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William B. "Bill" Bond--AP Chemistry Presenter
For over 32 years, Bill was a teacher at Snohomish High School in Washington State where he taught Advanced Placement Chemistry and served as Science Department Chair. Bill received both his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Science and Science Education from the University of Washington. He has written questions for the AP Chemistry exam as a member of the Test Development Committee, been a Table Leader and Reader (grader) of the AP Chemistry Exam and was the principal author of “A Teacher’s Guide to Advanced Placement Chemistry”—published by the College Board. Bill has won the Siemens Advanced Placement Award, was a Dreyfus Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and has had his Chemistry research published in “Analytical Chemistry”. He has been a member of the Academic Council for the Western Region of the College Board and has served on the Development Committee for Advanced Placement Science Vertical Teams. Bill was selected as a National Leader in AP Chemistry for the College Board--responsible for the training and evaluation of new AP Chemistry presenters. In addition, he presents AP Chemistry at numerous Workshops and Institutes—both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Bill has been trained in the new AP Chemistry “Redesign” (2013) and “Reorganized” (2019) Curriculum and has written the chapter introductions for the new Chang AP Chemistry text. Currently, he is on the faculty of Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington where he teaches General Chemistry to math and science majors.
can be reached at bond_william@msn.com
can be reached at bond_william@msn.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:
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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