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Chemistry in the Kitchen and Beyond: Matter, Energy, and Change (Part 1)

Grade 10, Units 1-4 · 276 pages · 38 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year, lab-grounded chemistry course for Grade 10 built around kitchen-safe, home-adaptable investigations. Students move from measuring and modeling matter at the macroscopic scale to explaining behavior at the particle scale: atomic structure, bonding, stoichiometry, gas behavior, solutions, rates and equilibrium, and acid-base and redox chemistry. Every unit anchors abstract particle-level models to something students can observe, measure, or safely manipulate without a fume hood or regulated reagents. The course is standards-aligned to NGSS and CCSS literacy and math connections. This volume holds units 1 to 4: Describing Matter: Measurement, Properties, and Classification; Inside the Atom: Structure and the Periodic Table; Chemical Bonding: Why and How Atoms Connect; Counting the Uncountable: The Mole and Stoichiometry.

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Chemistry in the Kitchen and Beyond: Matter, Energy, and Change

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Unit 1: Describing Matter: Measurement, Properties, and Classification9 lessons
  1. 1.Significant figures as a claim about instrument precision
  2. 2.Significant figure rules in calculated (derived) quantities
  3. 3.The element/compound/mixture/pure-substance classification scheme
  4. 4.The distinction between physical and chemical change based on identity of substance
  5. 5.The insufficiency of surface indicators as evidence for chemical change
  6. 6.Density as an identifying physical property
  7. 7.Separation techniques matched to the physical property each exploits
  8. 8.Claim-evidence-reasoning structure applied to component identification via density
  9. 9.Instrument-limited precision as a general principle of quantitative claims
Unit 2: Inside the Atom: Structure and the Periodic Table10 lessons
  1. 10.Subatomic particle counts and their relationship to atomic number, mass number, and charge
  2. 11.Isotope notation and the neutron-count difference between isotopes of one element
  3. 12.Electron configuration of main-group atoms
  4. 13.The historical revision of atomic models in response to specific experimental evidence (gold foil scattering)
  5. 14.The mechanism underlying periodic trends in atomic radius and ionization energy
  6. 15.Periodic trends (atomic radius, electronegativity, ionization energy) as a function of table position
  7. 16.The relationship between atomic emission line spectra and quantized electron energy levels
  8. 17.The Bohr model versus the electron cloud model as different-purpose simplifications
  9. 18.Classification of elements by table position (metal/nonmetal/metalloid, group family)
  10. 19.The relationship between valence electron count and the charge of the ion an atom tends to form
Unit 3: Chemical Bonding: Why and How Atoms Connect10 lessons
  1. 20.Valence electron count and its relationship to group number and bonding tendency
  2. 21.Charge-balancing procedure for binary ionic formula units
  3. 22.Lewis structure construction procedure for simple covalent molecules
  4. 23.Electrostatic stability as the causal mechanism for electron transfer/sharing
  5. 24.Electronegativity difference as the basis for bond-type classification along a continuum
  6. 25.The distinction between individual bond polarity and overall molecular polarity as determined by shape/symmetry
  7. 26.Polyatomic ion naming and formula-writing convention, including use of parentheses for multiple polyatomic units
  8. 27.The causal link between bond/structure type and macroscopic properties (melting point, conductivity, solubility)
  9. 28.Textual evidence in scientific explanatory text signaling the limits of a simplified bonding model
  10. 29.Relationship between ionic charge magnitude and lattice attraction strength (qualitative)
Unit 4: Counting the Uncountable: The Mole and Stoichiometry9 lessons
  1. 30.Molar mass of a compound calculated from atomic masses
  2. 31.Mole-mass-particle conversions using molar mass and Avogadro's number
  3. 32.The distinction between a counting unit and a mass or volume unit
  4. 33.Balanced chemical equations with conserved atom counts
  5. 34.Mole-ratio stoichiometric conversion from mass of reactant to mass of product
  6. 35.Limiting reactant identified through ratio comparison
  7. 36.Conservation of mass applied to a novel open/closed reaction system
  8. 37.Full stoichiometric solution path applied to a novel reaction
  9. 38.Discrepancy between theoretical yield and measured lab result

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