AP Chemistry Syllabus Instructor: Christopher Schultz  Email address: Christopher.Schultz@UticaK12.org Telephone: 586-797-2043  

 Course Overview:  AP Chemistry is a two-semester course that is the equivalent of an introductory or first year college level chemistry course that is provided to capable students in a high school environment. Students are expected to have a strong background in mathematics since AP Chemistry involves numerical problem solving and word problem analysis both in the content course and the laboratory. The goal of AP Chemistry is to provide the student a foundation of knowledge on which to rationalize, summarize and predict the structure and properties of materials that make up chemistry. The course is lab-oriented with special emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Students are encouraged to think independently and become an active part of the learning process. Students work homework problems for the class; this initiates discussion, questions, and awareness that various methods can be used for problem solving. Throughout the course, free response questions from previous AP exams are used as homework and class work problems.  Course Requirements: Students are expected to be on time to class with their textbooks, notebooks, and calculators. Students are asked to purchase a laboratory notebook.  Notebooks will be written in a professional manner and students will have an opportunity to peer edit one another prior to handing their notebook in for evaluation. Final evaluations will be made at the end of each marking period.  Attendance is crucial; labs typically run 2 class periods and makeup must be done before or after school. A minimum of 16 labs will be completed during the course.  A majority of these experiences will be inquiry based.  Course Policies:  Bring required materials to class everyday: textbook, notebook, writing utensil, calculator.  Attendance and timeliness are required.  If you are to be absent, it is your responsibility to find out what work you have missed and to set up a time to makeup quizzes, tests or labs.  Class participation is required and necessary.  You must participate in class discussions, labs, and course work.  Horseplay in the lab will not be tolerated!  Any behavior that may result in your own injury or the injury of others in the lab, will result in you being removed from the lab and receiving a zero on the lab assignment.  No cell phones or electronic devices are to be used at anytime during this class.  If you are caught with any electronic device (not a calculator) out during a test, it will be considered cheating and you will receive a zero on the test.  

Grading:  

Quarter average: Tests 50% Labs 25% Quizzes 25% Semester average: 1st Quarter 40% 2nd Quarter 40% Final Exam 20%  Tutoring: Available Monday-Friday mornings from 6:50 until 7:20.  Tutoring is also available some afternoons and during lunch.    Textbook:  Zumdahl, Steven, and Zumdahl, Susan.  Chemistry.   6th Ed.   

  Materials needed:   lab notebook  black or blue pens pencils paper graphing calculator 

                   

AP Chemistry Course Sequence  #Days Chapters and Content   12  Unit 1 -Chemical Foundations, Atoms, Molecules and Ions and Stoichiometry       

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Unit 2 - Chapter4 Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry  8  Unit 3 -Reactions  8  Unit 4 - Chapter5 Gases       7  Unit 5 - Chapter 6and 16 Thermochemistry, Spontaneityand Free Energy      12  Unit 6 - Chapter 7 Atomic Structure and Periodicity      10  Unit 7 Chapters 8and 9 

Bonding, Covalent Bonding  7  Unit 8 Chapters 10 and 11 

Liquids, solids and solutions  6  Review and Semester Exam over chapters 1-10      10  Unit 9 - Chapter 12 Chemical Kinetics      10  Unit 10 - Chapter13Chemical Equilibrium 10  Unit 11- Chapter 14 Acids and Bases  10  Unite 12 - Chapter15 Applications of Aqueous Equilibria     10  Unit 13 - Chapter17 Electrochemistry     5  Unit 14 - Organic chemistry and Nuclear chemistry  6  AP EXAM REVIEW   ***AP Chemistry Exam***   

     

   

Advanced Placement Chemistry  

Dear Parent and Student:  I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with you throughout this coming year.  Your signatures below will verify that you have read the course syllabus and agree to abide by these guidelines.  Please feel free to contact me anytime.  Email seems to be the easiest and most effective way.  My email address and phone number are listed on the front of the syllabus.   Sincerely,  Christopher Schultz    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parent/Guardian Signature: _______________________________________  Parent/Guardian email address: ____________________________________    Student Signature: ______________________________________________  Student email address: ___________________________________________