Experiments

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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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