Requirements: the student must have completed Biology,
a Physical Science (Integrated Chemistry
and Physics) lab course, and
Algebra I, and must have permission from the instructor. This is
an intense course that will require several
hours of study each week. The student will be required to write
up his/her labs and results. Most labs are from ChemCom—a textbook written by the American Chemical Society (which is provided
by SLT) and include titrating acids, purifying water, testing to identify the anions and cations in fertilizers, testing the percentages
of protein, vitamin C, iron, fats, carbohydrates, and water in foods, preparing and testing a carbonate buffer, testing the activity
of enzymes at different pH levels, testing air samples for CO2, building a cloud chamber and observing the vapor trails from a radioactive
particle as well as the effect of a magnetic field on the particle, making esters and so much more! Lecture and multimedia presentations
included.
