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Grade/Content: _______11th & 12th Grade Chemistry____________
Unit: _____________Nature of Chemistry____(Chapter 1)_______
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Perform unit conversion using dimensional analysis.
2. Perform calculations following significant figure rules.
3. Perform stoichiometry calculations.
4. Understand the wealth of information to be learned
from the periodic table.
Key Terms and Concepts: Atom, chemical change, density, diatomic molecule
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Unit: ________________Atoms & Elements____(Chapter 2)______
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Describe historical discoveries leading to our current
understanding atomic structure.
2. Use understanding of atomic structure in forming
conclusions about atomic number, mass number and
relative number of particles.
Key Terms and Concepts: Atomic mass unit, atomic weight, atomic structure,
Avogadro’s number, periodicity, electron, proton, neutron,
halogen, alkali, alkaline earth, isotope, mass number,
mass spectrometer, mole, noble gases, significant
figures.
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Chromatography
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Unit: ______________Chemical Compounds____(Chapter 3)_____
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Distinguish between molecules and compounds.
2. Distinguish between organic and inorganic
compounds.
3. Name various classes of compounds.
4. Determine correct chemical formulas using names and
ion charges.
5. Compare and contrast the properties of molecular and
ionic compounds.
6. Determine empirical and molecular formulas
mathematically.
Key Terms and Concepts: Alkane, anion, binary molecular compound, cation,
chemical bond, condensed formula, electrolyte, empirical
formula, formula weight, inorganic compound, organic
compound, isomer, molecular formula, molecular weight,
nonelectrolyte, organic compound, oxyanion, polyatomic
ion, structural formula
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Lab-Determination of Empirical Formula
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Unit: ____Quantities of Reactants and Products__(Chapter 4)_____
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Write and balance chemical equations.
2. Classify chemical reactions according to type.
3. Identify limiting reactants.
Key Terms and Concepts: Actual yield, aqueous solution, coefficient, combination
reaction, combustion analysis, combustion reaction,
decomposition reaction, displacement reaction, exchange
reaction, limiting reactant, mole ration, percent yield,
stoichiometric coefficient, stoichiometry, theoretical yield
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Unit: _________Chemical Reactions (Chapter 5)________________
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Determine whether or not a compound is soluble
based on its properties and using solubility rules.
2. Write balanced molecular, complete ionic, and net ionic
equations for various reactions.
3. State the 3 reasons metathesis reactions will occur.
4. Write net ionic equations for acid-base reactions.
5. Determine oxidations numbers for elements and ions.
6. Determine oxidized, reduced, oxidizing agent and
reducing agent in Redox reactions.
7. Determine whether or not replacement reactions will
occur and if they will, write a correct balanced equation.
8. Calculate molarity.
9. Solve dilution problems.
10. Solve problems involving solution stoichiometry.
Key Terms and Concepts: Acid, base, concentration, equivalence point, hydronium
ion, hydroxide ion, activity series, molarity, net ionic
equation, oxidation, oxidation number, oxidationreduction reaction, oxidized, oxidizing agent, precipitate,
redox reactions, reduced, reducing agent, reduction, salt,
solute, solvent, spectator ion, titration
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Unit: ______Energy and Chemical Reactions (Chapter 6)________
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Define thermochemistry and energy (potential and
kinetic).
2. Use E=q+w to calculate internal energy and state
whether a situation is endothermic or exothermic based
on the sign of E
3. State the properties of enthalpy and perform related
calculations.
4. Understand that energy in chemical reactions comes
from bond energy and perform related calculations.
5. Describe heating curves and perform related
calculations.
6. Calculate enthalpy by using 1. calorimetry 2. Hess’s
Law and 3. enthalpies of formation.
7. Describe chemical fuels and the future of fuels.
8. Describe foods as fuels.
Key Terms and Concepts: Bond enthalpy, calorimeter, chemical fuel, endothermic,
enthalpy, exothermic, heat capacity, Hess’s Law, phase
change, potential energy, state function, thermochemistry
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Unit: __Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table (Chapter 7)_
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Explain relative properties of electromagnetic radiation
and perform calculations with frequency, wavelength and
the speed of light.
2. Describe the contributions of Planck, Einstein, Bohr,
DeBroglie, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Schrodinger to our
current understanding of atomic structure.
3. Perform calculations with E=hv and the Bohr equation.
4. Write electron configurations for every atom on the
period table in both long form and short form.
5. Make conclusions about atoms/ions based on the
trends in radii, ionization energy and electron affinity.
Key Terms and Concepts: Atomic radius, continuous spectrum, effective nuclear
charge, electromagnetic radiation, electron affinity,
electron configuration, ferromagnetic, frequency, ground
state, ionic radii, ionization energy, isoelectronic, line
emission spectrum, orbital, paramagnetic, photoelectric
effect, photons, principal energy level, principal quantum
number, quantum, quantum theory, uncertainty principle,
valence electrons
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Unit: ________Covalent Bonding (Chapter 8)__________________
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Describe the properties of covalent bonds.
2. Draw Lewis Structures.
3. Draw Lewis Structures for alkanes, alkenes and
alkynes.
4. Describe isomerism.
5. Form conclusions about relative bond length and
strength from a drawn Lewis structure.
6. Calculate the enthalpy of a reaction using Lewis
Structures.
7. Determine bond polarity using electronegativity.
8. Calculate formal charge
9. Describe resonance.
10. Identify exceptions to the octet rule.
11. Make conclusions about aromatic compounds.
Key Terms and Concepts: Alkene, alkyne, aromatic, bond enthalpy, bond length,
bonding electrons, cis-trans isomerism, covalent bond,
delocalized electrons, double bond, electronegativity,
formal charge, functional group, Lewis structure, lone pair
electrons, multiple covalent bonds, nonpolar covalent
bonds, octet rule, polar covalent bond, resonance, triple
bond, unsaturated hydrocarbons
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Activity Series, Beers-Lambert Law
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Grade/Content: _______11th & 12th Grade Chemistry____________
Unit: _____Molecular Geometry (Chapter 9)______________________
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Define VSPER.
2. Draw Lewis Structures for molecules and determine
the following: electron domain geometry, molecular
geometry, bond angle, hybridization, sigma and pi bonds,
bond polarity, and molecular polarity.
3. Determine the type of intermolecular forces present in
various molecules.
Key Terms and Concepts: Bond angle, dipole-dipole attraction, dipole moment,
electron-pair geometry, hybridization, hydrogen bond,
intermolecular forces, London forces, molecular
geometry, nonpolar molecule, polar molecule, pi bond,
sigma bond, VSEPR
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Grade/Content: _______11th & 12th Grade Chemistry____________
Unit: _____Gases and the Atmosphere (Chapter 10)____________
Essential Questions/
Goal Statements:
1. Describe gases.
2. Perform calculations with density, volume, pressure
and amount of gases.
3. Describe ideal gases.
4. Correctly adjust for measurements of a mixture of
gases.
5. Calculate volumes of gases involved in chemical
reactions.
Key Terms and Concepts: Absolute zero, Avogadro’s Law, barometer, Boyle’s Law,
Charles’ Law, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures, diffusion,
effusion, ideal gas, ideal gas law, Kelvin temperature,
mole fraction, pressure
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Molar Volume of a Gas, Determination of Absolute Zero