The Salters’ Institute

Salters Advanced Chemistry

The Salters Advanced Chemistry Course for 16-19 year old students provides an innovative approach to teaching and learning advanced school chemistry in which chemical principles are developed in the context of modern applications of chemistry and the work that chemists do. The two year course is now widely used in schools and colleges in England and Wales and has been shown to be highly motivating for both students and teachers. The course leads to an A or AS award via a modular assessment scheme.

There are four course publications:

	Chemical Storylines providing the context within which chemical ideas and skills are developed
	Chemical Ideas systematically drawing together the chemical principles from different parts of the course
	Activities providing a large range of activities (including laboratory practical work as well as group exercises, data analysis, applications of information technology, and so on)
	Teacher's Guide providing guidance on planning, answers to questions etc.

The course is divided into 13 units with titles such as Developing Fuels, What's in a Medicine? and Colour by Design. Each unit takes about 18 hours teaching time and centres on a frontier application of chemistry. As students read the Chemical Storyline for the unit, they are directed at appropriate points to find out about the relevant chemistry in the Chemical Ideas textbook or to carry out an appropriate Activity.

How to obtain materials
Publications are available from:
Customer Services
Heinemann Educational Publishers
Halley Court, Jordan Hill
Oxford, OX2 8EJ
Tel: 01865 888080 Fax: 01865 315029
Email: orders@heinemann.co.uk
Web:  www.heinemann.co.uk/science

The examination syllabus and sample papers are available from:
OCR Publications
PO Box 5050, Annersley
Nottingham NG15 0DL
Tel: 0870 870 6622 Fax: 0870 870 6621
Email: publications@ocr.org.uk

More information
Please contact:
Project Administrator
The Salters Advanced Chemistry Project
CIRSE
The University of York
Alcuin D Block, Heslington
York, YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 432601 Fax: 01904 432605
Email: slw5@york.ac.uk

To visit the Salters Advanced Chemistry website please click here.

Each year the Salters Institute offers a number of grants to schools to purchase course books.

Each year the Salters' Institute awards monetary prizes to the candidates who have achieved the highest grades in the A Level examinations.

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