Chemistry, Grade 11, University Preparation
Ontario · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Investigation Skills and Careers
Careers related to the fields of science under study and the education and training they require, and scientists — including Canadians — who have contributed to those fields. The scientific investigation skills of strand A1 are woven through every lab and inquiry in the content strands rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in chemistry
- Scientists who contributed to chemistry
Unit 2: Matter, Chemical Trends, and Chemical Bonding
The periodic table and chemical bonding — periodic trends, ionic and covalent bonds, Lewis structures, molecular models, and IUPAC naming — investigated through inquiry, plus analysing a harmful chemical substance and evaluating the risks and benefits of common substances.
- Analysing a harmful chemical substance
- Reducing a substance's harmfulness
- Risks and benefits of common substances
- Trends and bonding terminology
- Analysing periodic trends
- Building an activity series
- Drawing Lewis structures
- Predicting bond type
- Building molecular models
- Naming compounds with IUPAC
- Atomic number, mass number, and isotopes
- Isotopic abundance and atomic mass
- Periodic law and trends
- Ionic versus covalent bond formation
- Properties of ionic and molecular compounds
Unit 3: Chemical Reactions
The types of chemical reactions — synthesis, decomposition, single and double displacement, combustion, and neutralization — investigated by predicting products and testing reactions, plus analysing industrial reactions and assessing applications that address social and environmental needs.
- Industrial chemical reactions
- Chemistry for social and environmental needs
- Reactions terminology
- Balancing chemical equations
- Investigating reaction types
- Predicting synthesis and decomposition products
- Predicting single displacement products
- Predicting double displacement products
- Complete versus incomplete combustion
- Comparing oxide solutions
- Investigating neutralization
- Demonstrating single displacement
- Identifying reaction types
- Complete versus incomplete combustion concepts
- Formation of acids and bases
Unit 4: Quantities in Chemical Reactions
The mole and stoichiometry — percentage composition, empirical and molecular formulae, mole calculations, and percentage yield — investigated through inquiry, plus analysing processes that use chemical quantities and assessing the importance of quantitative accuracy in industry.
- Processes using chemical quantities
- Accuracy in industrial processes
- Quantities terminology
- Calculating percentage composition
- Mole calculations
- Empirical and molecular formulae
- Stoichiometric calculations
- Percentage yield and limiting reagents
- Determining yield by inquiry
- Law of definite proportions
- Avogadro's number and molar mass
- Empirical and molecular formula relationship
- Quantitative relationships in equations
Unit 5: Solutions and Solubility
Aqueous solutions — concentration, solubility, precipitation, acids and bases, and titration — investigated through inquiry, plus analysing water pollution and the economic, social, and environmental issues of drinking water.
- Water pollutants
- Drinking water issues
- Solutions terminology
- Concentration calculations
- Preparing solutions
- Analysing solution properties
- Net ionic equations
- Stoichiometry with solutions
- Acid-base titration
- Analysing drinking water
- Properties of water
- Formation of solutions
- Effects of temperature and pressure on solubility
- Predicting precipitates
- Arrhenius theory of acids and bases
- Strong and weak acids and bases
Unit 6: Gases and Atmospheric Chemistry
The behaviour of gases — the gas laws, molar volume, kinetic molecular theory, and the atmosphere — investigated through inquiry and calculation, plus analysing human effects on air quality and reporting on Canadian initiatives to reduce air pollution.
- Effects on air quality
- Reducing a personal carbon footprint
- Assessing air quality with the index
- Reporting on Canadian air-quality initiatives
- Gases terminology
- Investigating gas relationships
- Solving gas law problems
- Gas stoichiometry
- Determining molar volume or mass of a gas
- Components of the atmosphere
- States of matter and forces
- Kinetic molecular theory
- Ideal gas relationships
- Explaining the gas laws
- Avogadro's hypothesis
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