UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED	
Chemical Formulas	•	Chemical formulas - recognize and write
•	Rules of formulas - procedure and rules
•	Polyatomic ions - kind and charge
•	Nomenclature	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Stoichiometry	•	Formula mass
•	The mole
•	Conversion factors - mole to grams/liters/particles	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Chemical Equation	•	Write balanced chemical equations
•	Show energy or phase details of equations
•	Recognize activity of elements
•	Write ionic equations of solutions	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Mathematics of Chemical Equations	•	Use coefficients in reactions
•	Calculate mass-mass relationships
•	Calculate mass-volume relationships
•	Recognize limiting reactions	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Phases of Matter	•	Calculate pressure relationships
•	Determine phase changes
•	Kinetic theory of gases and calculations	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Gas Laws	•	Calculate T, P and V relationship of gases
•	Charles’s Law in relation to Boyle’s Law
•	Be able to calculate partial pressures
•	Calculate ideal gas law relationships	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Electron Configurations	•	Recognize energy levels and orbitals
•	Know electron positions in orbitals
•	Recognize quantum model of atom
•	Use model of atom to understand chemical reactions	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Periodic Table	•	Understand trends in periodic table
•	Predict chemical behavior based on position in
periodic table	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	

UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED	
Chemical Bonding	•	Understand different types of bonds
•	Be able to represent ionic bonds
•	Be able to represent convalent bonding
•	Understand hybrid orbitals in convalent bonding
•	Visualize the shape of molecules
•	Recognize molecular polarity
•	Learn hydrogen and metallic bonding	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Solutions	•	What are the kinds of solutions?
•	What affects solubility and its rate?
•	Be able to read solubility curves
•	Be able to calculate molarity	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Chemical Kinetics and Thermodynamics	•	Know the physical mechanism of chemical reactions
•	Temperature and concentration and pressure factors
		in reactions
•	What do catalysts do?
•	What do phase diagrams show?
•	What energy factors govern chemical reactions?
•	Recognize direction of reactions
•	What is Gibbs energy?  What is entropy?	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Chemical Equilibrium	•	Why are reactions reversible?
•	Be able to calculate equilibrium constants
•	Understand LeChatielier’s principle	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Acids, Bases and Salts	•	Be able to calculate ionization of acids, bases and
		salts
•	Know theories of acids and bases
•	Identify conjugate acids and bases
•	Understand amphoteric substances
•	Be able to calculate pH
•	Be able to measure pH
•	Be able to calculate normality	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	

UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED	
Oxidation and Reduction	•	Be able to balance redox reactions
•	Using half reactions	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)      

	
Electrochemistry	•	Using electrolytic reactions
•	Electrolysis of compounds
•	Calculate electrochemical cells
•	Understand standard potentials	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Organic Chemistry	•	Nomenclature
•	Double, triple bonds
•	What are structural formulas of organic molecules?
•	What is polymerization?	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Biochemistry	•	What are carbohydrates?
•	What are proteins and nucleic acids?	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)	
Nuclear Chemistry	•	What is radioactivity?
•	Be able to calculate half lives
•	Differentiate between fission and fusion?	•	Work sheets
•	Labs
•	Quiz or test (paper and pencil)