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Standard Grade - Access 3 - Intermediate 1 - Intermediate 2 - Higher - Advanced Higher

Standard Grade

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Chemical Reactions   Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Disappearing Solution
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
Making Hydrogen
2 - Speed of Reactions   Bottle Rocket
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
3 - Atoms and the Periodic Table   Cannon Fire
Flame Colours
4 - How Atoms Combine   Bottle Rocket
5 - Fuels   Bottle Rocket
Hot and Cold
Making Hydrogen
Money to Burn
6 - Structures and Reactions of Hydrocarbons   Money to Burn
7 - Properties of Substances   Costly Battery
Disappearing Solution
Prussian Blue
8 - Acids and Alkalis   Making Hydrogen
Natural Indicators
9 - Reactions of Acids   Natural Indicators
10 - Making Electricity   Costly Battery
Indigo Carmine
11 - Metals   Eating Iron
12 - Corrosion   Blood Iron
Costly Battery
Disappearing Solution
Indigo Carmine
Making Hydrogen
Prussian Blue
13 - Plastics and Synthetic Fibres   Snow
14 - Fertilisers    
15 - Carbohydrates and Related Substances   Money to Burn

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Access 3

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Chemistry in Action a - Substances Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Making Hydrogen
  b - Chemical reactions Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
Making Hydrogen
Prussian Blue
  c - Acids and alkalis Disappearing Solution
Making Hydrogen
Natural Indicators
2 - Everyday Chemistry a - Metals Blood Iron
Costly Battery
Disappearing Solution
Flame Colours
Making Hydrogen
  b - Personal needs Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
  c - Fuels Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Making Hydrogen
Money to Burn
  d - Plastics Snow
3 - Chemistry and Life a - Photosynthesis and respiration Blood Iron
  b - The effects of chemicals on the growth of plants  
  c - Food and diet Eating Iron
Extracting DNA
  d - Drugs Money to Burn

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Intermediate 1

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Chemistry in Action a - Substances Bottle Rocket
  b - Chemical Reactions Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
Making Hydrogen
Prussian Blue
  c - Bonding  
  d - Acids and alkalis Making Hydrogen
Natural Indicators
2 - Everyday Chemistry a - Metals Blood Iron
Costly Battery
Disappearing Solution
Eating Iron
Flame Colours
Making Hydrogen
  b - Personal Needs Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
  c - Fuels Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Making Hydrogen
Money to Burn
  d - Plastics Snow
3 - Chemistry and Life a - Photosynthesis and respiration Blood Iron
  b - The effects of chemicals on the growth of plants  
  c - Food and Diet Eating Iron
Extracting DNA
  d - Drugs Money to Burn

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Intermediate 2

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Building Blocks a - Substances Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Hot and Cold
  b - Reaction rates Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
  c - The structure of the atom  
  d - Bonding, structure and properties Costly Battery
  e - Chemical symbolism Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
  f - The Mole  
2 - Carbon Compounds a - Fuels Blood Iron
Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Money to Burn
  b - Nomenclature and structural formulae Money to Burn
  c - Reactions of carbon compounds Cannon Fire
Money to Burn
  d - Plastics and synthetic fibres Snow
  e - Natural products Extracting DNA
3 - Acids, Bases and Metals a - Acids and Bases Natural Indicators
  b - Salt Preparation  
  c - Metals Blood Iron
Costly Battery
Disappearing Solution
Eating Iron
Indigo Carmine
Making Hydrogen
Prussian Blue

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Higher

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Energy Matters a - Reaction Rates Bottle Rocket
Hydrogen Peroxide Foam
Prussian Blue
  b - Enthalpy Bottle Rocket
Hot and Cold
  c - Patterns in the Periodic Table  
  d - Bonding, structure and properties  
  e - The Mole  
2 - The World of Carbon a - Fuels Bottle Rocket
Cannon Fire
Money to Burn
  b - Nomenclature and structural formulae Money to Burn
  c - Reactions of carbon compounds  
  d - Uses of carbon compounds  
  e - Polymers Snow
  f - Natural products Extracting DNA
3 - Chemical Reactions a - The chemical industry  
  b - Hess’s law Bottle Rocket
Hot and Cold
  c - Equilibrium Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Disappearing Solution
  d - Acids and bases Natural Indicators
  e - Redox reactions Costly Battery
Indigo Carmine
  f - Nuclear chemistry  

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Advanced Higher

Topic/Unit Sub Topic Experiments
1 - Electronic Structure and the Periodic Table a - Electronic structure Flame Colours
  b - Chemical Bonding Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
  c - Some chemistry of the Periodic Table Blood Iron
Cannon Fire
Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Disappearing Solution
Prussian Blue
2 - Principles of Chemical Reactions a - Stoichiometry  
  b - Chemical equilibrium Cobalt Chloride Thermometer
Disappearing Solution
  c - Thermochemistry Bottle Rocket
Hot and Cold
  d - Reaction feasibility Bottle Rocket
  e - Electrochemistry Costly Battery
  f - Kinetics  
3 - Organic Chemistry a - Permeating aspects of organic chemistry  
  b - Systematic organic chemistry Money to Burn
  c - Stereoisomerism  
  d - Structural analysis  
  e - Medicines  

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