Synopses & Reviews
Designed to be used with Spencer, Rickard, and Bodner's Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry is filled with activities that get students actively engaged in the material. These activites train students to examine data, written descriptions, and figures to develop important chemical concepts for themselves.
Each activity is followed by a series of Critical Thinking Questions, which lead students through the thought process that results in the construction of a particular concept or idea. Finally, students work on Skill Development Exercises and Problems that reinforce key ideas developed in class and enable them to practice applying those ideas to new situations.
Synopsis
The ChemActivities found in Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry, Third Edition use the classroom guided inquiry approach and provide an excellent accompaniment to Spencer's Chemistry: Structure and Dynamics, Third Edition or any other General Chemistry text. Designed to support Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), these materials provide a variety of ways to promote a student-focused, active classroom that range from cooperative learning to active student participation in a more traditional setting. They are designed to train students to use and analyze data, figures, and text to deduce chemical concepts.
Table of Contents
ATOMIC STRUCTURE.
The Nuclear Atom.
Atomic Number and Atomic Mass.
Coulomb's Law.
The Shell Model (I).
The Shell Model (II).
Atomic Size.
Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
The Shell Model (III).
Electron Configurations.
Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.
Electron Spin.
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE.
Lewis Structure (I).
Bond Order and Bond Strength.
Bond Length and Bond Strength.
Lewis Structures (II).
Lewis Structures (III).
Molecular Shapes.
Hybird Orbitals.
Average Valence Electron Energies.
Partial Charge.
Polar, Nonpolar, and Ionic Bonds.
Dipole Moment.
SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS.
The Ionic Bond.
Metals.
The Bond-Type Triangle.
Intermolecular Forces.
STOICHIOMETRY.
The Mole Concept.
Balanced Chemical Equations.
Limiting Reagent.
Empirical Formula.
THERMOCHEMISTRY.
Enthalpy of Atom Combination.
Enthalpy Changes in Chemical Reactions.
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
Molarity.
The Ideal Gas Law.
Electromagnetic Radiation.
EQUILIBRIUM.
Rates of Chemical Reactions (I).
Equilibrium (I).
Equilibrium (II).
The Equilibrium Constant (I).
The Reaction Quotient.
The Solubility Product.
ACIDS AND BASES.
Acids and Bases.
Strong and Weak Acids.
Weak Acid/Base Dissociation.
pH.
Relative Acid Strength.
Acid/Base Strength of Conjugate Pairs.
OXIDATION-REDUCTION.
Redox Reactions.
Oxidation Numbers.
The Electrochemical Cell.
The Cell Voltage.
THERMODYNAMICS.
Entropy (I).
Entropy (II).
Entropy Changes in Chemical Reactions.
The Equilibrium Constant (II).
The Equilibrium Constant (III).
KINETICS.
Rates of Chemical Reactions (II).
Integrated Rate Laws.
Reaction Mechanisms (I).
Reaction Mechanisms (II).
Reaction Mechanisms (III).
Activation Energy.
Appendix.
Index.