CH 3: Diamonds

The chemistry of carbon is the focus for the next two weeks. If you wanted to continue your chemistry studies, the chemistry of carbon is a year long course at most universities in the world. We will only introduce the wonders of this amazing element with chapter 3. I hope it sparks some interest and helps you understand how wonderful the chemistry of carbon can be. Enjoy.

Orientation

The chemistry of carbon is very unique. In your text, chapter 3, 9, 10, and 11 cover some interesting chemistry of carbon. We will just scratch the surface with Chapter 3 and then add some of Chapter 9. We will give this some added emphasis by having two weeks to work on the material.

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Discovery and/or Exploration

Since this is a two week module, you have time to make the wiki perfect.

Week one: ChemActivity 13: Molecular Shapes

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Text Reading

Chapter three of your text.

Post Reflection in the chapter discussion area.

First an introduction to the idea of allotropes. This is very significant for carbon as its allotropes have multiple forms. Next, we begin to develop models of how atoms come together to form molecules. Carbon is the big daddy of molecule formation and has its own portion of chemistry named after is compounds called "organic chemistry". Shapes around atoms are introduced. Some are three dimensional while others are two dimensional.

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Lectures

CHEM20_Lectures - Watch the one for Chapter 3

After going through the lecture, post your reflection about the learning in the lecture discussion area. Post two replies as well.

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Homework Assignment

Download this Ch20 Module 3 Homework (PDF) and work through these problems.

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Do these problems in your homework notebook: Pages 119 to 123; #8, 12, 14, 22, 26, 40, Pages 377 to 381; #6, 20, 28, 50 (need internet - may take a bit of time)

Then, evaluate your progress with the HomeWork Assessment.

For Question 50 of Chapter 9, Type your response in paragraph form (300 to 500 words) and submit it in the assignmnets area marked "MTBE_Paragraph" as a MS Word document or RTF file.

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Performance Assessment

One ChemActivity Assessment

One Homework Assessment

One Chapter Quiz

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