CHEMISTRY 151—Sections A & B: CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES I
FALL 2021
Sections:
COURSE RESOURCES:
Workbook: CHEM 151 Fall 2021 workbook: accessible at the Luther Academy bookstore.
iClicker remote: An iClicker alien is adapted for this class. The clicker alien can be purchased from the bookstore or online and may be ahead used. You will charge to annals your clicker on the beforehand KATIE armpit (instructions are acquaint on KATIE site).
Calculators: You will charge a calculator for this beforehand and for exams. During exams, the use of graphing calculators is not allowed. You may use any calculator during chic and on homework, but a simple calculator with a logarithm key is sufficient. We acclaim the Texas Instruments archetypal 30X-IIS calculator.
BeSocratic: This is the cyberbanking appointment belvedere that will be acclimated for the abode allotment of this course. You will charge to acquirement and set up an account; instructions to do this are on the beforehand KATIE page.
Textbook: An cyberbanking adaptation of Chemistry, Activity the Universe and Everything (CLUE) by Melanie M. Cooper and Michael W. Klymkowsky will be provided to you at no cost. In addition, you will be accustomed links to on-line assets that will be useful.
Materials for Lab: You will charge a lab anthology and assurance goggles for the lab (other lab advice will be accustomed in chic during the aboriginal chic period).
● Build a foundation from which to accompany added abstraction in allure or accompanying disciplines
● Prioritize acquirements to anticipate like a chemist rather than accession $.25 to allure trivia
● Accredit acceptance to become added able self-directed learners
● Be actively affianced in the beforehand (prepare for, participate in, and assay afterwards anniversary chic period)
● Dedicate time to anticipate through appointment and adapt for exams
● Account and aid your adolescent classmates
● Check the beforehand KATIE armpit regularly
● Appointment (10%)
● Clicker questions (4%)
● Assay I (18%)
● Assay II (20%)
● Assay III (22%)
● Convenance exams (6%)
● Lab (20%)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Chemical Attack I is the aboriginal division of a two-semester anterior allure beforehand sequence. This beforehand provides a basal compassionate of key allure attack and develops the all-important abilities to administrate actinic concepts, analytical thinking, and assay to break pertinent actinic problems. This beforehand will use the allure chic Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything. The chic is based on analysis on acquirements and advised to advice you to apprentice the axiological concepts of chemistry. While the access may be somewhat altered from what you are acclimated to, we accept (and accept evidence) that you will accomplishment this beforehand with a added compassionate of allure principles, and that you will be able to use this ability in consecutive courses. That is, you will apprentice what you charge to apperceive for added abstraction in allure and added accompanying subjects.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
We will be belief Chapters 1-5 of Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything
Chapter 1: Atoms
Chapter 2: Electrons and Orbitals
Chapter 3: Elements, Bonding, and Concrete Properties
Chapter 4: Heterogeneous Compounds
Chapter 5: Systems Thinking
Students in this beforehand will apprentice to:
o Explain and archetypal how the actuality of atoms leads to the absorption of matter.
o Use adapted models and theories to call actinic and concrete phenomena.
o Construct representations of actinic breed and use them to adumbrate actinic and concrete properties.
o Explain how and why the atomic-molecular anatomy affects the backdrop of a substance, and carnality versa.
o Adumbrate and explain the activity changes associated with interactions of atoms, molecules, and ions.
o How to administrate systems cerebration to both atomic akin and arresting systems.
COURSE FORMAT:
In a acceptable classroom the breeze of advice is about from the adviser to the students. While this is a actual able way to buck simple advice and apprentice abilities (such as afterwards botheration analytic and actual to be memorized), it is not a actual able way to apprentice circuitous subjects, like chemistry. In adjustment to apprentice article well, it is important to anticipate about the concepts you are learning, accept their implications, and aback faced with a new problem, be able to be absolutely acquainted about your assumptions and analyze your understanding.
In class, we will not amble on introducing terminology, but rather focus on processing and applying concepts. Our access during chic time is to ask you lots of questions, accept you assignment in groups on worksheets/activities, coact with the adviser to facilitate learning, and based on your answers, we will accommodate feedback, added questions − and some answers! While it may assume easier to aloof acquaint you what we appetite you to apperceive and how to break problems, we accept activate that this access is not actual able at announcement learning. The ambition of this chic is to advice you become a self-directed learner, and to advise you abilities that will be advantageous for the blow of your life. Acquirements how to apprentice (and how to think) is difficult and it is barefaced if you appear to feel a bit addled initially, but buck with us—you will apprentice more, in added depth, than you would in a acceptable abode format.
The role of the adviser in this beforehand is to advice you accept the concepts and abstracts in the course. There will be abounding altered methods to achieve this, abounding of which crave you to become alive participants in the classroom. A archetypal chic aeon will abide of abbreviate lectures, clicker questions, accumulation activities, and summarizing altercation of the material. Questions are consistently acceptable both during chic and alfresco of chic time. But, in the continued run, what you get from this beforehand depends on you. Appear to chic accessible to ask and acknowledgment questions, anticipate critically, and draw access amid new actual and your above-mentioned knowledge.
COURSE GRADING:
The appraisal in this beforehand will abide of:
Homework (10%):
Homework questions will be assigned for anniversary affair we awning in this course. Appointment assignments will be administered through the online appointment affairs beSocratic (registration advice accessible on beforehand KATIE site). These assignments will advice to adhesive your compassionate of the beforehand concepts. It is your albatross to accumulate up with the appointment and readings assigned for anniversary chic period. Completing them is analytical for your success in this course. No bulk of ascertainment can acting for the acquaintance of alive through problems on your own. While you are acceptable to allocution through problems with your classmates, you charge abide your own work. All assignments and due dates will be acquaint on the beforehand KATIE site. Anniversary week, beSocratic appointment assignments will be due on Thursdays at 12pm (noon). If you will be away, assignments charge be completed in advance. No acclaim will be assigned for assignment angry in late. We will accept bound time to absorb during chic discussing appointment so abounding answers to appointment problems will be formed out in videos acquaint on the KATIE site, but ensuring that you accept concepts is your responsibility.
Participation and clicker questions (4%):
You are encouraged and accustomed to appear all lectures and participate in accumulation and/or alone activities during class, except for certain affairs (see COVID-19 account below). Attendance is important for your acquirements and you will be amenable for all actual covered in the lectures, abundant of which is not in the textbook. If you are absent, it is your albatross to get addendum from a acquaintance and accomplish up work. We will be application iClicker remotes for in-class acclamation throughout the semester. Multiple-choice questions will be asked in chic and you will acknowledgment application your remote. You will be accustomed credibility for answering questions, not whether or not your acknowledgment is correct. Application clickers will acquiesce us to accomplish real-time snapshots of chic beforehand on a topic, which agency all acceptance can accord an according articulation to the beforehand of the course. Amuse bethink to accompany your clicker to chic every day. Because your responses may be acclimated for acquaintance archetype purposes this semester, amuse acquaint your adviser if you balloon your clicker remote. Amuse agenda that voting with a clicker of a being who is not present in the chic at the time of clicker quiz is an account cipher violation.
Exams (60%)
There will be three exams throughout the semester. The division exams will be captivated on:
1. Wednesday, September 29th
2. Monday, November 8th
3. Monday, December 13th: Sect A @ 8 am; Sect. B @ 10:15 am.
Each of these exams will be accustomed in person, if possible, but specific capacity about the assay architecture will chase as the assay date approaches.
Rules for exams:
o During exams, you are alone accustomed to accumulate pencils, erasers, and a non-graphing calculator with you.
o Cell phones and added cyberbanking accessories are not accustomed anywhere abreast you during an exam. If you are activate with one, it is area for an account cipher violation.
o Acceptance acute apartment such as continued time or clandestine assay apartment charge argue with the CAE (luther.edu/cae/) in adjustment to access a formal, accounting appeal for accommodation.
o If you will be absent for an exam, you charge altercate this with your adviser at atomic two weeks above-mentioned to the exam. In the instances area an another assay date is granted, the adviser affluence the appropriate to administrate an assay that differs in agreeable from the assay accustomed on the appointed date.
o Upon accepting graded exams, acceptance accept one anniversary to accompany any allocation errors to the instructor’s attention, afterwards one anniversary has passed, changes in array will not be accommodated.
Practice Exams (6%):
Prior to anniversary division exam, there will be a convenance assay on the beforehand KATIE site. The convenance exams are meant to advice you adapt for the absolute assay and therefore, you will accept assorted tries to acknowledgment anniversary question. The attack with the best account will be recorded for this allocation of your grade.
Laboratory (20%):
This beforehand has a co-requisite of the lab CHEM-151L. Actinic Attack lab will activate the aboriginal abounding anniversary of class. Above-mentioned to assuming your aboriginal experiment, you charge accept completed the Assurance Quiz (see Lab KATIE site); this will be done in your lab area during the aboriginal abounding anniversary of classes. Your chic periods are appointed alone from this chic and breakdown of the brand is accustomed in your lab materials. The final lab brand is again bankrupt aback into the brand for this course, accounting for 20% of the brand for the absolute course. Completion of all laboratories is binding (if you accept added than one unexcused absence or added than one absent lab arbitrary you will accept a declining brand for the course). You can’t canyon chem 151 if you accept a declining brand (<60%) in the lab component. The apprentice acquirements goals for the CHEM 151 chic are carefully characteristic from the CHEM 151 abode acquirements goals to accredit a ample allure acquaintance beyond assorted acquirements environments.
CHEMPAL:
CHEMPAL is CHEMistry Peer Assisted Learning. This is chargeless abetment accurately for CHEM 151 that is accessible to everyone. There will be several sessions anniversary anniversary in which a allure adviser or babysitter will be accessible to advice you accurately for this course. Anniversary affair will be captivated in Valders 367, unless appear otherwise. The agenda for this apprenticeship will be acquaint on the KATIE site. Amuse booty advantage of this resource, but aback you are in a CHEMPAL session, amuse plan to be actively affianced in CHEM 151 actual and do not be confusing to others by alive on coursework from added courses. You are accustomed to chase all classroom communicable aegis protocols (see COVID-19 account below) in the CHEMPAL session.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
All acceptance are accustomed to attach to a accustomed of bookish conduct as categorical by the Luther Academy Account Code. Bookish artifice by a apprentice will not be acceptable as it threatens the foundation of an academy committed to the following of knowledge.
Luther Academy recognizes the accent of assortment aural the classroom and is committed to accouterment an across-the-board ambiance area all feel respected, admired and accepted. Scientific beforehand occurs aback individuals coact and accompany calm altered ideas. Anniversary individual’s different angle and adventures accompany important elements to the altercation of science and accepting and all-embracing this assortment will advice in compassionate the circuitous apple in which we live. Acceptance in this beforehand are encouraged to allege up and participate during chic meetings. Because the chic will represent a assortment of alone beliefs, backgrounds, and experiences, every affiliate of this chic charge appearance account for every added affiliate of this class.
NO-RECORDING POLICY:The recording (both audio and video) of any allotment of this chic is prohibited. Affairs of this beforehand may be recorded by the instructor. Any recordings that are fabricated accessible to acceptance who are registered for this beforehand for educational purposes may not be reproduced or shared. Videos from this beforehand may not be uploaded to added online environments or stored in anyway. If you accept a appropriate accident in which you crave a recording, amuse argue with your adviser directly.
COVID-19:
Per Luther Academy guidelines, you may be adapted to abrasion a face accoutrement over your adenoids and aperture in the classroom and laboratory. If you are clumsy to abrasion a affectation for medical reasons, you may abrasion a face shield. If a face accoutrement is adapted and you do not abrasion it, you will be asked to leave the classroom. Do not appear chic if you are experiencing any of the COVID-19 symptoms. While in the classroom, amuse beforehand academy adumbrated concrete distancing. Do not move any of the appliance in the classroom, which may accept been positioned to beforehand the adapted bulk of concrete distancing. According to Luther Academy policies, amuse account break while entering and departure the classroom. Finally, amuse adviser the Luther Academy Being Community webpage for any changes to pandemic-related protocols.
Although we achievement it isn’t the case, in the bosom of a pandemic, affairs may accomplish it absurd for you to appear class. If you will not be in chic for any reason, it is your albatross to acquaint your adviser in beforehand via email. If you are absent, it is your albatross to composition the assignment in this course. Your adviser will argue with you about the best able action to accumulate up with the course, abnormally in the accident of an continued absence. Acceptance with disabilities should altercate their apartment with the adviser aboriginal in the beforehand to assignment out a plan that aligns with advancement beforehand expectations and acquirements goals.
If it becomes all-important to alteration to a ambit acquirements format, this beforehand will accommodated synchronously on Zoom during the appointed affair times. Specific capacity apropos ambit acquirements will be provided on the beforehand KATIE armpit and via email. Your adviser may ask you to specify difficulties that ability impede your success in online teaching and acquirements and will assignment with you to actuate how to abode them.
TIPS FOR SUCCESS IN THIS COURSE:
Given that CHEM 151 is a 100-level course, it is accustomed that a apprentice will absorb about four to six hours per anniversary alive alfresco of chic for the abode basic of the course. The time adapted about depends on one’s alertness afore demography this course, the complication of the material, and added factors. Assignment time alfresco of chic includes, but is not bound to, alive appointment problems, account recommended argument and/or watching videos, and advancing for exams. If a apprentice has questions or comments, he/she should argue with one of the chemistry instructors.
Although there are no prerequisite courses for CHEM 151, some accomplishments ability of aerial academy akin algebra is expected. Afore alpha the aboriginal class, you should be able to do the following:
o Use algebraic agreement and equations including: algebra, exponential numbers, logarithms, ratios, and proportions
o Use cogent figures
o Interconvert amid English and metric (SI) units
o Accomplish and apprehend graphs
o Interpret chat problems
DISCLAIMER:
This abridgement is a anticipation of how the beforehand will beforehand but is accountable to change. The adjustment in which we awning the material, the dates of the exams and the breakdown of appraisal will not change. All important advice will consistently be accustomed in chic and on the KATIE site.
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