Chemistry
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- Hard, soft, rough, smooth
- Floating and sinking
- Ice, water and steam
- Mixing and making
- Wet and dry
- Squashy and stretchy
- Magnetic or not?
- Does it dissolve?
- Colour mixing
- Hot and cold
- What melts in your hand
- Thick and thin liquids
- Oil and water do not mix
- Freezing different liquids
- Heating things: reversible or not?
- Sorting by more than one property
Key Stage 1
- What things are made of
- Rocks, soils and fossils
- Choosing the right material
- Squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
- Waterproof or not
- Using materials again
- Testing and comparing carefully
- Natural and man-made materials
- Sorting materials by their properties
- Materials that keep us warm
- Snaps or bends: brittle and flexible materials
- Cutting, folding and joining materials
- Does shape make something stronger?
- Looking closely at materials
- Asking a testable question
- Writing down what you find
Key Stage 2
- Rocks, soil and how fossils form
- Melting and boiling points
- Comparing materials by their properties
- Solids, liquids and gases
- Reversible and irreversible changes
- The water cycle
- Separating mixtures
- Testing materials fairly
- Grouping materials by their properties
- Recording and presenting results
- Evaporation and condensation
- Dissolving and recovering a substance
- Which materials carry heat
- Which materials carry electricity
- Sorting materials with a magnet
- How much will dissolve
- Choosing a material from evidence
- Changes that make something new
- How igneous rock forms from volcanoes
- The rock cycle
- How people use different rocks
- Comparing soils from different places
- Investigating which rock is most permeable
- Fossils and what they tell us about the past
- Why ice floats on water
- Everyday changes of state in cooking and freezing
- Investigating what makes water evaporate fastest
- Measuring temperature accurately with a thermometer
- Designing an insulated container
- Carbon: graphite and diamond
- Everyday uses of magnets
- Investigating how fast different solids dissolve
Key Stage 3
- Physical and chemical change
- The reactivity series
- Atoms, elements and the periodic table
- Acids, alkalis and reactions
- Earth, rocks and the atmosphere
- Chemical reactions and equations
- Particles and states of matter
- Mixtures and how to separate them
- Pure substances and testing purity
- Energy in reactions
- Metals, ceramics and polymers
- Groups and trends in the periodic table
- Chemical formulae and balancing equations
- How atoms bond: sharing and transferring electrons
- Acid plus metal: making a salt and hydrogen
- Making a soluble salt: the practical method
- The carbon cycle
- Using the Earth's resources: extraction and recycling
- Brownian motion: evidence that particles are moving
- Density and the particle model
- Catalysts: speeding up reactions
- What affects how fast a reaction goes
- Nanoparticles and nanotechnology
- Composite materials: combining properties
GCSE
- Tests for gases and ions
- The chemistry of the atmosphere
- Acids, bases and salts
- Organic chemistry: crude oil and polymers
- Atomic structure and bonding
- Rates of reaction
- The periodic table and its groups
- Required practicals and exam skills
- Quantitative chemistry
- Electrolysis and extracting metals
- Energy changes in reactions
- The reactivity series and displacement reactions
- Paper chromatography and formulations
- Titrations and concentration calculations
- Giant covalent structures and metallic bonding
- Percentage yield and atom economy
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