Our Goals: 

Our goal is to not just educate ourselves in chemistry  but others as well.

Hello, we are Sunju, Sunwoo, and Hannah! As you would have seen when you clicked on our blog, our 20% time project is on Chemistry. Our goal is to create a SAT II study guide for Chemistry. Because we have so many topics that we have to cover, we decided to pin-point and pick out only the important information and put that into our study guide. We need to make sure to make our study guide clear, concise, and easy to understand. By doing this, we want to be able to explain the confusing and frustrating topics of Chemistry into something more enjoyable and understandable through our study guide. We will insert images and links to videos if necessary.

Through the process of making the study guide, we also want to learn and be ready for SAT II Chemistry test ourselves. After learning all the concepts in Chemistry, we would like to try taking an actual SAT II Chemistry test or even just a practice test. Our goal is to get our scores in  top 30th percentile (750-760) on the test. Through our 18-weeks studies, we want to figure out what our potential is, and also what our limit is with Chemistry. Of course we will not be perfect, let alone be close to perfect, as we are just high-school students, but we will try our best in this project to produce a final product. Our 18-long week journey starts now.

Timeline:

  • Week 2: Planning: Timeline, Goals, and Resources
  • Week 3: Introduction to Chemistry & The Laboratory
  • Week 4: Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table of the Elements
  • Week 5: Bonding
  • Week 6: Chemical Formulas
  • Week 7: Gases and the Gas Laws
  • Week 8: Stoichiometry and the Mole Concept
  • Week 9: Liquids, Solids, and Phase Changes
  • Week 10: Chemical Reactions and Thermochemistry
  • Week 11: Rates of Chemical Reactions
  • Week 12: Chemical Equilibrium
  • Week 13: Acid, Bases, and Salts
  • Week 14: Oxidation- Reduction
  • Week 15: Some Representative Groups and Families
  • Week 16: Carbon and Organic Family
  • Week 17:  Take test / studyguide final touches
  • Week 18: Studyguide final touches / final talk

Resources:  

Ms. Saint-Aubin, Khan Academy, Barron’s, Princeton Review, College board, Mr. Kim, Kaplan,  Ivy

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