Chemistry
Units 3 and 4
Year 12
What is the subject about?
What is the subject about?
In Unit 3 Chemistry, students explore energy options and the chemical production of materials from the perspectives of efficiency, renewability and environmental impact. Students compare and evaluate different chemical energy resources, including fossil fuels, biofuels, galvanic cells and fuel cells. They investigate the combustion of fuels, including the energy transformations involved, the use of stoichiometry to calculate the amounts of reactants and products involved in the reactions, and calculations of the amounts of energy released and their representations.
In Unit 4, students explore the characteristics of the carbon atom and its abundance in everyday life such as fuel, food and medicine.
Units
Unit 3: How can chemical processes be designed to optimise efficiency?
Unit 4: How are organic compounds categorised, analysed and used?
Zack offers this advice: I recommend Chemistry in Year 12 for students who wish to continue studies and employment in in any of the scientific areas which includes biochemistry and many health courses. Chemistry is an understanding of interactions between substances and and is even useful in agriculture and food studies.
Skills you will develop
- Develop aims and questions, formulate hypotheses and make predictions
- Plan and conduct investigations
- Generate, collate and record data
- Analyse and evaluate data and investigation methods
- Construct evidence-based arguments and draw conclusions
- Analyse, evaluate and communicate scientific ideas
Assessment
- Report on a laboratory investigation
- Data analysis
- A response to a set of structured questions relating to key concepts
Pathways
Studying Chemistry can lead to the following careers
- Analytical chemist
- Research and development
- Geochemist
- Hazardous waste chemist
- Pharmacologist
- Materials scientist
- Forensic scientist
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for entry to Units 1, 2 and 3.
If you are interested in this subject please see Miss Edmonds