems: 2, 8, 10, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 39, 42, 44, 46, 48, 51, 53, 56, 57, and 62.
Chapter 20: The Representative Elements: Groups 5A through 8A
Read and take notes: Pages 901-933
Problems: 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33, 38, and 46.
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