This is last years blog

This is last years IB chemistry blog 2014-15.  Please use for review only.

Current blog 2chemstaab.blogspot.com

Summer study packet

This is the 2015-2016 summer study packet for IB Chemistry.  

End of the year survey

Please take some time to thoughtfully reply to the end of the year survey.  This information will help me improve this course for students next year.  Thank you.

End of year survey

Unit 7: Final Review and Options

Environmental Chemistry.  Everyone will study Environmental Chemistry together.  Use Chemistry: Course Companion Option E as your main guide. Take notes on all presentations and watch all videos.  There will be a section of test on on this option as part of the final exam.

Students who are outside IB testing this May should also study another option of their choice during this unit. Review packets have been distributed.  Thornley has good videos on options A, B, D and F.

During this unit we will also be reviewing as many previous IB SL topics as possible to prepare for the final and for external testing students May 14-15 exams.  The final exam internally will be on two days... Friday May 29th, paper 2 (short answer comprehensive) and environmental option and Monday June 1st paper (multiple choice comprehensive). This is for all IB year two Chemistry students.  Please use your IB study guide as a primary source of review.  There are topic review questions at the end of each chapter.  And use the videos online for quick review as well.  I suggest these Thornley videos in particular, which are on common errors students have made on past IB exams.


Presentation dates 
Air Pollution and Acid Deposition  Friday April 24th
Greenhouse effect and Ozone depletion Monday April 27th
Dissolved oxygen and water treatment Wednesday April 29th
Soil and Waste Friday May 1st

Environmental Chemistry videos
tracking pollution chemists celebrate earth day
air pollution vice
air pollution ib presentation
acid rain
acid rain new syllabus Thornley
five human impacts on the environment Crashcourse
global carbon cycle Crashcourse

Unit 6: Organic

Organic chemistry is usually taught as an entire second year college course. We will be able to spend about a month and a half getting as far into the content as possible.  We will focus on basic molecular structure, nomenclature and reaction mechanisms.  We will do a bonding review first, and then go into the actual IB SL Organic content.
Study Chapter 10 in Chemistry: Course Companion and use the DVD questions for review.  Use Central Chemistry Chapter 25 as a reference as necessary.  Watch the Thornley videos for review but use the Khan channel videos for a more in-depth lesson on each topic.  Organic Chemistry exam on 4/22

Externally TESTING STUDENTS... decide on an additional option topic over break....

Worksheet: Bonding Review (ionic, covalent, intermolecular) due 3/2
Worksheet: Organic Models I (MolyMods to make a table of 20 structures and isomers) due 3/2
Worksheet: Organic Nomenclature/Structural formulas due 4/3
Worksheet: Simulation/Model/Database (Jmol and Royal Society of Chemistry database)
Lab 14: Pre-Design Lab Write Ups (D) due 3/4
Lab 15: Saponification Lab due 3/30
Lab 16: Polymer Investigation due 4/15 
Lab 17: Design Lab to be evaluated with all IB practical criteria (D, DCP, CE) due 3/20
chemix app to diagram apparatus
how to use chemix youtube video
Lab 18: Esterification due 4/22

How to draw organic molecules in 3-D
Free radical reactions Khan academy
Alcohol Periodic table of videos
ketones and aldehydes OSU chem
Polymers (plastics) Crashcourse
Sigma and pi bonds Khan academy
Sigma and pi bonds Thornley
Hybridization Thornley
Charge centers (molecular geometry) and hybridization Thornley
Carbon allotropes Thornley
SN2 mechanism
SN1 mechanism
Isomers HL
SN1 SN2 Thornley HL
Esterification Thornley HL
Esterification Fisher mechanism Khan
Esterification lab proceedure

Unit 5: RedOx

Study in the Chemistry: Course Companion text topic 9 using the DVD questions for further study.  Watch the Thornley videos on topic 9 (and topic 19 if you are interested in HL). Work on the RedOx Study Packets a bit at a time over the next few weeks.

This is a three week unit the test will be 2/20

IB Group IV project due Thursday Tutorial 2/12

Lab 12: Oxidation-Reduction Reactions due 2/9
Lab 13: Redox titration with potassium permanganate (CE) 2/20
Redox Study Packet 1 due 2/9
Redox Study Packet 2 2/20

ONLINE
Redox topic 9 videos thornley
Bill Gates TED talk on global warming
Crash course carbon cycle global warming
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Video
Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle link
Solar Hydrogen Generator
Oxidation numbers
Redox Reactions crash course
Batteries OSU chemistry
How to make a lemon battery
Nikola Tesla great minds
Really dangerous.  
Lab 13: Redox titration khan academy 
Electrolysis introduction
Voltaic cell music video
Electrolysis music video
How to make your own AA battery nurd rage
Alessandro Volta short documentary

Semester 1 Final Exam

During the last few weeks of January we will be reviewing for the first semester final exam and completing design lab work.  

The final exam will be over topics 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8.  A review packet will be provided and studied for examples of question types during class time.  The recommended homework is to read and study in your "IB Study Guides: Chemistry for the IB diploma" by Geoffry Neuss and complete all the review questions for the above topics.  

Lab 11: Kinetics Design Lab (D, DCP, CE) due 1/23

GROUP IV PROJECT due Thursday tutorial 2/12