Chemistry Lab
Did you hear? Oxygen and Potassium went out on a date. It went OK.
Later, Oxygen and Magnesium went out together. OMg!
Oxygen then tried to ask Nitrogen out... She said NO.
Becky Kee
beckykee@gmail.com
757-517-3284 (h) or 757-266-6694 (c)
Fee - $20/student for the year, covers supply costsText - Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry 3rd Ed
Web Resource Alternative - Khan Academy Chemistry Topics - https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry If you don't have the text, you can search for the topic listed in the course schedule and watch the relevant videos to prepare for the labs.
Chemistry can be a lot of fun once you start discovering what it's all about! Here are some resources I've enjoyed that relate to some of the topics we're looking at in chem lab:
General Chemistry Resources
http://www.learner.org/courses/chemistry/
This is a complete basic chemistry course online provided for free by the Annenberg Foundation. There are 13 half-hour videos, an online text, interactive tools, and a unit guide for the teacher (parent) that includes discussion questions, labs, and teaching tips.
Another alternative to purchasing a curriculum is to use Steve Lower's site "Chem 1":
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html
It is extraordinarily thorough, with gobs of links to all sorts of informative, instructional or just plain fun web resources for students taking their first chemistry course. If you decide not to purchase a text, you can follow along in our class by looking up the topic on Mr. Lower's website and going through his tutorials. By the end of the year, if you complete a tutorial on each topic, you will have taken an entire chemistry course.
Khan Academy Classes - https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry?t=classes
You can sign in and take an AP Chemistry or Organic Chemistry class online for free, no purchase of any textbook required. The lessons include video lectures and self tests to check comprehension.
Science with Tyler DeWitt - A Free YouTube Chemistry Tutor
This guy is slower paced and has great topical videos that introduce chemistry to the beginner.
Crash Course in Chemistry - thecrashcourse.com/courses/chemistry
A fun overview at lightening speed. (Parents may want to preview these videos first as they include popular culture references and are not from a Christian perspective.)
www.MemorizePeriodicTable.com -
This amazing system uses a ridiculous story full of word associations to help you memorize all the elements of the periodic table in order, and their atomic numbers. The first 20 are free, and the rest of the course costs $20.
(Parents may want to preview these videos first as they include popular culture references and are not from a Christian perspective.)
NOVA Hunting the Elements
This 2 hour PBS special is a fun look at the periodic table for the whole family!
Lab Schedule
Sept 12th 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Module 1, Measurements, Unit Conversions, Scientific Method
Sept 19st 2.1, 2.2, This little light of mine
Module 2, Atoms, Compounds, Mixtures, Conservation of Mass, Ionic vs Covalent
Sept 26th 3.1, 3.2
Module 3 Atomic Structure, Electric Charge, Waves vs Particles
Oct 3rd 3D models - Food Allergies?
Module 4 - Molecular Structure, Lewis Structures, Molecular Geometry
Oct 17th 5.1, 5.2, My cup runneth over
Module 5 - Polyatomic Ions, Polarity
Oct 24th 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Module 6 - Changes in state
Nov 7th Show and Tell
Properties of the Elements
Nov 14th 7.1
Mole song, Counting Atoms,
Module 7 - The Mole Video - Hunting the Elements
Dec 5th 8.1,
Module 8 - Stoichiometry
Dec 12th Colorful Wrap-up
Make-up Day
Jan 23rd 9.1, 9.2
Module 9 - Acids and Bases
Jan 30th 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Module 10 - Solutions
Feb 6th 11.1, 11.2 (repeat)
Module 11 - Gases
Feb 13th 12.1, 12.2
Module 12 - Energy, Heat, Temperature
Feb 27th Make up Day
Thermodynamic Dessert
Carbon Snake
Mar 6th 13.1
Module 13 - Thermodynamics
Mar 20th 14.1, 14.2
Module 14 - Kinetics
Mar 27th Fun Demo
(Makeup Day)
Apr 3rd 15.1, 15.2,
Module 15 - Equilibrium
Apr 10th 16.1, 16.2
Module 16 - Red-ox Reactions
Apr 18th Fun Demo
(Makeup Day)
Chemistry Resources by Topic
Module 1 - Measurement, Units, and the Scientific Method
Module 2 - Atoms and Molecules
Module 3 - Atomic Structure
The Concord Consortium's Online Crookes Tube
http://lab.concord.org/embeddable.html#interactives/interactions/crookesElectrodes.json
Orbital Energy Diagram and Electron Configuration Tool
https://concord.org/stem-resources/crookes-electrodes
Module 4 - Molecular Structure
Crash Course Video on Bonding Models and Lewis Structures
Khan Academy Tutorial on The Periodic Table, Electron Shells, and Orbitals
Module 5 - Polyatomic Ions and Molecular Geometry
Module 6 - Changes in Matter and Chemical Reactions
Notes from the Text (Google Slides format)
Module 7 - Descrbibing Chemical Reactions
The Mole Song (YouTube link)
Module 8 - Stoichiometry
Module 9 - Acid-Base Chemistry
Module 10 - Chemistry of Solutions
Module 11 - The Gas Phase
Crash Course Chemistry: The Ideal Gas Law
Module 12 - Energy, Heat and Temperature
Module 13 - Thermodynamics
Module 14 - Kinetics
Experiment 14.2 Demonstration:
Module 15 - Chemical Equilibrium
Module 16 - Reduction-Oxidation Reactions