DP Year 2
SL/HL Chemistry
Ms. Ana Ebeling
Room 408
[email protected]
(808) 261-0707 x 2180
This two-year course is designed to develop scientifically-literate, inquisitive, and knowledgeable
students who have a solid understanding of the basic concepts in chemistry, skills in formulating and
testing hypotheses, and an awareness of how advances in chemistry can be applied toward solving
local and global problems in human society and the natural world. Students will be engaged in active
learning as they explore biological concepts using a combination of lecture-based theory,
manipulative and virtual models, lab and online simulations, and collaborative, inquiry-based,
experiments. The DP chemistry course allows students to develop traditional practical skills and
techniques and to increase facility in the use of mathematics, which is the language of science. It
also allows students to develop interpersonal skills, and digital technology skills, which are essential
in the 21st century and are important life-enhancing, transferable skills.
Students will acquire an in-depth knowledge of conceptual and quantitative chemistry through the
acquisition of practical and investigational skills. The focus of the first year will be the nature of
matter, chemical bonding, and energetic of chemical reactions. The second year will focus on
organic chemistry, chemical equilibrium, and environmental chemistry.
Students’ curiosity about the natural world will be nurtured and guided by the evidence-based
method of scientific inquiry (observe, hypothesize, test, evaluate) by designing and carrying out
controlled experiments. Communication and technology skills will be developed and strengthened
by writing research proposals and formal lab reports, and by oral presentation of results.
2014 – 2015 Scope and Sequence:
All Dates are projected and may be subject to change.
Unit 1: Quantitative Chemistry -Unit 5 Energetics: Review and fill in the gaps:
Dates: Aug-Sep 26 (5 wks)
Content: Quantitative Chem
• Mole concept
• Quantitative analytical techniques
• Types of chemical reactions
• Gas phase reactions
• Solutions
• Uncertainty in measurement
Unit2:Atomic Theory
Content:
• Structure of the atom
• Mass Spectroscopy
• Electron arrangement in atoms
• Nuclear chemistry
• Line emission spectra
• Bohr model
Unit 3: Periodicity
Content:
• Ionization energies
• Electronegativites
• Atomic and ionic radii
• Periodic trends in physical and chemical properties
• Metal oxide chemistry
Unit 4: Chemical Bonding
Content:
• Covalent bonding
• Ionic bonding
• Metallic bonding
• Intermolecular forces
• Lewis structures
• Molecular geometry
• Polarity
• Hybridization
• Resonance
Summative Assessment Tasks
• Modeling lab
Unit 5: Energetics
Content:
• Enthalpy
• Exothermic/endothermic processes
• Specific heats
• Hess’ law
• Bond enthalpies
• Entropy
• Gibb’s free energy
• Born-Haber cycle
• Heat of formation
Summative Assessment Tasks
• Specific Heat of Metals Lab: IA
UNIT TEST: REVIEW FROM DP 2013-2014 Year: Paper 1 and Paper 2
Unit 6: Kinetics
Content:
• Reaction rates
• Rate laws
• Collision theory
• Rate and temperature
Dates: Sept 29-Oct 24 (5 wks)
• Catalysts
• Reaction mechanisms
• Activation energy
Summative Assessment Tasks
• Unit Test
• Kinetics investigation: IA
• Catalysis investigation
Unit 7: Chemical Equilibrium
Content:
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Equilibrium constant
• Le Chatelier’s principle
• Industrial applications
• Liquid-vapor equilibrium
Dates: Oct 27-Nov 21 (5 weeks)
Summative Assessment Tasks
• Unit Test
• Solubility product constant experiment
Unit 8: Acids and Bases
Content:
• Theories and Properties
• Strong and weak and the pH cale
• Calculations and Buffer solutions
• Salt Hydrolysis and acid-base titrations
• Indicators
Summative Assessment Tasks:
• Unit Test
• IA: Acids and Bases
Unit 9: Oxidation and reduction
Content:
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Equilibrium constant
• Le Chatelier’s principle
• Industrial applications
• Liquid-vapor equilibrium
Summative Assessment Tasks:
• Unit Test
• IA: Voltaic Cells
Dates: Dec 1-Dec19 (3 weeks)
Dates: Jan 6-Fe 13 (6weeks)
Unit 10: Organic Chemistry
Dates: Feb 19-April 10 (6.5 weeks)
Content:
• Nomenclature: Alkanes, enes, and ynes
• Halogenolkanes and Alcohols
• Nucleophilic substitution reactions
• Elimination reactions
• Condensation Reactions
• Reaction pathways
• Stereoisomerism
Summative Assessment Tasks:
• Unit Test
• IA: Investigate and aspect that affects the yield of a halogenalkene
Office hours in room 408:
“open door policy”: Please always come in and get help if you need it. Mornings,
lunch, or after school. I will be available and if not, I’ve got Sr TA’s in DP2 who
are excellent student mentors.
Students are encouraged to use study hall or lunch recess to receive extra learning
support. In addition, afterschool meetings can be arranged dependent upon scheduled
faculty meetings.