Description
This Grade 11 university preparation chemistry course deepens students’ understanding of matter and chemical behaviour. Students investigate chemical bonding, reactions, stoichiometry, solutions and gases, and analyze the health, environmental and societal impacts of chemical substances and processes.
What You’ll Learn
- Analyze matter, periodic trends, chemical properties and chemical bonding.
- Identify, represent and investigate different types of chemical reactions.
- Use the mole concept and quantitative relationships to solve chemical-reaction problems.
- Investigate qualitative and quantitative properties of solutions and solubility.
- Apply gas laws to explain and solve problems involving gas behaviour.
- Analyze the health, environmental and societal impacts of chemical substances, reactions, water pollution and air quality.
Skills You’ll Develop
- Chemical problem solving and quantitative analysis
- Scientific investigation and laboratory reasoning
- Chemical equations and representation
- Data analysis and scientific communication
- Evaluation of environmental and societal impacts
Learning Outcomes
- Apply scientific investigation skills and identify chemistry-related careers and contributions.
- Explain periodic trends, properties of elements and compounds, and chemical bonding.
- Investigate and explain different types of chemical reactions and their applications.
- Use the mole concept and quantitative relationships to analyze chemical reactions.
- Investigate and solve problems involving solutions and solubility.
- Apply gas laws to explain gas behaviour and solve related problems.
- Analyze impacts of chemical substances, reactions, water quality and atmospheric chemistry on society and the environment.
