College Bound Chemistry

Instructor: Nicole Traicoff

This course covers a comprehensive variety of topics for high school chemistry including a lab safety certification requirement, atomic history and modeling, balancing equations, stoichiometry, acids and bases, reaction types, states of matter, the chemistry of light, Lewis structures and VSEPR modeling plus many more things in a fun and engaging experience. Our course is unique among chemistry courses because we use a much more hands on approach with many different models, interactive activities, and real life applications. Students will leave the course with a collection of lab reports that demonstrate they completed the classic labs colleges are looking for during the admission process, but with so much more practical and memorable knowledge because they were engaged and participated every time they encountered class. Students leave the course with a working knowledge of what they were taught. They demonstrate this with a hands-on midterm and final exam. Experience chemistry for life.

Course Prerequisites: Completion of a pre-algebra course with at least a B or higher. No exceptions will be made.

Textbook: World of Chemistry by Zumdahl 2nd edition available for rent from Quest for education and arts.

Required student supplies: lab coat, goggles, closed toed shoes, clothing covering the body. NO SHORTS, TANK TOPS, SKIRTS THAT DO NOT COVER LEGS. colored pencils x 24, calculator is mandatory, laptop / tablet recommended, ruler, 3 ring binder, pens, pencils, notebook paper, dividers, 3x5 white notecards, 3x5 neon notecards, ring for securing the cards together.