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Chemistry Scheme Ss1 SN Topics

This document outlines the chemistry curriculum for Senior Secondary School 1 (SS1) in Nigeria. It covers 12 topics that include the particulate nature of matter, chemical symbols and equations, separation techniques, chemical bonding, gas laws, acids and bases, carbon compounds, and chemical industries. The topics progress from introductory chemistry concepts to more advanced material like gas laws, chemical bonding, and industrial chemistry. The curriculum aims to provide students with a foundation in basic chemistry principles and applications.

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Chemistry Scheme Ss1 SN Topics

This document outlines the chemistry curriculum for Senior Secondary School 1 (SS1) in Nigeria. It covers 12 topics that include the particulate nature of matter, chemical symbols and equations, separation techniques, chemical bonding, gas laws, acids and bases, carbon compounds, and chemical industries. The topics progress from introductory chemistry concepts to more advanced material like gas laws, chemical bonding, and industrial chemistry. The curriculum aims to provide students with a foundation in basic chemistry principles and applications.

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CHEMISTRY SCHEME SS1

SN TOPICS
1. Introduction to chemistry :- Meaning of chemistry, career prospects in
chemistry, application and adverse effects of chemistry
2. Particulate nature of matter:- physical and chemical change atoms and
molecules, Dalton’s atomic theory
3. Particulate nature of matter :- constituents of atoms, protons, neutrons, and
electrons, arrangement of electrons around the nucleus, atomic number
4. Particulate nature of matter:- mass number, relative atomic mass, relative
molecular mass, calculations involving relative molecular masses
5. Symbols, formulae and equation: Symbols of elements, and their valences,
compounds and mixtures, empirical and molecular formulae, laws of
conservation of matter, law of constant composition, laws of multiple
proportion, chemical equations and balancing of chemical equations.
6. Standard separation techniques for mixture: classification of substances,
filtration, evaporation, decantation, floatation, crystallization

SN TOPICS
7. Standard separation techniques for mixtures – distillation, fractional distillation,
precipitation, magnetic separation, chromatography, sublimation, pure and
impure substances
8. Chemical combination: Periodic table of the first 20 elements electronic
configuration of atoms, types of bonds (ionic or electrovalent bond)
9. Chemical combination: covalent bonds, coordinate covalent bonds, hydrogen
bond, van der waal forces
10. Chemical combination: IUPAC nomenclature of compounds, states of matter
(solid, liquid, gaseous) kinetic theory of matter
11. Gas laws :- Boyles’ law, Charles law, general gas law
12. Gas laws:- Gay Lussac’s law, Avogadro’s law, ideal gas law, Graham’s law,
molar volume of gases, Avogadro’s number and mole concept

SN TOPICS
1. Acid, Bases and Salts:- Characteristics, preparation reaction and uses of Acids.
2. Acid, Bases and Salts: Characteristics, preparation, reactions, and uses of bases,
Relative acidity and alkalinity (the PH Scale)
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3. Acid, bases and salts:- Properties, types and uses of salt, deliquescent, efflorescent
and hygroscopic substances, solubility of salts in water
4. Water: Sources of water, types of water (hard and soft water), Water pollutants,
uses of water laboratory preparation of water
5. Carbon and its compound:- Allotropes of carbon, coal (types and uses), uses of
carbon, coke (gasification and uses) carbon (iv) oxide, synthetic gas
6. Chemical Industries:- Types of chemical industries, importance to individuals and
the nation

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