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This engaging course incorporates crucial challenge material right from the start, enabling students to confidently leap into Cambridge IGCSE® Science study with a solid foundation in Chemistry. It is the best preparation for our bestselling Complete Science for Cambridge IGCSE course, facilitating seamless progression from Cambridge Lower Secondary Stage 9 right into Complete Chemistry for Cambridge IGCSE. Complete Chemistry for Cambridge Lower Secondary covers all three years of Cambridge Lower Secondary Chemistry in the same book, flowing smoothly from one stage to the next. Regular revision and extension exercises will help consolidate learning and then stretch and challenge students to reach the next level. Plus, it's fully matched to the Cambridge syllabus, so you know it's comprehensive.

This engaging course incorporates crucial challenge material right from the start, enabling students to confidently leap into Cambridge IGCSE® Science study with a solid foundation in Chemistry. It is the best preparation for our bestselling Complete Science for Cambridge IGCSE course, facilitating seamless progression from Cambridge Lower Secondary Stage 9 right into Complete Chemistry for Cambridge IGCSE. Complete Chemistry for Cambridge Lower Secondary covers all three years of Cambridge Lower Secondary Chemistry in the same book, flowing smoothly from one stage to the next. Regular revision and extension exercises will help consolidate learning and then stretch and challenge students to reach the next level. Plus, it's fully matched to the Cambridge syllabus, so you know it's comprehensive.

Features

  • Guide learners through the Cambridge Lower Secondary course and the Cambridge Checkpoint test, with resources that are matched to the syllabus and can be used for a two or three year curriculum
  • Build learners' confidence and track progress, using consolidation-focused activities and regular review sections, featuring Cambridge Checkpoint-style questions
  • Prepare learners for long-term assessment success using extension material and a section devoted to progression to Cambridge IGCSE
  • Encourage critical thinking and practical investigation, using engaging scientific enquiry sections, embedded throughout the course
  • Support all learners with a clear and appealing layout, accessible language and regular summaries of key information

Stage 7
1 States of matter
1.1The particle theory of matter
1.2Boiling, evaporating and condensing
1.3Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanations
1.4Melting, freezing and subliming
1.5Extension: Energy and changes of state
1.6Using particle theory to explain dissolving
1.7Enquiry: Planning an investigation
1.8Enquiry: Presenting evidence
1.9Review: Checkpoint-style questions
2 Material properties
2.1Introducing elements
2.2Metals
2.3Non-metals elements
2.4Enquiry: Making conclusions from data
2.5Extension: Metal alloys
2.6Material properties
2.7Extension: Polymers
2.8Review: Checkpoint-style questions
3 Material changes
3.1Acids and alkalis
3.2The pH scale and indicators
3.3Neutralisation
3.4Enquiry: Planning investigations and collecting evidence
3.5Review: Checkpoint-style questions
4 The Earth
4.1The structure of the Earth
4.2Igneous rocks
4.3Sedimentary rocks
4.4More on sedimentary rocks
4.5Metamorphic rocks
4.6Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanations
4.7Enquiry: Explaining predictions
4.8Soil
4.9More about soil
4.10Fossils
4.11Estimating the age of the Earth
4.12Extension: Human fossils
4.13Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 7 Review
Stage 8
5 States of matter
5.1States of matter revisited
5.2Changing states revisited
5.3Explaining diffusion
5.4Explaining gas pressure
5.5Enquiry: Asking scientific questions
5.6Enquiry: Investigating trends
5.7Review: Checkpoint-style questions
6 Material properties
6.1Atoms
6.2Elements
6.3Discovering the elements
6.4Organising elements - the periodic table
6.5Enquiry: Interpreting data from secondary sources
6.6Enquiry: Simple calculations
6.7Explaining differences between metals and non-metals
6.8Extension: What are you made of?
6.9What are compounds
6.10More on compounds
6.11Naming compounds
6.12Oxides and hydroxides
6.13Chlorides, sulfates and carbonates
6.14Mixtures
6.15Separating mixtures - filtering and decanting
6.16Separating mixtures - evaporation and distillation
6.17Separating mixtures - chromatography
6.18Enquiry: Communicating explanations to others
6.19Extension: Explaining chromatography
6.20Review: Checkpoint-style questions
7 Material changes
7.1Reactions of metals with oxygen
7.2Writing word equations
7.3Corrosion
7.4Enquiry: Planning investigations and controlling variables
7.5Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 8 Review
Stage 9
8 Material properties
8.1Structure of atoms
8.2Rutherford's work
8.3Enquiry: How scientists work
8.4The first 20 elements
8.5Extension: Isotopes
8.6Trends in properties of group 1 element
8.7Trends in properties of group 2 element
8.8Properties of group 7 elements
8.9The group 0 elements
8.10Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanations
8.11Review: Checkpoint-style questions
9 Energy changes
9.1Energy changes in chemical reactions
9.2Endothermic reactions
9.3Exothermic reactions
9.4Enquiry: Preliminary work
9.5Extension: Calculating energy changes
9.6Review: Checkpoint-style questions
10 The reactivity series
10.1Reactivity of metals with oxygen
10.2Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanation
10.3Reactivity of metals with water
10.4Reactivity of metals with dilute acids
10.5Extension: Writing symbol equations
10.6Describing correlations, interpreting results and drawing conclusions
10.7The reactivity series
10.8Reactivity and the discovery of metals
10.9Metal displacement reactions
10.10Review: Checkpoint-style questions
11 Making salts
11.1Making salts - acids and metals
11.2Making salts - acids and carbonates
11.3Extension: Making salts - acids and alkalis
11.4Extension: Making salts - fertilizers
11.5Review: Checkpoint-style questions
12 Rates of reaction
12.1Reaction rates
12.2Effect of concentration on reaction rates
12.3Enquiry: Planning investigations
12.4Effects of particle size and catalysts on reaction rates
12.5Effects of temperature on reaction rates
12.6Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 9 Review
Reference pages
Glossary
Answers
Index
Cambridge Lower Secondary learners, aged 11-13
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