Teaching, learning & resources
Deadlines and feedback
This page covers the latest dates that both students marked, assessed or moderated work (EE, IA and predicted grades) and teachers comments on the exams must be submitted to the IB. It also covers the...
Teaching, learning & resources
Chemistry - part of the IB Diploma
This section puts chemistry into the context of the whole IB Diploma programme, showing how chemistry relates to all the other elements of the programme - effectively how it is ‘delocalized’ within the...
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For teachers new to the IB
This page gives advice and encouragement to teachers new to teaching the IB and gives some essential resources, support networks, ideas for teaching approaches and assessment to help to get you started....
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How useful are oxidation states?
This page questions how useful oxidation states really are as the rules used to determine them are based on a false assumption and lead to some strange values being assigned which are not particularly...
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Unnecessary concepts in chemistry
Over the years, as chemistry has developed and our understanding has increased, many ideas that were once thought to be immutable facts and concepts in chemistry have been shown to be false or discredited...
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A modern paradigm
The different phases that take place when a paradigm shift occurs are identified. Phlogiston is used as one of the classical example in chemistry and the way in which the formation of chemical bonds has...
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Emotion and chemistry
This page seeks to question the fact that chemists, in fact scientists in general, operate in an emotional vacuum as they need to be dispassionate observers concerned only with seeking the truth. Many...
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IUPAC
The formation of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) is described and its aims expounded. IUPAC, which is made up of over 1000 chemists from industry and academia, is a great...
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Why bring TOK into chemistry?
This page considers why it is important to make TOK an integral part of your learning and understanding of chemistry - it will make you a better all-round student and the study of chemistry more enjoyable....
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The twelve TOK concepts
This page focuses on the "concept-based nature of TOK and how the twelve concepts underpinning this are transdisciplinary in nature and in particular how they are relevant to the understanding of chemistry....