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Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic

Useful Chemistry web sites

Particularly good and interesting hemistry web magazines with regularly changing content - generally no good for revisiom but ecellent for a 'chemical education'

www.acdlabs.com/webzine/ a really excellent and interesting site with lots of articles, links, comments, good humor, archive pages etc. etc.
www.chemicalelements.com/index.html another very good Periodic Table site, can display with name, atomic number, relative atomic mass, electron arrangement or melting/boiling point also provides information on the 109 named elements plus elements 110 - 112.
www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/silly/sillymols.htm not always sure what to make of this site! BUT IT IS AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CHEMISTRY SITE !!!!
www.ScienceMaster.com This is also a really brilliant link to an endless variety of interesting science including plenty of chemistry
www.101science.com/Chemistry.htm This is more revision orientated but also a good link to an endless variety of interesting chemistry
http://chemistry.about.com A really interesting site packed with CHEMISTRY and general science links eg geology, dead easy to sign up for frequent emails.
http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks/categories/chemistry1.jsp NEW SCIENTIST CHEMISTRY PAGE
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Lots of links to super pictures etc. etc.

Other sites that might prove useful to students of all pre-university levels

www.chemguide.co.uk Jim Clarks profuse and brilliant notes on advanced level chemistry

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 and examinations, 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. The sites resources include revision notes, quizzes and worksheets which provide support for home study or tuition for homework and coursework help e.g. science investigations for any of the key stage courses indicated, but I do not supply lesson plans. Dr W P Brown I 10-11-2007