AP Chemistry *Tentative Schedule at DHS: 2013-2014 - Mr. Pearson

*NOTE: This is only a tentative schedule and WILL be altered as the year progresses

Week / Chapters/Unit / Labs/Demos / Quizzes/Test
Semester 1 – This first semester will be about 60% review and 40% new material (deeper level than Gen. Chemistry)
1 (8/26) / Summer Packet Review
Ch 1- Measurements & Mater / TEST - Summer Packet
*Safety Quiz
2 (9/2) / Ch 2 - Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
3 (9/9) / Ch 3 - Stoichiometry / TEST - Chapter 1-3
4 (9/16) / Ch 4 – Solution Chemistry
Acid-base, redox, stoich
5 (9/23)
6 (9/30) / Ch 5 – Thermo Chem
7 (10/7) / TEST – Chapter 4-5
8 (10/14) / Ch 6 – Electronic Structure, Orbitals
9 (10/21)
10 (10/28) / Ch 7 – Periodic Trends / TEST – Chapters 6-7
11 (11/4) / Ch 8 – Chemical Bonding
12 (11/11)
13 (11/18) / Ch 9 – Molecular Geometry
14 (11/25) / TEST – Chapters 8-9
15 (12/2) / Ch 10 – Gases
16 (12/9) / Ch 11 – IMF, phases
17 (12/16) / Pre-Holiday School Activities / TEST – Chapters 10-11
Winter Break /

(Omit Ch12)

/ MC & FRQ Practice
18 (1/6) / Ch 13 – Solutions
19 (1/13) / (Half Life from Ch21) / TEST – Chapter 13, 21
Midterm Exams (2/20) / Midterm Exams all Week –
*We must be complete through Ch13 / **(START Ch 14 lessons) / Midterm Exam
NOTE: “Most” of the AP Chemistry Exam will be on topics from Chapters 14 – 20 (as far as I understand it ;-)
Week / Chapters/Unit / Labs/Demos / Quizzes/Test
Semester 2 – The AP Chemistry exam is “mostly” taken from chapters (14-20), almost all NEW material!!!
1 (1/27) / Ch 14– Kinetics, rates
2 (2/3)
3 (2/10) / Ch 15 – Equilibrium
4 (2/17) / TEST – Ch 14-15
5 (2/17) / Ch 16 – Acid Base EQ
6 (2/24)
7 (3/3) / Ch 17 – Aqueous EQ, buffers, / TEST – Ch 16-17
8 (3/10) / TERRA NOVA - TESTING / (omit Ch 18) / TERRA NOVA - Testing
9 (3/17) / Ch 19 – Thermo Dynamics
10 (3/24)
11 (3/31) / CH 20 – Electro Chem / ???- TEST – Ch 19-20
SPRING BREAK / (4/7) - SPRING BREAK / MC & FRQ Practice
12 (4/14) /
(final concepts from Ch-19 & 20)
/ ???- TEST – Ch 19-20
13 (4/21) / Review before AP Exam
14 (4/28) / Review before AP Exam / Final Exam=??
** 15 (5/5) / (Mon 5/5) = AP Chemistry EXAM / (not sure what to do during this week) / AP EXAM (Mon 5/5)
16 (5/12) / Ch 21 – Nuclear Chem
17 (5/19) / Ch 25 - Organic Chem / TEST – CH 21-25
18 (5/26) / Poster Presentations
19 (6/2) / Poster Presentations
Final Exams (6/9) / Final Exams all Week / Evaluation = ??