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1. Same video, no music - click here

2. Khan article - click here - you don't read about the part about radioactivity

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 2 Section 2.5 and 2.7

4. Someone else's videos - Isotopic Notation and Isotopes

When finished, complete the Lesson 1 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Do Now Problem Set (not required) and Building Atoms Simulation (see OC)

Optional Video that introduces Mass Spectrometry.  This will help the other videos make sense, but you can probably skip it.

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1. Same videos, no music - Mass Spec Theory, Mass Spec 1, Mass Spec 2, Mass Spec Sample AP's

2. Khan article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 3 Section 3.2

4. Someone else's videos - Mass Spectrometry and Interpreting a Mass Spectrum

When finished, complete the Lesson 2 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Mass Spec POGIL (required).  Submit answers to selected questions from the POGIL by opening the Mass Spec assignment in OC.

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1. Same videos, no music - Bohr v Schrodinger and Orbitals

2. Khan article - click here for Bohr model and here for orbitals (only need to read the part about orbitals)

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Sections 7.4 - 7.7

4. Someone else's videos - Bohr vs. Quantum Model, Shells and Subshells and Orbitals

When finished, complete the Lesson 3 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Finish the Mass Spec POGIL and submit answers to selected questions from the POGIL by opening the Mass Spec assignment in OC.

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1. Same videos, no music - Electron configuration intro, diagonal rule, noble gas notation

2. Khan article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.11

4. Someone else's videos - Electron Configurations and Noble Gas Notation

When finished, complete the Lesson 4 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Practice writing electron configurations - no additional assignments or handouts

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1. Same videos, no music - Core vs Valence, Nuclear Charge, and Coulomb's Law

2. LibreTexts Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.11

4. Someone else's videos - Effective Nuclear Charge and Coulombs Law in Chemistry

When finished, complete the Lesson 5 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Do-Now Problem Set (not required) and Valence, Z, and Zeff Patterns wkst (see OnCourse)

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1. Same videos, no music - Atomic Radius Part 1 and Part 2

2. LibreTexts Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.12 (Atomic Radius part)

4. Someone else's videos - Atomic Radius Trend

When finished, complete the Lesson 6 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Atomic Radius Writing Task (see OnCourse)

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1. Same videos, no music - Ionization Energy Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

2. ThoughtCo Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.12 (Ionization Energy part)

4. Someone else's videos - Ionization Energy Trends

When finished, complete the Lesson 7 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Editing Ionization Energy Explanations (click here for a copy)

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1. Same videos, no music - What is EA and Periodic Trend in EA

2. LibreTexts Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.12 (Electron Affinity part) 

4. Someone else's videos - Electron Affinity Trend

When finished, complete the Lesson 8 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Do-Now Problem Set (not required) and Writing About the Trends Peer Review (see OC)

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1. Same videos, no music - Introduction to Successive IE and Large Increases in Successive IE

2. ThoughtCo Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.12 (Ionization Energy part)

4. Someone else's videos - Identifying an atom from successive IE's

When finished, complete the Lesson 9 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: Do-Now Problem Set (not required) and Part 6 addition to Trend Writing Activity

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1. Same videos, no music - PES Theory and Interpreting a PES

2. Khan Academy Article - click here

3. Textbook - Read Chapter 7 Section 7.12 (PES Part only)

4. Someone else's videos - Khan Academy Intro to PES

When finished, complete the Lesson 10 Understanding Check in OC

In-Class Activities: PES Slides from class and the question set / answer key

Getting to Know the AP Chemistry Lab (click to view the guidelines)

Atomic Emission Spectra Lab (fully digital version)

Atomic Structure History Project