Timeline and labs are subject to change due to student mastery of the material and availability of chemicals and/or equipment needed to properly perform the lab.
Unit 1 (3 days) – Getting Started
Guidelines
Safety
Formula Writing/Nomenclature
Ionics
Binary molecular
Acids
CBL Lab #5 – Introduction to graphing
Unit 2 (6 days) - Math and Measurement
Significant Figures
Scientific Notation
Metric Units*
Density
Temperature Conversions
Dimensional Analysis
Lab – Density of Pennies (analysis of slope)
Unit 3 (5 days) Matter and Energy
Classifying Matter
Properties and Changes
Energy/Specific Heat
CBL Lab #1 – Endo/Exothermic Reactions
CBL Lab #16 – Energy content of foods
Unit 4 (6 days) Atomic Structure
Atomic history and experiments
Isotopes
Average Atomic Mass
Quantum mechanical model
Orbital notation
Electron configurations (by periodic table)
Lewis dot notation for atoms/ions
Quantum numbers (values and assigning)
Predicting oxidation states
Exceptions to electron configurations
Lab – Flame Tests
Unit 5 (4 days) Periodic Properties
Atomic radii
Ionic radii
First ionization energy (emphasis on deviations)
Multiple ionization energy to determine ion charge
Electron affinity
Lab – Alkaline Earth Metal Periodicity
Unit 6 (4 days) Nomenclature/Formula
Writing
Review: ionics, binary molecular, acids
Organic (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols)
Dry Lab-all nomenclatures/formulas
Unit 7 (5 days) Moles and Composition
Stoichiometry
Moles
Mole calculations with mole map
Percent composition
Empirical formulas
Molecular formulas
Combustion analysis
Molarity
Lab
Unit 8 (7 days) Equations and Stoichiometry
Balancing equations
Types of reactions (including special cases)
Stoichiometry (McCormick Method)
Mass-mass, mass-vol,vol-vol
Percent yield
Limiting reactant
Lab – types of reactions
Lab- Deterring Ca
+2 from TUMS

Unit 9 (6 days) Bonding and Molecular Geometry
Ionic and covalent bonding
Lewis structures for molecules
Exceptions to the octet rule
Molecular geometry
Bond angles
Resonance
Hybrid orbitals
Sigma and Pi bonds
Polarity
Intermolecular forces
[Complex ions]
CBL Lab # 14 – Conductivity and Concentration
CBL Lab # 9 – Evaporation and Intermolecular
Forces
Unit 10 (7 days) Gas Laws
Kinetic theory
Boyles, Charles, Gay-Lussac’s Laws
Daltons Law of Partial Pressures
Graham’s Law
Ideal Gas Law
Gas density and molecular mass
CBL Lab #6 – Boyle’s Law
CBL Lab #7 – Pressure and Temperature
Relationships
[Lab-Molar Volume of a Gas]
Unit 11 (2 days) Liquids and Solids
*I give a take home unit on this consisting of chapter review and extension worksheets
Class time is spent going over
Phase diagrams
Change of state calculations
CBL Lab #4 – Heat of fusion for ice
[CBL Lab #10 – Vapor pressure of liquids]
Unit 12 (7 days) Solutions
Dissolving process
Precipitation Reactions
Net ionic equations
Concentration
Colligative properties
Molar mass determination by freezing point depression
Lab – Ice cream
Lab – Seven solution problem
Unit 13 (5 days) Kinetic and Equilibrium
Rates of reactions
Determining Rate Laws from data
Graphical determination of reaction orders
Mechanisms
Equilibrium concept
Calculating Kc and Kp
LeChatlier’s Principle
RICE tables
CBL Lab #30 – Rate Law for Crystal Violet Reaction
[CBL # 20 – Equilibrium Constant Kc]
Unit 14 (5 days) Acid/Base Equilibrium
Acid/Base definitions
Calculation of pH
Ka and weak acid calculations
Titration
Hydrolysis reactions
Lab – Acid/Base titration
Unit 15 (2 days) Introduction to Electrochemistry
Assigning oxidation numbers
Balancing redox equations in acid/base
Dry Lab- balancing redox equations
Unit 16 (1 day) Nuclear Chemistry
Fission and fusion
Nuclear decay
Half Lives
[Unit 17 (2 days) Thermodynamics
Enthalpy
Entropy
Gibb’s Free Energy]
Unit 18 (4 days) Qualitative Analysis
Last 1 ½ weeks before exams students run qual scheme and identify unknown.
Eliminates the end-of-the-year-beating-your- head-against-the-wall syndrome