🧪 AP Chemistry lesson plans
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Electrolysis and Faraday's Law: From Amps to Grams
Students will apply Faraday's law to convert current and time into charge, moles of electrons, and mass of product deposited at an electrode, and will explain how the electron cou…
Read the full lesson →Introduction to Entropy: Microstates, Dispersal, and the Second Law
Students will explain entropy as the number of accessible microstates and the dispersal of energy and matter, predict the sign of ΔS for physical and chemical processes with parti…
Read the full lesson →pH and pOH of Strong Acids and Bases
Students will calculate pH and pOH for strong acid and strong base solutions (including diprotic H₂SO₄), apply Kw = [H₃O⁺][OH⁻] and pH + pOH = 14 at 25 °C, report answers with cor…
Read the full lesson →Calculating the Equilibrium Constant with ICE Tables
Students will calculate a numerical equilibrium constant (Kc or Kp) from experimental data by constructing an ICE table from initial amounts and one measured equilibrium value, an…
Read the full lesson →Heat Transfer and Thermal Equilibrium: Why Hot Flows to Cold
Students will explain heat transfer at the particulate level and analyze data from a calorimetry experiment to argue that at thermal equilibrium temperatures equalize while |q_los…
Read the full lesson →Elementary Reactions and Molecularity
Students will distinguish elementary reactions from overall reactions, classify elementary steps by molecularity (unimolecular, bimolecular, termolecular), and write rate laws dir…
Read the full lesson →Three Levels of a Reaction: Macroscopic, Particulate, Symbolic
Students will translate fluently among macroscopic observations, particulate-scale drawings, and balanced symbolic equations for aqueous reactions, correctly showing dissociated i…
Read the full lesson →When Gases Break the Rules: Deviations from Ideal Behavior
Students will predict and explain, at the particulate level, when and why real gases deviate from PV=nRT, using compressibility-factor (Z) data to rank gases by non-ideality and t…
Read the full lesson →Structure of Ionic Solids: Lattices, Coulomb's Law, and Why Salt Shatters
Students will predict and justify relative lattice energies and physical properties (melting point, brittleness, conductivity) of ionic compounds using ionic charge, ionic radius,…
Read the full lesson →Moles and Molar Mass: The Chemist's Counting Bridge
Students will convert among mass, moles, and number of representative particles for pure substances using molar mass and Avogadro's number, correctly accounting for subscripts in…
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