Chemistry
Specification: SALTERS
This course aims to be lively and interesting, illustrating the ways in which Chemistry is used in real life and the work chemists do. It is successful in bringing school Chemistry up to date by including the very latest developments in the discipline. An important feature of Salters Advanced Chemistry is the gradual introduction of ideas in a spiral approach.
Available resources provided are:
Chemical Storylines – Which puts chemistry in a real world context.
Chemical Ideas - Chemical concepts that support understanding.
Activities – Outlining the wide variety of activities covered in the course
http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as_alevelgce/chemistry_salters/documents.html
Over the first year three units will be studied.
Chemistry for Life: The Elements of Life, Developing Fuels
Chemistry of natural resources: Elements from the sea, The Atmosphere, The Polymer Revolution
Skills for Chemistry: Chemistry in Practice
During Year 13 (A2) there will be three further units studied.
Chemistry of materials:
- What’s in a Medicine, The Materials
- Revolution, The Thread of Life &
- Steel Story
Chemistry by Design:
- Agriculture and Industry, Colour by
- Design, The Oceans, Medicines by
- Design
Skills for Chemistry:
- Individual Investigations
Skills: An analytical and enquiring mind.
For further details please contact Dr Dobbs