Learning Objectives

Building Blocks of Chemistry.1 - Essential Ideas in Chemistry

1. Understand the Scientific Method (hypotheses, theories, laws) 

2. Describe the states of matter and categorize matter based upon it's composition 

3. Identify physical and chemical properties and changes 

Building Blocks of Chemistry.2 - Tools of Quantitative Chemistry

1. Describe and convert units of measurement, including metric prefixes. 

2. Understand how accuracy and precision are related to measurements, and how experimental error and standard deviation for a set of data help to represent the precision of measurements. 

3. Be able to use proper scientific notation and significant figures when reporting measurements and values. 

4. Be able to use dimensional analysis, problem-solving and chemical arithmetic to solve problems. 

Building Blocks of Chemistry.3 - Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table

1. Discuss the history of the study of atomic structure 

2. Describe atomic structure in terms of atomic number and mass number 

3. Know the terminology of the periodic table 

Building Blocks of Chemistry.4 - Electronic Structure and Quantum Theory

1. Describe the properties of electromagnetic radiation 

2. Understand the origin of light emitted by excited atoms and its relationship to atomic structure 

3. Describe electron structure using quantum numbers 

4. Write electron configurations for atoms and monatomic ions 

5. Describe atomic properties and periodic trends