AP® Chemistry Experienced
July 23 - 26, 2012
James Madison High School, San Antonio, TX

This course is designed for experienced AP Chemistry teachers and will focus on refining your course to better coincide with the AP Chemistry Course Outline with the goal of improving student performance on the AP Chemistry Exam. The week will incorporate current technologies regarding laboratories and classroom instruction. An emphasis will be placed on appropriate pacing and assessment techniques. At least three or four afternoon laboratory sessions will be incorporated into the program.

What to Bring: Please bring the following items when you come:

• A copy of your favorite classroom demonstration
• Graphing Calculator
• Any data collection devices that you use in your classroom (old CBLs, CBL 2, LabPro, LabQuest, Spark, etc.)
• Any data collection interfaces you use or think may be "broken" or need their operating system updated
• Goggles
• Closed-toe shoes for the laboratory
  

Presenter -

• Rene' McCormick, National Math & Science Initiative, Dallas,TX

AP® Chemistry
July 23 - 26, 2012
James Madison High School, San Antonio, TX

In this course designed for teachers beginning a career as an AP Chemistry teacher, participants will explore the nature of the AP program and look at how to structure an AP Chemistry course. Lab experiments will be discussed, and participants will do a number of labs appropriate for AP Chemistry. The course will make considerable use of the graphing calculator and the calculator-based laboratory as a data-collection device. Typical AP problems and essays will be discussed and strategies for enabling students to perform will on the AP exam will be shared.

Topics to be covered will include:

• Atomic Structure
• Periodicity
• Bonding
• States of matter
• Complex ions
• Kinetics
• Equilibrium
• Instrumentation
• Thermodynamics
• Electrochemistry

Afternoon sessions will be spent in the lab using traditional lab techniques as well as CBLs. Participants will practice AP problems as well as selected scoring of student papers as the AP readers score them.

Participants should bring their textbook and a graphing calculator. Attire for laboratory work will include long pants and closed-toe shoes. You should bring your own goggles and lab coat. Additionally, participants should bring their favorite lesson or activity to share.

Presenter -

• Denise DeMartino, Westlake High School, Austin,TX
  

Pre-AP™ Chemistry (HS)
July 23 - 26, 2012
James Madison High School, San Antonio, TX

The objective of this workshop is to introduce Pre-AP Chemistry teachers to the level of rigor required to prepare students for AP Chemistry. The instructors will use a wide variety of instructional techniques that model what an exciting rigorous course should provide. A significant amount of the day will be spent in lab performing, designing experiments and learning how to use demonstration as an effective instruction strategy. Discussion will include methods of assessment which focus on including and adapting AP level questions in the Pre-AP Chemistry class.

Topics will include:

• Intro to Chemistry
• Nomenclature
• Moles
• Atomic Structure
• Periodic Table
• Bonding
• Reactions
• Stoichiometry
• Net Ionic Equations
• Gas Laws
• Solutions
• Acids and Bases
• Nuclear / Organic
  

Participants should bring their textbook and a graphing calculator. Attire for laboratory work will include long pants and closed-toe shoes. You should bring your own goggles and lab coat. Additionally, participants are encouraged to bring their favorite lesson or activity to share.

Presenter-

• Cheri Blackwood, Edmond Santa Fe High School, Edmond, OK
• Thomas Dortch, Edmond Memorial High School, Edmond, OK

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