Prerequisites: Biology

Chemistry I will fulfill Academic Honors Diploma requirements. This course will be less rigorous than Chemistry: Honors. This course will provide a background for success in college chemistry, though will not strive for as much depth of study as Chemistry: Honors by meeting the following objectives: 1) students will develop a lesser sense of memorization, to be replaced by independent formation of concepts, scientific reasoning, and common sense; 2) students will develop competency in solving word problems by the factor-label method; 3) values achieved from the course will be of a practical nature, of an aesthetic nature, and of a preparatory nature for the study of any discipline. Subject matter will include the metric system, atomic theory, chemical nomenclature, writing formulas, balancing chemical equations, periodic trends of the elements, chemical bonding, and gas laws. Students should expect to move through the textbook rapidly, making this more of a chemistry survey course.