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Demonstrations7 December 2022

Wherever possible I prefer to get students to gain ‘hands on’ experience of chemistry by doing their own practical experiments. There are times though when it can be useful to ‘do’ or ‘show’... more

Post IB text books7 December 2022

It is well worth considering building up a library of a few essential books that go beyond the IB level. You may wish to keep these in your school's main library or build up a small Chemistry library... more

General text books7 December 2022

There are now several books written specifically for the IB chemistry programme for first examination in 2016 (see separate page) and I feel that each student should have their own copy of at least one... more

IB specific booksFree7 December 2022

When I first started teaching the IB back in 1982 there were no books written specifically for the IB. For the core, teachers had to find good text books from national systems and for the Applied Chemistry... more

Approaches to learningFree7 December 2022

In addition to reflecting on how we teach it is equally important to consider how students learn. We need to help them build up their learning skills and encourage them in their learning. In many ways... more

Practice Paper 1 examsFree7 December 2022

As you teach the course your students should gain plenty of practice at answering multiple choice questions on each topic from the many example tests on Multiple choice tests for each topic. These will... more

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