Chemistry/Honors Chemistry – Pacing Guide and Know/Do List

San Ramon Valley High School

Unit Name (regular pacing)

(honors pacing) / Essential Knowledge (Know)
(Mastery) / General Knowledge
(Understanding) / Suggested Activities/ Labs/Demos (Do) / Advanced/Extended List / Textbook Chapter(s)
Chemical Equations & Reactions
(2 weeks)
(2 weeks) / Balancing chemical equations / -Evidence of chemical reactions
-Types of reactions
-Constructing quantitative representation of word formulas
-Symbols in chemical reactions
-Products vs. Reactants
-Catalysts
-LeChatlier’s Principle / -Blueprint paper
-Types of chemical reactions
-Empirical formula
-Double-Displacement demonstration, Pb(NO3)2 + KI
-Equilibrium Demo
-Redox Lab, Nail in CuCl2 / -Activity Series
-Predicting products
-Net Ionic Equations
-Subcategories of reactions, precipitation, acid/base neutralization, redox / Modern Chemistry:
8, 18
Chemistry:
8
Stoichiometry
(2 weeks)
(2 weeks) / Calculate the masses of reactants and products from the mass of one of the reactants or products in a chemical equation / -Mole Ratio
-Mass to Mole conversions / -Stoichiometry lab
-Cookie Lab (Cheryl)
-Mole Ratios Lab / -% yield
-Limiting Reactants / Modern Chemistry:
9
Chemistry:
9
Kinetic-Molecular Theory
(2 weeks)
(2 weeks) / Understand the Kinetic-Molecular Theory of matter / -State Changes
-Heat of phase change
-Phase diagrams
-Equilibrium
-LeChatlier’s Principle
-Heating curves / -Melting point, Lauric acid
-Polymers (Super ball, silly putty, slime)
-Dry ice Demo (3 states)
-Dry Ice bomb / -Polymers
-Phase change diagrams
-Solid/Liquid equilibrium calculation / Modern Chemistry:
10, 18
Chemistry:
11
Physical Properties of Gasses
(2 weeks)
(1.5 weeks) / PV=nRT / -STP
-Gas Laws
-Ideal Gas
-Absolute Zero
-Celsius to Kelvin Conversions
-Diffusion/Effusion
-Pressure / -Boyle’s Law (syringes and weights)
-Can Crush
-Flaming Vapor Ramp
-Baking Soda and vinegar, MnO2 and H2O2 / -Graham’s Law
-Temperature and Kinetic motion
-Dalton’s Law of partial pressures / Modern Chemistry:
11
Chemistry:
12
Gas Stoichiometry
(2 weeks)
(1.5 weeks) / Perform calculations using chemical equations and the ideal gas law / -Avogadro’s Law
- / -Molar mass of Hydrogen
- / -Molar mass and density calculations using Ideal Gas Law
-Calculations using water displacement / Modern Chemistry:
11
Chemistry:
12
Star Review
(1 week)
(1 week) / -Introduction to acid/bases
-Molarity, ppm, % comp
-pH
-Equilibrium
-Review Nuclear
-Electrolytes
-Specific Heat / -Star questions jeopardy
-Mini-review / -
Solutions
(3 weeks)
(3 weeks) / Calculation of Molarity / -Dissolving process
-solubility
-rates of dissolution
-solute/solvent definition
-Suspensions
-Colloids, Tyndall Effect
-Electrolytes
-Enthalpy of Solution
-Dilution / -Tyndall Effect
-Conductivity Lab/Demo
-Observing solutions, suspensions, and colloids Lab
-Enthalpies of Solution Demo
-Paper Chromatography
-Ice-Cream in a baggie
-Net Ionic Equations Lab / -molality
-colligative properties
-mole fraction
-Henry’s Law
-Net Ionic Equations
-Solubility chart
-Enthalpy of solution / Modern Chemistry:
13
Chemistry:
13
Acids & Bases
(2 weeks)
(2 weeks) / Knowing what a strong acid and a strong base is / -Observable Properties of acids and bases
-Hydrogen Donating and hydrogen accepting
-pH scale
-Nomenclature
-Environmental effects
-Self-Ionization of water / -Tie-Dye
-Household acids and bases
-Vitamin C content of fruit juices
-Titration Lab
-Bloody Hand Demo / -Br∅nsted-Lowry, Lewis, Arrhenius
-pH from ion concentration calculations
-buffers
-Conjugate acids/conjugate bases
-Normality
-Titration
-Indicators
-Amphoteric substances / Modern Chemistry:
14
Chemistry:
15