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Pete Hollambyretired Head of Chemistry, St. Cyres Schoolnow: Innovation and Engagement CoordinatorSchool of ChemistryCardiff University


HEFCW - £32,000 outreach activities & curriculum support

Main projects

Uncovering Chemical Secrets

Chemistry in a Van

Careers Conference

Additional projects

RSC/SEP Two, DVDs of chemical reactions

Undergraduate support for Infra-Red spectroscopy

CPD training for school teachers on ICT

National Conference for school chemistry teachers


A workshop, run jointly by Cardiff University and Techniquest

Introduces methods chemists use to isolate and identify chemical compounds.

Highly relevant to the A level curriculum.

Students use modern laboratory equipment to isolate their own samples and then see how modern ‘state-of-the-art’ techniques and instrumentation are used for analysis

Uncovering Chemical Secrets


Chemistry in a Van – Flash Bang Wallop Show

Developed to entertain and engage students of all ages but with a coherent theme matched to chemistry curricula.

Further extended as a touring show with funding from HEFCW as part of RSC’s “Chemistry for our Future” (CFOF)

Future shows

Carmarthen

Aberystwyth


Chemistry IS our FutureYear 10 Careers Conference, 30th June 2009Hosted by Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan

…… attended by 350 pupils from 14 schools


“Uncovering Chemical Secrets”

a practical workshop, run annually by Techniquest and Cardiff University.

It helps 2nd year A level students appreciate the methods chemists use to isolate and identify chemical compounds.

It is relevant to the schools’ curriculum and involves the isolation of natural substances, associated with taste and smell in certain plants.

Students use modern laboratory equipment to isolate their own samples and then visit the School of Chemistry to see how modern ‘state-of-the-art’ techniques and instrumentation are used to determine purity and give clues to chemical structure.

With funding from HEFCW, we have been able to produce a comprehensive e-learning resource to support the project.

This resource is being offered to every secondary school in Wales.

This is particularly important because not all schools in Wales can easily visit a tertiary institution to get this level of support for a level chemistry. The resource can usefully support pupil study if they are unable to visit a university.

What follows is a series of ‘screen dumps’ from a small part of the resource which hopefully gives an accurate idea of nature and scope of the resource.

NB The videos and animations from the resource do not function in this PowerPoint ‘preview’.
























The Uncovering Chemical Secrets project and e-learning resource was devised and produced by Peter Hollamby and Peter Edwards of the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University.

For information on ordering a copy of the resource see the separate word document E-Learning Support on the news page of the school’s website.

Documents

Http:// chemistry-secrets-2009.html Pete Hollamby retired Head of Chemistry, St. Cyres School now: