Nine Week Plan
First Quarter
1. Foundations (Whoosh Bottle Demo) (8 blocks)
a. Lab Equipment (Lab Equipment ID Activity)
b. Lab Safety (Safety Lab)
c. Significant Figures
d. Dimensional Analysis
e. Density (Density Lab)
f. Accuracy, Precision, and Percent Error (Thickness of Foil Lab)
2. Matter (3 blocks)
a. Classifying matter (mixture vs. pure substance, etc) (Separation of Mixtures Lab)
b. Conservation of mass (Conservation of Mass Lab)
c. Physical/chemical properties and changes (Physical vs. Chemical Change Demo’s)
3. Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table (9 blocks)
a. Basic atomic structure (protons, neutrons, electrons, isotopes, mass number, etc)
(Atomic Structure Chemquest)
b. Atomic history
c. History of periodic table (Mini Mendeleev Activity)
d. Average atomic mass (Flaskum Lab)
e. Basic quantum theory (Flame Test Lab)
f. Electron configuration (Electron Configuration Battleship)
g. Periodic table vocabulary
h. Periodic trends
Second Quarter
4. Bonding and Nomenclature (8 blocks)
a. Ionic vs. covalent bonding
b. Ionic and covalent nomenclature (Ionic and Covalent Formula Activities; Formula of Ionic
Compound Lab)
c. Lewis dot structures
d. VSEPR (Models of Covalent Compounds Lab)
5. Chemical Reactions (6 blocks)
a. Balancing reactions
b. Reaction types (Evidence of Chemical Reactions Lab, Predicting Products Lab)
6. The Mole (7 blocks)
a. Mole conversions (Mole Mini-Labs)
b. Percent composition
c. Empirical/molecular formula (Formula and Percent Composition of a Hydrate Lab)
Third Quarter
7. Stoichiometry (8 blocks)
a. Mole to mole and mass to mass conversions (Alka Seltzer Lab)
b. Percent yield
c. Limiting reactant (Limiting Reactant and Percent Yield Lab)
d. Gas stoichiometry
8. Thermo (5 blocks)
a. Phase diagrams
b. Endothermic/Exothermic (Endothermic vs. Exothermic Lab)
c. Heating/cooling curve
d. Phase changes (calculating heat of phase change)
e. q=mc∆T (Cheeto Lab)
9. Gases (7 blocks)
a. Boyle’s, Charles’, Gay-Lussac’s laws (Boyle’s Law Probe Lab, Soda Can Demo,
Marshmallow’s in Syringe, Boiling Water at Room temperature Demo, Intro to Gases
Phet Sim)
b. Dalton’s Law
c. Ideal Gas Law (Popcorn Lab)
d. Combined Gas Law
e. Kinetic Molecular Theory
Fourth Quarter
10. Solutions (5 blocks)
a. Molarity, dilution (Dilution Demo)
b. Net ionic equations and solubility rules (Observing Ionic Equations Lab)
c. Colligative properties (Intro to Colligative Properties Activity)
d. Vapor pressure and intermolecular forces (Intermolecular Forces Demo)
11. Acids and Bases (Acids and Bases Phet Sim) (4 blocks)
a. Properties of Acids and Bases (Properties of Acids and Bases Lab)
b. Titrations (Titration Lab)
12. Kinetics and Equilibrium (Magnetic Marbles Activity (for Kinetics), Iodine Clock Lab, Blue Bottle
Equilibrium Demo, Elephant Toothpaste Demo) (2 blocks)
13. Nuclear (2 blocks)
a. Half life
b. Alpha and beta decay
14. Organic Chemistry (2 blocks)
a. Nomenclature and Structure of Basic Hydrocarbons - Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes (Organic
Modeling Lab)
15. SOL Review (4 blocks)
16. Enrichment (3 blocks)