Overview
Qualification Grading Type
Graded
Unit Learning Outcomes
1.
Understand the nature of laboratory separation techniques.
Assessment Criteria
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1.1.
Perform practical exercises to separate mixtures of elements and/or compounds in a safe manner.
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1.2.
Explain in appropriate scientific terminology.
2.
Understand kinetic theory.
Assessment Criteria
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2.1.
Explain experimental results in terms of changes in state and the movement of individual particles.
3.
Understand the actions of acids and bases.
Assessment Criteria
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3.1.
Perform safely, practical exercises into the nature of laboratory acids and bases.
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3.2.
Explain the PH scale.
4.
Recognise air as a mixture and how oxygen from this can react with some elements.
Assessment Criteria
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4.1.
Perform safely, practical exercises using oxygen.
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4.2.
Explain the nature of the products and respiration as 'controlled burning'.
5.
Understand the physical properties of water.
Assessment Criteria
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5.1.
Perform safely, practical exercises into the physical properties of water.
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5.2.
Analyse at least one of these properties and its importance to the survival of life.
6.
Understand the current issues concerning pollution for example: air, water, eutrophication, radioactivity.
Assessment Criteria
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6.1.
Discuss the current issues of pollution using scientific ideas.
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6.2.
Suggest and evaluate possible solutions to one of these, and test it in a laboratory.