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PAUL GROVES
Paul Groves taught chemistry and AP chemistry at South Pasadena High School in South Pasadena, CA, from 1979 until 2016. He has taught AP since 1983 and has worked for the College Board as a consultant in AP Chemistry for two decades.
Paul’s web site, chemmybear.com, is a popular destination for new and experienced AP Chemistry teachers. Paul has chaired the American Chemical Society’s High School Exam (Advanced), was a member of the SAT Subject exam in chemistry and continues as a member of the National Chemistry Olympiad exam committee.
Paul has been an AP chemistry exam reader, table leader and question leader since 1989. He has presented many one-day and week-long AP teacher workshops around the country.
Paul is the recipient of several local and national teaching awards including the 1995 National Presidential Award for Science Teaching, the 1993 Chemical Manufacturer’s Association Regional Catalyst Award, and the 1987 and 2011 Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year and finalist for the 2011 California Teacher of the Year.
In addition to his love of chemical education, Paul enjoys attending theater, singing, baking, and community service.
Paul can be reached at Pgroves@aol.com
Paul’s web site, chemmybear.com, is a popular destination for new and experienced AP Chemistry teachers. Paul has chaired the American Chemical Society’s High School Exam (Advanced), was a member of the SAT Subject exam in chemistry and continues as a member of the National Chemistry Olympiad exam committee.
Paul has been an AP chemistry exam reader, table leader and question leader since 1989. He has presented many one-day and week-long AP teacher workshops around the country.
Paul is the recipient of several local and national teaching awards including the 1995 National Presidential Award for Science Teaching, the 1993 Chemical Manufacturer’s Association Regional Catalyst Award, and the 1987 and 2011 Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year and finalist for the 2011 California Teacher of the Year.
In addition to his love of chemical education, Paul enjoys attending theater, singing, baking, and community service.
Paul can be reached at Pgroves@aol.com
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Chemistry participants can expect an extensive look at the course outlined in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework. We will look at teaching ideas for each of the Six Big Ideas. In addition, we will prepare for the emphasis on inquiry learning that pervades not only the new curriculum framework, but the laboratory portion of the new course. Participants can expect exposure to resources such as POGIL, the Science Writing Heuristic, and the Learning Cycle. Sample questions representative of the new exam style will be studied as well.
Participants will perform ten laboratory exercises with various levels of inquiry. Several of these will be taken from the AP Chemistry Inquiry Based Laboratory Lab Manual.
Please Note: Closed-toed shoes are required in chemistry labs even on the first day. No exceptions.
CLASS PREPARATION: Please bring a calculator, goggles, and a lab apron or lab coat. You will be provided with web-based access to a variety of preparatory materials for the AP Chemistry course.
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Day 5:
Chemistry participants can expect an extensive look at the course outlined in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework. We will look at teaching ideas for each of the Six Big Ideas. In addition, we will prepare for the emphasis on inquiry learning that pervades not only the new curriculum framework, but the laboratory portion of the new course. Participants can expect exposure to resources such as POGIL, the Science Writing Heuristic, and the Learning Cycle. Sample questions representative of the new exam style will be studied as well.
Participants will perform ten laboratory exercises with various levels of inquiry. Several of these will be taken from the AP Chemistry Inquiry Based Laboratory Lab Manual.
Please Note: Closed-toed shoes are required in chemistry labs even on the first day. No exceptions.
CLASS PREPARATION: Please bring a calculator, goggles, and a lab apron or lab coat. You will be provided with web-based access to a variety of preparatory materials for the AP Chemistry course.
Day 1:
- Welcome
- Introductions & Expectations
- Overview of the AP Chemistry Revisions
- Curriculum Guidelines/Course Description
- New AP Exam Format
- Guided Inquiry Labs
- The AP Audit
- Delving Deeper into the Revisions
- Big Ideas and dealing with “exclusion statements”
- Old Exam Questions/New Exam Questions
- POGIL: The Nuclear Atom
- Types of Labs (The Baggie Lab)
- confirmatory
- structured-inquiry
- guided-inquiry
- open-inquiry
- Tasks in the AP Audit
Day 2:
- Big Idea 1: Structure of Matter
- Aufbau Hotel, Flatman, Sound Tube
- CAP Videos (Atomic Orbitals/Periodic Trends)
- Educreations & my tutorials
- ChemTours Tutorials & PhET Simulations
- PhotoElectron Spectroscopy (PES)
- The New Lab Manual
- Lab #1 – Analysis of Food Dyes in Beverages
- Big Idea 2: Properties of Matter
- Particulate Level (atoms on a stick)
- Bonds and IMF’s
- Conceptual Lesson (roof but not ceiling) (polar)
- Construction Paper, Water, Acetone
- Converting Traditional Labs into Guided-Inquiry
- Lab #2 -- %Cu in Brass
Day 3:
- Big Idea 3: Chemical Reactions
- How to Approach the Topic
- Classifying Reactions
- Memorization
- Double Replacement Reactions
- Oxidation-Reduction Introduction
- Balancing Redox Equations
- Pencil Electrolysis Lab Make & Take
- Big Idea 4: Rates of Chemical Reactions
- Lightsticks: Guided Inquiry Lesson
- KE Diagrams, PE Profiles
- Measuring Rates, Rate Laws, Catalysts (analogies)
- Elephant Toothpaste Demonstration
- [ ] vs time graphs
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Bleach & Food Color Lab
Day 4:
- Big Idea 5: Thermodynamics
- Handboiler Distillation
- Calorimetry
- Hess’s Law
- Two Driving Forces (Entropy & Enthalpy)
- Balloon Thermodynamics
- Chart & Gibbs Free Energy
Day 5:
- Big Idea 6: Equilibrium
- Opening Demonstration (Two Beakers/Straw Lab)
- Closed System, Constant Properties, Start Anywhere
- Le Chatelier’s Principle, Keq
- Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium, Entropy & Enthalpy
- ICE Box
- Alka Seltzer Lab
- Lab # 13 – Applications of Le Chatelier’s Principle