This is a two semester course, but students are welcome to add at any time.

Light lectures will be done at the beginning of every lab to provide students with the information needed to perform the lab with understanding. At times, the students will also be required to complete some additional work at home to prepare for upcoming labs. 

Students will be expected to complete the labs and will be assigned grades for their work and participation. 

It is important to understand that this course only fulfills the lab portion of a chemistry curriculum. The students should be doing their own chemistry curriculum at home in addition to this lab class.

This lab course can be used with any chemistry textbook and we have charts available showing correlation of experiments to many common textbooks. 

Algebra 1 is a prerequisite. Students will be doing algebraic equations and graphing.

Check with your school to ensure this lab course will comply with a-g requirements.

Students will use the MicroChem Manual, which is included with the tuition.

Fall Semester

Safety, Equipment, and Scientific Method
Collecting Data
Paper Chromatography
Density
Build an Atom
Ionic vs Covalent Bonds
Electrical Conductivity/Redox
Decomposition
Single Replacement Reaction
Double Replacement Reaction
Boyle’s Law
Charles’s Law

Spring Semester

Mole Ratios
Melting Points
Freezing Point Depression
Le Chatelier’s Principle
Reaction Rates, Concentration
Reaction Rates, Temperature and surface area
Solubility Product Constant
pH and pH Indicators
Buffers
Organic