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Online for the 2024-2025 School Year

Teacher: Peter Moskaluk

Email: moskaluk@chemadvantage.com


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Course Tuition: $895 (includes 1-Year Subscription to Cengage's WebAssign Online Learning Platform) 

Course Schedule: My AP Chemistry course begins on Monday, August 26, 2024, and ends in early May after the AP Exam. My 36-week schedule is designed to cover all 9 Units in the College Board AP Chemistry curriculum efficiently and thoroughly in a logical sequence with time for a comprehensive four-week review before the AP Chemistry exam. 

Eligibility Requirements: Students must be self-disciplined, well-organized, and able to schedule a minimum of 10 - 12 hours a week for the course, not including lab work. The course is open to 9th - 12th-grade students, ages 14 – 18, who have completed Algebra II. While helpful, a first-year chemistry course is not required. At the beginning of each new chemistry topic, I assume no prior knowledge and cover the basics.

How to Enroll: An application is not required for my course. If you meet the above eligibility requirements, you may register for the course by paying the tuition to AP Homeschoolers. AP Homeschoolers will notify me that you have enrolled in the class. However, I cannot add you to this fall's student roster until you submit my Student Information Form

Textbook: I will provide a digital version of each chapter in the textbook that focuses on the material relevant to the AP Chemistry exam. Students who would like a hard copy textbook can purchase Chemistry, 11th Edition, by Raymond Chang and Kenneth Goldsby, ISBN-13: 978-0077666958, or any version of Chang’s Chemistry textbook from the 9th through the 13th editions. The differences between hard copy editions are mostly cosmetic, so you may use pricing as your guide. You do not need to purchase supplemental materials such as CDs, study guides, workbooks, solutions manuals, or review books for this course.

Course Supplies: 

  • Student Study Planner 
  • Two 3" 3-ringed binders
  • One set of 20 blank divider tabs for filing course materials
  • Spiral notebook for notetaking 
  • Graphing calculator
  • Quality Science Labs Advanced MicroChem Kit **
  • One 1 ½" 3-ringed binder for filing lab instructions
  • Lab Notebook - One 100-sheet composition notebook with sewn binding

** Students who cannot obtain a lab kit will have the option to use my matching virtual labs.

NOTE: If you will be using the QSL lab kit, I recommend that you DO NOT purchase the kit until after June 15.  

College Board Audited and Approved:   

My online AP® Chemistry course has been audited and approved by the College Board for 17 consecutive years. I continuously update my course to stay in sync with the curriculum requirements for the AP® Chemistry exam. Teachers whose courses have been approved receive a renewal letter each year authorizing them to affix the AP® designation on student transcripts. 

Course Delivery:

My course is asynchronous in that all materials are available 24/7. Students appreciate the flexibility of the class in that they never have to be logged in on any specific days or times. 

Cengage/WebAssign®:

Student learning is guided and assessed using Cengage’s online platform, WebAssign®. For over two decades, WebAssign® has been the technology choice for delivering online STEM education. WebAssign® is a web-based interactive homework assignment and testing program used by over 2600 universities, colleges, and academies. 

Discussion Board:

You and your classmates will always be able to get personalized help using my Discussion Board, a virtual classroom, which is available 24/7. With its multi-media capabilities, I can use different tools including annotation, graphs, images, diagrams, videos, and links to other helpful resources to give students detailed answers to their questions. 

Lab Experience:

I have developed a lab program with specially tailored labs for AP® Chemistry. Each experiment has complete instructions with sample data and calculations. Students use tools such as graphing programs and spreadsheets to analyze data. There is a corresponding assessment tool where students enter their data online to evaluate their results. Students must keep a lab notebook following standard protocols for a college-level chemistry lab notebook. For students who cannot obtain a lab kit, I have created equivalent virtual labs that satisfy the requirements for the lab component. 

Instructor Qualifications:

I taught science, including Honors and AP® Chemistry, in one of the top school systems in the country for over 35 years and have been teaching AP® Chemistry to homeschoolers for 17 years. I received a BS in Science and a Master of Science Education degree at Wayne State University. I have worked with numerous National Science Foundation teacher programs. As part of my Master's program, I worked with the Fairleigh Dickinson University Lab in St Croix, monitoring coral reef oxygen respiration rates. I was sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton. While working for the National Science Foundation's Project Seraphim, I led workshops for chemistry teachers around the country, developed computer software applications for chemistry education, and hosted an international Internet Conference, CHYMNET, for chemistry educators. I have completed the College Board Institute Program for teaching AP® Chemistry and actively participate in the College Board's AP® Chemistry Teachers Community. I have written science questions for the Michigan Educational Assessment Test and the ACT Assessment® Test and have served as a reviewer for Cengage’s WebAssign® chemistry question database. 

As a dedicated caring teacher, I am committed to delivering an outstanding, comprehensive, first-year college-level chemistry course that prepares students to excel on the AP® Chemistry Exam while also preparing them for success in college chemistry and beyond. For the past 17 years, my students have achieved significantly higher scores on the AP Chemistry Exam than the international average. 

Even though my class is online, it is important to me that my students know they have a real teacher who cares about them and will provide all the support they need to be successful on the AP® Chemistry exam and also have a competitive edge in their college chemistry courses. 

Mr. Moskaluk 

 

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