Overview
This unit is designed for 10 th grade gifted students who are taking their first Chemistry class. I teach at an urban school which offers separate classes for identified gifted students. These students have the option of taking a course at the gifted level; students who find math and science difficult often opt to take it at the regular level. The teachers of these classes have flexibility about curriculum and determine how to offer enrichment. This unit will be a culmination of the work covered throughout the year and is designed to allow students to be both creative and apply the principles of bonding, intermolecular forces, states of matter and solubility. At the end of this unit, the students will be asked to design a "new" material that will serve a purpose that they have chosen. They will determine the properties that this material will need to serve the function the students have in mind. In light of the needed properties, the students will then determine appropriate molecular sub-units and structure. Needless to say, they will be expected to justify their designs.
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