Siegfried Howell

A Whole year of Chemistry Sentence Starters Siegfried Howell

This book, "A Whole Year of Chemistry Sentence Starters," was written to provide easy to use and grade sentence starters to assess the comprehension of honors students, Advance Placement students (AP), and International Baccalaureate (IB) students. The sentence starters in this book guide the teacher and the student through what is required in a non-watered-down chemistry course that leads students towards test and college readiness. The outline of this book has 25 chapters, with each chapter having two pages of sentence starters. In total, the book contains 250 sentence starters, and include topics that are covered in the honors chemistry setting as well as special topics like thermodynamics, kinetics, rates of reactions that are seen in the Advanced Placement classes. Included within this book are quizzes for the International Baccalaureate teacher that wishes to test students on environmental chemistry as well as biological and food chemistry. This is a book that was written to fill the void of valuable resources needed for novice and experienced teachers in institutions that continually push for more summative assessments, higher DOKs, and rapid feedback while limiting preparation time. As a teacher for over 25 years, I know that any well outlined, structured, and comprehensive resource saves time in additional planning, searching, and preparing. Use this book to help you identify and test students on topics that are important to their comprehension and success with their final test, while providing a valuable resource for chemistry teachers. Chapter 1. Matter and changeChapter 2. measurement and calculations Chapter 3. Atoms: The building blocks of matterChapter 4. Arrangement of electrons in atomsChapter 5. The periodic lawChapter 6. Chemical bondingChapter 7. Chemical formulas and chemical compoundsChapter 8. Chemical equations and reactionsChapter 9. StoichiometryChapter 10. Physical characteristics of gasesChapter 11. Molecular composition of gasesChapter 12. Liquids and solidsChapter 13. SolutionsChapter 14. Ions in aqueous solution and colligative propertiesChapter 15. Acids and basesChapter 16. Acid-base titrationsChapter 17. Reaction energy and reaction kineticsChapter 18. Chemical equilibriumChapter 19. Oxidation-reduction reactionsChapter 20. Chemical thermodynamicsChapter 21. Carbon and hydrocarbonsChapter 22. Other organic compoundsChapter 23. Nuclear chemistryChapter 24. Biological and Food chemistryChapter 25. Environmental chemistry