Unit Plan
Lesson 1/2: Introduction
Lesson 4: Practice drawing and building molecular shapes, and practice naming organic compounds
Lesson 6: Work period - research organic compounds and prepare for presentations
Lesson 7: Presentation day 1 + teacher lessons - alkyl halides, alcohols, amines/amides, esters
Lesson 8: Presentation day 2 + teacher lessons - aldehydes & ketones, ethers, carboxylic acids
Lesson 9: Environmental Impact Project Introduction & Work Period
Lesson 10: Addition reactions
Lesson 11: Elimination reactions
Lesson 12: Substitution reactions
Lesson 13: In-class assignment, Conferencing for Environmental Impact Project
Lesson 14: Oxidation reactions
Lesson 15: Esterification reactions
Lesson 16: Hydrolysis reactions
Lesson 17: Inquiry lab, day 1 - organic chemical reaction classification
Lesson 19/20: Polymers (synthetic and natural) and polymer lab
Lesson 21: Unit test review
Lesson 22: Unit test
Unit plan adapted from Mr. Hann, WODSS
- Show different ways to represent organic compounds
- Basic naming rules for simple hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes)
- This lesson can be taught over two days; it's pretty heavy and a lot of information to introduce to your students in just one day
Lesson 4: Practice drawing and building molecular shapes, and practice naming organic compounds
- Also introduce Organic Compounds group project
Lesson 6: Work period - research organic compounds and prepare for presentations
Lesson 7: Presentation day 1 + teacher lessons - alkyl halides, alcohols, amines/amides, esters
Lesson 8: Presentation day 2 + teacher lessons - aldehydes & ketones, ethers, carboxylic acids
Lesson 9: Environmental Impact Project Introduction & Work Period
Lesson 10: Addition reactions
Lesson 11: Elimination reactions
Lesson 12: Substitution reactions
Lesson 13: In-class assignment, Conferencing for Environmental Impact Project
Lesson 14: Oxidation reactions
Lesson 15: Esterification reactions
Lesson 16: Hydrolysis reactions
Lesson 17: Inquiry lab, day 1 - organic chemical reaction classification
- Environmental Impact Project deadline
Lesson 19/20: Polymers (synthetic and natural) and polymer lab
Lesson 21: Unit test review
Lesson 22: Unit test
Unit plan adapted from Mr. Hann, WODSS