Chemistry for the gifted and talented: solutions

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This activity is designed to develop the students’ higher order thinking – particularly critical thinking skills – in the context of dissolving and solutions. The students have to apply some particle theory and logical reasoning to simple experimental observations.

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Northern Ireland
- GCSE
  - CCEA Chemistry
    - Unit 1: Structures, Trends, Chemical Reactions, Quantitative Chemistry and Analysis
      - 1.9 Chemical analysis
        1.9.1 demonstrate knowledge and understanding that a pure substance is a single element or compound not mixed with any other substance; and
        1.9.4 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the terms soluble, insoluble, solute, solvent, solution, residue, filtrate, distillate, miscible, immiscible, evaporation and condensation;
        1.9.11 use anhydrous copper(II) sulfate to test for water.
  - CCEA Double award science
    - Unit C1: Structures, Trends, Chemical Reactions, Quantitative Chemistry and Analysis
      - 1.9 Chemical analysis
        1.9.1 demonstrate knowledge and understanding that a pure substance is a single element or compound not mixed with any other substance; and
        1.9.4 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the terms soluble, insoluble, solute, solvent, solution, residue, filtrate, distillate, miscible, immiscible, evaporation and condensation;
        1.9.9 use anhydrous copper(II) sulfate to test for water.
Republic of Ireland
- Junior Cycle
  - Science
    - Chemical world
      - Building blocks
        4. Classify substances as elements, compounds, mixtures, metals, non-metals, solids, liquids, gases and solutions.
    - The nature of science
      - Investigating science
        2. Recognise questions that are appropriate for scientific investigation, pose testable hypotheses, and evaluate and compare strategies for investigating hypotheses.
        3. Design, plan and conduct investigations; explain how reliability, accuracy, precision, fairness, safety, ethics, and the selection of suitable equipment have been considered.
        4. Produce and select data (qualitatively/ quantitatively), critically analyse data to identify patterns and relationships, identify anomalous observations, draw and justify conclusions.
        5. Review and reflect on the skills and thinking used in carrying out investigations, and apply their learning and skills to solving problems in unfamiliar contexts.

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