The contents of the Chemistry strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum.

Contents of both editions...

The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry students’ books were not intended to be conventional textbooks, or background books, or books of data. The books were deliberately left in many ways incomplete. The aim was to provide students with a series of starting points from which to explore the chemistry at advanced level....

Teachers’ Guide II and Students’ Book II of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry covered the seven topics which constituted the work suggested for the second year of the course. Students were also expected to work though one Special Study.

This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book is historical and traces the discovery of the group of elements that we now call the ‘noble gases’.

There are three parts to this...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Distinguish a physical from a chemical property
• Use the location of metals and non-metals in the Periodic Table to predict the properties of an element.
• Describe the trend...

These downloadable animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce ideas of atoms and types of structures.

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Produced by the Institute of Physics, this topic explores the wave-particle nature of matter. As with quantum theory, this is a topic that students are likely to find completely new. They are unlikely to have already met the wave nature of particles or the wave nature of electrons bound within atoms.

The...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the structure and scale of an atom.
• Describe the properties of protons and neutrons in a nucleus.        
• Determine the structure of an atom from its mass number...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Understand that a chemical formula provides information on the composition of a substance.

• Select an appropriate chemical formula for a given, simple, molecule.

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This is one of a suite of continuing professional development (CPD) units from the Department for Education covering the five ‘key ideas’ at Key Stage Three (cells, interdependence, particles, forces and energy). It links with the...

This simulation allows students to explore molecule shapes by building molecules in 3D and seeing how the molecule's shape changes as atoms are added.

It can be used to demonstrate that:

*The molecule shape is due to repulsions between atoms.

*The bonds are not fixed in place, but can rotate...

This booklet contains a range of suggested teaching activities and contexts for atom economy and percentage yield at A level. 

Although produced to support the teaching of OCR AS/A Level Chemistry A specifications (H157, H557) the resource is useful for teaching these topics in any...