The International School of Panama
IB Chemistry HL b - 2004-05

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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley

Course Name: IB Chemistry HL b

Instructor: Marta Ortiz De Zevallos MSc. MEd.
E-mail: martaodez@isp.edu.pa , Web page: https://www.angelfire.com/ms/martaodez ,

Level: 12^th Grade

Class Schedule: Days and , Bolck , Room

Textbooks:  

Zumdahl, S.S., Chemistry (Third Edition),D.C. Heathand Company, USA, (1993).
Digrando, Laurel et.al., Chemistry, Matter and Change, Glencoe-McGraw Hill, USA, 2002
Handouts given in class.

General Goals:  (1) To help the students deeply understand matter, its structure, and its changes,providing them with opportunities for search and discovery.

                           (2) To help the students develop the skills necessary for solving application problems, involving simultaneously different topics.

Course Description: The IB Chemistry course the second year starts by testing the Environmental Chemistry option and doing related lab activities, in order for the students to be prepared for the Group IV Project. Then the students will finish the Inorganic Chemistry topics necessary to predict the behavior and structure of matter: kinetics, equilibrium, acid and bases, oxidation-reduction, analysis. Then Organic Chemistry is explored to set the basis for further studies in Chemistry and other sciences. The second option will will be Medicines and drugs or Biochemistry (The group decides). Chemistry, as other experimental sciences, rests firmly on the practical.

Course Content: Instructional units will be given at the beginning of each quarter, indicating the material that will be covered.
The outline that follows shows the topics that will be covered during the course.

Evaluation: The grading system will be based on 100 points, distributed as follows for each quarter:

Description of each component

Selected  Homework   &  Homework  Folder:   This component includes the graded assignments as well as the folder of daily homework (1 point if  done, 1/2 point if incomplete, no points if not done).

Chapter summaries and focus questions:   This component includes the summaries of each chapter covered (which should be done before the lesson is discussed and must be kept in the portfolio) and the focus questions (including the questions, your solutions and the corrections using a different color).

Tests and Quizzes:   This component includes chapter or topic tests, quizzes and short daily quizzes. Quizzes and short quizzes will count between 1/2 to 1/4 of a test (depending on the content).

Laboratory:   This component includes interest in demonstrations, written short reports of demonstrations, worksheets of lab activities, pre-labs done before the lab activity and lab reports written following the "Guidelines for Writing Laboratory Reports".

Portfolio:   This component refers to the complete portfolio presented each quarter, including important papers received, notes, summaries, assignments,tests, quizzes, lab reports and worksheets.

Research Paper or Project:   This component includes a research paper or project that will be assigned each quarter with specific instructions.

Performance:   This component includes participation, effort, initiative, perseverance, cooperation, behavior and responsibility.

Materials Needed

·         Scientific Calculator.

·         Laboratory coat

·         Binder

·         Graph paper (millimeter squares).

·         Pen, pencil, colored pen or pencil, eraser, and ruler.

·         The IB Periodic Table and other  tables   or reference papers (provided by the instructor).

Rules and Expectations

Consequences

Following the rules mentioned above will allow you to do your best and obtain the maximum grade in performance and homework folder. You will be ready to ask your teacher if you have doubts and that will be reflected in all the components of your grade.
Not following the rules will have consequences:
1. In your grade, directly in the performance and homework folder and indirectly in all components
2. In general, depending on the type of misbehavior or repeated offense, you will have to:
   Leave the classroom
   Leave the classroom and see the principal
   Serve lunch detention
   Serve after school detention
   See the principal (suspension?)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Marta de Ortiz de Zevallos   

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Please read and analyze this document at home.  Comments are welcome.

General Chemistry, Mrs. Ortiz De Zevallos

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