Get Help

1.888.407.6327

NFC Academy Offices Closed December 24-25. Our best wishes to you for a Merry Christmas.

Chemistry Academic Library

Home Teacher (Homeschool Plus/Basics)

  • Home
  • 5
  • Chemistry Academic Library Home Teacher (HSP)
Admission

Chemistry Online

Chemistry is intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in the world that God has created. In preceding years, students should have developed an understanding for the macroscopic properties of substances and been introduced to the microstructure of substances. This chemistry course will expand upon that knowledge, further develop the microstructure of substances, and teach the symbolic and mathematical world of formulas, equations, and symbols. The major concepts covered are measurement, atomic structure, chemical formulas and bonding, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, gases, chemical equilibrium, and organic chemistry.

Labs For The Home Teacher

Home Teacher Labs

Labs for the Homeschool Plus program are those contained in the Ignitia Online Curriculum. No expensive equipment is required with only several requiring the purchase of small items or household items to conduct the experiments. 

It is always advisable to be familiar with your surroundings and wear protective equipment when conducting any experiment.  Never allow yourself to be distracted when completing an experiment.

stanford-testing-featured

Chemistry Online

UNIT 1- MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

  1. Course Overview
  2. An Introduction to Chemistry and Metric Measurement
  3. Report: Metric System
  4. Quiz 1: Metric Conversions
  5. Showing Precision in Measurements
  6. Using Significant Figures to Show the Reliability of Data
  7. Using Scientific Notation with Significant Figures
  8. Quiz 2: Precision, Significant Figures, and Scientific Notation
  9. Measuring Volume in the Chemistry Laboratory
  10. Project: Practice in Measuring Metric Volumes
  11. Measuring Mass in the Chemistry Laboratory
  12. Project: Measuring Length with Precision ​
  13. Quiz 3: Measurement and Precision
  14. Observation and Hypothesizing
  15. Learning to Make Useful and Detailed Observations
  16. Using Graphs to Analyze Data
  17. Project: Tutorial for Making a Scatter Plot Using an Electronic Spreadsheet Program 
  18. Quiz 4: Measurement to Graphs
  19. Doing Chemistry Your Way: Find Your Future
  20. Quiz 5: Chapter Review
  21. Test
  22. Alternate Test
  23. Reference

UNIT 2 – STARTING THE INVESTIGATION: HOW TO IDENTIFY ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS, AND MIXTURES

  1. The Basic Ingredient: Chemical Elements
  2. Quiz 1: Elements, Chemical and Physical Properties
  3. Using Chemical and Physical Properties to Identify Substances
  4. Experiment: Ignitia Salt and Sand
  5. Creating Compounds: Investigating Chemical Changes
  6. Quiz 2: Elements to Compounds and Chemical Changes
  7. Report – Density
  8. Identifying Different Types of Mixtures
  9. Experiment: Ignitia Using the Tyndall Effect to Identify Colloids
  10. ​Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  11. Test
  12. Alternate Test
  13. Reference

UNIT 3 – EXPLORING LAWS FOR GASES AND CONSERVATION OF MASS

  1. Nothing Stays Put – The Basis for Diffusion and Pressure
  2. Gases and Kinetic Molecular Theory
  3. Project: Graphing Kinetic Energy
  4. Quiz 1: Diffusion and Kinetic Molecular Theory
  5. Pressure-Volume Relationships in Gases (Boyle’s Law)
  6. ​Quiz 2: Diffusion to P-V Relationships in Gases
  7. Temperature-Volume Relationships in Gases (Charles’ Law)
  8. Experiment – Ignitia Charles’s Law and a Metal Can
  9. Quiz 3: Diffusion to V-T Relationships in Gases
  10. Combined Gas Law
  11. Quiz 4: Diffusion to Combined Gas Law
  12. Counting Gas Particles: The Measure of the Mole
  13. How Big is a Mole? Avogadro’s Number
  14. Demonstrating Conservation of Mass with Balanced Equations
  15. Essay: Biography
  16. Quiz 5: Chapter Review
  17. ​Test
  18. Alternate Test
  19. Reference

UNIT 4 – THE DISCOVERY OF ATOMS: NATURE’S BUILDING BLOCKS

  1. The Golden Years of Chemistry
  2. Masters of Classic Atomic Theory
  3. Quiz 1: Golden Years to Masters
  4. Designing an Organizational Map: The Periodic Table
  5. Quiz 2: Golden Years to Periodic Table
  6. The Bohr Model Revisited
  7. Quiz 3: Golden Years to Bohr Model
  8. Charging Up: Ionization of Atoms
  9. Quiz 4: Golden Years to Ionization
  10. A Closer Look Inside: Nuclear Reactions
  11. Report: Fission Reactors 
  12. Quiz 5: Chapter Review
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Reference

UNIT 5 – MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

  1. Chemical Accounting: Stoichiometry
  2. Valence Structure
  3. Quiz 1: Stoichiometry to Valence
  4. Determining Chemical Formulas
  5. Electron Availability: Prelude to Bonding
  6. Quiz 2: Determining Chemical Formulas to Prelude to Bonding
  7. Types of Chemical Bonds
  8. Polar Covalent Molecules and Dot Structures
  9. Experiment: Demonstrating Polar Properties
  10. ​Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  11. Test
  12. Alternate Test
  13. Reference

UNIT 6 – SEMESTER REVIEW AND TEST

  1. Review
  2. Exam
  3. Alternate Exam—Form A
  4. Alternate Exam—Form B

UNIT 7 – CHEMICAL REACTIONS, RATES AND EQUILIBRIUM

  1. ​​Evidence for Chemical Change
  2. Enthalpy of Reaction
  3. Using Gibbs Free Energy to Predict Spontaneous Reactions
  4. Quiz 1: Chemical Change to Enotropy and Gibbs Free Energy
  5. Factors that Affect Reaction Rates: Solution Concentration
  6. ​Factors that Affect Reaction Rate: Temperature, Catalysts, Concentration of Reactants
  7. Quiz 2: Chemical Change to Reaction Rate
  8. Reaction Equilibriums and Equilibrium Constants
  9. Activity: Ignitia Exploring Factors that Affect Equilibrium
  10. Conditions Affecting Equilibrium
  11. Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  12. Test
  13. Alternate Test
  14. Reference

UNIT 8 – EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS

  1. Chemist’s Toolbox
  2. Solutions
  3. Solution Concentration: Molarity
  4. Electrical Nature of Solutions
  5. Solubility
  6. Quiz 1: Toolbox TO Solubility
  7. The Dissolving Process​
  8. Experiment: Ignitia Solubility Trends
  9. The Solubility Constant
  10. Quiz 2: Toolbox to Solubility Constant
  11. Acid-Base Equilibria
  12. ​pH Scale
  13. Titration of Acids and Bases
  14. Quiz 3: Toolbox to Titration
  15. Redox Equilibria
  16. Redox and Oxidation Potentials
  17. Activity: Solution Concentration vs. Conductivity
  18. pH Calculations
  19. Quiz 4: Chapter Review
  20. Test
  21. Alternate Test
  22. Reference

UNIT 9 – CARBON CHEMISTRY: HYDROCARBONS

  1. Organic Compounds
  2. Sources of Organic Compounds
  3. Experiment: Ignitia Volatility
  4. Quiz 1: Organic Compounds and Their Sources
  5. A Closer Look at the Carbon Atom
  6. Bonding in Organic Compounds
  7. Quiz 2: Organic Compounds to Bonding
  8. Alkanes: Saturated Hydrocarbons
  9. Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
  10. Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  11. Test
  12. Alternate Test
  13. Reference

UNIT 10 – CARBON CHEMISTRY: FUNCTIONAL GROUPS

  1. Common Reactions of Saturated Hydrocarbons
  2. Reactions of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
  3. Quiz 1: Reactions of Saturated and Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
  4. Alcohols
  5. Aldehydes, Acids, and Ketones
  6. Esters
  7. Quiz 2: Reactions of Saturated and Unsaturated Hydrocarbons to Esters
  8. Nitrogen Functional Groups
  9. Proteins and Amino Acids
  10. Experiment: Preparation of a Polymer
  11. ​Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  12. Test
  13. Alternate Test
  14. Reference

UNIT 11 – CHEMISTRY REVIEW

  1. MEASUREMENT and Analysis
  2. Scientific Analysis and Significant Figures
  3. Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
  4. Gases and Moles
  5. Quiz 1: Measurement to Gases and Moles
  6. Atomic Structure and Nuclear Reactions
  7. The Periodic Law
  8. Molecular Structure
  9. Chemical Reactions, Rates, and Equilibrium
  10. Reaction Dynamics
  11. Quiz 2: Measurement to Reaction Dynamics
  12. Solutions
  13. Solubility Equilibrium
  14. Neutralization
  15. Organic Compounds
  16. Hydrocarbon Chemistry
  17. Quiz 3: Chapter Review
  18. Test
  19. Alternate Test
  20. Reference

UNIT 12 – SEMESTER REVIEW AND TEST

  1. Review
  2. Exam
  3. Alternate Exam—Form A
  4. Alternate Exam—Form B

UNIT 13 – FINAL EXAM

  1. Final Exam
  2. Alernate Final Exam – Form A
  3. Alternate Final Exam – Form B