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The School of Chemistry has recently initiated an outreach program to establish contact with science teachers. If you are a teacher and would like to enquire about organising a visit by your students to the School of Chemistry, or to discuss other ways for the School to assist you, please contact Dr Naresh Kumar (n.kumar@unsw.edu.au).

Teacher Questions

Teachers are invited to email questions about any general chemistry topics to teacher.questions@chem.unsw.edu.au. Staff in the School of Chemistry will endeavour to answer your questions and if there is sufficient interest we will create an FAQ page with answers (where possible!) on our web site.

Previous Events

In November 1999 The School of Chemistry held a series of workshops on the (then) new HSC Chemistry Syllabus. The first of these focussed on the four year 11 modules; workshops in June 2000 addressed the core and elective components of the year 12 syllabus. Materials from the 1999 workshops are available on this web site as downloadable PDF* files. The lecture notes from the year 11 workshop are available below, and the student activities materials are also available (see below). It should be noted that materials relating to the HSC syllabus are prepared for the assistance of teachers, but carry no guarantee of compliance with requirements of the Board of Studies. A list of teachers and schools who attended the first workshop is provided to facilitate interactions between teachers.

The workshop held on 19 and 20 June 2000 provided background and advice on the Year 12 component of the new chemistry syllabus and followed a similar format to the Year 11 workshop held in 1999. Speakers examined the detailed contents of the new Year 12 syllabus, identifying the essential components of each topic, and discussed ways in which the material could be presented. Internet and other resources and the development of appropriate laboratory exercises were discussed in small groups with the collective wisdom being presented to the group as a whole.

Lecture notes (as PDF* files) from the June, 2000 Year 12 HSC workshop for teachers:

• The Acidic Environment (Dr Peter Chia and Alex Durie)
• The Identification and Production of Materials (Dr Gavin Edwards)
• Shipwrecks and Salvage (Assoc. Prof. Peter Southwell-Keely)
• Other useful resources (Prof. Russell Howe)

Lecture notes (as PDF* files) from the November, 1999 Year 11 HSC workshop for teachers:

• The Chemical Earth (Dr Neil Duffy)
• Energy (Prof. Russell Howe)
• Metals (Dr Peter Chia)
• Water (Dr Grainne Moran)

Information about future syllabus workshops and other activities of interest to teachers will be made available in due course.

*PDF files can be viewed using Acrobat® Reader (or its companion web browser plug-in), available at no charge from Adobe®.