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Advanced Higher Chemistry Skills

Sponsorship cost £1500

This new 2-day course will focus on laboratory skills to support the Advanced Higher Chemistry. Laboratory and other sessions will follow an interactive approach that aims to cover key areas of the Advanced Higher course with a particular focus on experimental and investigative skills.

This course will focus on experiments that will support the skills denoted in the Researching Chemistry part of the syllabus - but widely used throughout the Advanced Hoigher Chemistry course: our feeling being that these skills will help support any practical work the learners will undertake.

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to

Carry out a range of experiments that utilise many Laboratory Techniques for chemistry, as outlined in the course specification, e.g. using melting point apparatus and colorimeters, carrying out distillation, reflux and complexometric titrations.
Determine the hardness of a water sample using a complexometric titration with EDTA.
Extract caffeine from tablets, purify it and recrystallise from ethanol.
Extract iron from samples of tea leaves and determine the concentration in the solution using colorimetry of an iron/thiocyanate complex.
Use titrations to construct a standard curve and determine the concentration of an unknown.
Synthesise an ester using a range of organic chemistry techniques: distillation, reflux, use of a separating funnel, use of a separating funnel, drying of solvents and testing for the presence of an ester.
Use a microscale gravimetric analysis technique to determine the formula of a hydrated salt.
Use a range of techniques to determine the melting point of an unknown solid.

This course is GTCS accredited, i.e., it is aligned to the GTCS Standards for Full Registration and the National Model for Professional Learning.

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