SITE PURPOSE EDUCATION -
online learning or 'self-private-tuition' using revision notes, quizzes,
practice tests involving SCIENCE in the areas of REVISING only the
CHEMISTRY-Earth Science-Radioactivity at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic via
HOMEPAGE in secondary school/schools, 6th form college/colleges,
academy/academies or home self-study and may help with 1st year undergraduate
university chemistry courses. Hopefully it will encourage interest and
understanding of Chemistry, Earth Science and Radioactivity in any country of
the world, though the site is written entirely in English. The website is
designed to help and unofficially support students/teachers revise-learn/teach
the chemistry for modular or co-ordinated examination science courses from UK
QCA based AQA, OCR (Oxford and Cambridge) Twenty First (21st) Century and
Gateway Science, Edexcel 360Science , Nuffield, Salters, Cambridge International
(CIE), London International, WJEC, CCEA exams etc. Also, national award
assessments-examinations for GCSE-IGCSE-KS4-O level-BTEC-NVQ applied, additional
and chemistry science courses, Advanced Subsidiary Level
GCE-AS-A2-IB-KS5-BTEC-NVQ National Chemistry assessment levels, KS3 SATs
Science-biology/chemistry/physics (SAT revision levels 3-5 or 5-7) and covers
much of the revising, learning and teaching chemistry of the International
Baccalaureate, K12 US grade 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,AP basic level examinations for the
national curriculum for secondary schools and colleges. The site does not
support the content of England, Wales or Northern Ireland primary science KS1 or
KS2. The notes should also provide some background theory for a coursework
assignment or a project. BUT please note that my on-line revision notes and
quizzes are no substitute for good classroom teaching-lecturing and thorough
studying of your own notes and textbooks, practicing past papers and a copy of
the syllabus which are readily downloaded from the examination board sites, but
I hope here and there they will lend a tutoring hand on some topic, unit, module
etc. For final revision you have to be intellectually honest about what you
don't know or follow, YOU have to take the stuff to pieces, analyse what you
do/do not understand and reconstruct it so it all makes sense in the end. There
is no other way, there are no magic secrets on how to revise and learn, its
mainly down to hard work and just good old fashioned study and employing
teach-yourself strategies without the need for extra tutors and tutoring
lessons. I also think there is too much hit and miss revision using past papers
(which I do NOT supply) and not enough systematic revision. I also hope it will
help teachers in planning lessons and developing schemes of work for
science-chemistry. There are no lesson plans on the site but there are plenty of
quizzes to incorporate into classroom activities whether photocopied or on
electronic whiteboard projector for use as self-tuition-assessment purposes and
a variety of teaching and learning styles and the images may be used in
Microsoft Word documents and powerpoint projections. The site seems to be used
by a large number of home study tutors, particularly the revision notes. An
individual tutor may printout out the notes for science-chemistry learning
teaching-tuition purposes and for background material for assignments and
projects. I have no interest or time in producing WORD.doc or xxxx.pdf revision
notes files of the notes at the moment. Neither have I time to write up many
practical laboratory experiments ('lab'-'labs') at the moment, but the notes
contain lots of background information of chemical reactions in terms of
observations-balanced equations-reactants-products-theory etc. I also find it
difficult to recommend specific exam websites or syllabus textbooks, it depends
exactly on what you need, what you have time for, and there are so many of them
to choose from and I do not supply past examination papers for classes. Dr W P
Brown I 28-10-2007
