Assessment
Checklist for the exams
This page provides a checklist for students so you can be sure that you have covered and understood everything that you may be assessed on for both Paper 1 and Paper 2 in the final examination at the...
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Teaching 1H NMR Free
My first Blog post! Students find getting to grips with proton NMR to be a real challenge. However, I find that if I can help them break it down into all the component pieces of information that together...
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Could your fitness tracker be forever? Free
fitness tracker (image Amazon) Could your smart watch or fitness tracker, or, more precisely, its strap, be forever? For their Scientific Investigation (IA) students are told they should investigate the...
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IB Chemistry Holiday Crossword (and solution) Free
When you are relaxing and have got some time to spare over the holiday period you might like to try to solve this crossword which I've made up. You can download a pdf of the grid and the clues either...
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(AHL) Drug detection & analysis
One of the quirks of the current syllabus is that sometimes it is not exactly clear what should be covered when teaching a topic. Much of this sub-topic is self-evident but one problem occurs in the ‘Applications...
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Opiates
Some care needs to be taken with some of the statements made in the subject guide about morphine and its derivatives.In the Nature of Science section for D.3 it states “Data and its subsequent relationships—opium...
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Aspirin & penicillin
It seems rather odd to me to have a sub-topic covering just aspirin and penicillin as they would appear to have little in common – even the ‘Understandings’ and ‘Applications and skills’ in the Guide...
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(AHL) Electrochemistry, rechargeable batteries & fuel cells
The first crude fuel cells were actually invented as long ago as 1838 by William Grove, a Welshman and independently by Christian Schönbein from Germany. It was the NASA space programme that really developed...
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Nuclear fusion & nuclear fission reactions
The moon - a source of helium-3? Man first walked on the moon on 20 July 1969 and last set foot on the moon on 14 December 1972. Recently there has been increased interest in returning to the moon and...
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(AHL) Proteins & enzymes
Written specifically for students to provide help and support for the IB Diploma chemistry programme this page provides full coverage of the syllabus content of Option B - sub topic B.7. It encourages...