| Includes topics that students have traditionally found difficult and breaks them into sections, examining each one step by step. There are an array of opportunities for students to test their scientific skills through the analysis and interpretation of diagrams, tables and graphs. Students will extend their reasoning and literacy skills as they are guided through the application of theoretical concepts to practical examples. Research tasks are included to expand students' knowledge of the history of chemistry and the contributions of inidividual scientists.
Topics Included:
- Moles and gases
- Concentrations of solutions
- Dissolving and dissociating
- Solutions, suspensions, colloids and emulsions
- Handling liquids, Solubility and Precipitation
- Polar nature of water and similar molecules
- Electronegativity
- Periodic properties
- Dependability of information
- Metals, Extraction and refining of metals
- Properties and uses of metals
- Local water supplies
- Hard water
- Water quality and oxygen
- Biological oxygen demand
- Viscosity
- Saponification
- Properties of soap
- Energy and reactions
- Reaction profiles
- Chemical equilibrium. |
