Course Description
This course enables students to deepen their understanding of chemistry through the study of the properties of chemicals and chemical bonds; chemical reactions and quantitative relationships in those reactions; solutions and solubility; and atmospheric chemistry and the behaviour of gases. Students will further develop their analytical skills and investigate the qualitative and quantitative properties of matter, as well as the impact of some common chemical reactions on society and the environment.
Course Code: SCH3U
Course Name: Chemistry Grade 11, University Preparation
Department: Science
Hours: 110
Credit Value: 1.0
Pre-requisites: Science, Grade 10, Academic
Curriculum Policy Documents:
The Ontario Curriculum, Science: Grades 11 and 12. 2008. Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario School. 2010.
Developed By: Kelda Cloutier
Teacher: Tyler Wiebe
Overall Curriculum Expectations
- Demonstrate scientific investigation skills (related to both inquiry and research) in the four areas of skills (initiating and planning, performing and recording, analyzing and interpreting, and communicating);
- Identify and describe careers related to the fields of science understudy, and describe the contributions of scientists, including Canadians, to those fields.
- Analyze technological devices that apply the principles of the dynamics of motion, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact
- Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, forces involved in uniform circular motion and motion in a plane, and solve related problems;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the forces involved in uniform circular motion and motion in a plane.
- Analyze, and propose ways to improve, technologies or procedures that apply principles related to energy and momentum, and assess the social and environmental impact of these technologies or procedures
- Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, the relationship between the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, and solve related problems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of work, energy, momentum, and the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, in one and two dimensions.
- Analyze the operation of technologies that use gravitational, electric, or magnetic fields, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact;.
- Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields, and solve related problems
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts, properties, principles, and laws related to gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields and their interactions with matter
- Analyze technologies that use the wave nature of light, and assess their impact on society and the environment
- Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, the properties of waves and light, and solve related problems
- Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of waves and light in relation to diffraction, refraction, interference, and polarization
- Analyze, with reference to quantum mechanics and relativity, how the introduction of new conceptual models and theories can influence and/or change scientific thought and lead to the development of new technologies
- Investigate special relativity and quantum mechanics, and solve related problems demonstrate an understanding of the evidence that supports the basic concepts of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of special relativity
Course Content
Unit | Unit Title | Approx. Duration (hrs.) |
1 | Matter, Chemical Trends, and Chemical Bonding | 25 |
2 | Chemical Reactions | 25 |
3 | Quantities in Chemical Reactions | 25 |
4 | Light and Relativity | 25 |
Laboratory Experiment | Formal Lab Report | 7 |
Final Examination | 3 | |
TOTAL | 110 |
Achievement Chart
The following table provides a summary description of achievement in each percentage grade range and corresponding level of achievement:
Percentage / Grade Range | Achievement Level | Summary Description |
80-100% | Level 4 | A very high to outstanding level of achievement. Achievement is above the provincial standard. |
70-79% | Level 3 | A high level of achievement. Achievement is at the provincial standard. |
60-69% | Level 2 | A moderate level of achievement. Achievement is below, but approaching the provincial standard. |
50-59% | Level 1 | A passable level of achievement. Achievement is below the provincial standard. |
Below 50% | Insufficient achievement of curriculum expectations. A credit will not be granted. |
Evaluation Breakdown
Evaluation Type | Percentage of Final Grade |
Test 1 | 15% |
Test 2 | 15% |
Test 3 | 15% |
Test 4 | 15% |
Laboratory Investigation and Formal Lab Report | 10% |
Final Exam | 30% |
Program Planning Considerations
This course will include a variety of instructional strategies to help students become independent, strategic and successful learners. The key to student success is effective, accessible instruction in order to empower students to become lifelong learners. Students will be required to identify the main concepts and skills of the course, consider the context in which they will apply their learning and work toward meeting the stated learning goals.
During this course, the teacher will provide multiple opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and skills and consolidate and reflect upon their learning. It is the student's responsibility to make the most of each learning opportunity provided and grow in their understanding and application of learning skills and strategies that will ensure success in this course and in life beyond.
- Modelling of expectations
- Reference to and use of online ESL and subject-specific and dictionaries
- Concrete examples and materials whenever possible
- Use of a variety of learning resources including visual material and cues, , graphic organizers and visual
- Materials that reflect cultural diversity
- Pre-writing strategies
- Previewing course readings / texts
- Community Connections
- Environmental Perspective
- Simulation
- Problem Solving
- Surveys
- Co-operative Learning
- Inquiry-based learning
- Cross-curricular connections
- think critically about themselves and others in the world around them in order to promote fairness, healthy relationships, and active responsible citizenship.
- work to high standards, as it affirms the worth of all students, and helps students strengthen their sense of identity and develop a positive self-image.
- value and show respect for diversity.
- Developing a learning environment where all students feel safe
- Promotion of diversity and inclusivity in the classroom
- Getting students involved within their school community
- Making community connections
- Peer tutoring
- Role playing
- Group discussion
- Case Study analysis
- Making community connections
- Peer tutoring
- Role playing
- Group discussions
- Case study analysis
- Simulation
- Problem solving
- Cross-curricular connections
- Media connections
- Surveys and interviews
- Model ethical behavior
- Explore ethical standards
- Explore ethical concerns
- Inclusive practices
- Foster positive relationships with others
- Assist students in developing an understanding of ethical judgments
- Assist students in understanding confidentiality standards
There is a growing recognition that the education system has a vital role to play in preparing young people to take their place as informed, engaged, and knowledgeable citizens in the global economy. Financial literacy education can provide the preparation Ontario students need to make informed decisions and choices in a complex and fast-changing financial world.
Because making informed decisions about economic and financial matters has become an increasingly complex undertaking in the modern world, where appropriate, the teacher will give students the opportunity to build knowledge and skills through a variety of activities in problem solving, inquiry, decision making, critical thinking, and critical literacy related to financial issues. Students will come to understand the social, environmental, and ethical implications of their own choices as consumers.
Strategies that will be used will include:
- Community connections
- Simulation
- Problem Solving
- Inquiry-based learning
- Cross-curricular connections
- Issue-based analysis
- Critical literacy skills
- Setting financial goals
- Developing intra-personal skills
- Reading, interpreting, and analysing various texts, including diaries, letters, government legislation and policy documents, interviews, speeches, information from non-governmental organizations, news stories, and fiction and non-fiction books
- Extracting information
- Analysing various types of maps and digital representations, including charts, diagrams, pictures, etc.
- Using appropriate and correct terminology, including that related to the concepts of disciplinary thinking
- Making community connections
- Peer tutoring
- Role playing
- Group discussions
- Case study analysis
- Simulation
- Problem solving
- Cross-curricular connections
- Media connections
- Kinesthetic opportunities
- Foster use of proper terminology
- Inquiry and research skills
- Help students to develop a language for literacy, inquiry and numeracy skills
- Assist students with developing communication skills in areas of literacy, inquiry and numeracy
- Experiential Learning: Library visits, Guest Speaker, Role Playing, mock trials, writing anthology, author visits, writers reading, theatre workshops