Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic

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This site should always be free to use on-line, Google Adsense adverts or book purchases via Amazon.co.uk pay for all the internet-broadband and web hosting fees and hopefully a new faster computer in the future and I try to ensure that most adverts in the science-chemistry sections concern educational material.

• INTRODUCTION - how you and your students can help!

  • I'm aiming to write a completely integrated chemistry website to cover anything encountered before university (initial encounter age usually 11-18). There will be increasing links, backward/forward, and upward/downward, to aid transition from one academic level to another.

  • What do you, or your students, like or dislike about the site?

  • What country/course are your students doing? I'm UK based and its sometimes difficult to relate to other countries national grades or levels, so can you please help?

  • Suggest improvements? Email any possible Q or revision note errors AND any broken link (there are over 3000⁺ Q's and 4000⁺ links in the site!). 

  • Encourage the students to be familiar with the icon system and the academic level of the web pages.

  doc b's CV * site appreciations *

• UK school year Y7 to Y9, the chemistry and earth science for SAT's
  • Usual minimum age UK 11-14, USA grades 6-8, Australia Y7-8?
    • multi-word fill work sheets, multiple choice quizzes and crossword puzzles etc.

• UK KS4 Y10 to Y11 (and = IGCSE)  chemistry, earth science and radioactivity
  • Usual minimum UK age 14-16, USA grades 9-10, Australia Y9-10?

    • summary of everything available for this level of study

    • summary of support for the chemistry, earth science and radioactivity for any individual UK syllabus for AQA, Edexcel or OCR gcse science or chemistry syllabus

    • basic revision notes for most GCSE or IGCSE chemistry topics in single, double or triple award science or chemistry (should be complete by end of Jan 2004)

    • Earth science page (links to www, cue Q and answer notes)

    • multiple choice and multiple completion tests (usually for UK HT and FT entry level)

    • single short answer tests (usually for HT and FT chemical calculations)

    • structured questions

    • multi-word fill exercises - a bit cumbersome on-line but can be printed out with word list (for white background, make sure internet printer settings are such that 'background colour' is NOT printed)

    • crosswords - a bit cumbersome on-line but there are 'printing out' versions (for black background, make sure internet printer settings are such that 'background colour' WILL BE printed)

    • Matching pair exercises (simple short exercises - handy at start or end of a lesson for summary or review purposes)

    • Just a few exercises so far with jumbled sentences

• UK GCE AS (usually minimum Y12) and A2 (usually minimum Y13) level Organic, Inorganic and Theoretical Physical Chemistry - this area is relatively under-developed on the site but this will change over the next 1-2 years.
  • Usual minimum age UK 16-18 for pre-tertiary, college or university etc., USA grades 11-12, Australia Y11-12?
    • summary of links to everything available
    • summary of links to advanced-subsidiary chemistry syllabus support (being written)
    • basic revision and research information notes
    • multiple choice and multiple completion tests (HT and FT)
    • single short answer tests (HT and FT)
    • structured questions
    • Matching pair exercises (a few handy simple short exercises)

• Miscellaneous link pages
  • interesting web chemistry articles for all levels

• USA GRADES
  • 6th Grade - age 11-12
  • Middle School or Junior High: 7th Grade - age 12-13; 8th Grade - age 13-14
    High School (although some larger schools include 9th with 7th & 8th to make a Middle School)
  • 9th Grade - age 14-15 (commonly called Freshmen); 10th Grade - age 15-16 (commonly called Sophomores); 11th Grade - age 16-17 (commonly called Juniors); 12th Grade - age 17-18 (commonly called Seniors)

And yet another bit is Low cost chemistry experiments, the cheaper and more sophisticated the better! This is a new site I've just started and I'm hoping for lots voluntary contributions which I will happily organise for the 'chemical community'

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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. scientific investigations, educational development, scientific exhibitions, scientific adventures, science projects, fantasy science, science fiction, interesting science demonstrations, fascinating science experiments, science education conferences, scientific expeditions, scientific information and databases, revision tutoring resources for syllabuses specifications examinations, chemical physical biological forensic science, scientific applications, science-chemistry tuition courses * "Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic" * Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic" * Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic" *  Dr Brown's chemistry notes-information * Dr Browns chemistry notes-information * Dr Brown's chemistry notes-information * Dr Browns chemistry notes-information *revising National curriculum KS3 SATs science at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic *  revising National Curriculum KS3 SATs science at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic * IGCSE-GCSE KS4 science-chemistry  revision at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic *  IGCSE-GCSE KS4 science-chemistry revision at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic * revising AS A2 IB GCE advanced level chemistry at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic *  revising AS A2 IB GCE advanced level chemistry at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic * scientific investigations, educational development, scientific exhibitions, scientific adventures, science projects, fantasy science, science fiction, interesting science demonstrations, fascinating science experiments, science education conferences, scientific expeditions, scientific information and databases, revision tutoring resources for syllabuses specifications examinations, chemical physical biological forensic science, scientific applications, science-chemistry tuition courses

KS4 SCIENCE - Additional & Applied Chemistry help

AQA GCSE Science - Chemistry

CCEA GCSE Science - Chemistry

Edexcel GCSE 360Science - Chemistry

OCR GCSE 21st Century Science Suite - Chemistry

OCR GCSE Gateway Science Suite - Chemistry

OCR GCSE Applied Science - Chemistry (double award)

WJEC GCSE Science - Chemistry