Saraswati Vidya Niketan

Termly Scheme of Work

Term: Divali Term 2019
Department: Science Teacher: Narindra Persaud
Subject: Chemistry Class: 4th Form

Week Topic
1 States of Matter: Types of matter, diffusion, osmosis, changes of matter, heating
and cooling curves

2 Mixtures and separations: Elements, mixtures and compounds

Solutions, suspensions, colloids
Separating mixtures

Assignment # 1 – One page report on one application of either diffusion or

osmosis

Quiz 1

3 Labs 1 and 2 – Diffusion and Osmosis

Diffusion: Use of potassium manganate (VII) to demonstrate diffusion

Osmosis: Use of vegetables (potato, eggplant or papaw) to demonstrate osmosis

4 Atomic Structure: History of atoms, the nuclear atom, mass and charge of sub
atomic particles, atomic number versus mass number, isotopes

Radioactivity and its applications

Test # 1 (On first two weeks work)

5 Shell diagrams
Electronic configuration

Periodic Table and Periodicity: what is the periodic table, groups and periods in
the table, trends in the table

Group II trends

Quiz 2

6 Labs 3– Flame test for different elements

7 Structure and Bonding: Rationale for bonding

 -Ionic Bonding
-Covalent Bonding
-Metallic Bonding

Assignment # 2 – 10 minute group presentations on sucrose extraction from cane

8 Test # 2 (weeks 4 – 7 work)

Forces: van der Waals forces, hydrogen bonding

Compounds with more than one type of bond: molecular compounds, ionic
compounds, covalent compounds, giant molecules

Allotropy

9 Labs 4 – Solutions, Suspensions, Colloids

10 Mole concept: importance of measurements, chemical symbols, law of

conservation of mass, number of moles

Moles and gas volume

Moles and mass

Equation and masses

11 Test # 3 (weeks 8 and 10 work)

Calculating formula from mass data

Ionic equation

12 Calculations on the mole concept – past papers

13 E.O.T

14 E.O.T

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