Honors Chemistry

MATERIAL LIST: 

Textbook:  No textbook to check-out or carry around.  Readings will be done in the class or assigned in Google classroom using the OpenStax Chemistry: Atoms First 2e online textbook.  

Required:  Scientific calculator (does not have to be a graphing calculator), 2" three ring binder with a set of 14 tab dividers (7 for each semester), 3 highlighters of different colors, 2 pens of different colors

Donate to the class: Colored pencils, glue sticks, clear tape, tissue box

Description:

Honors Chemistry is offered as Dual Enrollment through Rio Salado.  Contact your Rio Salado representative at the Heritage Academy Mesa campus - Mr. Bob Brown. 

Class codes - CHM130 - 26404; CHM130LL - 26407  [Note:  You must be enrolled for both courses or you will not get the credit for taking a lab science.]

The process of scientific discovery is explored through the history of the atomic theory development and the men and women important to this process.   Daily activities, labs and lab reports, as well as modeling techniques of drawing what the particles and energy are doing are used to obtain not only hands-on but minds-on understanding.  Energy changes affect matter through both physical (thermal and interaction energies) and chemical (breaking and reforming bonds).  Scholars learn nomenclature, balancing chemical equations, mathematical processes including conversions, density, heat capacity, mole equations, stoichiometry, and gas equations.