COURSE SYLLABUS



COURSE SYLLABUS

Chemistry is the science that studies and explains the structure and property of matter. In short, it is the study of everything around you. Chemistry is challenging and interesting. Chemistry is a logical system and can be broken down into easily understood concepts through problem solving assignments, questions, demonstrations and laboratory.

Textbook: Chemistry ( Prentice Hall)

Tutoring hours: Lunch time Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, after school on Tuesdays

(NGSS) will be implemented. In the new standards students will have a more participative approach, and the teacher will be a facilitator. Instead of a class with traditional lectures sometimes you will experience a class involving the following pattern.

1. Ask questions and define problems.

2. Develop and use models, and phenomena .

3. Plan and carry out investigations.

4. Analyze and interpret data.

5. Use mathematics and computational thinking.

6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions.

7. Engaging in argument from evidence.

8. Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information.

Student Responsibilities and class rules .

• Be prepared! You are expected to bring a pencil or pen, book, and binder with you to class each day. You will not be allowed to go and get materials you forget.

• All students are expected to complete all assignments. Some days the teacher will collect your assignments at the end of the class and will be corrected and / or stamped.

• Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period unless otherwise communicated.

• Use pencil, blue or black ink. Illegible work will not be accepted or graded.

• No eating or drinking is allowed in class, with the exception of bottled water.

• Take pride in your work! Show effort and a desire to learn and it will be rewarded.

• Be on time! Be in your seat and ready to learn when the bell rings. The teacher will stamp your work only at the start of the class if you are late you will miss it.

• Personal Mobile Devices: Cell phones and other personal mobile devices (e.g. tablets, laptop computers) are not to be seen or used during class time (never will be on your desk) unless instructed or given permission for an approved purpose. Do not take pictures of classroom materials without permission. The cell phones should be in your backpack, if your teacher confiscated your phone will returned at the end of the period. However, if your phone was confiscated 3 times, your teacher will report to the student services.

Be respectful of school property and others

• The books issued to you should be returned in reasonable condition, included the class set.

• No writing on school desks, books, or other destruction of school property will be tolerated.

• I will not tolerate verbal or physical abuse of anyone in the classroom. Respect for others must be demonstrated at all times.

• Clean up after yourselves! Especially after labs you should leave your station as you find it.

• Respect teachers, classmates and classroom environment, including raising your hand to ask questions or to reply to one. Refrain from chewing gum, putting on make-up, eating or drinking in class.

Teacher grading:

• Grading will involve several areas. Tests will be given, generally at the end of each chapter or unit. Other grades will include binders, research projects, final tests and participation.

• Grading: LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR FULL CREDIT. All work must be completed by the due date to receive full credit. If student is excused absent on the due date; work is due the day they get back. However late work will be accepted during all the quarter that was assigned .Assignments missed by UNEXCUSED ABSENCE, or due dates missed due to UNEXCUSED ABSENCE will receive reduced credit depending on the extent of the lateness.

• When you are absent, please make sure you get all notes and assigned problems as soon as possible. Even if you are absent from school you will have to do all the work missed, using the teacher web site will keep you on track. Before the class starts, talk to the teacher discussed with the teacher or receive a grade of zero. Teacher will give you an extended period of time if it is needed.

• Extra credit. Because the grading scale is lower than usual, there is not extra-credit assigned. You can obtain extra points if your work is an A+ or if you exceed the participation points expected for the quarter. In addition each test, will offer some extra credit questions to answer.

Teacher expectations:

• Laboratory experiments usually will be performed as part of a group. Lab experiments are collected in form of lab reports including data, observations (presented as graphs and charts) questions and conclusions. Reports will be written and graded individually. If you are absent, talk to your assigned lab team and gather the information to answer the lab questions and calculations.

• You will need a book for this class (class set if it is possible), and you will also need a one subject binder, paper, a pencil or pen, and a scientific calculator. Write down your name, period and date on the top corner of the page and the title of the exercise below it on the right. Use your best handwriting for correction purposes and square your numerical answer with appropriate units. If the teacher cannot read clearly the assignment will be returned without grade. Don’t use color inks.

• Class work, HW, and laboratories: assignments are collected as unit packages. The teacher will indicate the organization of the package and the day to collect it. Stamps are used as a control if you have worked appropriately. Your grade will depend of the quality of work as well the number of stamps. Each stamp missed will discounted a fix value between (0.25-0.5)/10. You will need a binder to keep all your work. It will be organized chronologically (top oldest, bottom newest), each quarter your binder will be graded.

• Binder is required for all your work to be organized. You must correct all your mistakes with a red ink after been graded by your teacher. The binder will be graded after your corrections, once per quarter. Keep on track because your binder represents a percentage of your grade.

• Small projects will be assigned during the whole year. They could be posters, presentations or brochures. Team projects will be assigned at least once per semester and all team members will have the same grade, so be sure that all the members of the team work appropriately.

• Participation: The participation points are cumulative for each quarter. The teacher may ask you to solve a problem or participate in some of the class activities. If he answer is correct you will get participation points. If the teacher ask volunteers and you are selected you can get the participation points if the answer is right.

• Cheating

Students must acknowledge any input from peers, parents and secondary sources in all work. Students who cheat copy or plagiarize the work of others will receive a grade of zero on the assignment, test, or exam. All the assignments that you turn have to be original. Especially for summaries and individual or team projects, the teacher will reject to grade your work if you had copy and could inform the students’ service. Students will not give to the teacher any Chemistry work during any test, wait until all students finished the test and talk to the teacher. Students will keep cell phones in the backpacks during test time, not exceptions for calculations. If you broke this rule your teacher will consider that you were cheating and your test will be not graded gaining a zero.

GRADING SCALE

Grade is based in total points. Late work is acceptable for class work and long-term projects but only for partial credit.

|A |85 % or above |

|B |75% - 84% |

|C |74% - 65% |

|D |64% - 55% |

|F |55 % or bellow |

|Grading % per quarter |Grading % semester |

|Project 5% |Project 7% |

|Test + quizzes 30% |Tests +Quizzes 27% |

|Lab and virtual activities 15% |Final        10% |

|binder 10% |binder   10% |

|Class work packages 35% | class work   packages       32% |

|Participation 2% |Participation 2% |

| |Labs and virtual activities 12 |

GENERAL RUBRIC for CW and Lab NB

|A+ |- (a WOW product) |

| |- all of the requirements are evident and EXCEEDED |

| |- the product is VERY neatly done and EXTREMELY well organized |

| |- the product shows LOTS of creativity and is colorfully illustrated |

| |- completed on time, and has ALL STAMPS |

| |- all work is correct or past mistakes are correct with red or green ink |

|B+, A |(What is EXPECTED) |

| |• all of the requirements are evident |

| |• the product is neatly done and well organized |

| |• the product shows creativity and is colorfully illustrated |

| |• completed on time, and-or missing 1-2 stamps. Some of the work is incorrect or some of the work is not |

| |correct with red or green ink |

|C+, C |(Almost What is EXPECTED) |

| |• the requirements are evident (maybe 1 or 2 are missing) |

| |• the product is neatly done and organized |

| |• the product shows some creativity and is illustrated |

| |• completed on time missing but missing more than 2 stamps. A lot of the work is incorrect or there is not |

| |few corrections with red or green ink |

|D- F |(Two or More parts missing) |

| |• MANY of the requirements are NOT PRESENT |

| |• the product is VERY POORLY done and POORLY |

| |organized |

| |• the product shows little TO NO creativity , Uncompleted and missing several stamps |

| |The work is on time missing but missing the majority of stamps. A lot of the work is incorrect or not |

| |completed |

 I am informed of everything. I want to pass Chemistry. I will respect and observe class rules. If don’t, I am aware and ready to face consequences.

Student’s name and signature

Parents’ or guardian’s name and signature

Some of the topics of the curriculum will be

|1 |In this brief introductory unit, students investigate the amount of stored chemical potential |

|Combustion |energy in food. They make observations of material properties at the bulk scale that they will|

| |later explain in the atomic scale.  The themes of combustion and CO2 tie together several of |

| |the Instructional Segments. |

|2 |Students develop models of energy conservation within systems and the mechanisms of heat flow.|

|Heat and Energy in the |They relate macroscopic heat transport to atomic scale interactions of particles, which they |

|Earth System |will apply in later units to construct models of interactions between atoms. They use evidence|

| |from Earth’s surface to infer the heat transport processes at work in the planet’s interior. |

|3 |Students recognize patterns in the properties and behavior of elements, as illustrated on the |

|Atoms, Elements, and |periodic table. They use these patterns to develop a model of the interior structure of atoms |

|Molecules |and to predict how different atoms will interact based on their electron configurations. They |

| |use chemical equations to represent these interactions and begin to make simple stoichiometric|

| |calculations. |

|4 |Students refine their models of chemical bonds and chemical reactions. They compare the |

|Chemical Reactions |strength of different types of bonds and attractions and develop models of how energy is |

| |stored and released in chemical reactions. |

|5 |Students develop models of energy flow in Earth’s climate. They revisit combustion reactions |

|Chemistry of Climate Change|from IS1 to focus on emissions from fossil fuel energy sources. They apply models of the |

| |structures of molecules to explain how different molecules trap heat in the atmosphere. |

| |Students evaluate different chemical engineering solutions that can reduce the impacts of |

| |climate change. |

|6 |Students investigate the effects of fossil fuel combustion on ocean chemistry. They develop |

|Dynamics of Chemical |models of equilibrium in chemical reactions and design systems that can shift the equilibrium.|

|Reactions and Ocean |Students conduct original research on the interaction between ocean water and shell-building |

|Acidification |organisms. |

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