© dreamstime Year 12 into Year 13 This work is designed to help you consolidate your knowledge from Year 12 and to prepare for Year 13. You will also need to continue with your revision of all the topics we have covered this year including those from the Year 2 book. This transition work forms part of your enrolment into Year 13 and completion is a requirement of your place with us next year. That means the “Recap of Year 12 Content” and “Preparation for Year 13” tasks MUST be handed in during your first lesson after the Summer holidays (assume this is the first day of term) and you will be assessed on this work at the start of term. Failure to complete this will result in a green slip.
RECAP OF YEAR 12 CONTENT 1. Use the MaChemGuy revision grid (a copy is on Teams) to make sure you cover all the topics at least once and work though all the materials for those you have found most challenging.
2. Review your mechanisms pathway table and make sure you learn the reagents and conditions and are confident in drawing all the mechanisms (you have covered reactions 1-15 excluding 14b). Remember mechanisms should be drawn in full using R-CH2-CH3 and showing all dipoles, charges and curly arrows along with any intermediate species. If more than one product can be formed then all possible routes should be identified and the major product marked with *.
The table should look like the one below. Reaction Type of Equation Reagents Conditions Mechanism number reaction (using R- CH2-CH3)
PREPARATION FOR YEAR 13 1. Prepare to complete PAGs 5.2 and 9.1. You may word process any parts you need to write, these can then be stuck into your PAG books in September. The student sheets are on Teams. The risk assessment should include all chemicals that are used or made but does not need to include standard practical procedures such as wearing safety goggles. Remedial measures should be included. 2. Write a set of experimental instructions for: a. determining the molar mass of an acid by titration and b. determining the enthalpy change of neutralisation.
These should be suitable for a student starting in year 12. You MUST include a risk assessment for a strong monobasic acid and concentrations of NaOH up to 3.00 mol dm-3. Assume they know the names of basic equipment and can work safely.
Remember to reference all sources of information correctly; use the RSC guide to referencing on Teams. You may find the CLEAPSS Students Safety Sheets helpful http://science.cleapss.org.uk/Resources/Student-Safety-Sheets/
STRETCH AND CHALLENGE We strongly recommend you complete the Improving Study Techniques course from FutureLearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/improving-study-techniques
We also suggest you undertake some wider "reading" around chemistry and science in general. Obviously we don't want you all trying to get hold of books while the libraries are closed and spending a fortune online so lots of these ideas are listening not reading. When you have "read" something we would like you to post a comment on Teams, again there will be topic threads and start a discussion. Ideally you would be looking at spending about an hour every week on additional or wider reading on top of your revision and review. Lots of the resources are interdisciplinary so please choose those of interest to you, maybe with relevance to your area of intended further study and preferably with some link to chemistry.
Wider “Reading” Sources.
• BBC Sounds Most things listed under the subheading Science & Technology but in particular: o The Life Scientific https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 o The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g o Inside Science https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2 o The Infinite Monkey Cage https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w
There are also interesting episodes of: o Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr o In Our Time https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j
• Podcasts: o Naked Scientists https://www.thenakedscientists.com/ o Chemistry in its Element - Chemistry World https://www.chemistryworld.com/chemistry-in-its- element-compounds/217.subject o AAAS Weekly Show https://www.sciencemag.org/podcasts o Guardian Science Weekly https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/science o New Scientist Weekly https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/
• BBC iPayer o Shock and Awe: The story of electricity https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p00kjq6d/shock- and-awe-the-story-of-electricity o People of Science with Prof. Brian Cox https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07qf0vz o Bang Goes the Theory – no longer available on iPlayer https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6A63C556E8356AC8 o Rough Science if you can find it as no longer on iPlayer. Was made with the Open University
• The Royal institution Christmas Lectures https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures • OpenLearn from the Open University https://www.youtube.com/user/OUlearn/playlists • The Periodic Table of Videos from Nottingham University chemistry department http://www.periodicvideos.com/
• Books: These are books I have read or that have been recommended to me. The Radium Girls – Kate Moore Uncle Tungsten – Oliver Sacks The Periodic Table - Primo Levi Periodic Tales – Hugh Aldersey-Willliams Pathfinders – The Golden Age of Arabic Science – Jim Al-Khalili
The Itch series – Simon Mayo (fiction aimed at ages 13+)
You might also want to look for biographies of famous, or not so famous, scientists. These list may give you some ideas https://www.famousscientists.org/list/ and https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Six-black-chemists-should-know/97/web/2019/02 and https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/student-advice/what-to-study/top-ten-greatest-chemists