Energy Today and Tomorrow Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • Sources and uses of energy. • Conservation of energy. • Alternative and renewable energy sources. • Solar energy as a fundamental source of biomass energy. • Nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil…
Fighting Disease Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The use and importance of germicides. • The chemist's role in public health. • Some of the chemical reactions inside our bodies. • The function and properties of enzymes. • The relationship between…
Burning and Bonding Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • causes and control of fire • flash points & controlled burning • energy changes in chemical reactions • bond breaking and making exothermic and endothermic changes • energy level diagrams •…
Making and Using Electricity Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy. • The construction and operation of electrochemical cells. • The conversion of electrical energy to chemical energy during electrolysis. • The use…
Buildings Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • Properties of building materials including their reactions with acid. • Factors which affect rate of reaction. • The relationship between the properties and uses of building materials and their structure. [b]Core…
Keeping Clean Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The use of soaps and soapless detergents. • Emulsions and the action of emulsifiers. • The hardness of water. • The manufacture and use of cosmetics, shampoos. • Toothpastes and household cleaners. [b]Core…
Minerals Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The extraction and production of important materials from sulphide ores, iron ore and limestone. • The use of relative atomic masses for determining the masses of reactants and products. • The Periodic Table…
Food Processing Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • Chemical aspects of some food processes in the home. • Chemical aspects of food processing in industry. [b]Core contents[b] FP1: How do we make cakes rise? FP2: How does cooking affect food? FP3: How do we preserve…
Growing Food Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The use of relative atomic masses in determining the masses of reactants and products. • The manufacture, properties and uses of fertilizers. • Soil analysis and treatment to match crop needs. • The role…
Plastics Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The preparation of plastics by polymerization. • The importance of ethene as a source of plastics. • The uses and properties of plastics. • The use of molecular models to show structure and bonding in monomers…
Transporting Chemicals Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The range of properties of chemicals. • The use of symbols, formulas and balanced equations. • The commercial importance of chemicals. • Factors influencing siting of the chemical industry. • Methods…
Food Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The concept of foods as mixtures of chemical substances • A comparison of foods and fuels • The energy content of different foods • The role and importance of food in our diet. [b]Core contents[b] F1:…
Warmth Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The use of fuels in keeping warm • The chemical changes when fuels burn • Some consequences of the large scale use of fuels. [b]Core contents[b] W1: How do we keep warm? W2: Is there an ideal fuel? W3:…
Clothing Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The properties and structures of the fibres used to make clothing • The care of fabrics • Modification of the properties of fabrics. [b]Core contents[b] C1: What are our clothes made of? C2: How can we identify…
Drinks Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The provision of a safe water supply • The production of different kinds of drink [b]Core contents[b] D1: What do drinks contain? D2: How can water be made safe to drink? D3: What makes drinks fizzy? D4: How…
Metals Unit Guide
This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered: • The importance of metals • The characteristics of metals • The relationship between the properties of metals and their uses • Problems of corrosion. [b]Core contents[b] M1: What are metals M2: Which…
Transporting Chemicals
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. The story-line for this unit is the whole world market for manufactured chemicals and the need to transport them safely to where they are needed. This shows the importance of systems which convey concise, accurate information, independent of national or linguistic…
The Atmosphere
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. The first section of the module introduces the formation, composition and structure of the atmosphere. The Sun is our main source of energy. Students consider why sunlight is more intense near the equator and how the tilt of the Earth’s axis causes the seasons.…
Restless Earth
A Year 10 module from the Salters’ double award science course. Restless Earth was designed as a short module of four to six lessons. The module begins with stories about earthquakes. This is followed by practical work with rock puzzles to see how information is gathered about past movements in the Earth’s surface. Evidence…
Moving On
A Year 10 module from the Salters’ double award science course. This module develops ideas about forces and motion in the context of road transport. It begins by eliciting some of the ideas students already have. Text activities consider the driving and counter forces involved when a bicycle starts, reaches a steady speed,…
Mining and Minerals
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. The module begins with a survey of minerals world wide and their constituent elements. This provides opportunities for practice with symbols, formulae and equations. A practical simulation of geological mapping shows how ores are located, leading to a role-play…
Keeping Healthy
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. Practical tests using “urine” samples illustrate chemical diagnostic testing for illness. Different types of illness are classified, also different types of micro-organisms and the body’s defences against them. Experiments show how bacteria grow…
Food for Thought
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. A text activity on world food supplies introduces a series of experiments on photosynthesis and the role of chlorophyll. Experiments on the effects of nutrient deficiency leads to consideration of the use of fertilisers. Preparation of nitrogen leads to discussion…
Energy Matters
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. The module begins by looking at the large variety of labour-saving devices now available and their impact on life-styles. Students work with a range of common electrical devices to investigate the relative amounts of energy transferred when each is in operation.…
Electricity in the Home
A Year Ten module from the Salters double award science course. Models are used to illustrate conservation of current in a series circuit leading to studies of voltage, current and resistance and the resistance law. Devices which have different resistance in response to conditions, such as LDRs and thermistors are investigated. Students…
Construction Materials
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. A surveyor’s report on a proposed barn conversion is used to introduce different materials used in construction and issues associated with their use. The lessons which follow then consider each type of material in turn, reviewing structure, properties and…
Communicating Information
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. Exercises on codes and signalling methods introduce ideas about communication. A study of the ear leads to sound communication systems such as radio and telephones. Lenses are studied and the formation of images. Studies of pin-hole cameras lead to comparison…
Balancing Acts
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award GCSE science course. This module deals with interactions between species in ecosystems. Students are shown how stable conditions lead to a natural balance in populations and how human activities can disturb this balance. Feeding relationships, food chains and food webs are studied…
Waste Not, Want Not
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The breakdown of domestic waste is observed. A text exercises describes the processes used in a waste water plant. Natural cycles, including the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle are studied. Finally, students consider the extent to which household…
Staying Alive
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. This module explores the controlled and co-ordinated energy changes which maintain a complex series of interlinked metabolic processes in living tissues. Different objects are compared to revise the characteristics of living things. The structure…
Sports Science
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The context for this module is the use of scientific ideas to explain human performance. Students discuss what is meant by being ‘fit’. They compare different uses of the word 'work' and are given a formal definition. Calculations…
Sound Reproduction
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The science content of this module covers electromagnetism, the inductive effect and the motor effect. These topics are developed in the context of recording and reproducing sound. Students begin by recording and playing back their own voices.…