Contents of Curriculum

High School


Grade one

Grade two

Grade Three (First Year of Science Major)

Grade Four (Second Year of Science Major)


Grade one

In Grade one of the high school education no Chemistry courses are given. Per Section never the less some chemical subjects are taught (in Arabic) with in the Science class as follows:

1. Natural and industrial or chemical fertilisers.

- Preparations and applications, advantages and disadvantages of Ammonium nitrate, Urea, Ammonium Sulphate, Fertilisers are illustrated.

2. Types of elements and compounds such as:

- Gold, Sulphur, Boxites, Hymatites, HaliteŐs, CalciteŐs, Gypsum are illustrated.

3. Methods to extract and purifying elements from cores are discussed.
4. Comparisons of types of iron are portrayed.
5. Cement and class industries are discussed.
6. Fractional distillation of oil and compositions of various phases of distillates have been discussed.
7. Air Water and solid pollution and compositions of pollutants are illustrated.

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Grade two

In Grade two, Chemistry is taught in Arabic. The book consists of the following topics:

- Chapter One: Composition of Matters.

Section One: Introduction to Chemistry.

Section Two: Atoms and Molecules.

Section Tree: Laws of Chemical Combinations and types of chemical reactions.

- Chapter Two:

Section One: Properties of Atom.

Section Two: Composition of Atom.

Section Three: Periodical Table.

-Chapter Three:

Section One: Chemical bonds.

Section Two: General Properties of Ionic and covalent compounds.

-Chapter Four:

Section One: Elements of Fourth Group.

Section Two: Elements of Sixth Group.

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Grade Three (first year of science major)

As for Grade Three, the following themes are taught in Arabic.

-Chapter One: Carbon Compounds.

Section One: Non-Organic Carbon compounds.

- Oxygen-Carbon Carbon Compounds.

- Characteristics of Carbon dioxide.

- Importance of Carbon dioxide.

- Questions.

Section Two: Organic Carbon Compounds.

- Nature of C-Carbon bonds.

- Hydrocarbon Compounds.

- Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Compounds.

- Aromatic Hydrocarbon Compounds.

- Questions.

Section Three: Hydrocarbon Compounds Derivatives.

- Alchohols.

- Aldehydes and Ketones.

- Carboxylic Acids.

- Esters.

- Question.

Section Four: Biochemistry.

- Carbohydrates

- Monosacchrides.

- Oligosacchrides.

- Lipids.

- Proteins.

- Questions.

-Chapter Two:

Section Five: State of Matters.

- Gases.

- Gases Laws.

- AvogadroŐs Principle.

- General Gas Equation.

- DaltonŐs Partial pressure law.

- GrahamŐs Gas Flow law.

- Motional Theory of gases.

- Ideal Behaviour and Neutrality of Gases.

- Liquefaction of Gases.

- Question.

Section Six: Chemical Equation.

- Chemical Equation.

- Data Extracted from chemical equation.

- Calculations in chemical equation.

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Section Seven: Liquids and Solutions.

- General characteristics of liquids.

- Solutions.

- Expressions of Solutions concentration.

- Types of Solutions.

- Solubility.

- Chemical changes Associated with Solubility.

- General characteristics of Solutions.

- Characteristics of Non-electrolyte Solutions.

- Characteristics of electrolyte Solutions.

- Separation of Solution Components.

- Questions.

-Chapter Three: Acids, Bases, and Salts.

Section Eight: Acid & Bases.

- New Theory of Acids and Bases.

- Arrhenius Definition of Acids and Bases.

- Bronsted-Lowry Definition of Acids and Bases.

- Lewis Definition of Acids of Acids and Bases.

- Common Acids and Bases.

- Common Acids.

- Common Bases.

- Acid Basicity & Base Acidity.

- Nomenclature of Acids and Acid Derivatives.

- General Procedure to prepare Acids and Bases.

- Questions.

Section Nine: Salts.

- Types of Salts.

- Nomenclature of Salts.

- General Procedure to prepare Salts.

- Questions.

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Grade Four (Second Year of Science Major)

For the Fourth Grade (Second Year of Science Major) The following topics are taught in Arabic:

-Chapter One: Chemical Equilibrium Aqueous Dissociation.

Section One: Chemical Equilibrium.

Section Two: Aqueous Dissociation with chemical.

-Dynamic Equilibrium

-Questions and Problems

-Chapter Two: Analytical Chemistry.

Section One: Types of Analytical Chemistry.

Section Two: Detection of Acidic salts Radicals.

Section Three: Detection of Basic salts Radicals.

Section Four: Quantitative and volumetric Analysis.

Section Five: Expression of Concentrations.

Section Six: Theory of Acids-Bases Titration.

Section Seven: Selection of Appropriate Detector.

- Questions and Problems.

-Chapter Three: Oxidation and Reduction.

Section One: Principle of Oxidation and Reduction.

Section Two: Oxidation Number.

Section Three: Balancing Oxidation-Reduction.

-Equations

Section Four: Equivalent mass for Oxidation & Reduction Agents.

-Questions and Problems.

-Chapter Four: Energy Associated with Chemical Reactions.

Section One: Heat-Chemistry.

Section Two: Electricity-Chemistry.

-Questions and Problems.

-Chapter Five: Metals Extraction.

Section One: Prime Sources for Metals.

Section Two: Extraction Processes of Metals from Ores.

Section Three: Sodium.

Section Four: Iron.

Section Five: Copper.

-Questions.

-Chapter Six: Some Chemical Industries.

Section One: Chemicals from Natural Gas and Oil.

Section Two: Chemicals from see.

Section Three: Water Industry in Kuwait.

-Questions.


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