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Subject : Chemistry Class : Junior (IG2) Academic Year : 2018 - 2019

Session Topic / Content Learning Outcomes Teaching & Resources

/ Week
2.1 Measurement • Name appropriate apparatus
for the measurement of time,
temperature, mass and volume,
including burettes, pipettes and
measuring cylinders
Learning activities
A circus of experiments may be used There are some good videos on
to introduce this by measuring the YouTube. For example: Using a
temperature, mass and volumes of measuring cylinder:
different coloured liquids (water/food www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_X8yKlz
dye). (I) This will be reinforced when bkg Using a burette:
all experimental work is conducted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZqR5Kl
mTw Using a pipette:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRQ95Q
fWNY

2.2.1 Criteria of • Demonstrate knowledge and Experimental work can involve simple Chromatography of sweets:
purity understanding of paper inks, sweets, leaves, dyes and food www.practicalchemistry.org/experiments
chromatography • Interpret colourings. Non-permanent felt-tip /chromatography-
simple chromatograms pens work well. ofsweets%2C194%2CEX.html and
www.rsc.org/learn-
chemistry/resource/res00000455/smartie
s-chromatography

Chromatography of leaves:
www.practicalchemistry.org/experiments
/chromatography-of-leaves,199,EX.html

Session Topic / Content Learning Outcomes Teaching & Resources

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/ Week Learning activities
2.2.1 Criteria of • Interpret simple Extension activity: with abler learners Clear explanations can be found at:
purity chromatograms, including the use Rf values to compare the height of www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/chromat
use of Rf values the spots on the chromatograms ography/paper.html and
obtained above. (I)
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/scie
nce/triple_ocr_21c/further_chemistry/chr
omatography/revision/4/

2.2.1 Criteria of • Outline how chromatography
purity techniques can be applied to
colourless substances by
exposing chromatograms to
substances called locating
agents (Knowledge of specific
locating agents is not required.)
2.2.1 Criteria of • Identify substances and assess
purity their purity from melting point
and boiling point information
Session Topic / Content Learning Outcomes
/ Week
2.2.1 Criteria of Understand the importance of
purity purity in substances in
Experimental work can be extended to Chromatography of amino acids:
include separating a mixture of amino www.biotopics.co.uk/as/amino_acid_chr
acids (using ninhydrin as a locating omatography.html
agent) and simple sugars. This may be
best done as a teacher demonstration.
This can be demonstrated by www.nuffieldfoundation.org/practical-
dissolving sodium chloride or other chemistry/solid-mixtures-tin-and-lead-
salts in water or by comparing the solder
melting point of the alloy, solder, with
those of lead and tin. The use of salt
on roads to melt ice could be
mentioned in this context. Practical
procedure for comparing melting
points of lead, tin and solder:
Teaching & Resources
Learning activities
Chemists need pure substances to This web page contains some
study their properties. Pure information:

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everyday life, e.g. foodstuffs substances are used in industry to
and drugs make useful products such as food
and drugs. This could be set as a
brief research activity.
2.2.2 Methods of • Describe and explain methods Typical solvents to use are water
purification of purification by the use of a (salt/sand) or ethanol (salt/sugar).
suitable solvent, filtration,
crystallisation and distillation Filtration is used in one of the salt
(including use of fractionating preparation methods above to remove
column) the excess solid.
(Refer to the fractional Crystallisation is used in most salt
distillation of petroleum in preparations to obtain the final
section 14.2 and products product.
Experimental work can involve:
• purification of an impure solid
• demonstration of the extraction of
iodine from seaweed
• distillation of a carbonated drink or
coloured water
• demonstration of the (partial)
separation of ethanol from water by
distillation
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/sci
ence/add_ocr_gateway/chemical_econ
omics/batchcontinuousrev4.shtml
`• demonstration of the separation of
‘petroleum fractions’ from mixtures of
hydrocarbons using ‘artificial’ crude oil.
Experiment: The distillation of a
carbonated drink This experiment
focuses on a distillation experiment
using a carbonated drink.
Extension activity: the separation of
oxygen and nitrogen from liquid air by
fractional distillation. Separating salt and
sand:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/practical-
chemistry/separating-sand-and-salt
Extracting iodine from seaweed:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/practical-
chemistry/extracting-iodine-seaweed
Fractional distillation of (artificial) crude
oil:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/practical-
chemistry/fractional-distillationcrude-oil
An excellent collection of animations
and video clips can be found at:
www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/
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 resource/3988/particles-in-motion This
was originally published by Royal
Society of Chemistry on a CD ROM,
‘Particles in Motion’, 2006

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