Gizmos for Ontario - Science: Chemistry, Grade 12, University Preparation (Ontario Curriculum adopted 2008)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this province's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

A: Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration

A1: demonstrate scientific investigation skills (related to both inquiry and research) in the four areas of skills (initiating and planning, performing and recording, analysing and interpreting, and communicating);

A1.5: Students will: conduct inquiries, controlling relevant variables, adapting or extending procedures as required, and using appropriate materials and equipment safely, accurately, and effectively, to collect observations and data

A1.6: Students will: compile accurate data from laboratory and other sources, and organize and record the data, using appropriate formats, including tables, flow charts, graphs, and/or diagrams

A1.8: Students will: synthesize, analyse, interpret, and evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data; solve problems involving quantitative data; determine whether the evidence supports or refutes the initial prediction or hypothesis and whether it is consistent with scientific theory; identify sources of bias and error; and suggest improvements to the inquiry to reduce the likelihood of error

A1.11: Students will: communicate ideas, plans, procedures, results, and conclusions orally, in writing, and/or in electronic presentations, using appropriate language and a variety of formats (e.g., data tables, laboratory reports, presentations, debates, simulations, models)

A1.12: Students will: use appropriate numeric, symbolic, and graphic modes of representation, and appropriate units of measurement (e.g., SI units, imperial units)

A1.13: Students will: express the results of any calculations involving data accurately and precisely, to the appropriate number of decimal places and significant figures

B: Organic Chemistry

B2: investigate organic compounds and organic chemical reactions, and use various methods to represent the compounds;

B2.3: Students will: build molecular models for a variety of simple organic compounds

B3: demonstrate an understanding of the structure, properties, and chemical behaviour of compounds within each class of organic compounds.

B3.2: Students will: describe the similarities and differences in physical properties (e.g., solubility in different solvents, odour, melting point, boiling point) within each class of organic compounds

B3.3: Students will: explain the chemical changes that occur during various types of organic chemical reactions, including substitution, addition, elimination, oxidation, esterification, and hydrolysis

B3.4: Students will: explain the difference between an addition reaction and a condensation polymerization reaction

B3.5: Students will: explain the concept of isomerism in organic compounds, and how variations in the properties of isomers relate to their structural and molecular formulae

C: Structure and Properties of Matter

C2: investigate the molecular shapes and physical properties of various types of matter;

C2.1: Students will: use appropriate terminology related to structure and properties of matter, including, but not limited to: orbital, emission spectrum, energy level, photon, and dipole

C2.2: Students will: use the Pauli exclusion principle, Hund’s rule, and the aufbau principle to write electron configurations for a variety of elements in the periodic table

C2.5: Students will: predict the type of solid (ionic, molecular, covalent network, metallic) formed by a given substance in a chemical reaction, and describe the properties of that solid

C3: demonstrate an understanding of atomic structure and chemical bonding, and how they relate to the physical properties of ionic, molecular, covalent network, and metallic substances.

C3.1: Students will: explain how experimental observations and inferences made by Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr contributed to the development of the planetary model of the hydrogen atom

C3.2: Students will: describe the electron configurations of a variety of elements in the periodic table, using the concept of energy levels in shells and subshells, as well as the Pauli exclusion principle, Hund’s rule, and the aufbau principle

C3.3: Students will: identify the characteristic properties of elements in each of the s, p, and d blocks of the periodic table, and explain the relationship between the position of an element in the periodic table, its properties, and its electron configuration

C3.4: Students will: explain how the physical properties of a solid or liquid (e.g., solubility, boiling point, melting point, melting point suppression, hardness, electrical conductivity, surface tension) depend on the particles present and the types of intermolecular and intramolecular forces (e.g., covalent bonding, ionic bonding, Van der Waals forces, hydrogen bonding, metallic bonding)

D: Energy Changes and Rates of Reaction

D2: investigate and analyse energy changes and rates of reaction in physical and chemical processes, and solve related problems;

D2.1: Students will: use appropriate terminology related to energy changes and rates of reaction, including, but not limited to: enthalpy, activation energy, endothermic, exothermic, potential energy, and specific heat capacity

D2.3: Students will: solve problems involving analysis of heat transfer in a chemical reaction, using the equation Q = mcDeltaT (e.g., calculate the energy released in the combustion of an organic compound, and express the results in energy per mole of fuel [J/mol])

D2.5: Students will: solve problems related to energy changes in a chemical reaction, using Hess’s law

D2.8: Students will: plan and conduct an inquiry to determine how various factors (e.g., change in temperature, addition of a catalyst, increase in surface area of a solid reactant) affect the rate of a chemical reaction

D3: demonstrate an understanding of energy changes and rates of reaction.

D3.2: Students will: compare the energy change from a reaction in which bonds are formed to one in which bonds are broken, and explain these changes in terms of endothermic and exothermic reactions

D3.3: Students will: explain how mass, heat capacity, and change in temperature of a substance determine the amount of heat gained or lost by the substance

D3.4: Students will: state Hess’s law, and explain, using examples, how it is applied to find the enthalpy changes of a reaction

D3.5: Students will: explain, using collision theory and potential energy diagrams, how factors such as temperature, the surface area of the reactants, the nature of the reactants, the addition of catalysts, and the concentration of the solution control the rate of a chemical reaction

E: Chemical Systems and Equilibrium

E2: investigate the qualitative and quantitative nature of chemical systems at equilibrium, and solve related problems;

E2.1: Students will: use appropriate terminology related to chemical systems and equilibrium, including, but not limited to: homogeneous, closed system, reversible reaction, equilibrium constant, equilibrium concentration, molar solubility, and buffer

E2.2: Students will: predict, applying Le Châtelier’s principle or the reaction quotient for a given reaction, how various factors (e.g., changes in volume, temperature, or concentration of reactants or products in a solution) would affect a chemical system at equilibrium, and conduct an inquiry to test those predictions

E2.4: Students will: solve problems related to equilibrium by performing calculations involving concentrations of reactants and products (e.g., Keq, Ksp, Ka, pH, pOH, Kp, Kb)

E2.5: Students will: solve problems related to acid–base equilibrium, using acid–base titration data and the pH at the equivalence point

E3: demonstrate an understanding of the concept of dynamic equilibrium and the variables that cause shifts in the equilibrium of chemical systems.

E3.1: Students will: explain the concept of dynamic equilibrium, using examples of physical and chemical equilibrium systems (e.g., liquid–vapour equilibrium, weak electrolytes in solution, reversible chemical reactions)

E3.2: Students will: explain the concept of chemical equilibrium and how it applies to the concentration of reactants and products in a chemical reaction at equilibrium

E3.3: Students will: explain Le Châtelier’s principle and how it applies to changes to a chemical reaction at equilibrium

Correlation last revised: 8/31/2026

Ontario - Science: Chemistry, Grade 12, University Preparation

Ontario Curriculum | Adopted: 2008

A: Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration

B: Organic Chemistry

C: Structure and Properties of Matter

D: Energy Changes and Rates of Reaction

E: Chemical Systems and Equilibrium