As the year starts to wind down, I start thinking about how the year has gone. I was wondering what the order of topics is that others follow in their teaching? I have tried a variety of ways over the years of my teaching to introduce topics into my AP Chemistry curriculum and am curious how others approach this.
Unit 0 - Skills and Processes - for examples, sig figs, measuring, lab skills, units, molarity, dilutions, solutions, spec 20, naming, etc.
Unit 1 - Fundamental Building Blocks - for example - properties of matter, mixtures, mole, stoic, density, separation techniques, some reactions, etc.
I am combining 0 and 1 on a test.
However, I might be changing things around. I know I already added a little bit of reactions into my Unit 0 because of a lab.
I used a new sequence this year that I really like! I'll avoid going in to LO-specific detail for now, please ask if you want more detail or further reflections. I do plan to tweak a bit over the summer.
Here is the general sequence.