Chemistry

47 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

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

Key Stage 2

• 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

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

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

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