Links to help you understand content
(click on the link and search for the topic you need more assistance with):
Melissa Maribel Chemistry tutorials (youtube channel)
Science with Tyler DeWitt (youtube channel)
The Science Classroom (youtube channel)
Professor Dave Explains (youtube channel)
Supplies needed:
Binder
Paper
Pen/pencil
Scientific calculator
Below are the units with links to videos for topics in each unit to assist students if they are struggling to understand the concepts or just need extra practice.
Semester 1 Course Topics: (approximate dates in parenthesis)
Unit 1 - Lab Safety and Measurement (August 5-12)
Reading measurements
Significant figures
Unit conversions
Unit 2 - Atomic Structure (August 13-27)
Unit 3 - Electrons and Periodic Trends (August 28-September 18)
Electron configuration
long hand/short hand
ions and exceptions
orbital notation
Periodic trends
Unit 4 - Bonding (September 19-October 31)
Names and formulas for compounds
Lewis structures
Molecular geometry
Intermolecular forces
Unit 5 - Chemical Reactions (November 1-22)
Classifying chemical reactions
Balancing chemical reactions
Predicting products of chemical reactions
Unit 6 - Moles (December 2-13)
Semester 2 Course Topics: (approximate dates in parenthesis)
Unit 7 - Stoichiometry (January 15-31)
Professor Dave Explains Limiting reactants and percent yield
Professor Dave Explains avogradro's number and stoichiometry
Unit 8 - Thermochemistry (February 3-February 20)
Unit 9 - Gases (February 21-March 12)
Unit 10 - Solutions (March 13-April 4)
Unit 11 - Acid-Base Chemistry (April 15-May 12)