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Annual Course Syllabus
Subject: Chemistry
2015 - 20156
Teacher/Instructor: Barnard
Year 5 (Grade 10)
Annual Guiding Question: How can the contributions of one person or technology be so profound that
they can affect the entire world?
All Units of Study will be taught through the Areas of Interaction: Approaches to Learning,
Community and Service, Human Ingenuity, Health and Social Education, and Environments.
Timeline
Unit of Study
Student-Centered
IB Assessment
(NCSCOS and IB Goals and Objectives)
Activities
Criteria and Tasks
Quarter 1- Guiding Question(s): What is Chemistry all about?
1 Day
Introduction to Chemistry
2
Lab Safety and Procedures
Heating Water
1
Metrics and Scientific Notation
Measure your room
Lab Write up: B:
Communication in
Science
1
Significant Figures
2
Math and Factor Label Method
How old am I?
E: Processing Data
1
Matter and Properties
1
The Atom: History and Structure
2
Light and Electrons
Make a spectrometer
C: Knowledge and
Understanding
1
Periodic Table
1
Writing Formulas
Make your chemical
name
Naming Compounds
1
Bonding diagrams and models
2
Reactions
2
Balancing Equations
2
Acids and Bases
1
Reaction Rate
1
Gas Laws
1
Thermochemistry
1
Nuclear Chemistry
3
Review + Big Test
Identifying chemical
change
D. Scientific Inquiry
Antacid comparison
D: Scientific Inquiry
Making a cold pack
Annual Course Syllabus
Quarter 2- Guiding Question(s): What is the structure of The Atom? How does structure affect
Chemistry?
2 Weeks Matter and properties. Physical and
Chemical Change
1 Weeks The Atom
2 Weeks
Electrons
2 Weeks
Elements and the Periodic Table
2 Week
Bonding
Timeline
Making a better
spectrometer
D. Knowledge and
Understanding
Making models,
predicting geometry
Unit of Study
Student-Centered
IB Assessment
Activities
Criteria and Tasks
Quarter 3- Guiding Question(s): How do atoms come together? What causes chemicals to change?
(NCSCOS and IB Goals and Objectives)
2.5
Weeks
2 Weeks
Compounds and Molecules
Water and Solutions
How are they
formed? Named?
Solubility lab
2 Weeks
Chemical Reactions
Predicting reactions
1 Week
Stoichiometry
1 Week
Reaction Rates, Equilibrium
Quarter 4- Guiding Question(s): What causes chemical reactivity? Why is an Acid an Acid? How
strong is a Base? How can we apply what we know?
2 Weeks Acids and Bases
Measuring pH
1.5
Weeks
Gases
1.5
Weeks
1 Week
Solids and Liquids
Exploding bottles.
Taking the mass of
air.
Structures of gems
Electrochemistry
Electroplating lab
1 Week
Nuclear Chemistry
2 Weeks
Review and exam
D Scientific Inquiry