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Quantitative chemistry
Strengthen your knowledge and explore teaching strategies to develop your students’ understanding of quantitative chemistry
Quantitative chemistry is a vital part of chemistry education. Refresh your expertise and improve your teaching of this challenging topic by completing this course. Over three modules, you’ll develop your subject knowledge and discover teaching strategies to support learners from ages 11 to 18.
Build your confidence at your own pace, with videos, multiple choice questions, discussion threads, and activities to help you apply what you learn in your own classroom.
This course is available in the UK, EU and other selected countries. If you’re a teacher in the UK or Ireland, make sure you’ve claimed your fully funded Teach Chemistry membership: benefits include discounts to our professional development courses.
At a glance
- Format: self-led online learning
- Cost: £225 + VAT
- Total length: approx. 6 hours
- Available in: UK, EU and other selected countries
Course objectives
The course will help you to:
- develop your subject knowledge of chemical change and quantitative chemistry
- improve your pedagogical content knowledge, equipping you with the best ways to enhance learner understanding
- identify and challenge specific learner misconceptions in these topics
Course modules
Introducing chemical change (ages 11+)
- Reactants and products
- Conservation of mass
- Representing chemical reactions
Quantitative chemistry (ages 14+)
- Balanced chemical equations
- Amount of substance in moles
- Reacting masses and gas volumes
- Concentration of solutions and titration
Quantitative chemistry (ages 16+)
- Gas volumes and applying stoichiometry
- Percentage yield and atom economy
- Titration
- Ideal gas equation
Ready to enrol?
Your journey towards delivering better lessons and improving learner outcomes starts whenever you’re ready.
FAQs
Who is the course for?
This course is suitable for teachers at any career stage looking to develop their own understanding, teaching practice and confidence.
Will I receive a certificate?
You will receive a certificate for each completed module, and a certificate of course completion if you complete all modules. To qualify for the certificates, you must complete all required tasks.
What if I don’t want to complete all modules?
You can take whichever modules you are interested in, but you will only receive a certificate of course completion once you have completed all of the modules and required tasks.
Which countries is the course available in?
This course is currently available in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guernsey, Hong Kong S.A.R. China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao S.A.R. China, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States.
Our course authors
Martin Bluemel
Martin is a retired head of chemistry, with more than 30 years of classroom experience. He is a trainer and offers private tuition.
Dr Colin McGill
Colin is an associate professor in education at Edinburgh Napier University, and is responsible for subject-specific development of the PGDE chemistry students. He also tries to run.
Matthew Parks
Matthew, a chemistry teacher in Northern Ireland, has held leadership positions in various schools. He is a principal examiner, an Education publishing editorial board member and a teacher developer for the RSC.