Iona Secondary School
Science Department
Grade 10 General Science
Unit C: Chemical Reactions
Textbook: Nelson Science Perspectives 10
Day 1: Introduction: Chapter 5: Chemicals and their Properties
5.1: Properties and Changes, pg. 175
Physical and Chemical Properties – definitions
Physical and Chemical Changes, Table 2: Evidence of Chemical Changes
Check Your Learning: 1 – 11, pg. 178
Day 2: 5.2 – Activity: Identifying Physical and Chemical Changes, pg. 180
Collect evidence of physical and chemical changes.
Day 3: 5.3: Hazardous Products and Workplace Safety, pg. 182.
What is WHMIS?
WHMIS Product Labels
Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Check Your Learning, 1 – 9, pg. 183
Day 4: 5.4: Patterns and the Periodic Table, pg. 184
What is a Periodic Table?
Chemical Families: Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earth Metals, Noble Gases, and Halogens.
Elements and the Atomic Structure
Bohr – Rutherford Model
Electron Arrangements and Reactivity
Check Your Learning, 1 – 9, pg. 187
Day 5: 5.5: Atoms and Ions, pg. 188
How do Atoms and Ions Differ?
Examples: Sodium, Fluorine, Aluminum, Sulfur, and Hydrogen.
Naming Ions
Check Your Learning, 1 – 9, pg. 191
Day 6: 5.6: Ionic Compounds, pg. 192
Making Ionic Compounds from Elements
Properties of Ionic Compounds
Check Your Learning, 1 – 13, pg. 195
Revised Feb. 2011
Day 7: 5.7: Names and Formulas of Ionic Compounds, pg. 196
Naming Ionic Compounds
Writing Chemical Formulas
Steps for writing Chemical Formulas
Using the Crisscross Method
Naming Compounds Involving Elements with Multiple Ionic Charges
Check Your Learning, 1 – 10, pg. 200
Day 8: 5.9: Polyatomic Ions, pg. 202
Table 1: Name of Polyatomic Ions
Naming Compounds Involving Polyatomic Ions
Writing Formulas Involving Polyatomic Ions
Check Your Learning, 1- 12, pg. 205
Day 9: 5.10: Molecules and Covalent Bonding, pg. 206
Bonding in Molecules and Diatomic Molecules
Table 1: Diatomic Elements
Table 3: Prefixes used in Molecular Compounds
Writing Chemical Formulas of Molecular Compounds
Check Your Learning, 1 – 11, pg. 212
Day 10: 5.11: Investigation: Properties of Ionic and Molecular Compounds, pg. 213
Day 11: Chapter 5 Review, pg. 216 – 217.
Day 12: Chapter 5 Test
Day 13: Chapter 6: Chemicals and Their Reactions
6.1: Describing Chemical Reactions, pg. 225
Describing Chemical Reactions with Equations
Writing Word and Chemical Equations (Reactants and Products)
Check Your Learning, 1 – 9, pg. 227
Day 14: 6.3 – Conserving Mass in Chemical Reactions, pg. 230
Law of Conservation of Mass (Mass of Reactants = Mass of Products)
Reactions, Equations, and the Conservation of Mass
Check Your Learning, 1 – 7, pg. 232
*prepare Investigation 6.2: Is Mass Gained or Lost During A Chemical Reaction?
Day 15: 6.2: Investigations: Is Mass Gained or Lost During A Chemical Reaction?
pg. 228
Formal Lab Report required, due Date 7 days.
Revised Feb. 2011
Day 16: 6.4: Information in Chemical Equations, pg. 233
Balancing Chemical Equations
Word Equations, Skeleton Equations, Balance Equations
How to Balance Equations, Steps 1 – 4
Check Your Learning, 1 – 8, pg. 236
Day 16: Types of Reactions:
6.5: Synthesis and Decomposition, pg. 237
Check Your Learning, 1 4, pg. 239
Day 17: Types of Reactions:
6.10: Single and double Displacement, pg. 240
Single displacement (element and compound)
X + AB → A + XB
Double displacement (compound and compound) XY + AB → AY + XB
Check Your Learning, 1 – 8, pg. 243
*Prepare 6.7: Investigation – Synthesis and Decomposition Reactions, pg. 244
*Prepare 6.8: Investigation – Single and Double Displacement Reactions, pg. 246
Day 18: Investigations 6.7 and 6.8: Types of Reactions
Formal Lab Report required, due Date 7 days.
Day 19: 6.9: Types of Reactions: Combustions, pg. 248
What is combustion?
Complete and Incomplete Combustion
Check Your Learning, 1 – 7, pg. 251
Chapter 6 Review, pg. 258
Day 20: Chapter 6 Test
Day 21: Chapter 7: Acids and Bases
7.2: Properties, Names, and Formulas, pg. 268
Properties of Acids (Reaction of Metals, Reactions with Carbonates, and Electrical
Conductivity)
Chemical Formulas of Acids
Names of Acids (Tables: 1 and 2 Common Binary Acids and Oxy-acids)
Properties of Bases (electrical Conductivity)
Colour with Acid-Base Indicators
Names and Chemical Formulas of Bases (Table 4: common Bases)
Check Your Learning, 1 – 8, pg. 271
*Prepare 7.1: Investigation: Classifying Acids and Bases, pg. 267
Day 22: 7.1: Investigation: Classifying Acids and Bases, pg. 267
Revised Feb. 2011
Day 23: 7.3: the pH Scale, pg. 272
Concentration
pH in Our Lives (soil, Consumer Products, and Pools)
Check Your Learning, 1 – 10, pg. 275
Day 24: 7.5: Neutralization Reactions, pg. 278
Products of Neutralization Reactions
Check Your Learning, 1 – 10, pg. 281
Day 25: 7.8: Acid Precipitation, pg. 285.
What is Acid Precipitation?
Sources of Acid-Forming Pollutants
Environmental Impact of Acid Precipitation
Check Your Learning, 1 – 14, pg. 290
Tech Connect: Scrubbers, pg. 291
Day 26: Test Chapter 7 Review
Day 27: Test Chapter 7
Revised Feb. 2011