ANNUAL LESSON PLAN

CHEMISTRY
FORM 4 2011

EXPERIMENT
WEEK/ LEARNING AREA LEARNING OBJECTIVES
(MINIMUM REQUIREMENT)
DATE
1 1.0 1.1 UNDERSTANDING CHEMISTRY AND ITS
03/01/11- 07/01/11 INTRODUCTION IMPORTANCE
TO CHEMISTRY
1.2 SYNTHESISING SCIENTIFIC METHODS

1.3 INCORPORATE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES

AND VALUES IN CONDUCTING SCIENTIFIC

2 2.0 THE 2.1 ANALYSING MATTER 1. Conduct an activity to

11/01/11-14/01/11 STRUCTURE OF investigate diffusion of
THE ATOM particles in solid, liquid and gas
2. Conduct an activity to
determine the melting and
freezing points of acetamide or
naphthalene
3 2.2 SYNTHESISING ATOMIC
17/01/11-21/01/11 STRUCTURE

4 2.3 UNDERSTANDING ISOTOPE AND

24/01/11-28/01/11 ASSESSING THEIR IMPORTANCE
2.4 UNDERSTANDING THE ELECTRONIC
STRUCTURE OF AN ATOM

APPRECIATE THE ORDERLINESS AND

UNIQUENESS OF THE ATOMIC
STRUCTURE

5 3.1 UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE

31/01/11-04/02/11 CONCEPTS OF RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS
ANG RELATVE MOLECULAR MASS

6 3.0 3.2 ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

07/02/11-11/02/11 CHEMICAL THE NUMBER OF MOLES WITH THE
FORMULAE AND NUMBER OF PARTICLES
EQUATIONS
3.3 ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE NUMBER OF MOLES OF A
SUBSTANCE WITH ITS MASS

7 3.4 ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP Conduct an activity to

14/02/11-18/02/11 BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF MOLES OF A determine the empirical formula of
GAS WITH ITS VOLUME copper(II) oxide and magnesium
oxide
3.5 SYNTHESISING CHEMICAL FORMULAE

8 3.6 INTERPRETING CHEMICAL EQUATIONS

21/02/11-25/02/11
3.7 PRACTISING SCIENTIFIC ATITUDES AND
VALUES IN INVESTIGATING MATTER

9
28/02/11- 04/03/11 ASSESSMENT 1

4.0 PERIODIC 4.1 ANALYSING THE PERIODIC TABLE OF

10 TABLE OF ELEMENT
07/03/11-11/03/11 ELEMENTS 4.2 ANALYSING GROUP 18 ELEMENTS
 11 MID TERM 1 HOLIDAY
14/03/11-18/03/11

4.3 ANALYSING GROUP 1 ELEMENTS Carry out an experiment to

12 investigate the reactions of
21/03/11- 25/03/11 lithium, sodium and potassium
with water and oxygen.
13 4.0 PERIODIC 4.4 ANALYSING GROUP 17 ELEMENTS
28/03/11-01/04/11 TABLE OF
ELEMENTS
14 4.5 ANALYSING ELEMENTS IN A PERIOD
04/04/11-08/04/11

15 4.6 UNDERSTANDING TRANSITION ELEMENTS

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4.7 APPRECIATING THE EXISTENCE OF
ELEMENT AND THEIR COMPOUNDS

16 5.1 UNDERSTANDING FORMATION OF

18/04/11-22/04/11 COMPOUNDS

17 5.0 CHEMICAL 5.2 SYNTHESIZING IDEAS ON FORMATION OF

25/04/11-29/04/11 BONDS IONIC BOND
5.3 SYNTHESIZING IDEAS ON FORMATION OF
COVALENT BOND

18 5.4 ANALYSING PROPERTIES OF IONIC AND Carry out an experiment to

02/05/11-06/05/11 COVALENT COMPOUNDS. compare the properties of ionic
and covalent bond
19 MID YEAR EXAMINATION
09/05/11-13/05/11

20 MID YEAR EXAMINATION

16/05/11- 20/05/11

21 MID YEAR EXAMINATION

23/05/11-27/05/11
22 6.1 UNDERSTANDING PROPERTIES OF
30/05/11-03/06/11 ELECTROLYTES AND NON-
6.0 ELECTRO- ELECTROLYTES
CHEMISTRY
6.2 ANALYSING ELECTROLYSIS OF MOLTEN Conduct an activity to investigate
23 COMPOUNDS the electrolysis of molten lead(II)
06/06/11-10/06/11 bromide, PbBr2 to indentify cation
and anion, describe the
electrolysis process and write
half-equations for the discharge of
ions at anode and cathode.
6.3 ANALYSIS THE ELECTROLISIS OF
AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS Conduct experiments to
investigate factors determining
24 Conduct and activity to investigate the selective discharge of ions at
13/06/11-17/06/11 electrolysis of copper(II) sulphate solution electrodes based on position of
and dilute sulphuric acid using carbon ions in the ECS, concentration of
25 electrodes to identify cations and anions ions in the solution and type of
20/06/11-24/06/11 in the aqueous solutions, describe the electrodes
electrolysis of the aqueous solution and
write half-equations for the discharge of
ions at the anode and the cathode

26 6.4 EVALUATING ELECTROLYSIS IN Conduct experiments to study the

27/06/11-01/07/11 INDUSTRY purification and electroplating of
6.0 ELECTRO- metals
CHEMISTRY
 27 6.5 ANALYSING VOLTAIC CELL Conduct an experiment to show
04/07/11-08/07/11 the production of electricity from
chemical reactions in a simple
voltaic cell

6.6 SYNTHESISING ELECTROCHEMICAL Carry out an experiment to

28 SERIES construct the electrochemical
11/07/11-15/07/11 series.
6.7 DEVELOP AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBLE
PRACTICES WHEN HANDLING CHEMICALS
USED IN ELECTROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES.

29 ASSESSMENT 2
18/07/11-22/07/11

7.1 ANALYSING CHARACTERISTICS AND Carry out an experiment to show

30 PROPERTIES OF ACID AND BASES that the presence of water is
25/07/11-29/07/11 7.0 ACIDS AND essential for the formation of
BASES hydrogen ions that cause acidity

31 Carry out an experiment to show

01/08/11-05/08/11 that the presence of water is
essential for the formation of
hydroxide ions that cause
alkalinity
32 7.2 SYNTHESISING THE CONCEPTS OF
08/08/11-12/08/11 7.0 STRONG ACIDS, WEAK ACIDS, STRONG
ACIDS AND ALKALIS AND WEAK ALKALIS.
BASES
33 7.3 ANALYSING CONCENTRATION OF ACID Carry out experiment to
15/08/11-19/08/11 AND ALKALIS investigate the relationship
between pH value with molarity of
acid and alkali

34 7.4 ANALYSING NEUTRALISATION Carry out acid-base titrations and

22/08/11-06/08/11 determine the end point using
indicators.
35 8.1 SYNTHESISING SALTS Carry out experiment to construct
29/08/11-02/09/11 the ionic equation for the
formation lead(II) chromate(VI)
36 8.0 8.2 SYNTHESISING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
05/09/11-09/09/11 SALTS OF SALTS

8.3 PRACTISING TO BE SYSTEMATIC AND

METICULOUS WHEN CARRYING OUT
ACTIVITIES

9.1 UNDERSATANDING THE MANUFACTURE Carry out experiment to compare

37 OF SULPHURIC ACID hardness of pure metal and its
12/09/11-16/09/11 9.0 alloy
MANUFACTURED 9.2 SYNTHESISING THE MANUFACTURE OF
SUBSTANCES IN AMMONIA AND ITS SALTS Carry out the rate of rusting
INDUSTRY between iron, steel and stainless
9.3 UNDERSTANDING ALLOYS steel

38 9.0 9.4 EVALUATING USES OF SYNTHETIC

19/09/11-23/09/11 MANUFACTURED POLYMERS
SUBSTANCES IN
INDUSTRY 9.5 APPLYING USES OF GLASS AND
CERAMICS
 39 9.6 APPLYING USES OF COMPOSITE
26/09/11-30/09/11 MATERIAL

9.7 APPRECIATING VARIOUS SYNTHETIC

INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS

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03/10/11-07/10/11 REVISION

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10/10/11-14/10/11 REVISION

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17/10/11-21/10/11 END OF YEAR EXAMINATION

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24/10/11-28/10/11 END OF YEAR EXAMINATION

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31/10/11-04/11/11 END OF YEAR EXAMINATION

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07/11/11-11/11/11 DISCUSSION

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14/11/11-18/11/11 DISCUSSION