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General Chemistry I Lab
CHEM101L | 1 Credit
General Chemistry I Lab is a hands-on addition to your General Chemistry I course. In this lab, you’ll complete at-home lab experiments and answer lab-based questions to put what you’re learning into practice.
Professor: Marcie Occhi
About General Chemistry I Lab
What You’ll Learn
Complete at-home laboratory experiments, track and record results, answer lab-based questions reflected in graded lab reports, and complete lab-based assessments to meet your General Chemistry I lab requirement.
- Have a clear understanding of lab safety protocol.
- Understand the scientific and have experience applying it during laboratory experiments.
- Recognize what makes a successful analysis.
- Have conducted successful experiments.
- Understand why molecules have a particular shape.
- Understand and approximate the importance of Avogadro’s Number.
- Recognize balanced chemical equations.
- Observe how a catalyst affects a reaction.
- Understand how to appropriately draft a lab report.
- Understand how to evaluate hypotheses in terms of data created by lab experiments.
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General Chemistry I Lab is offered as an addition to our online General Chemistry I course. Gain a solid foundation for further study in laboratory sciences. The labs are provided by eScience Labs, a leading provider of at-home lab kits and online lab instructional materials and resources.
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to take General Chemistry Lab, though we highly recommend previous or concurrent enrollment in General Chemistry (CHEM101).
Course Text
This course requires lab kit LP-5370-CK-01 from Science Interactive. This lab kit will be available for purchase for $138 (plus shipping) after you enroll.
Course Checkpoints
Checkpoint 1: Getting Started
- The Science Interactive Cloud
- Exploration, Experimentation, and Evaluation
- Science Interactive Resources
Checkpoint 2: Lab Safety
- Safety guidelines for using Science Interactive lab kits
- Terms associated with common laboratory safety equipment
Capstone 1: Lab Kit Inventory
- Kit contents list
- Reviewing your Science Interactive kit
Capstone 2: Molecular Modeling and Lewis Structures
- Allotropes, valence electrons, and lone pairs
- Duet rule and octet rule
- Lewis structures
- Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) model
Capstone 3: Stoichiometry of a Precipitation Reaction
- Parts of a chemical reaction, including the reactants and products
- Defining characteristics of a precipitation reaction
- Stoichiometry
- Importance of accurate calculations
- How the molar quantity of a substance is related to its molecular weight
- Molar quantity of various substances
- How hydrated compounds influence precipitation reactions
Capstone 4: The Mole: Conversions, Mass Determination, and Hydrates
- The concept of a mole
- Atomic mass, molecular mass, and molar mass
- Conversion between mass, moles, atoms, and molecules
- Name hydrates by the number of moles of water held in a compound
Capstone 5: Ideal Gas Law
- Solids, liquids, and gases
- Ideal gas law
- Charles Law
- Avogadro's Law
- Gay-Lussac's Law
- Boyle's law using PV = k
- How data on force (kg•m/s²; N), mass (kg), and area (m²) can be used to calculate pressure (N/m²; Pa) in a closed system
Capstone 6: Introduction to the Periodic Table
- Origin of the periodic table
- Organization of the periodic table
- Period, group, metal, nonmetal, metalloid, and transition metal
- Proper format for symbols of elements
Capstone 7: The Scientific Method
- Steps of the scientific method
- Hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, and control
- Qualitative versus quantitative data
Capstone 8: Math and Graphing Prep
- Scientific notation
- Unit conversions
- Unknown variables in equations
- How graphs are used to illustrate and interpret data
Assignments & Grading
Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 2 Checkpoints
- 8 Capstones
What You’ll Need
- A reliable computer or laptop
- Stable internet connection
- Web browser
- Basic computer skills
- Any required course materials
- This course requires lab kit LP-5370-CK-01 from Science Interactive. This lab kit will be available for purchase for $138 (plus shipping) after you enroll.
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Course Professor
Marcie Occhi
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Marcie is a licensed, professional geologist, holding advanced graduate degrees in geology, with a focus on geochemistry. She was delighted to teach introductory chemistry labs, along with both low and high-temperature geochemistry classes as a graduate student at both the University of Maryland and University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she makes detailed geologic maps for the Virginia Geological Survey and has a deep passion for citizen science and science literacy!
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