High School Chemistry
2021-2022 Course Outline

Required Text: Conceptual Chemistry, John Suchocki, 2nd Edition

The following syllabus is an outline of what we will be covering throughout the year and the basic order it will be covered.  As the year commences some topics may be added or subtracted depending on time.

Significant figures
    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing.

Scientific notation 
    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing.

Metric system, prefixes and converting.

Periodic table
    Atomic structure
    Ions
    Isotopes
    Trends: Electronegativity, Radius, Ionization Energy
    Bohr Diagrams
    Molecular Bonding
    Covalent and Ionic bonding
    Lewis Dot Diagrams
    Quantum Electron Configuration

Naming Ionic and Covalent molecules

Chemical Equations

Moles

Stoichiometry

Percent Composition

Empirical Formulas

Molecular Formulas

Finding Empirical and Molecular Formulas through percent composition

Limiting Reagents

Theoretical vs. Percentage Yield

Acids and Bases

Titrations

Recognizing and predicting reactions

Molarity

Entropy

Gas Laws