Start here

Welcomes you to the site and takes you through how to navigate the site and set up and use student access. It also provides initial advice and encouragement to teachers new to IB Diploma chemistry.

Teaching, learning & resources  

Explains how chemistry fits into the whole IB Diploma programme and how teaching IB chemistry may differ from teaching chemistry in your own national system. Looks at the syllabus and suggests how you can plan your teaching schedule. Considers teaching styles and skills that you can employ and gives advice on writing unit plans. Learning skills are listed and exemplified and a wide range of resources given.

Delivering the programme

Syllabus (including possible teaching schedules, unit plans, resources, a list of the changes from the previous 2014 programme and teaching SL and HL together), approaches to teaching, teaching each topic and sub-topic, the skills required, the nature of science, Incorporating chemistry into a real world context, making links between topics and multiple choice tests for each main topic.

Experimental programme & IA 

Full coverage of the scientific project and internal assessment, full details of 'hands on' practicals, the collaborative sciences project and setting up and equipping a new laboratory.

External assessment

Essential facts about the external assessment, Paper 1 and Paper 2, areas of difficulty and sample questions, the examination process and frequently asked questions about external assessment.

IB Core

The IB learner profile, extended essays and theory of knowledge (TOK) with the emphasis on how they all relate to chemistry.

Fast track to tests & questions 

Direct links to all the quizzes and short-answer questions on all the sub-topics, the multiple choice tests on each main topic and direct links to printable (pdf) versions of multiple choice tests and written tasks (all with worked answers).

Complete course for students

(Click on the top heading " (Complete) Course for students (First exam May 2025)" to access this section)

This is free for all your IB chemistry students provided you have signed them up to student access. It gives them direct access to the whole programme specifically written for students. It is completely separate to all the other (teacher) parts of the site although, of course, you can access it too and you can control your students' access to all the quizzes tests and questions.

Contains: Approaches to learning, full coverage of each topic and sub-topic, making links between topics, covering the skills, practical work (including IA and collaborative sciences project), nature of science, incorporating chemistry into a real world context, external assessment, learner profile, extended essays in chemistry and theory of knowledge as well as all the quizzes, tests and questions.