Course Description: A hypothetical space trip by young explorers to colonize a new "livable" planet provides the vehicle for teaching the content of chemistry though challenging and imaginative units centered on typical life-essential scenarios in this course offered via the Web. The five units teach colligative properties, kinetics and equilibrium, acids and bases, oxidation and reduction formulas, and organic chemistry. Students can watch demonstrations of chemical reactions.

Each unit has a virtual hands-on lab experiment with a graded assignment. There are two graded "clearance checks" (quizzes) and a graded "final clearance" (unit evaluation) in each unit. There are also many nongraded practice exercises throughout the units. Students have the opportunity to interact with their teacher and classmates on the Web.

Students will need to have successfully completed a first-semester chemistry course and two semesters of algebra to be prepared to succeed in this course. Basic computer skills are recommended.

Course Contents:
Students will study:

• Properties of solutions
• Mathematics involved with colligative properties of solutions
• Factors affecting rates of chemical reactions
• Equilibrium of chemical reactions and mathematics involved with equilibrium
• Properties of acids and bases
• pH of solutions and mathematics involved with pH
• Oxidation and reduction (redox) reactions and the process of balancing redox reactions
• The functional groups of organic compounds
• Genetic coding via DNA and RNA
• Genetic coding via DNA and RNA

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