Key points

This site is essentially for teachers, not students, even so I have summarised all the essential information and understanding required for each sub-topic in a gallery of slides. All the information that is useful for students on each page is repeated in “Complete course for students”. I would strongly encourage you to activate the student access so that your students can obtain all this information and questions etc. to improve their learning experience. For teachers who feel they need it, I have also referred you to the pages where the detailed teaching material for each sub-topic is covered in my Study Guide. This book also contains some questions and examples. However teachers are always asking for more example questions that can be used either for homework or for tests. For this reason I have made up completely new questions (unavailable anywhere else!) for each sub-topic. These are attached as separate pages with both the questions and their answers downloadable as separate pdf files. I have not just given the answers but also the complete working so that students can work through them on their own if necessary and see exactly where they went wrong if they do not get the correct answer. These questions require short-answers so are like Paper 2 questions. In addition I have made up ten new different questions given as a quiz for each sub-topic. These can be given as tests or for students to go through in their own time. The answers are explained so it is a good way for students to realise whether or not they have a good understanding of the sub-topic in question. If you have signed your students up for student access these question and answer pages are all marked so that you have the choice as to whether to give your students access to them or not. There are also brand new multiple choice tests containing  20 questions for each topic. For the larger topics there are more than one test. These are set out in a very similar way to Paper 1 of the examination. I suggest that when you have completed a whole topic you ask students to work through the questions at the end of each chapter in the Study Guide on their own first then use these new questions either as further revision/review or as a test.

Each topic looks at the essential ideas inherent in the topic then provides links to each of the sub-topics. For ease of use each sub-topic is covered using a similar layout. Most pages start off with a section called 'Pause for thought'. (this is called ‘Something  to think about’ on the pages written specially for students) This looks at some interesting or controversial aspect of the topic as I believe the better understanding a teacher has of the topic the better he or she will teach it. Often 'Pause for thought' is a particular example of the application of The Nature of Science to the topic. This is followed by the material covered under 'Understandings' and 'Applications and skills' together with 'guidance' notes for teaching the sub-topic. Then some tips and advice about how to teach the topic together with key vocabulary, examples of how aspects of the sub-topic exemplify the Nature of Science, international-mindedness and some of the aims (where relevant) as well as links to other areas of knowledge ('Utilization'). There are also detailed suggestions for practical work and other resources such as videos or simulations which you might find useful. As you teach each topic, it is also worth referring to the separate section on how you can relate it to all the other core and AHL chemistry topics.