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Science
Chemistry
Course Length: 2 Semesters
Credits: 1 Credit
Prerequisites: None
Available in: IGN, SOS, and
LIFEPAC
Overview:
• Measurement and Analysis
• Starting the Investigation: How to
Identify Elements, Compounds, and
Mixtures
• Exploring Laws for Gases and
Conservation of Mass
• The Discovery of Atoms: Nature’s
Building Blocks
• Molecular Structure
• Chemical Reactions, Rates, and
Equilibrium
• Equilibrium Systems
• Carbon Chemistry: Hydrocarbons
• Carbon Chemistry: Functional
Groups
• Chemistry Review
Explore the wonders of chemicals
with this fun chemistry survey course!
Students learn major topics in the
fields of matter and energy. In the first
semester, topics examined include
elements, compounds, mixtures, gas
laws, conservation of mass, atomic
structure, and molecular structure. In the
second semester, students continue their
examination of chemistry with topics of
chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium
systems, carbon chemistry or organic
chemistry.
Experiments include mixture of
compounds, determination of absolute
zero, conservation of mass, empirical
formula of a hydrate, pH indicators, and
more. This course also utilizes virtual
labs where students do their experiments
in an online simulator. Each unit of the
course contains quizzes and a test to
evaluate progress and student mastery.
Additional Details: The labs in this
course are completed using the online
simulator Late Nite Labs. A minimum
of two-thirds of the projects must
be completed for this course to be
considered a laboratory science (college
preparatory).
Alpha Omega Academy High School Course Catalog
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