8-11年級SACE Chemistry

Overview of the Accelerated Program for Chemistry

Summary

The Accelerated Program for Chemistry, designed to be a two-year course, aims to help high achievingstudents further their studies in Chemistry and improve their grades in SACE Stage 2 Chemistry to amaximum extent. The course, designed to be a two-year program and delivered on a weekly basis,covers a range of topics that are critical to SACE Chemistry studies.

The Program features an intensivesyllabus, which offers an opportunity for Middle School students to start Chemistry as an individualsubject and to learn in depth in a comprehensive and systematic manner.The first year of the Program makes sure that learners will have: (1) flawless understanding of atomicstructures and properties of common elements and compounds; (2) an extensive knowledge of commonchemical reactions and how they play in real life; (3) excellent literacy skills in using academiclanguage to describe chemical changes and reflect on experiment results.

The second year of the Program makes sure that learners, apart from a successful completion of SACE Stage 1 Chemistry curriculum, will achieve equivalent to SACE Stage 2 level on the following topics:Elemental Chemistry, Stoichiometry, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. By the end of theAccelerated Program, students will be able to commence revision on the above topics and half examsto further prepare for SACE Stage 2 assessments.Through a variety of learning activities, including hands-on experiments, thinking challenges,productive discussions and prompt assessment tasks and so on, students are expected to becomesuccessful science learners, confident problem solvers and high-ATAR achievers.

Chemistryaccelerated program Phase 1

(Chinese&English versions)

主要章節（中文）

1.?我們周圍的空氣（氧氣、氮氣、二氧化碳的基本性質、實驗室制備氧氣、檢驗二氧化碳）

2.?自然界的水（水的組成、分子和原子的概念）

3.?原子的構成（原子、元素、化學式、化合價）

4.?質量守恒定律（書寫化學方程式、利用化學方程式進行簡單的計算）

5.?金剛石和石墨

6.?燃燒和滅火（燃料和熱量、石油和煤）

7.?金屬和金屬材料（金屬的化學性質）

8.?溶液（溶液的形成、溶解度、濃度、溶質質量分數）

9.?酸和堿（常見的酸和堿、酸堿中和反應）

10.?鹽和化肥（生活中常見的鹽）

11.?化學元素和人體健康（常見的營養元素）

Chemistry acceleratedprogram Phase 2

(Chinese & Englishversions)

主要章節（中文）

1.?從實驗中學化學

2.?化學物質及其變化

3.?金屬及其化合物

4.?非金屬及其化合物

5.?物質結構和元素周期律

6.?化學反應與能量

7.?有機化合物

8.?化學與可持續發展