General Chemistry I Laboratory

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Learn and practice safety standards in a chemical laboratory environment

• Develop skills in handling scientific equipment and making measurements

• Apply recordkeeping and reporting methods that reflect the integrity and ethics associated with scientific data and information

• Apply scientific inquiry to develop knowledge of chemical systems

• Classify substances based on their physical and chemical properties

• Synthesize and characterize a chemical compound

• Perform calculations describing mass and energy changes during chemical reactions

• Use scientific instruments to make quantitative measurements of the properties of samples

• Perform writing exercises to become familiar with scientific writing.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Pre-lab Quizzes	25%
Lab Calculations and Reports	40%
Lab Notebooks	10%
Lab Writing Assignments	15%
Cumulative Lab Quizzes	10%

Students will have one week to complete their report sheet for any given experiment. Report sheets will be completed in Labflow. If a report sheet is not submitted during this time, a grade of zero will be recorded.

Late reports will be accepted, however ALL late reports will be assessed a 10% penalty if turned in prior to the cutoff date (two days past due date). It is at the discretion of the instructor if they wish to stack a 10% penalty on top of the existing penalty if you require a report to be reopened. Instructors have the right to refuse to open reports that are two weeks past due. Those reports will be given a grade of a 0.

There will be a quiz every week. The quiz will cover the procedure and safety components of the experiment that will be done that week. It is due before the beginning of pre-lab. There will be no extensions on these quizzes. If they are not completed by their due date and time, a grade of a zero will be given.

Tentative grading scale based on percentages:

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100 - 93%	A
92 - 90%	A-
89 - 87%	B+
86 - 83%	B
82 - 80%	B-
79 - 77%	C+
76 - 73%	C
72 - 70%	C-
69 - 67%	D+
66 – 60%	D
below 60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is required at all scheduled lab meetings. Excused absences are granted when a doctor’s note supporting illness or injury or documentation of a death in the immediate family is provided. If there is some other reason for an absence, contact your instructor as soon as possible.

A combination of 3 or more absences or missing reports constitutes unsatisfactory performance in the lab course. Under such circumstances, students will:

• Fail the course if the situations are unexcused

• Receive an Incomplete for the course if the situations are excused [personal illness (must have a note from a physician) or a death in the immediate family (provide obituary or funeral program)].

MAKE UP LAB:

There will be no make up labs!!!!!! If you miss a lab, please look at the class schedule on the home page of Canvas to find a class you can take for that week. Once you identify a class, email the instructor of both your class and the class you wish to take to make sure it is acceptable. We have a max capacity of 24 so if the lab is full, you will not be granted permission to take the lab.

• Dry data or Virtual labs may be given if a student has circumstances that require an extended period of absence from lab. It should be noted that the use of virtual/dry data doesn’t take away the absence. No labs (even virtual) will be made up after two weeks.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Labflow Access