Chemistry
Presenter – Paul Groves
Curriculum Framework. We will look at teaching ideas for each of the Six Big Ideas. In addition, we will prepare for the emphasis on inquiry learning that pervades not only the new curriculum framework, but the laboratory portion of the new course. Participants can expect exposure to resources such as POGIL, the Science Writing Heuristic, and the Learning Cycle. Sample questions representative of the new exam style will be studied as well.
Participants will perform ten laboratory exercises with various levels of inquiry. Several of these will be taken from the AP Chemistry Inquiry Based Laboratory Lab Manual.
CLASS PREPARATION: Please bring a calculator, goggles, and a lab apron or lab coat. You will be provided with web-based access to a variety of preparatory materials for the AP Chemistry course.
Course Schedule
Monday
–Welcome
–Introductions & Expectations
–Overview of the AP Chemistry Revisions
—–Curriculum Guidelines/Course Description
—–New AP Exam Format
—–Guided Inquiry Labs
—–The AP Audit
Delving Deeper into the Revisions
–Big Ideas and dealing with “exclusion statements”
–Old Exam Questions/New Exam Questions
–POGIL: The Nuclear Atom
–Types of Labs (The Baggie Lab)
—–confirmatory
—–structured-inquiry
—–guided-inquiry
—–open-inquiry
–Tasks in the AP Audit
Tuesday
Big Idea 1: Structure of Matter
–Aufbau Hotel, Flatman, Sound Tube
–CAP Videos (Atomic Orbitals/Periodic Trends)
–Educreations & my tutorials
–ChemTours Tutorials & PhET Simulations
–PhotoElectron Spectroscopy (PES)
–The New Lab Manual
–Lab #1 – Analysis of Food Dyes in Beverages
Big Idea 2: Properties of Matter
–Particulate Level (atoms on a stick)
–Bonds and IMF’s
–Conceptual Lesson (roof but not ceiling) (polar)
–Construction Paper, Water, Acetone
–Converting Traditional Labs into Guided-Inquiry
–Lab #2 — %Cu in Brass
Wednesday
Big Idea 3: Chemical Reactions
–How to Approach the Topic
–Classifying Reactions
–Memorization
–Double Replacement Reactions
–Oxidation-Reduction Introduction
–Balancing Redox Equations
–Pencil Electrolysis Lab Make & Take
Big Idea 4: Rates of Chemical Reactions
–Lightsticks: Guided Inquiry Lesson
–KE Diagrams, PE Profiles
–Measuring Rates, Rate Laws, Catalysts (analogies)
–Elephant Toothpaste Demonstration
–[ ] vs time graphs
–Reaction Mechanisms
–Bleach & Food Color Lab
Thursday
Big Idea 5: Thermodynamics
–Handboiler Distillation
–Calorimetry
–Hess’s Law
–Two Driving Forces (Entropy & Enthalpy)
–Balloon Thermodynamics
–Chart & Gibbs Free Energy
Big Idea 6: Equilibrium
–Opening Demonstration (Two Beakers/Straw Lab)
–Closed System, Constant Properties, Start Anywhere
–Le Chatelier’s Principle, Keq
–Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium, Entropy & Enthalpy
–Ice Box
–Alka Seltzer Lab
–Lab # 13 – Applications of Le Chatelier’s Principle
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Chemistry
Paul Groves – Biography
Paul Groves taught chemistry and AP chemistry at South Pasadena High School in South Pasadena, CA, until 2016. He taught AP since 1983 and has worked for the College Board as a consultant in AP Chemistry for over two decades.
Paul’s web site, chemmybear.com, is a popular destination for new and experienced AP Chemistry teachers. Paul has chaired the American Chemical Society’s High School Exam (Advanced), was a member of the SAT Chemistry Subject Test Development Committee and is a member of the committee who writes the National Chemistry Olympiad exam.
Paul is an AP chemistry question leader, table leader, and exam reader beginning in 1989. He has presented many one-day and week-long AP teacher workshops.
Paul is the recipient of several local and national teaching awards including the 1995 National Presidential Award for Science Teaching, the 1993 Chemical Manufacturer’s Association Regional Catalyst Award, and the 1987 and 2011 Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year and finalist for the 2011 California Teacher of the Year.
In addition to his love of chemical education, Paul enjoys attending theater, singing, baking, and community service.