Description
Exploring Creation with Advanced Chemistry, 2nd Edition curriculum is designed to build on students’ foundational understanding of chemistry, so they must have already completed a first-year high school chemistry class. Using vivid images and diagrams, illustrative stories and equations, and 25 hands-on experiments, this curriculum will help your students understand and enjoy advanced chemistry concepts that will prepare them for the ACT.
Curriculum Overview
Advanced Chemistry builds on your student’s foundational knowledge of chemistry, introducing them to concepts like organic chemistry, organic nomenclature, and polymer chemistry and focusing on the major functional groups.
Topics covered include:
- Stoichiometry (with limiting reactants)
- Thermodynamics
- Kinetics
- Acids and bases
- Redox reactions
- Solutions
- Atomic structure
- Orbital hybridization
- Molecular orbitals
- Molecular geometry
- Chemical equilibrium
- Nuclear chemistry
Textbook
The Exploring Creation with Advanced Chemistry student textbook is written in a conversational format, with the author talking directly to your student. Your student is guided through key learning strategies such as thinking critically about what they are learning, identifying important parts of the information presented, taking meaningful notes, and completing experiments.
Throughout this course, your student will connect textbook instruction with hands-on experiments to maximize learning. They will enjoy experimenting with the rate of an iodine clock reaction, distillation, chromatography, the common ion effect, measuring pH changes in a buffer, the electrolysis of copper sulfate, polymerization experiments, and the hydrolysis of sucrose.
Testing
The Solutions and Tests for Exploring Creation with Advanced Chemistry, 2nd Edition, contains answers to study guide questions, test solutions, and a set of student test pages. An extra set of test pages is also available as an add-on.
