College Board 2-day AP Science Workshop

Session I: Particulate Level Animations

Classification of Matter (LO1.18, LO2.1)

BCE

DCI

ACA

Comments on using this activity.

Results from students (Fall 2016). BCE activity and ACA activity.

Gas Molecules (translation, vibration and rotation) (Concord.org)

Chemical Equations and the Particulate Level (Unit 4.3, 4.5)

Questions (Answers)

Phase Changes at the Particulate Level ((Unit 3.3, 4.3)

Gas, liquid and solid (Concord.org)

Energy Transfer (Unit 6.3)

Energy Transfer (Concord.org)

Intermolecular Attractive Forces (Unit 3.1)

Hydrogen Bonding Intermolecular Attractive Forces (Concord.org)

Dipole-dipole and LDF Intermolecular Attractive Forces (Concord.org)

London Dispersion Intermolecular Attractive Forces

Dissolving solid (Unit 4.3, 4.5) (

Heterogeneous mixture depicted at the particulate level (Concord.org)

Covalent solid dissolving in water (Concord.org)

Ionic solid dissolving in water (Concord.org movie)

Solution process lecture notes

Gas Laws Animation (old, MoLE, Java) (LO2.5) or Gas Laws Animation (.jnlp) (old, MoLE, Java/jnlp) (LO2.5) For Mac users checkout these notes to help the first time you download a .JNLP file.

Pressure/Volume Activity
Pressure/Temperature Activity

Gas Law Animation (new, Pearson, HTML5)

Pressure/Volume Activity

Ionic Solids (lecture notes, Models 360 HTML5, LO2.23), (lattice Energies lecture notes)

solutions (LO2.8?)

metallic solids (LO2.25 - LO2.28) (Models 360, HTML5)

Covalent solids (LO2.29, LO2.30) diamond and graphite (Models 360, HTML5)

molecular solids (LO2.31, LO2.32)

First Law Thermodynamics Particulate (LO5.2, 5.3, 5.7 (not PNM), 5.12 (S˚))

Questions

Calorimetry Simulation with particulate animations (Pearson, HTML5)

Heat Transfer (calorimetry activity)

Second Law Thermodynamics Particulate

Entropy (Lecture Notes)

Gas, liquid and solid (Concord.org)

Factors that effect phase (Concord.org)

Dissolving solid (Concord.org, solution process for solids dissolving in water)

Electrolysis

Electrolysis Simulation (Pearson, HTML5)

Faraday's Law

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class

Student Activity

Guided inquiry activity in laboratory

Teacher Notes

 

Session II: PhotoElectron Spectroscopy

Webcast by Jamie Benigna

Atomic Structure

Student Activity Electronic Structure Part I

Student Activity Electronic Structure Part II

BCE (Bohr model)

BCE (Coulomb's law)

ACA (Coulomb's law)

Electron Configuration

Periodicity Lecture Notes

Coulomb's Law comments

Guided inquiry activities to invent the concept of electrons in shells (Part I) and electrons in subshells (Part II)

Answers to Part I

Answers to Part II

PowerPoint

Complex Energy Level Diagram

 

PES Spectra for elements 1 - 21

Sample PES MC Questions

Session III: Stoichiometry and Guided Inquiry (BI 3)

Chemical Equations and the Particulate Level (LO1.18)

Questions (Answers)

 

Stoichiometry (Pearson HTML5 Next Generation Simulation)

Introduction to ICE/ICF Tables for stoichiometry (LO3.4)

Activity (Answers)

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class

Doing Problems

 

Pearson Project: Next Generation of Computer Simulations

Electrolysis (simulation, HTML5)

Faraday's Law

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class

Student Activity

Guided inquiry activity in laboratory

Teacher Notes

Article: Chapter 12

BCEs, DCIs and ACAs

Article : Chapter 9

Electrolysis simulation and activities

Chemical Equations

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class

 

KMT (HTML5)

Kinetic Molecular Theory

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class

 

Student Activity

Guided inquiry activity in laboratory to investigate the relationship between pressure and volume

Answers to the activity

 

Student Activity

Guided inquiry activity in laboratory to investigate the relationship between pressure and temperature

Answers to the activity

 

Calorimetry (HTML5)

Mass, heat and temperature

BCE

DCI

ACA

Guided inquiry activity before, during and after class to invent the relationship between mass, heat and temperature

Specific heat

BCE

DCI

ACA

Additional activity to invent specific heat and it application

Heat of dissolution and heat of reaction

BCE

DCI

ACA

Using new simulation to investigate heat of dissolution and heat of reaction.

Heat of Transfer

 

Using new simulation to investigate heat transfer.

 

Future Simulations.....

Inquiry Activities Using BCEs, DCIs and ACAs

Electrochemical Cells

Cell Potential under non-standard conditions

BCE

DCI

ACA

 

 

 

MoLE Activities

Web Site

Before, During and After Class Learning Cycle Activities

Web Site (faculty web site...not for students)

Web Site (give this address to your students)

Tom Greenbowe's Simulations

Web Site

Additional Data Sources

Molecular Workbench

pHET

MERLOT

Chemical Education Digital Library

Roy Tasker

Sample BCE introduction

Particulate example (Meeting data, Spring 2014 data)

Macroscopic Example (Meeting data, Spring 2014 data)

Additional Links

iSpartan

VSEPR and additional WaveFunction apps