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10th Grade Chemistry
Quarter 1, 2016
Ms. L. Luckasavitch
Room SS15
Email: [email protected]
Website: luckasavitch.weebly.com
Course Description:
Chemistry is an experimental science that combines academic study with the acquisition of practical and
investigational skills. In this course, topics of study will include the basics of scientific investigation and
measurement, matter and atomic structure, the periodic table, chemical bonding, chemical reactions
and stoichiometry, states of matter, thermochemistry and equilibrium, and nuclear chemistry. Students will also
be delving into the Earth Science by studying Earth's systems, climate change, and the relationship between the
environment and humans.
Textbooks:
Chemistry, Antony C. Willbraham et. al., Prentice Hall, 2008
Materials:
Ringed Binder
Pens, pencils, erasers
Calculator
Units of Study:
Unit 1: Introduction to Chemistry (5 weeks)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Chemistry and Chapter 3 Scientific Measurement
Objectives: Students will understand and demonstrate the role of chemistry in society, the use of the scientific
method, measurement and errors, significant figures, and SI units.
Essential Questions: In what ways is chemistry relevant in our world today? How does one go about
performing science and what is done with those findings? How are the results of scientific investigations
measured and calculated?
Desired outcomes: The students will be able to...
1. Understand what the study of chemistry entails and the importance of it.
2. Explain how pure chemistry and applied chemistry are related.
3. Discuss the impact that chemists have on the world today.
4. Describe how Lavoisier helped to transform chemistry.
5. Identify and demonstrate the steps and methods that scientists often use to solve problems.
6. State the differences between a scientific theory and a scientific law and provide examples.
7. Discuss the roles of collaboration and communication in the scientific community.
8. Demonstrate use of scientific notation and explain why it is useful.
9. Understand the importance of accuracy and precision.
10. Identify the source and the amount of uncertainty in measurements by calculating percent error.
11. Understand the importance of, and how to determine, significant figures in measurements and
calculations.
12. Name the prefixes used in SI, what multiple of ten each represents, and the symbols for length, volume,
mass, time, temperature, amount of substance, and energy and convert measurements among related SI
units, using dimensional analysis.
13. Perform calculations involving density and explain why a change in temperature affects a substance’s
density.
Unit 2: Matter and Atomic Theory (4 weeks)
Chapter 2 Matter and Change, Chapter 4 Atomic Structure, and Chapter 5 Electrons in Atoms
Objectives: Students will classify matter, state physical and chemical changes/properties of matter, track the
development of atomic theory and study the current model of the atom and its structure and how this relates to
its chemical properties.
Essential Questions: How do we categorize and describe things in science? In what ways has our idea of an
atom changed over time? What is the relationship between the location of an electron and how much energy an
atoms has? How can one explain the structure and properties of matter?
Desired outcomes: The students will be able to...
1.
Classify matter according to its composition and distinguish among elements, compounds, homogeneous
mixtures, and heterogeneous mixtures.
2.
Distinguish among the three main states of matter.
3.
Classify changes and properties as physical or chemical.
4.
Describe how to recognize a chemical change.
5.
Explain how Democritus described atoms and explain Dalton’s Atomic Theory.
6.
Describe subatomic and subnuclear particles and the overall structure of an atom.
7.
Understand and use atomic numbers and mass numbers to distinguish elements.
8.
Explain the role of isotopes in determining the atomic mass of an element and calculate average atomic
mass.
9.
Describe the Bohr atomic model and the role of electron energy levels, which lead to the current
quantum mechanical model.
Evaluation:
Formative Assessments
(homework, quizzes, textbook assignments, labs projects, presentations, etc.)
Summative Assignments
(tests, scientific literature assessments, labs, projects, presentations, etc.)
Next Generation Science Standards Performance Expectations
30%
70%