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Titrations!
A couple of quick video clips of some AP students performing their first ever titrations. The sharpest end-points? Perhaps not, but some nice work for a first attempt. The reaction is the...
New and Odd AP Topic Review 2015
In 2014 I wrote this post in order to discuss some of the ‘odd/new' topics on the AP exam in 2014. What follows in this post is essentially identical to that one, but with a few tweaks here and...
Here’s a question that will be on the 2015 AP Chemistry exam
Well, maybe.....but probably not. Oh, I dunno! This evening, Paul Price led an AACT sponsored webinar entitled, 'Reviewing for the AP Chemistry Exam'. As a pretty experienced AP chemistry teacher...
10 things that your AP Chem teacher may have taught you….
....that won't be on the AP exam. For years I have been banging on about what I consider to be the strange practice of calling a course 'AP Chemistry', and then delivering content that won't be on...
Online AP Chemistry Workshops Summer 2015
Once again this summer, I plan to offer two, online AP Chemistry Teacher Workshops. I'd love to have you join me. Below you will find details of the workshops, but, if after reading this post (and...
A Brief History of the AP Chemistry Exam*
On this page you can read a brief history of the AP Chemistry exam as I currently understand it*. A few general notes; The large discrepancy in the number of questions on the exam when comparing...
Subscriber Updates (09-09-14)
OK, there have been quite a lot of significant additions and updates surrounding the intense activity of the opening of the school year. In the last couple of weeks you may have noticed the...
Online AP Chemistry Workshops Jul & Aug 2014
I have finalized a plan for two, online, AP Chemistry Workshops for the summer of 2014. Here is an outline of the course, with some details. If, after reading this post (and some of the anticipated...
SAT Subject Test in Chemistry – a few tips
With the SAT subject test in chemistry coming up again this week, I thought it would be a good idea to post a few specific tips for dealing with the exam. Every standard test/exam has its own...
2014 Released Free Response Comments & (draft) Answers
Below you will find my initial comments (there will likely be more after some reflection) and draft answers to the 2014 Free Response questions that were released by the College Board earlier today....
Factoids 2014 – another REDUX
Below is the amended text of a post that I originally wrote in April of 2012. The degree to which such things will be at all relevant on the AP exam in 2014 and beyond is highly debatable (since...
New and Odd AP Topic Review 2014
All of the topics below are things that I consider to be ‘odd’, or that are new for 2014. These are brief comments that are expanded upon in my notes, and in the REA AP Chemistry Crash Course book...
50 (tiny) things to remember during the AP chemistry exam: REDUX for 2014/15
I wrote this original list back in May of 2013 for the old, legacy exam, so wanted to update it for the new curriculum this year (2014) and going forward. I have removed any, now irrelevant 'tiny...
AP Review 2013-14
Here's the AP Review schedule for the Spring of 2014. This is a first draft and some tweaking will almost certainly need to take place in the next four and a half weeks, but this will give a solid...
Flinn – Explain and Predict Free Response Practice Booklet
This week I got my hands on the booklet of 10 Free Response questions released by Flinn, as examples of questions that we might see on the new exam. Normally such a booklet would hold little...
Organic Chemistry Options 2014-15
So you think that you might be interested in taking a high school, organic chemistry course, delivered by me either at The Westminster Schools, or as part the Global Online Academy? Great! You may...
Halloween demos for AP?
Regular Chemistry 2013-14
Introduction TOPIC NOTES HOMEWORK TESTS & QUIZZES TOOLBOX WITH LINKS TOPIC 1 Matter & Measurement NOTES Worksheet 1a: 8/22 QUIZ 1: NONE TEST 1: 8/30 Multiple Choice Review Multiple-Choice...
Regular Chemistry Learning Objectives
REGULAR CHEMISTRY LEARNING OBJECTIVES The specific learning objectives for each topic in the Regular course are listed here. TOPIC 1 Introduction & Measurement The following list is a GUIDE to...
The Big Five. New emphasis?
For many years I have offered AP Chemistry Workshops for teachers. One feature of those workshops over the years have been sessions on what I call 'The Big Five'. These are the five large topic...
New emphasis outside of the Big Five
Putting the new emphasis amongst the Big Five aside for a moment, I also wanted to take a look at some other potential re-thinking that will have to be done with the new curriculum. I have split...
LO’s? What The…….?
Just in case you don't know, there are now 117 Learning Objectives (LO's) (starting on page 100 of the new course description) defined in the new AP Chemistry curriculum. These statements are what...
The Spirit of the Question
My recent conversation with Eric Scerri that spawned this post, was initially provoked by his article from the previous week in Scientific American. It got me thinking about an old AP exam question...
4s & 3d, 3d & 4s, Cu & Cr, sloppy Aufbau & Eric Scerri!
Yeah, that's an inelegant title to say the least, but behind it is an elegant piece of chemistry that is struggling to get recognition. Yesterday I had the enormous pleasure and privilege to chat...
Summary of additions to new AP Chemistry curriculum – PART #2. Mass Spectrometry
This is the second in the series (the first is here) of short blog posts on the new content (as I currently see it) of the 2013-14 AP Chemistry Curriculum. Mass Spectrometry (at this level) is...
….beyond the scope of this course and the AP exam
I am now getting into the nitty-gritty of the new curriculum as I prepare my materials for a huge overhaul and re-write. In general, exclusion statements are incredibly useful, and frankly should...
Factoids 2012 – Nuggets of information that may help on the AP and SAT Chemistry Exams
For many years I have been in the habit of attempting to pass on nuggets of information to the kids that I teach, that they might be able to put to use in the AP or SAT Chemistry exams. These are...
AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework, July 2011 Draft – The Dingle Analysis
If you are reading this you probably already know that the AP system as a whole is undergoing an extensive re-write, and that AP chemistry is in line to have its new curriculum come into play within...
Subscriber Updates
With the addition of Regular worksheet 6d (Reaction Types) plus the answers, and the re-labeling of the "old" Regular worksheet 6d (Interactive Reaction Practice) as the new Regular worksheet 6e,...
AP TOPIC 12 notes adjusted
The Combination/Decomposition part of the Simple REDOX section of the TOPIC 12 notes has been adjusted to make it (hopefully) a little clearer. The notes may have been slightly ambiguous in as much...
Welcome to The Blog @ Adrian Dingle’s Chemistry Pages
Welcome to "The Blog" here at Adrian Dingle's Chemistry Pages. In this blog I am going to be sounding off about all things related to my professional activities, that is, all things related to...
