63 Learning Outcomes

After doing HOLY MOL-EE! students will be able to:

Learning

1. Name Howard Gardner’s seven intelligences and know how it applies to you.
2. Discover your own particular “best” ways to learn, which will help you in all your classes.
3. Understand that your ability to learn is a marketable skill.
4. List five principles of effective learning.
5. Explore your own motivation to learn.
6. Give some reasons why learning chemistry is important.
7. State the etymology of important words in chemistry.

General Science Knowledge

8. Recite the definition of science.
9. Classify observations as qualitative or quantitative.
10. Explain why measurement is important in science.
11. Distinguish between comparison measurement and counting.
12. Explain the differences and relationships between one-, two-, and three-dimensional units.
13. Name and tell something about the seven base units in the International System of Units.
14. Show the size of the unit “liter” and “milliliter” with your hands and convert mathematically back and forth.
15. Find the number of significant figures in any numeral and explain why taking significant figures into account is important.

Ratios

16. Explain the different parts of a ratio.
17. Calculate density for different objects and substances.
18. Predict which object is denser, given certain conditions.
19. List the four factors which contribute to density.
20. State the density of water.

Scientific Method

21. Explain the scientific method.
22. Explain the definition of a variable using examples.
23. Explain the difference between an independent and dependent variable.
24. Explain how variables are held constant or manipulated in experiments.
25. Recognize the graphs of direct and inverse variation.

Atoms, Elements and Isotopes

26. State the nature of an atom and how its particles are organized.
27. Recite and explain the complete dictionary definition of an atom.
28. Explain how an element is defined.
29. Distinguish atoms of different elements from isotopes.
30. Explain why in chemistry electrons are the only particles which move from atom to atom.
31. Find the net electric charge on any atom, ion or molecule.

Mole and Molar Mass

32. Give examples to demonstrate knowledge of the size of a mole and the size of an atom.
33. Explain the need for scientific notation and use it correctly.
34. Do calculations involving the mole.
35. State the relationship between atomic mass and molar mass.

36. Use the periodic table to find the average atomic mass and molar mass for any substance given its molecular formula.

Periodic Table

37. Describe and explain the electronic characteristics of metals and nonmetals.
38. Describe the three main types of bonding and their electronic characteristics.
39. State the names of the element families.
40. Predict the oxidation states for element families from the periodic table
41. Predict and write correct salt formulas.
42. Predict the number of bonds each family of nonmetals will make.
43. Explain the importance of the noble gases in chemistry.
44. Recite the names of the semi-metals.
45. State and explain the periodic trends in atomic size, electronegativity and ionization energy.

Gas Laws

46. State the gas laws and explain their variables.
47. Manipulate and solve for variables in the gas law equations.
48. Name the three state variables of a gas and tell how they affect each other.
49. Recall the values related to STP.

Unit Conversion

50. Explain how unit conversion problems are solved and solve multiple factor unit conversion problems.

Balancing Chemical Equations

51. State which number goes where around a chemical symbol.
52. Distinguish subscripts from coefficients in balancing chemical equations.
53. Balance any simple chemical equation (non-redox).

Spectra, Orbitals and Electron Configuration

54. Tell the origin of the lines in atomic emission spectra and state the relationship between energy and frequency.
55. Name the first 4 orbitals, draw their shapes and explain the origin of their names.
56. Explain how electrons fill “d” orbitals and predict electron configurations when the ‘d” orbitals are partially filled.
57. Recall and recite the entire electron configuration for all the known elements in 30 seconds.
58. Recite the pattern of orbital overlap through level five.

Acid and Bases

59. State the physical characteristics of acids and bases.
60. Demonstrate how pH works mathematically and in the physical world.
61. Explain the relationship between Kw and pH.
62. Use Kw and pH in solving simple concentration problems.
63. State and demonstrate the Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis definitions of acids and bases.