Course Outline for Our Advanced Chemistry Homeschool Chemistry Curriculum

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Two complete semesters of advanced homeschool chemistry covers everything your high student will need for science credit when taken entirely.

Semester One

Session 1:
Introduction to Chemistry
Chemistry and Science
What Is Science?
Doing Science
Measurement
Measurement, Uncertainty, and Significant Figures
Temperature, Derived Measurements, and Types of Matter

Session 2:
Early History of Chemistry
Dalton’s Atomic Theory
Atomic Structure
Introduction to the Periodic Table
Basics of Chemical Naming

Session 3:
Moles
Working with Moles
Percent by Mass

Session 4:
Balancing Chemical Equations
Calculating Percent Yield

Session 5:
Electron Configuration
Chemical Bonding
Formulas and Names
Lewis Dot Structures

Session 6:
Introduction to Solutions
Acids & Bases
Solubility and Precipitation
Concentration and Stoichiometry

Session 7:
Rates of Reactions
Chemistry on a Spreadsheet
Reaction Mechanisms
Activation Energy and Catalysts

Session 8:
Chemistry Foundations
Equilibrium
Equilibrium Constant
Reaction Quotient

Session 9:
Acids & Bases
pH
Titration

Session 10:
Titration Curves
Buffers
Working with Buffers

Session 11:
Gases
Gas Stoichiometry
Partial Pressure
Kinetic Theory

Semester Two

Session 1:
Pressure and Equilibrium
Energy
Working with Energy

Session 2:
Condensed Phases of Matter
Liquids
Solids
Metals

Session 3:
Phases and Vapor Pressure
Phase Diagrams
Solutions and Energy
Solubility Effects
Colligative Properties

Session 4:
Measuring and Manipulating Solubility
Qualitative Analysis

Session 5:
Entropy
Gibbs Free Energy
Working with Gibbs Free Energy
Equilibrium and Efficiency

Session 6:
Oxidation States
Reduction and Oxidation
Balancing Redox Equations

Session 7:
Galvanic Cells
Reduction Potentials
Electrochemical Applications

Session 8:
Electromagnetic Radiation
What Is Electromagnetic Radiation?
Quantum Mechanics
Line Spectra
Fireworks

Session 9:
Covalent Bonds and Resonance
Molecular Structure

Session 10:
Atomic Orbitals
Orbital Hybridization
Molecular Orbitals

Session 11:
Nuclides and the Nucleus
Radioactivity
Nuclear Transformation
Nuclear Applications
Radiometric Dating

Session 12: 
Surveying the Elements
Hydrogen
Group 1A Alkali Metals
Group 2A Alkaline Earth Metals
Group 3A
Group 4A

Session 13:
Group 5A
Group 6A
Halogens and Noble Gases
Transition Metals
D Block Metals
F Block Metals
Transition Metals in Biochemistry

Session 14:
Alkanes
Alkenes and Alkynes
Reactions and Derivatives
Polymers
Biochemistry