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Enantiomers 1 October 2018

Optical isomerism is not on the core part of the programme but is in the AHL under topic 20.3 Stereoisomerism. It also appears in the extension material of Option B under AHL topic B.10 Stereochemistry... more

Newspaper articles30 September 2018

It may seem strange to include ‘Newspaper articles’ as a heading under resources as they literally change daily. But that is exactly the point. Although a few newspapers such as The Financial Times... more

Detailed syllabus28 September 2018

The detailed syllabus is the most important version of the syllabus when it comes to teaching. As an example, I have added my own labels to part of Topic 3 (taken from page 42 of the IB Chemistry Subject... more

Syllabus content28 September 2018

The syllabus content can be found on pages 27 - 30 of the IB Chemistry Subject Guide. Essentially what it does is break each topic down into separate sub-topics. In the previous (pre-2014) programme it... more

Syllabus28 September 2018

When you look at the IB Chemistry Subject Guide much of the first 19 pages or so is taken up with material which is essentially the same for all Group 4 subjects and chemistry really only comes into its... more

IB Chemistry teachingFree28 September 2018

In some ways this question is impossible to address as of course there are many different national systems so apologies if I have to make some generalisations. In fact if you are used to teaching Chemistry... more

Applying IB chemistry to a diet pill23 September 2018

One of the reasons why life expectancy is starting to fall in certain parts of the world is the increase in obesity.The number of overweight and obese people worldwide has increased from 857 million in... more

Research9 September 2018

All Diploma students will be undertaking an extended essay so research skills should be covered thoroughly during their two year course. This may be by you, if you are supervising their extended essays... more

Self-management5 September 2018

Self-management skills can be broken down into two distinct types:andBoth are important, both can be modelled and both are to a large extent teachable. Possessing and practising good self-management skills... more

Social skills4 September 2018

It perhaps seems a little odd to include social skills as something that we as chemistry teachers need to teach our students – don’t we have enough to do already simply to get through the syllabus?... more