UNIT OBJECTIVES
¨ DEFINE CORE TERMINOLOGY.
¨ DESCRIBE STATES OF MATTER.
¨ IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL
PROPERTIES OF MATTER.
¨ DESCRIBE PHASES CHANGES WITHIN MATTER.
¨ DESCRIBE BASIC STRUCUTRE OF AN ATOM.
¨ IDENIFTY ATOMIC NUMBER AND ATOMIC MASS OF
ELEMENTS.
¨ USE THE PERIODIC TABLE.
¨ EXPLAIN, BASED ON SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, WHAT
ATOMIC NUMBER AND MASS MEAN.
¨ EXPLAIN THE CHARGE DIFFERENCES OF THE
SUBATOMIC PARTICLES.
¨ DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NEUTRAL
STATE AND ION STATE IN MATTER.
¨ COMPARE AND CONTRAST ELEMENTS AND
COMPOUNDS.
¨ COMPARE AND CONTRAST IONIC AND COVALENT
BONDS.
¨ DRAW LEWIS DOT DIAGRAMS.
¨ UNDERSTAND THE ORGANIZATION OF ELECTRONS IN
ATOMIC STRUCTURE.
¨ IDENTIFY SOME OF THE MAJOR FUNCTIONAL
GROUPS USED IN BIOLOGYICAL MOLECULES.
¨ WRITE AND BALANCE SIMPLE CHEMICAL
EQUATIONS.
¨ IDENTIFY AND DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN
SYNTHESIS, DECOMPOSITION, REPLACEMENT AND COMBUSTION REACTIONS IN NATURE.
¨ EXPLAIN THE CHEMICAL BASIS FOR BONDING AND
ENERGY FLOW.
¨ EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER TO LIFE.
¨ DESCRIBE THE ACID/BASE RELATIONSHIP AND HOW
IT IMPACT LIVING THINGS.
¨ MEASURE AND EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF pH IN
LABORATORY SETTING.
¨ DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS TYPES OF MIXTURES
CITING AN EXAMPLE OF EACH.
¨ IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN WHICH ELEMENTS ARE
MOST IMPORTANT TO LIFE AND WHY.
¨ DESCRIBE THE STRUCTURE, FUNCTION(S), AND
PROPERTIES OF CARBOHYDRATES, PROTEINS, LIPIDS AND NUCELIC ACIDS.
¨ EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF ENZYMES IN CHEMICAL
REACTIONS WITHIN A LIVING ORGANISM.
¨ EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT BY A BALANCED DIET.
¨ EXPLAIN HOW HUMAN NUTRITION IS APPLIED
BIOCHEMISTRY.
¨ ANALYZE FOOD LABELS FOR NUTRITIONAL
CONTENT.
¨ EVALUATE HIS DIET FOR THE APPROPRIATE
BALANCE OF NECESSARY MOLECULES, VITAMINS AND MINERALS.
¨ COMPLETE THREE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON
A TOPIC RELATED TO BIOCHEMISTRY.
TEXT RESOURCES: CHAPTERS TWO, THREE, PART OF TWENTY-NINE