Chemistry
Advanced Placement* Chemistry
High School Teacher Workshop
July 9 to July 13, 2012
Butler University, Indianapolis,
Indiana
Instructor: Dr. Joe Kirsch,
Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
M.S., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
B.S., Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana
*College Board & Advanced Placement are registered
trademarks of the College Board. Used with permission
Workshop Focus
This AP chemistry workshop will focus on the traditional
concepts, issues, problem solving, and teaching methods found in
normal AP course in chemistry. The major thrust of the workshop
will be
- AP Chemistry Curriculum Framwork 2013 2014
- the discussion of the background and theories that support the
traditional concepts,
- the development of solutions to a set of typical problems found
in AP courses and on AP exams, and
- the consideration of teaching methods that interrelate chemical
principles and aid student learning.
Clearly, not all concepts/topics can be considered in depth in a
one week workshop, so some topics will be quick walk through while
other will be considered in depth. Participants are expected to
create a neat, complete, and well-organized notebook containing the
solutions to the set of typical problems. The notebook could serve
as a resource for teachers preparing AP courses in chemistry or
students preparing for an AP exam in chemistry. An important part
of any workshop is the sharing of ideas and teaching methods by the
participates.
Workshop for Credit
(CH518-11, 3 cr)
Participants taking the workshop for credit will be expected to
submit the notebook for grading at the end of the workshop. The
notebook will be graded on correctness, neatness, and completeness,
and of course, returned.
Workshop Content and Schedule
Monday
Introduction and AP* Courses: AP* Chemistry Curriculum
Framwork 2013-2014
Problem 1: Atomic Structure: electromagnetic energy, atomic
properties, historical experiments, Bohr Theory, electron
excitations, Schodringer's Atom, wave functions, quantum numbers
and atomic orbitals.
Problems 2-9: Discussion of a laboratory experiment: The
extraction of beta-carotene and chlorophyll from spinach and
spectra of beta-carotene and chlorophyll
Periodic Table and Periodic Properties: Structure of the
Periodic Table, electron configurations, metal/nonmetal properties,
ionization energy, atomic size, and electron shielding.
Problems 10-14
Tuesday
Chemical Bonding Intramolecular: Electron pair bonding
(1-2-3), equal/unequal sharing of electrons, covalent/polar
covalent/ionic bonding, Lewis Dot Structures, electron repulsion
theory, resonance, formal charge, molecular geometry, hybrid
orbital theory and molecular orbital theory.
Problems 15-18: Chemical Bonding Intermolecular: Induced-Induced
Dipole, Dipole-Dipole (Hydrogen Bonding), Ion-Ion, Metal.
Problems 19-21: Solutions: concentrations and solution
properties.
Problems 22-27
Wednesday
Chemical Equilibrium: mass action expression, equilibrium
composition from K, K from equilibrium composition, and Le
Chatelier.
Problems 28 and 29: Discussion of a laboratory experiment:
FeSCN+2concentration from Beer's Law and Equilibrium constant
determination for the formation of FeSCN+2.
Acid Base Theory: Arrhenius/Lowry Bronsted/Lewis, water, pH,
salts in water, strong acids, strong bases, weak acids, weak bases,
buffers, polyprotic acids, and indicators.
Problems 30 - 37: Solubility: Ksp, Ksp from solubility,
solubility from Ksp, common ion, and mixing.
Problems 38 - 40
Thursday
Chemical Kinetics: reaction rates, rate laws,
determination of rate laws, collision theory/activated complex
theory, and reaction mechanism.
Problems 41 - 43: Chemical Thermodynamics: reaction spontaneity,
entropy/enthalpy/free energy, free energy and temp, and free energy
and Keq.
Problems 44 and 45
Friday (morning)
Electrochemistry: oxidation/reduction - redox, galvanic
cells, electrolysis, Faraday's Law, and electrode potentials.
Problems 46 - 50