FORM 3 - St Joseph School, Blata l-Bajda

Textbooks: Edexcel International GCSE Chemistry by Graham Hill & Robert Wensley
Calculations for GCSE Chemistry by E. N. Ramsden
1 ST TERM
TOPIC DETAILS PRACTICALS
1. STATES OF MATTER Physical characteristics of each state.
Changes of state.
The state in which a substance will exist at room temperature in terms
of melting and boiling point.
Interpretation of a heating/cooling curve.
Diffusion and Brownian motion in terms of the kinetic theory of matter.
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2. PHYSICAL and
CHEMICAL CHANGES
The differences between physical and chemical changes as shown through
different experiments.
3. ELEMENTS,
Definition of an element.
COMPOUNDS and
The use of symbols of elements as shown in a periodic table.
Filtration and Crystallization
MIXTURES
Metals and non-metals.
Chromatography
Formation of compounds from elements.
Simple Distillation
Differences between compounds and mixtures.
Separation techniques.
4. ATOMIC THEORY Definition of an atom and a molecule.
Naming compounds.
Writing formulae of compounds using valency.
5. ATOMIC STRUCTURE Proton, electron and neutron: relative charges and masses.
Mass number and atomic number.
Electron configuration.
Atomic diagrams.
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Isotopes and relative molecular mass.
Stability of the noble gas configuration and formation of ions.
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6. CHEMICAL BONDING Electrovalent/ionic bonding.
Covalent bonding.
Metallic bonding.
Covalent structures.
HALF YEARLY EXAMS
7. CHEMICAL
EQUATIONS
Writing balanced chemical equations starting from a word equation and
including state symbols.
8. AIR and
%composition of gases in air.
COMBUSTION
Experiments to determine the % of oxygen in air.
Candle experiment to
Fractional distillation of air.
determine % of oxygen in air
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Uses of the various gases found in air.
Combustion of fuels and tests for water and carbon dioxide.
Air pollution
.Rusting experiment.
Rusting
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9. OXYGEN Laboratory preparation of oxygen from hydrogen peroxide.
Preparation and tests of
Test for oxygen.
Industrial preparation of oxygen.
Uses of oxygen.
Physical properties of oxygen.
Reaction of oxygen with metals and non-metals.
Classification of oxides.
Oxidation and reduction in terms of addition and removal of oxygen.
Ozone and comparison to oxygen as its allotrope.
oxygen.
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10. HYDROGEN Laboratory preparation of hydrogen from the action of a dilute acid on
a metal.
Test for hydrogen.
Physical properties of hydrogen.
Uses of hydrogen.
Isotopes of hydrogen.
Reaction of hydrogen with metals and non-metals.
Hydrogen as a reducing agent.
11. CALCULATIONS
RAM, RMM.
% composition of an element in a compound.
% water of crystallization.
Empirical and Molecular formulae.
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