• Understand that the natural world has an atomic and molecular 
basis which successfully explains its physical phenomena and 
that can be probed by further exploration and discovery
• Understand the language of chemistry and its representations
• Understand the fundamental principles of molecular structure 
and shape
• Understand the basis for chemical and physical properties and 
how these give rise to the states of matter and to chemical and 
physical change
• Understand the basic concepts of energy and how they are 
related to chemical structure, reactivity, and behavior
• Understand the fundamental principles of solutions, 
especially with water as solvent, including solubility, 
acidity, and basicity
• Understand the impact of chemical phenomena on the fields of 
agriculture, biological sciences, medical sciences, 
engineering, industrial and consumer technologies and the world 
around us

Atoms
• Structure: electrons, protons, neutrons, isotope
• Measurement and units: mass, moles, percent, part per million
• Periodic Chart
• Basic Radioactivity
Molecules
• Sharing electrons: bonds, Lewis structures
• Properties: electronegativity, bond length and strength, 
molecular interactions
• Representations: microscopic, macroscopic properties
• Counting molecules and ions: moles and grams
States of Matter
• Gases, liquids, solids
• liquid water
• types of solids
Solutions
• Characterization of solutes
• Concentration
• Solubility
• Making solutions and dilutions
• Osmosis, osmolality
Physical and Chemical Change
• Physical properties: viscosity, density, conductivity (heat, 
electricity), colligative properties
• Chemical changes: combustion, direct combination, 
decomposition, displacement, precipitation
• Redox and batteries
• Calculations with reactions and equations
Energy
• Forms of energy
• Energy, heat and temperature: heat capacity
• Energy in molecular structures
• Electromagnetic waves, light
Kinetics and Equilibrium
• Rates and half life
• Energy as a barrier to reactions
• Equilibrium: rates, concentrations, energy, reversibility, Le 
Chatelier’s Principle
• Intro to enzymes
Acidity and basicity
• Definitions and structures
• Scales and measures
• Manipulating solutions
• Buffers
Intro to Organic
• Organic structures and representations
• Functional groups and examples
• Stereochemistry