Chemistry

Taught by Dale Jensen

SMART objectives

The participants will:

• plan prepare a calendar that is based on their school’s schedule, the length of the units that need to be covered, and a period of time to practice for the AP® Chemistry Exam.
• understand the depth and breadth AP® Chemistry curriculum. This will be accomplished by having a good understanding of the
  CED.
• experience numerous labs and activities that they may incorporate in their course.
• experience different pedagogies that may be used to help a wider range of students.
• understand the format of the AP® Chemistry Exam and strategies to increase their student’s performance.
• discuss possible ways to reach out to students giving all willing and academically prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP®.

Schedule

Monday, Day 1

AP® Chemistry Resources

• What AP® Stands for…
• AP® Chemistry Lab Manual
• AP® Central
• How instructors can qualify to teach an AP® course - The Audit Requirement
• How and when students sign up for the AP® class/exam
• Access and Equity
• AP® Action Verbs

AP® Classroom - a web page that will help manage…

• checking student progress
• comparing your students to the global participation

College Board Announcements

• The 2025 Scores with comments by Trevor
• 2025 Chief Reader Report
• August 2025 - New Practice Exam will be available

School Calendar…Start planning…Look at the resources - time today???

UNIT 5 - Kinetics

• Lab/Activity #1: Sulfur Clock Rx
• Lab/Activity #2: Sulfur Clock Rx - Inquiry
• Differential Kinetics
• Lab/Activity #3: Mass Percentage of Copper in Brass (Flinn)
• Lab/Activity #4: Absorption Demo

Tuesday, Day 2

UNIT 5 – Kinetics (cont.)

• Videos and Activities
• Beer's Law
• Lab/Activity #5: Colorimetric Equation: What is the Concentration of that Solution?
• Lab/Activity #6: AP® Investigation: Kinetics: What is the Rate Law? - Integrated
• Vernier's SpectroVis and Pasco's new Spectrophotometer
• Lab/Activity #7: Radioactive Decay (first year Chemistry) - without the misconception
• Lab/Activity #8: Radioactive Decay – AP® Level
• Mechanism and Energy Diagrams

Wednesday, Day 3

Transition from Kinetics to Equilibrium

• Lab/Activity #9: Dueling Graduated Cylinders
• Solubility Simulation
• K (equilibrium constant) and k (rate constant) relationship
• Lab/Activity #10: Equilibrium: Can We Make the Colors of the Rainbow?

Equilibrium/Acid/Base/Titration Curve

• The concepts that you need to know…
  • What is a weak acid?
  • What is a buffer?
  • What is the difference between an endpoint and equivalence?
  • What happens after equivalence?
• Lab/Activity #11: K_a of a Weak Acid - Inquiry - My Final

Solubility

• Lab/Activity #12: Trouble of the 2
• Why the K_sp is not the best indicator of solubility

First Year Chemistry - Prior Knowledge by Idea

Molecular Orbital Theory

PES Graphing Tool

Thursday, Day 4

Equity and Access – Individual/School-wide Policy

Intermolecular Forces - Not Van der Waal Forces

• Lab/Activity #13: The Evaporation of 3 Liquids
• Hydrogen Bonding
• Lab/Activity #14: Lab - NH 4 OH + HCl

Specific Topic to discuss…Thermodynamics

• Entropy
• Boltzman Constant
• Entropy of matter varies with …
• Lab/Activity #15 - #16: Lab – Heat Capacity
  • Heat Capacity - how important is it? VERY!
• Rubber Band Activity
• Specific Heat of a Metal

ElectroChem (Electrolytic and Galvanic)

2026 Exam

• Rubric
• Student Samples