Resource list

Teachers and students may find the online resources below useful to deliver/study our new AS and A-level Chemistry course (7404/7405). This list isn't exhaustive and we are happy to add further resources.

Ideas and support

• RSC Chemistry resources for teachers: Learn Chemistry
• S-cool, the revision website: A Level Chemistry Revision
• Chemguide: Helping you to understand Chemistry
• ChemGym: Quizzes for learning and revising A level Chemistry
• Twitter: @ChemistryALevel
• The Royal Society: Topics
• TES Connect: Secondary teaching resources

Resources for specific subject content

3.1.1 Atomic structure

• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Atomic Properties Menu
• Vision Learning: Chemistry | Early Ideas about Matter
• YouTube: Structure of the Atom 1: The Earliest Models
• BBC: History - Ancient History in depth: The Story of Carbon Dating
• Astrobiology Magazine: Mars: The Other Time-of-Flight
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Mass Spectrometry Menu

3.1.2 Amount of substance

• Knockhardy Publishing: Science
• Formulae and Equations quiz
• Dr. Yue-Ling Wong’s Science Education Tutorials and Practices: Chemistry: Interactive Tutorial on Balancing Equations
• The Cavalcade o’Teaching: Balancing and Writing Equations
• Creative Chemistry Balancing Equations
• SchoolTube: Balancing Chemical Equations

3.1.3 Bonding

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Bonding Menu

3.1.4 Energetics

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Energetics Menu

3.1.5 Kinetics

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Kinetic Theory Menu

3.1.6 Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and K

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Chemical Equilibria Menu

3.1.7 Oxidation, reduction and redox equations

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Redox Equilibria Menu

3.1.8 Thermodynamics

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Energetics Menu

3.1.9 Rate equations

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Rates of Reaction Menu

3.1.10 Equilibrium constant K for homogeneous systems

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Chemical Equilibria Menu

3.1.12 Acids and bases

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Acid-Base Equilibria Menu

3.2.2 Group 2, the alkaline earth metals

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Periodic Table Group 2 Menu

3.2.3 Group 7(17), the halogens

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Periodic Table Group 7 (Halogens) Menu

3.2.5 Transition metals

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Transition Metals Menu

3.2.6 Reactions of ions in aqueous solution

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Complex Ions Menu

3.3.1 Introduction to organic chemistry

• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Organic Conventions Menu
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Isomerism Menu

3.3.2 Alkanes

HowStuffWorks: Chemical Processing | How Oil Refining Works

3.3.3 Halogenoalkanes

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Halogenoalkanes Menu (haloalkanes or alkyl halides)

3.3.4 Alkenes

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Alkenes Menu

3.3.5 Alcohols

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry - Alcohols Menu

3.3.7 Optical isomerism

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Optical Isomerism

3.3.8 Aldehydes and ketones

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Aldehydes and Ketones Menu

3.3.9 Carboxylic acids and derivatives

• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Carboxylic Acids Menu
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Acyl (Acid) Chlorides Menu
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Acid Anhydrides Menu
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Esters Menu

3.3.10 Aromatic chemistry

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Arenes Menu

3.3.11 Amines

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Aliphatic Amines Menu

3.3.12 Polymers

• About.com: The History of Polyester
• The Polyester Story
• RSC Chemistry resources for teachers: Alchemy – Nylon
• The Macrogalleria: Polymer Fun

3.3.13 Amino acids, proteins and DNA

• New Scientist: Space radiation may select amino acids for life
• YouTube: The Mechanism of Cisplatin
• Cancer Research UK: Cisplatin
• Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Amino Acids and Other Biochemistry Menu

3.3.14 Organic synthesis

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Organic Mechanisms Menu

3.3.15 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – NMR Menu

3.3.16 Chromatography

Chemguide: Understanding Chemistry – Chromatography Menu