Happy Birthday Learn Chemistry

Learn Chemistry was launched at the Association for Science Education conference in Liverpool last January. It received around 15 000 individual visitors in its first month and has grown at an average of 20% every month since, reaching over 54 000 people in November. Together, the Visual Elements Periodic Table and Learn Chemistry sites had nearly a million unique visitors in 2012. In early autumn the RSC launched a dedicated Learn Chemistry channel on the TES site, where it has since built a strong reputation for providing quality chemistry resources. 

During the year over 500 resources and a clutch of micro-sites were added to Learn Chemistry. These included Spectraschool (interactive spectroscopy tools), Chemistry in the Olympics (a sport resource and global experiment hub), On This Day in Chemistry (a chemistry calendar), Chemistry in your Bathroom (interactive pdfs) and dozens of new videos, games and quizzes.