Taught by Dale Jensen
The big picture
Zoom will be used as our platform. Almost two years of experience has led to the adaption of Labs and Activities in the virtual world that explain the concepts and keeps the participants engaged.
Participants will be asked to share their favorite labs, activities, or classroom management practices.
Resources for the course will be given and shared on a Google Drive.
The workshop will have 30 hours of instruction.
College Board®
APSI Requirements (10 hours)
- Topic 1: Course and Exam Description & Course Planning (2 hours)
- Topic 2: Diversity & Inclusion and Equity & Access (1 hour)
- Topic 3: Strategies and Pedagogical Tools (3 hours)
- Topic 4: AP® Classroom & AP® Daily (2 hours)
- Topic 5: Assess and Reflect (2 hours)
Resources
- AP® Chemistry Curriculum and Examination Description
- Participants Workshop Manual
- AP® Chemistry Lab Manual
- AP® Central and a NEW AP® Homepage
- AP® Classroom
- The Audit Requirement (03)
- How and when students sign up for the AP® exam
AP® Classroom - a web page that will help manage:
- Resources
- Testing students
- Checking student progress
- Comparing your students to the global participation
- How to manage time
- Changes that have been made to the curriculum
Examination of the upcoming week
General Topics
- New Test Equation Sheets
- Best Practices
- Prior Knowledge – what do the students need to know before your course?
- Different ways to Model Introductions
- Sig. Figs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and logs
- Go over the 2025 test with Sample Responses
- New to AP® Chemistry - Mass Spec and PES
Specific topics
- Mechanisms
- Kinetics to Equilibrium
- Equilibrium/Acid/Base/Titration Curve
- Why the Ksp is not a good indicator of solubility
- Spectrophotometry
- Acid/Base titration curves – the mathematical approach
- Thermodynamics
- Heat Capacity - how important is it?
- Intermolecular Forces - Not Van der Waal Forces
- Electrochemistry (Electrolytic and Galvanic)
Lab/Activity
- Sulfur Clock Rx (w/ Inquiry)
- Radioactive Decay - without the misconception
- Kinetics: What is the Rate Law?
- Zero-Order and Second-Order Activities
- Integrated Rate Law – Crystal Violet Decomposition
- Dueling Graduated Cylinders
- Ka of a Weak Acid – Inquiry and a Summative Assessment
- Equilibrium: Can we Make the Colors of the Rainbow?
- Solubility - Trouble of the 2
- The Evaporation of 3 Liquids
- NH4OH + HCl →
Publishers and Science Companies
In prior APSI workshops resources have been made available. This is a sample list.
- Vernier
- PASCO
- Carolina Biological
- Sargent Welch
- Wards
- Trivedi Chemistry
- Prentice Hall
- Flinn
- Cengage
- Edvantage