New medicines are needed to treat disease, to prevent people getting a disease, to improve people’s health and wellbeing and to save lives.
Most new medicines are developed and manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. Researching, developing and manufacturing medicines contributes to the health of the economy through exports and providing a wide range of interesting, well paid, jobs. Courtesy of the ABPI.
Cartoon animations that explain in simple terms why different materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations cover separating solids from liquids and show what happens to a solid when it dissolves in a liquid. Courtesy of the ABPI.
An interactive game. Test your knowledge of the periodic table- exploring trends and patterns in elements and their positions in the table. Courtesy of ABPI.
Scientific work uses many hazardous materials or processes. However there are very few accidents due to the risk assessments used to control these hazards. This module investigates how safe working is encouraged in industrial laboratories. Courtesy of the ABPI.
Explore analytical techniques and their applications with a chromatography investigation and research activity
Describe the metallic bonding model and explain how this leads to particular properties in metals, with this scaffolded writing activity
Understand the models and diagrams used to represent ionic bonding and their limitations, with this scaffolded writing activity
