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This teacher's guide and student guide unit contains supplemental readings, activities, and methods adapted for secondary students who have disabilities and other students with diverse learning needs. The materials are designed to help these students succeed in regular education content courses and include simplified text and smaller units of study. The curriculum correlates to Florida's Sunshine State Standards and is divided into the following 21 units of study: (1) scientific method; (2) scientific measurements; (3) matter; (4) changes in matter; (5) introduction to the atom; (6) atomic theory; (7) structure of matter; (8) chemical equations; (9) solutions and suspensions; (10) acids, bases, and salts; (11) chemical reactions; (12) energy, work, force, and power; (13) forms of energy; (14) forces and motions; (15) machines; (16) magnetism; (17) electricity; (18) nuclear energy; (19) heat; (20) waves; and (21) science, society, and the world. The teacher's guide includes a general description of each unit's content focus, provides suggestions for enrichment, and contains an assessment to measure student performance. Appendices describe instructional strategies, list enrichment suggestions, contain suggestions for specific strategies to facilitate inclusion, and contain a chart describing standards and benchmarks. The student guide includes practices and lab activities. (Contains 32 references.) (CR)

This document presents an instructional strategy for teaching chemical bonding using parables and music. Games, student interactions, and worksheets are included in the lesson plans. Topics include metallic bonding, covalent bonding including molecular and network structure, and ionic bonding. (JRH)

This guide is designed to provide adult learners with hands-on activities and demonstrations to develop skills in physical science. The guide consists of four units on the following topics: introduction to chemistry, introduction to atomic structure, chemical formulas and equations, and common chemicals. Each unit contains some or all of the following: behavioral objectives, list of supplies needed for the unit, definitions of vocabulary, concepts covered in the unit, background information needed for the activities, activity sheets, and answer keys. Each activity sheet includes a list of materials needed for the activity, a detailed procedure, question(s) pertaining to the activity, and explanation/discussion of the reaction occurring during the activity. The activities presented in the curriculum may be incorporated into any science program with only slight modifications, and most activities require only common items that are readily available in kitchens and/or grocery stores. Concluding the guide are a pretest/posttest and answer key, and report describing the curriculum development project. Contains 15 references. (MN)

Presented in English and French, Chemistry 20-30 is an academic program that helps students in Alberta, Canada, better understand and apply fundamental concepts and skills. The major goals of the program are: (1) to develop in students an understanding of the interconnecting ideas and principles that transcend and unify the natural science disciplines; (2) to provide students with an enhanced understanding of the scientific world view, inquiry, and enterprise; (3) to help students attain the level of scientific awareness essential for all citizens in a scientifically literate society; (4) to help students make informed decisions about further studies and careers in science; and (5) to provide students with opportunities for acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes that contribute to personal development. This booklet includes information on general and specific learner expectations and units on: matter as solutions, acids, bases and gases; quantitative relationships in chemical changes; chemical bonding in matter; thermochemical changes; electrochemical changes; and equilibrium, acids, and bases in chemical changes. Each unit outlines the major concepts and the understanding, skills, and interrelationships among science, technology, and society that students should be able to demonstrate. (JRH)

This combined student workbook and instructor's guide contains nine units for inplant classes on basic chemistry for employees in the cement industry. The nine units cover the following topics: chemical basics; measurement; history of cement; atoms; bonding and chemical formulas; solids, liquids, and gases; chemistry of Portland cement manufacture; control, analysis, and testing; and organic chemistry and fuels. Unit objectives, tests, and answer keys are included in the book. (KC)

Describes the effectiveness of cooperative learning on discipline problems, interdependence between students, and teacher-student interactions. Explains how to group students and introduces a laboratory activity on covalent and ionic bonds. (YDS)

Recommends using a simple image, such as the fuzzy atom ball to help students develop a useful understanding of the molecular world. Explains that the image helps students easily grasp ideas about atoms and molecules and leads naturally to more advanced ideas of atomic structure, chemical bonding, and quantum physics. (Author/NB)

Reports in detail on a year-long case study of multiple-model use at grade 11. Suggests that students who socially negotiated the shared and unshared attributes of common analogical models for atoms, molecules, and chemical bonds used these models more consistently in their explanations. (Author/CCM)

This booklet is one of a set of eight designed to be used in a self-paced introductory chemistry course in conjunction with specified textbooks and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) modules. Each topic is introduced with a textbook reading assignment and additional readings are provided in the booklet. Also included are self-tests (and answers), CAI module assignments, and suggested breakpoints for student-teacher consultations. Each booklet contains specific cognitive objectives to be met by completion. This booklet covers four major bonding topics: chemical formulas, nomenclature, oxidation numbers, and types of bonding. (MH)

This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching chemistry for the life sciences. Covered in the first section of the volume are the role of chemistry in rural health promotional training, general objectives and recommendations for the instructor, laboratory recommendations, and references and suggested course tests. A series of unit overviews dealing with the following topics are presented: matter and measurement; the composition of matter; chemical bonding; compounds and chemical change; gases and respiration; water; solutions; acids, bases, and salts; nuclear chemistry and radiation; organic chemistry; hydrocarbons; oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons; fats; carbohydrates; and proteins. Also included are a series of laboratory experiments dealing with dentistry and metric measure, chemical reactions and factors that affect their rate, the Charles Law, hydrates, principles of acid and base neutralization, radioactivity, reactions of alcohol, aspirin and oil of wintergreen, determination of Vitamin C, and powdered milk versus whole milk. A discussion of methods and materials for use in student evaluation and a description of other materials in the Family Home Health Training Program series conclude the guide. (MN)

This exercise is designed to correct the impression of many students that scientific facts are unchanging. Every scientific fact has a history and its history shapes the form which the fact takes in a textbook. Thus, the history of the octet rule is traced to show that scientific knowledge is not a cast iron set of facts but rather a fluid body of information shaped by the people who use it for specific purposes. The exercise consists of a reading and a set of discussion questions. The questions can be answered by students or could form the basis for a class discussion about the issues raised. It is suggested that the exercise be used after the lesson on the octet rule and Lewis dot structures. (JN)

This book contains 112 classroom demonstrations intended to be used with any introductory chemistry program. These demonstrations were selected in an effort to provide simple, safe, effective and enjoyable experiences for the class. In addition, they are intended to be used to introduce many of the major concepts in chemistry. The demonstrations involve color changes, gas evolution, precipitate formation, smoke, fire, and other obvious or dramatic chemical changes. The guide is organized into 11 major sections including: (1) introducing chemistry; (2) physical changes; (3) reactions involving gases; (4) reactions of some elements; (5) transition metals and complex ions; (6) chemical bonding; (7) energy changes; (8) solutions and solubility; (9) kinetics and equilibrium; (10) acids and bases; and (11) oxidation and reduction reactions. Appendices include an equipment and reagent list and detailed safety and disposal instructions. (TW)

The causes for many of the colors exhibited by minerals are presented to students. Several theories of modern physics are introduced. The nature of light, the manner in which light interacts with matter, atomic theory, and crystal structure are all discussed in relation to the origin of color in minerals. Included are color pictures of many minerals. (Author/RE)

Shows how ionization energies provide a convenient method for obtaining electronegativity values that is simpler than the conventional methods. Demonstrates how approximate atomic charges can be calculated for polar molecules and how this method of determining electronegativities may lead to deeper insights than are typically possible for the previous formulations. (JRH)

Presents an alternative approach to teaching reaction thermodynamics in introductory chemistry courses using calculations of enthalpies, entropies, and free energies of atomization. Uses a consistent concept, that of decomposition of a compound to its gaseous atoms, to discuss not only thermodynamic parameters but also equilibrium and stoichiometry. Promotes a fuller understanding of the relationship between structure and reaction properties. (JRH)

Presents an alternative approach to bonding and geometry--the electron domain model--which avoids some of the problems with the conventional approach. Discusses difficulties with the orbital model at the introductory level, electron spin and the Pauli exclusion principle, electron pair domains, nonequivalent domains, multiple bonds, and origins and justification of the electron domain model. Contains 14 references. (JRH)

Presents a role-playing activity that enables elementary students to learn how atoms and molecules behave. (JRH)

ChemSource is designed as a strategy to help preservice and inservice high school chemistry teachers promote student learning more effectively. Its major premise is that well-designed laboratory investigations are an important avenue for cultivating student interest, engagement, and meaningful learning in chemistry. The SourceBook component of ChemSource is a resource containing 36 content modules and additional supporting materials which aim at providing specific teaching tips and the best available instructional ideas and information gleaned from experienced, successful chemistry teachers. Each content module features: Content-in-a-Nutshell; Laboratory Activities; Demonstrations; Common Misconceptions; Humor; Applications and Implications; Analogies; Reference Resources; History; and Media. General materials on pedagogy, classroom management, safety, teaching chemistry to the disabled, and other useful resources and tabulations precede and follow the content modules. Volume 1 includes the following: Chemical Pedagogy; User's Guide; General Resources; Acids and Bases; Alkali Metals; Atomic Structure; Biogeochemical Cycles; Chemical Bonding; Condensed States; Electrochemistry; and Enzymes. (JRH)