Syllabus


 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://F8F69DAA-E190-4166-B663-D0B3338FEC48/pastedGraphic.pdf caption="pastedGraphic.pdf"]] || **Ms. Leggett’s Chemistry Honors**
 * Syllabus** ||
 * **Course Title:** || Chemistry Honors ||
 * **HS Credits:** || 1 ||
 * **Course Description:** || A rigorous course study of the science of matter. ||
 * **Instructional Approaches:** || Students will use technology, discussions, lectures, and problem-based projects in a cooperative learning approach. ||
 * **Class Meeting Dates, Times, Locations:** || Monday-Thursday
 * **Course Description:** || A rigorous course study of the science of matter. ||
 * **Instructional Approaches:** || Students will use technology, discussions, lectures, and problem-based projects in a cooperative learning approach. ||
 * **Class Meeting Dates, Times, Locations:** || Monday-Thursday
 * **Class Meeting Dates, Times, Locations:** || Monday-Thursday
 * **Class Meeting Dates, Times, Locations:** || Monday-Thursday

Campfire 9:00-9:25 1st Period Chemistry 9:30-10:40 2nd Period Chemistry 10:45-11:55 GP 12:25-1:05 3rd Period Chemistry 1:50-3:00 4th Period Chemistry 3:05-4:15

Friday

1st Period 9:00-9:40 2nd Period 9:45-10:20 3rd Period 10:25-11:00 4th Period 11:05-11:40 || 1.02 Analyze reports of scientific investigations from an informed scientifically-literate viewpoint including considerations of: 1.03 Analyze experimental designs with regard to safety and use safe procedures in laboratory investigations: 2.02 Examine the nature of atomic structure. 2.03 Apply the language and symbols of chemistry. 2.04 Identify substances using their physical properties: 2.05 Analyze the basic assumptions of kinetic molecular theory and its applications: 2.06 Assess bonding in metals and ionic compounds as related to chemical and physical properties. 2.07 Assess covalent bonding in molecular compounds as related to molecular geometry and chemical and physical properties. 2.08 Assess the dynamics of physical equilibria. 3.02 Apply the mole concept, Avogadro's number and conversion factors to chemical calculations. 3.03 Calculate quantitative relationships in chemical reactions (stoichiometry). 4.02 Analyze the law of conservation of energy, energy transformation, and various forms of energy involved in chemical and physical processes. 4.03 Analyze the relationship between entropy and disorder in the universe. 4.04 Analyze nuclear energy. 5.02 Evaluate the Law of Conservation of Matter.
 * **Faculty**: || Ms. Leggett ||
 * **Telephone**: || 252-637-5706 ||
 * **Email**: || lauren.leggett@craven.k12.nc.us ||
 * **Office Location (Planning Period Location):** || Room 117 ||
 * **Office Hours (Planning Period):** || 8:30-9:00 ||
 * **Administrative Contact:** || Daniel Colvin, Dean Craven Early College ||
 * **Phone:** || 252-637-5706 ||
 * **Email**: || Daniel.Colvin@craven.k12.nc.us ||
 * **Needed Materials** || 2 composition notebooks, 3-ring binder with paper, pencils, black ink pen, computer, flash drive ||
 * **Course Goals/Competencies:** By the end of this course, students will be prepared for college chemistry. ||
 * **//Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to://** ||
 * **NCSCOS** ||||  ||
 * **Competency Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.** |||| 1.01 Design, conduct and analyze investigations to answer questions related to chemistry.
 * Identify questions and suggest hypotheses.
 * Identify variables.
 * Use a control when appropriate.
 * Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
 * Collect and organize data in tables, charts and graphs.
 * Analyze and interpret data.
 * Explain observations.
 * Make inferences and predictions.
 * Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
 * Identify how scientists share findings.
 * Identify questions and suggest hypotheses.
 * Identify variables.
 * Use a control when appropriate.
 * Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
 * Collect and organize data in tables, charts and graphs.
 * Analyze and interpret data.
 * Explain observations.
 * Make inferences and predictions.
 * Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
 * Identify how scientists share findings.
 * Appropriate sample.
 * Adequacy of experimental controls.
 * Replication of findings.
 * Alternative interpretations of the data
 * Identify and avoid potential safety hazards given a scenario.
 * Differentiate between safe and unsafe procedures.
 * Use information from the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) to assess chemical hazards. ||
 * **Competency Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of the structure and properties of matter.** |||| 2.01 Analyze the historical development of the current atomic theory.
 * Early contributions: Democritus and Dalton.
 * The discovery of the electron: Thomson and Millikan.
 * The discovery of the nucleus, proton and neutron: Rutherford and Chadwick.
 * The Bohr model.
 * The quantum mechanical model.
 * Subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
 * Mass number.
 * Atomic number.
 * Isotopes.
 * Name compounds using the IUPAC conventions.
 * Write formulas of simple compounds from their names.
 * Melting points.
 * Boiling points.
 * Density.
 * Solubility.
 * Ideal Gas Equation.
 * Combined Gas Law.
 * Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures.
 * Molecular.
 * Macromolecular.
 * Hydrogen bonding and other intermolecular forces (dipole/dipole interaction, dispersion).
 * VSEPR theory.
 * Interpret phase diagrams.
 * Factors that affect phase changes. ||
 * **Competency Goal 3: The learner will build an understanding of regularities in chemistry.** |||| 3.01 Analyze periodic trends in chemical properties and use the periodic table to predict properties of elements.
 * Groups (families).
 * Periods.
 * Representative elements (main group) and transition elements.
 * Electron configuration and energy levels.
 * Ionization energy.
 * Atomic and ionic radii.
 * Electronegativity.
 * Particles to moles.
 * Mass to moles.
 * Volume of a gas to moles.
 * Molarity of solutions.
 * Empirical and molecular formula.
 * Percent composition.
 * Moles of each species in a reaction.
 * Mass of each species in a reaction.
 * Volumes of gaseous species in a reaction. ||
 * **Competency Goal 4: The learner will build an understanding of energy changes in chemistry.** |||| 4.01 Analyze the Bohr model in terms of electron energies in the hydrogen atom.
 * The spectrum of electromagnetic energy.
 * Emission and absorption of electromagnetic energy as electrons change energy levels.
 * Differentiate between heat and temperature.
 * Analyze heating and cooling curves.
 * Calorimetry, heat of fusion and heat of vaporization calculations.
 * Endothermic and exothermic processes including interpretation of potential energy.
 * Diagrams (energy vs reaction pathway), enthalpy and activation energy.
 * Radioactivity: characteristics of alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
 * Decay equations for alpha and beta emission.
 * Half-life.
 * Fission and fusion. ||
 * **Competency Goal 5: The learner will develop an understanding of chemical reactions.** |||| 5.01 Evaluate various types of chemical reactions.
 * Analyze reactions by types: single replacement, double replacement (including acid-base neutralization), decomposition, synthesis, and combustion including simple hydrocarbons.
 * Predict products.
 * Write and balance formulas and equations.
 * Write net ionic equations.

5.03 Identify and predict the indicators of chemical change. 5.04 Identify the physical and chemical behaviors of acids and bases. 5.05 Analyze oxidation/reduction reactions with regard to the transfer of electrons. 5.06 Assess the factors that affect the rates of chemical reactions.
 * Formation of a precipitate.
 * Evolution of a gas.
 * Color changes.
 * Absorption or release of heat.
 * General properties of acids and bases.
 * Concentration and dilution of acids and bases.
 * Ionization and the degree of dissociation (strengths) of acids and bases.
 * Indicators.
 * Acid-base titration.
 * pH and pOH.
 * Assign oxidation numbers to elements in REDOX reactions
 * Identify the elements oxidized and reduced.
 * Write simple half reactions.
 * Assess the practical applications of oxidation and reduction reactions.
 * The nature of the reactants.
 * Temperature.
 * Concentration.
 * Surface area.
 * Catalyst. ||

A 93-100 B 85-92 C 77-84 D 76-70 F 69 and below || **Grading Percentages:** Students must request any missed work from the instructor. Students have five (5) days to makeup work missed that was assigned on a day the students was absent. If student misses an announced quiz, test, project or homework assignment, that quiz, test, project, or homework assignment as due the day the student returns. ||
 * **Grading and Evaluation Methods:** ||
 * Grades will be entered withing three (3) school days. Project grades will be entered within the amount of time the student had to complete the project. Quizzes, Tests, Homework, Classwork, Projects, Labs, and Participation will all be graded based on the following weighted scale: ||
 * **Grading Rubric:**
 * Quizzes: 10%**
 * Homework: 10% (graded based on completion)**
 * Labs: 20%**
 * Tests: 20%**
 * Classwork: 15%**
 * Projects: 15%**
 * Participation: 10%** ||
 * **Make-up or Late Work:**
 * **Make-up or Late Work:**
 * **Academic Integrity:** Craven Community College and Craven Early College is committed to academic excellence through honesty and integrity. To protect all students from the results of dishonest conduct, the College has adopted policies to address these issues. It is the responsibility of each student to become familiar with and understand all academic policies and the consequences for failure to adhere to these policies. Please read and follow all policies listed in the Campus Planner or in the Student Handbook **Code of Conduct** at: [] ||
 * **Attendance, Tardiness:**
 * Attendance** **Procedure**:
 * First-Twentieth** absence-Student is expected to request make up work from their teachers and is responsible for making up that work within five school days. If absences are consecutive more time may be allowed at the teacher’s discretion.
 * Attendance** **Procedure**:
 * First-Twentieth** absence-Student is expected to request make up work from their teachers and is responsible for making up that work within five school days. If absences are consecutive more time may be allowed at the teacher’s discretion.

Parents will be notified after the **sixth** and **tenth** absence of possible denial of course credit. The administrative team along with parent and student will create a plan for attendance improvement.


 * Twenty-first** absence-**If a student misses more that twenty days (20), course credit will be denied unless waived by SSMT (Student Services Management Team).** Student may request an appeal for a waiver to the SSMT due to extenuating circumstances (i.e. illness, death in immediate family, etc.). **Student must be able to document all days of absences in the appeal process (examples-court documents, doctors’ notes).** Waiver decisions will be determined at the end of the school year.

[|http://www.cravencc.edu/student/handbook/handbook.pdf] || Students will be monitoring their own progress via Engrade. Students are encouraged to share their grades with their parents as it provides more frequent feedback than progress reports alone. || [] ||
 * Tardy Procedure**:
 * 1) First tardy-Teacher records tardy and warns student.
 * 2) Second tardy-Teacher emails or calls parent that the second tardy has occurred and reminds parent of possible consequences.
 * 3) Third tardy-Student will stay after school and will be assigned cleanup detail.
 * 4) Continued tardiness will result in other consequences determined by the Dean. ||
 * **Learning and Other Resources on Campus:** Craven Community College offers the following resources to support student education goals: The Academic Skills Center provides a Tutorial Computer Lab, Writing Lab, and Math Lab. These labs are staffed by instructors and advanced students to offer assistance with any level of math or writing. Tutorial assistance for CCC students is provided through the Supplemental Instruction program and a nationally certified peer tutoring program. The ASC administers make-up tests per instructor guidelines, hosts a variety of workshops, and assists special needs students. The Goodwin Memorial Library provides a collection of resources selected to support the educational programs offered by the College. Internet access is available in the library to CCC students for educational purposes. For additional information on the ASC and the Goodwin Memorial Library, please visit: [|http://www.cravencc.edu/admissions/Course Catalog/General Information.pdf] and at:
 * **Learning and Other Resources on Campus:** Craven Community College offers the following resources to support student education goals: The Academic Skills Center provides a Tutorial Computer Lab, Writing Lab, and Math Lab. These labs are staffed by instructors and advanced students to offer assistance with any level of math or writing. Tutorial assistance for CCC students is provided through the Supplemental Instruction program and a nationally certified peer tutoring program. The ASC administers make-up tests per instructor guidelines, hosts a variety of workshops, and assists special needs students. The Goodwin Memorial Library provides a collection of resources selected to support the educational programs offered by the College. Internet access is available in the library to CCC students for educational purposes. For additional information on the ASC and the Goodwin Memorial Library, please visit: [|http://www.cravencc.edu/admissions/Course Catalog/General Information.pdf] and at:
 * **Online Decorum:** To promote an online learning environment that provides each student with the opportunity for academic excellence, students of Craven Community College are expected to become familiar with and adhere to the Code of Conduct. The complete code of conduct can be found at: [] ||
 * **Instructor-specific expectations:**
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 * **College Cancellation/Closing:** Weather related cancellations will be announced on the College’s webpage: [] . Cancellations may also be announced on Public Radio East (89.3 WTEB, 91.5 WBJD, 88.5 WZNB, 90.3 WKNS, 88.1 Greenville) and local radio and television. For a complete listing of all stations, please visit:
 * **Course Timeline** ||
 * //Syllabus or Agenda items subject to change. Syllabus changes will be communicated through written notification via course website and/or class handout. Agenda changes or due dates will be communicated through oral communication.// ||
 * August 4-August 18 |||| Measurement ||
 * August 18-August 30 |||| Matter ||
 * August 30-September 13 |||| The Atom ||
 * September 13-September 24 |||| Nuclear Chemistry ||
 * September 27-October 8 |||| Electrons ||
 * October 18-October 25 |||| Periodic Table ||
 * October 25-November 8 |||| Ionic Bonding ||
 * November 9-November 23 |||| Covalent Bonding ||
 * November 29-December 13 |||| Chemical Reactions ||
 * December 13-December 17 |||| Cumulative Review ||
 * January 5 |||| Cumulative Review ||
 * January 6-January 24 |||| The Mole ||
 * January 24-February 2 |||| Stoichiometry ||
 * February 2-February 21 |||| Gas Laws ||
 * February 21-March 4 |||| Thermochemistry ||
 * March 7-March 25 |||| Solutions ||
 * March 28-April 8 |||| Acids/Bases ||
 * April 11-April 15 |||| Cumulative Review ||
 * April 26 |||| Cumulative Review ||
 * April 27-May 4 |||| Redox Chemistry ||
 * May 4-May 11 |||| Cumulative Review ||
 * May 12, 13, and 17 |||| Exam Days ||
 * May 12, 13, and 17 |||| Exam Days ||