Curricular Connections

BC Grade 9 — 11

Ionic compounds
- Convert between their names and their formulas
- Understand how the formulas of ionic compounds are determined.
- Compounds involving multivalent metal ions.
- Compounds involving polyatomic groups.

Covalent compounds
- Names and formulas of binary covalent compounds
- Nomenclature of certain types of organic compounds (alkanes, alcohols)
Acids
- Names and formulas of Arhhenius acids.
- Rules related to oxoacids and acids formed from other polyatomic groups
Chemical equations
- Balancing equations
- Law of conservation of atoms
- Word and symbolic forms of equations
Reaction type analysis (might have been removed from curriculum?)
- Identification of common reaction types
  - Neutralization, double replacement, single replacement, synthesis, decomposition and combustion of hydrocarbons
- Determining whether a reaction will take place by using the reactivity series
- Determining the products of a reaction given the reactants for common reaction types
  - Neutralization, double replacement, single replacement and combustion are supported.

Additional types of compounds
- Hydrates of ionic compounds and the anhydrous form
- Alkenes
Chemical quantities
- Conversion between units
  - g, mol, L (gas), L (aqueous), M
- Preparation of solutions
Stoichiometry
- Stoichiometric calculations
- Limiting reactant analysis
- Stoichiometry of excess quantities

Equilibrium
- General case
- Acid/base equilibrium
- Solubility equilibrium
Redox reactions and electrochemical cells
- Balancing redox equations via the standard techniques (instead immediately solving the system of linear equations)
- Identifying anode/cathode
- Electrochemical cell diagrams
- Cell voltage calculations

Stoichiometry with gases
- Ideal gas law
- Van der Waals
- Raoult’s law, Henry’s law
Enthalpy and entropy calculations
Basic support for coordination compounds