Chemistry, Grade 12, College Preparation
Ontario · Grade 12 · 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 applied chemistry
- Scientists who contributed to chemistry
Unit 2: Matter and Qualitative Analysis
Identifying matter by hands-on qualitative analysis — flame tests, precipitation reactions, emission spectra, and solubility rules — plus evaluating the environmental effects of chemical substances and analysing practical applications of qualitative analysis.
- Environmental effects of substances
- Applications of qualitative analysis
- Qualitative analysis terminology
- Solubility rules and net ionic equations
- Precipitation and flame tests
- Identifying metal ions in an unknown
- Identifying a gas by emission spectrum
- Predicting precipitates
- Atomic number, mass number, and isotopes
- Types of chemical reactions
- Procedures of qualitative analysis
- Flame tests, spectra, and quanta of energy
Unit 3: Organic Chemistry
The chemistry of everyday carbon compounds — functional groups, molecular models, distillation, combustion, and practical synthesis — plus evaluating the impact of products made from organic compounds and the dangers of organic solvents.
- Products from organic compounds
- Environmental impact of an organic product
- Organic chemistry terminology
- Lewis structures of organic molecules
- Molecular models of organic molecules
- Properties of organic compounds
- Separation by distillation
- Products of combustion
- Synthesizing an organic compound
- Predicting bond type
- The carbon atom
- Functional groups
- Properties of oxygen- and nitrogen-containing molecules
- Describing organic reactions
- Separating substances by physical properties
- Naming hydrocarbons with IUPAC
- Dangers of organic solvents
Unit 4: Electrochemistry
Oxidation-reduction in practice — galvanic cells, oxidation and reduction, and metal corrosion — investigated by building cells and testing corrosion, plus analysing electrochemical technologies and the causes of corrosion and assessing protection techniques.
- Electrochemical technologies
- Causes of metal corrosion
- Impact of corrosion protection techniques
- Electrochemistry terminology
- Building a galvanic cell
- Analysing galvanic cells
- Factors affecting corrosion rate
- Oxidation and reduction
- Components of a galvanic cell
- The corrosion reaction
Unit 5: Chemical Calculations
The mole and stoichiometry for practical work — molar mass, mole conversions, stoichiometric relationships, percentage yield, and preparing solutions — investigated through inquiry, plus analysing processes that use chemical calculations and assessing the importance of accuracy in medical and personal-care solutions.
- Processes using chemical calculations
- Accuracy in medical and personal-care solutions
- Stoichiometry terminology
- Calculating molar mass
- Converting particles, moles, and mass
- Solving reaction variable problems
- Stoichiometric relationships in equations
- Determining percentage yield
- Identifying changes in a reaction
- Preparing aqueous solutions
- Avogadro's number and molar mass
- Experimental error and yield
- Mole relationships in equations
- Molar concentration
- Limiting reagents
Unit 6: Chemistry in the Environment
Chemical reactions in the environment — the atmosphere, acids and bases, acid rain, and water quality — investigated through titration and testing, plus evaluating government regulations and individual actions, proposing a personal action plan, and evaluating the importance of quantitative analysis.
- Evaluating air and water quality efforts
- A personal action plan
- Importance of quantitative analysis
- Environmental chemistry terminology
- Neutralization equations
- Acid-base titration
- Testing water for inorganic substances
- Components of the atmosphere
- Gases, particulates, and air quality
- Arrhenius definition of acids and bases
- Strong and weak acids and bases
- Acid rain
- Strength versus concentration
- Substances dissolved in water
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