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Welcome to AP? CHEMISTRY!Ms. TaggartThe Advanced Placement Program? enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies — with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both — while still in high school. AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible, in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus. The AP Chemistry course provides students with a college-level foundation to support future advanced coursework in chemistry. Students cultivate their understanding of chemistry through inquiry-based investigations, as they explore content such as: atomic structure, intermolecular forces and bonding, chemical reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, and?equilibrium. College Course Equivalent The AP Chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year. Prerequisites Students should have successfully completed a general high school chemistry course and Algebra II. Lab Requirement This course requires that 25 percent of instructional time engages students in lab investigations. This includes a minimum of 16 hands-on labs (at least six of which are inquiry-based). It is recommended that students keep a lab notebook throughout.AP Chemistry Course Content and Exam % WeightingThe course content is organized into commonly taught units. The units have been?arranged in a logical sequence frequently found in many college courses and?textbooks. The nine units in AP Chemistry, and their weighting on the multiple-choice section of the AP Exam, are listed below. Unit 1: Atomic Structure and Properties 7–9% Unit 2: Molecular and Ionic Compound Structure and Properties 7–9% Unit 3: Intermolecular Forces and Properties 18–22% Unit 4: Chemical Reactions 7–9% Unit 5: Kinetics 7–9% Unit 6: Thermodynamics 7–9% Unit 7: Equilibrium 7–9% Unit 8: Acids and Bases 11–15% Unit 9: Applications of Thermodynamics 7–9%Science Practices The AP Chemistry science practices describe what a student should be able to do while exploring course concepts. The table that follows presents these practices, which students should develop during the AP Chemistry course. These?practices are categorized into skills, which form the basis of the tasks on?the AP Exam.Practice 1 Models and Representations Describe models and representations, including across scales.Practice 2 Question and Method Determine scientific questions and methods.Practice 3 Representing Data and?Phenomena Create representations or models of chemical phenomenaPractice 4 Model Analysis Analyze and interpret models and representations on a single scale or across multiple scalesPractice 5 Mathematical Routines Solve problems using mathematical relationshipsPractice 6 Argumentation Develop an explanation or scientific argumentInquiry-Based Investigations Twenty-five percent of instructional time is devoted to inquiry-based laboratory investigations. Students ask questions, make observations and predictions, design experiments, analyze data, and construct arguments in a collaborative setting, where they direct and monitor their progress. AP Chemistry Exam Structure Date: ________________________________________AP CHEMISTRY EXAM: 3 HOURS 15 MINUTES Exam questions are based on learning objectives, which combine science practices with specific content. Students will be able to: ? Solve problems mathematically — including symbolically; ? Design and describe experiments; ? Perform data and error analysis ? Explain, reason, or justify answers; and ? Interpret and develop conceptual models. Format of Assessment Students have a periodic table of the elements and a formula and constants chart to use on the entire exam. In addition, students may use a scientific calculator on the free-response section only. Section I: Multiple Choice: 60 Questions | 90 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score ? Discrete items ? Items in sets Section II: Free Response: 7 Questions | 105 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score Three long-answer and four short-answer questions. The seven questions ensure the assessment of the following skills: experimental design, quantitative/qualitative translation, analysis of authentic lab data and observations to identify patterns or explain phenomena, creating or analyzing atomic and molecular views to explain observations, and following a logical/analytical pathway to solve a problem. Grading:Using and Interpreting AP Scores The extensive work done by college faculty and AP teachers in the development of the course and exam and throughout the scoring process ensures that AP Exam scores accurately represent students’ achievement in the equivalent college course. Frequent and regular research studies establish the validity of AP scores as?follows:AP ScoreApproximate points on AP TestAspen X2 Grade5 Extremely well qualified~80≥89.44 Well qualified~6580.6 – 89.33 Qualified ~5070.7-80.52 Possibly qualified~3559.1-70.61 No recommendation< 35≤ 59.0Quizzes and TESTS X2 To score well on the AP exam, we will continually practice AP pacing and grading. Multiple choice questions: 1.5 minLong answer questions (10 pts): 23 minShort answer questions (4pts): 9 minQuizzes 20-30% will be given almost daily, and will be timed according to AP structure and cumulative. Quizzes may or may not be related to current classwork. Each quiz will be 10 points and a mix of AP formatted questions. *One out of 5 quizzes will be dropped per semester. If you absent for a quiz, it will automatically be dropped. Tests 35-45% will be structured with multiple choice, short and long answer questions and timed accordingly.Labs 20% will be handwritten using carbon copy notebooks, and may include take-home labs. You must purchase a composition notebook for labs – if you want to be fancy there are several types of carbonless lab notebooks that can be purchased at . See the list on pg. 4. ****Late labs will be docked 25% of the possible grade****HW/CW 5% Problems assigned will have answers provided in the text, and/or I have worked out the solution for you. Homework will be due the day of the test. ****no work shown – no credit.**** Semester 1 will culminate in a midterm worth 20% of your grade. Semester 2 will not culminate in a final. The leftover percentage will be distributed evenly between test and quiz categories. ****Any late semester 2 work must be turned in before the AP exam****Types of Lab notebooks A gridded composition notebook will work fine ($1.00), however…. Fancier ones can also be purchased at for $7.00 - $30.00. You may also find something suitable at Staples. THE ONLY THING THAT I ASK IS YOU BUY TOP PAGE PERFORATED (not top copy perforated…in other words, the sheet that you write on needs to be the one to be torn out and handed in)How to Keep a Notebook – Adapted from Dartmouth College of the most useful skills you will acquire in the laboratory is the proper use of a laboratory notebook. Notebooks, or other formally kept records, are an essential tool in many careers, ranging from that of the research scientist to that of the practicing physician. The effort invested in developing good habits of notebook use will be amply repaid for students who pursue a future in the basic or applied sciences. Experience has indicated that skillful notebook use is developed by most students only through continued special effort--it does not come naturally. Some of the main principles of sound notebook use are outlined below.The laboratory notebook is a permanent, documented, and primary record of laboratory observations. Therefore, your notebook will be a bound journal with pages that should be duplicate numbered in advance and copies never torn out. Write your name, the name of your teacher, and your class on the cover of your notebook. The first page should be titled Table of Contents. The bottom right hand corner of the following pages should be numbered in duplicate. You will not write on the back any pages. All entries will occur with carbon paper (provided by your teacher) so that a copy is automatically generated. The original report will be torn out to be turned in and graded. The copy will serve as your evidence that you have completed AP? labs.All notebook entries must be in ink and clearly dated. No entry is ever erased or obliterated by pen or "white out". Changes are made by drawing a singing link single line through an entry in such a way that it can still be read and placing the new entry nearby. If it is a primary datum that is changed, a brief explanation of the change should be entered (e.g. "balance drifted" or "reading error"). No explanation is necessary if a calculation is changed; the section to be deleted is simply removed by drawing a neat "x" through it.Observations are never collected on note pads, filter paper, or other temporary paper for later transfer into a notebook. It is important to develop a standard approach to using a notebook routinely as the primary receptacle of observations. In the case of experiments in which two students work together and data have been recorded in one student's notebook, a copy of the data may be made in the other student's notebook with an appropriate citation to the location of the original data. Any other material in the notebook which has been copied from any source whatsoever must also be provided with a source citation. A laboratory notebook should be legible, and data in it should be readily accessible, clearly labeled with units, and grouped in a logical way (see the Lab Rubric). Honor PrincipleThe principle of academic honesty is at the very heart of experimental science. The following remarks apply to the laboratory component AP? Chemistry.Use of another student's laboratory data is a violation of the Honor Principle, unless permission is granted by the instructor.When use of another's data is allowed, the source of the data must be indicated with a clear reference in the laboratory notebook.Fabrication of data, alteration of your own data, or fabrication of observations to secure some desired result is a clear violation of the Honor Principle.All laboratory reports must represent your independent calculations and individual conclusions, although comparison of numerical results with those of another student is permitted, with appropriate attribution of the other student's results.-45726587630Copying of any portion of another student's laboratory report is a clear violation of the Honor Principle.What about working together with a lab partner or friend?Asking for and giving help with lab should follow common sense guidelines, to stay within the Honor Principle, as described above.In many experiments, lab partners work together to develop a joint pre-lab procedure, and collect data. In this case, you and your partner should contribute roughly equally to the final product, which may look very similar in the two lab notebooks. The name of your partner should appear in the notebook, in this case, making it clear that the work was done collaboratively, but not copied.When working with a lab partner, each person should independently perform all calculations. You may collaborate, to the extent of comparing results and helping each other with difficulties. Questions like “I calculated my answer to be ___. Did you get something similar?” Asking and answering them are appropriate and good ways to learn.Questions like "What is the answer to number 2?" “Can I see your answer for #4?” are inappropriate and, if answered, constitute a violation of the Honor Principle. Likewise, “Ms. Taggart would you just check this for me?” and “is this right?” are not appropriate. You may also discuss your joint results and their significance with your partner, but each person should write a report that is written in her or his own words. ................
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