Important Websites:

John Gelder's Website: http://intro.chem.okstate.edu

AP Chemistry Summer Institute website:
http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/APCHEMSITE/Default.html

2022 Course and Exam Description
2022 CED link on AP Central

During Class Inventions and Computer Lab Activities (these pdfs will expire in August, 2021)
Volume I and Volume II

Video of my lectures from a first semester introductory chemistry class August - December, 2017
1st Semester video lectures

Video of my lectures from a second semester introductory chemistry class January - May, 2018
2nd Semester video lectures

MoLE Website of particulate level Java applets, Flash and HTML5 simulations along with guided and open-inquiry activities
http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/CCLI/Startup.html

Next Generation Computer Simulation
http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/NextGen/NextGen.html

Before, During and After Class Learning Cycle Activities
http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/BDA/Topics.php

Recent two-day AP Chemistry Workshop for the College Board
http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/SAT2Day.html

Recent one-day AP Chemistry Workshop at Rice University
http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/RiceSp2020.html

Useful College Board Links
http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/APCHEMSITE/Personal/CBWebsite.html


Interactive Educational Resources
Interactive Digital Overheads by Vicente Talanquer and John Pollard (Simulations only...no guided inquiry activities

Google Doc Activities By CED Units
Google Activities Links to Google Forms, Slides and Docs organized by CED Units

The new (as of Fall 2019) AP Chemistry Course and Exam Description separates content into nine Units. Those Units are shown below. Each Unit is linked to a page containing resources appropriate for the Unit content. These resources can be animations, simulations, guided or open-inquiry activities, misconceptions, sample questions, and formative assessment activities.

Unit 1: Atomic Structure and Properties

Moles, Empirical Formulas, PES, Electron Configurations, Periodic Trends

Unit 2: Molecular and Ionic Compounds Structure and Properties

Types of bonds, Lewis structures, Resonsance VSEPR and Hybridization

Unit 3: Intermolecular Forces and Properties

Liquids, Solids and Gases, Solutions, Chromatography, Solubility, Spectroscopy, Beer-Lambert Law

Unit 4: Chemical Reactions

Types of Reactions, Net Ionic Equations, Stoichiometry, Titrations

Unit 5: Kinetics

Reaction Rates, Mechanisms, Collision Theory, Reaction Energy Profile, Catalysis

Unit 6: Thermodynamics

Heat Transfer, Specific Heat, Calorimetry, Enthalpy, Bond Energies, Hess's Law

Unit 7: Equilibrium

Reversible Reactions, Reaction Quotient, Equilibrium Constant, Le Chåtelier's Principle, Solubility Equilibrium

Unit 8: Acids and Bases

pH, pOH, pK, Stong Acids, Weak Acids, Strong Bases, Weak Bases, Titrations, and Buffers

Unit 9: Applications of Thermodynamics

Entropy, Gibbs Free energy, Galvanic Cells, Electrolytic Cells, Faraday's Law

What follows are lecture notes and activities organized around the BIG IDEAS from the currriculum framework 2014 - 2019. The lecture notes provide an example of a path through content covered in AP Chemistry. Many of the lecture notes contain animations/simulations that you can use to provide students with an additional view of the material.

BIG IDEA 1: The chemical elements are fundamental building materials of matter, and all matter can be understood in terms of arrangements of atoms. These atoms retain their identity in chemical reactions.

Concept Activities Learning Objectives
Empirical Formula and Percent Composition

Particulate level models of matter

Relative weighted average atomic mass

Inventing shells using ionization energy data

Inventing subshells using photoelectron spectroscopy data

PES Spectra for elements 1 - 21

PES Spectra from the University of Arizona

Dynamic energy level diagram assuming hydrogen-like behavior

Static energy level diagram assuming hydrogen-like behavior

Activities covering atomic structure

Before, During and After Class Activity

BDA Website (On the BDA Website go to UNIT 2 and review BDA8/DCI8/ACA8 covering empirical formulas and percent composition)

Before, During and After Class Activity

BDA Website (On the BDA Website go to UNIT 1 and review BDA1/DCI1/ACA1 covering particulate level models of atoms, molecules, mixtures, gas, liquid, solid, chemical and physical properties)

Before, During and After Class Activity

BDA Website (On the BDA Website go to UNIT 1 and review BDA4/DCI4/ACA4 covering relative weighted average atomic mass)

During Class Activity

Shells Activity (student) Shells Activity (teachers)

This experiment uses first ionization energy data in a guided inquiry activity to invent the concept that electrons occupy shells in atoms.

During Class Activity

Subshells Activity (student) Subshells Activity (teacher) (Photoelectron Spectra link This simulation is not used in my activity)

PES Elements 1 - 21

PES Sample Questions

Photoelectron spectra from the University of Arizona

Flash animations covering Atomic Structure from the University of Arizona

Dynamic energy level diagram

Electron Energy Level Diagram (Flash)
Activity

Static Energy Level Diagram

Energy Level Diagram (Multi-electron, downloadable pdf)

During Class Activity

Atomic radius periodicity activity

Before, During and After Class Activities BDA Website (On the BDA Website go to UNIT 4 and review the BCE/DCI/ACAs covering atomic structure. )

 

LO1.2

 

 

LO1.17/LO1.18

 

LO1.12

 

 

 

 

 

LO1.5/LO1.7

 

LO1.6

 

LO1.8

 

 

LO1.9

 

 

 

 

 

BIG IDEA 2: Chemical and Physical properties of materials can be explained by the structure and arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules and the forces between them.

Activities Learning Objectives

BCE1/DCI1/ACA1 BDA Website (Particulate level model of atoms, molecules, mixtures, gas, liquid, solid, chemical and physical properties: UNIT 1)

BCE33/DCI33/ACA39
BDA Website (Intermolecular attractive forces: UNIT 7)

Lecture Notes (Intermolecular attractive forces)

Polarizability Table

Introduction to Intermolecular attractive forces (draft version)

Lecture Notes for the solution process with animations.

BCE38/DCI38/DCI39/ACA44
BDA Website (Introduction to homogeneous and heterogenous mixtures: UNIT 8)

VSEPR Activity (Guided Inquiry Activity) Answers

LO2.1/LO2.3

 

 

LO2.11/LO2.13

 

 

 

LO2.15

 

 

 

 

 

LO2.21

BIG IDEA 3:Changes in matter involve the rearrangement and/or reorganization of atoms and/or the transfer of electrons.

Activities Learning Objectives

Writing a balanced chemical equation questions (Answers)

Stoichiometry with ICE Tables Activity (Answers)

HTML5 Stoichiometry simulation (Pearson)

ActivityBCE9/DCI9/ACA9
BDA Website (Introducing stoichiometry using ICE tables: UNIT 2)

BCE10/DCI10/ACA10
BDA Website (Introducing stoichiometry using ICE tables: UNIT 2)

BCE64/DCI64/ACA72
BDA Website (Recognizing redox reactions and oxidation numbers: UNIT 14)

Metal and Metal Ions Activity (student) (teacher) (Guiding inquiry activity to invent an activity series)

BCE65/DCI65/ACA73
BDA Website (Constructing Galvanic cells: UNIT 14)

BCE66/DCI66/ACA74
BDA Website (Calculation E° using standard reduction potentials: UNIT 14)

BCE67/BCE68/DCI67/ACA75
BDA Website (Non standard cell potentials and Q: UNIT 14)

BCE69/BCE69/DCI67/ACA77
BDA Website (Inventing Faraday's constant: UNIT 14)

Electrolysis simulation (Pearson)

Student Activity (Guided inquiry activity to invent Faraday's equation using electrolysis simulation Teacher notes)

LO3.1/LO3.2

 

 

 

 

LO3.3/LO3.4

 

 

 

 

LO3.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

LO3.12 and LO3.13

 

 

 

 

BIG IDEA 4:Rates of Chemical Reactions are determined by details of the molecular collisions.

Activities Learning Objectives

Introducing chemical kinetics using mechanisms. The links on page 5 have been fixed in this version. There is also a link to a movie of the mechanisms discussed in this publication.

Introduction to Mechanism (Using particulate level models to view mechanisms for different reactions)

BCE43/BCE63/DCI43/ACA50 BDA Website (Using particulate level models to view mechanisms for different reactions: UNIT 9)

BCE45/DCI45/ACA51 BDA Website (Factors that affect the rate of a reaction and introduction to rate laws: UNIT 9)

BCE46/BCE47 BDA Website (Differential form of a rate law: UNIT 9)

DCI46/ACA51 BDA Website (Integrated rate law: UNIT 9)

ACA48 BDA Website (half-life for simple reactions that follow first order kinetics: UNIT 9)

Crystal violet SWH (laboratory experiment)

 

 

LO4.4/LO4.5

 

LO4.1/LO4.2

 

 

 

 

LO4.3

 

LO4.1

BIG IDEA 5: The laws of thermodynamics describe the essential role of energy and explain and predict the direction of changes in matter.

Activities Learning Objectives

BCE14/DCI14/ACA16/ACA33 BDA Website (Inventing q = m*c*∆T: UNIT 3)

BCE15/DCI15ACA17 BDA Website (More connections with q = m*c*∆T: UNIT 3)

BCE16/DCI16/ACA18/ACA85 BDA Website (∆Hdissolution: UNIT 3)

BCE17/DCI17/ACA19
BDA Website (Enthalpy and stoichiometry: UNIT 3)

BCE18/DCI18/ACA20
BDA Website (Hess' Law and ∆Hf: UNIT 3)

Calorimetry simulation

Calorimetry activity(Student) (Teacher)

BCE30/DCI30/ACA35
BDA Website (Introduction to entropy and ∆Srxn: UNIT 13)

BCE31/DCI31/ACA36
BDA Website (More ∆Srxn and ∆Grxn: UNIT 13)

BCE32/DCI32/ACA367
BDA Website (∆Grxn and temperature dependence: UNIT 13)

Entropy lecture notes

Molecular Workbench Next Generation

States of Matter (Concord.org)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LO5.2, LO5.3, LO5.5, LO5.7

LO5.12

 

 

LO5.13

 

LO5.14

 

 

BIG IDEA 6: Any bond or intermolecular attraction that can be formed can be broken. These two processes are in a dynamic competition, sensitive to initial conditions and external perturbations.

Activities Learning Objectives

Introduction to reversible reactions - activity

Reversible and Irreversible Reactions (student)

Reversible and Irreversible Reactions (teacher)

 

BCE50
BDA Website (Introduction to reversible reactions - macroscopic: UNIT 10)

Lecture Notes for reversible reactions - macroscopic.

BCE49/DCI49/ACA55
BDA Website (Introduction to reversible reactions - microscopic: UNIT 10)

Shifting Reactions A (Inquiry activity to discover reversible reactions - microscopic: Unit 10) Simulation

Shifting Reactions B (Inquiry activity to discover Le Chatelier's principle - macroscopic: Unit 10) Simulation

Extent of a reaction (Inquiry activity to discover the equilibrium constant - macroscopic: Unit 10) Simulation

Equilibrium questions

BCE51/DCI51/ACA57
BDA Website (Predicting the extent of a reaction (BCE/DCI), determining K given initial amounts and an equilibrium amount: UNIT 10)

BCE52/DCI52/ACA58
BDA Website (Determining equilibrium amounts given the initial amounts and K: UNIT 10)

BCE79/DCI78/ACA78
BDA Website (Designing experiments to determine how a reaction at equilibrium responds to a stress using a simulation: UNIT 10)

Add a discussion of K for neutralization reactions.

Add discussion for equivalence point pH for different titrations (SA + SB), (WA + SB) and (SA + WB)

Add discussion for why a buffer of acetic acid and sodium acetate has a pH less than 7. Ammonia and ammonium ion also.

LO6.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

LO6.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

LO6.3(?)/LO6.4/LO6.8

 

 

LO6.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LO6.8/LO6.9
SP3/SP4

 

 

 

 

 

Experiments:

Properties of Water (Guided inquiry activity to invent the relationship between the molality of particles and the change in freezing point) Student Version Teacher Version

 

Crystal Violet (Inquiry)

Acid and Base Classification

Shifting Reactions Laboratory

Iron Thiocycanate Laboratory

Activities

Stoichiometry

Questions Part I

Questions Part II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHEMWIKIs

University of California - Davis

General Chemistry - Textbook Maps

VSEPR

Important Links

iPad Apps

iSpartan (iTunes link)

Odyssey (Atomic Orbitals) (iTunes link)

Atoms in Motion (iTunes link)

Salts in Motion (iTunes link)

Pearson Project

AP Chemistry Teacher Community

Advances in AP

AP Central

CollegeBoard Science Standards (PreAP- prior knowledge)

Journal of Chemical Education

WebReady Software

ChemEd DL

MERLOT (Chemistry)

APDL at Rice Univ

Molecular Workbench Next Generation

Molecular Workbench

Useful pages from the Molecular Workbench that I like:

Topic Web Page (in the Molecular Workbench database)

Dissolving

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/186.html

Hydration of Ions

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/66.html

Intermolecular attractive Forces

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/227.html

Heat and Temperature

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/74.html

Solids, Liquids and Gases

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/74.html

Phase Change

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/188.html

Attractive Forces and Phase Change

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/63.html

Water

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/140.html

Electrostatics (Coulomb's Law)

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/317.html

Interactive Digital Overheads

MoLEs

Radial Distribution Functions (not working as of August 10, 2017)

Greenbowe Iowa State link

pHET (Colorado)

ChemCollective (Carnegie Mellon)

How to Write an Inquiry Activity

Technology in the AP Classroom:

Description from 2014 APSI