At LearnSci, we’ve spent the last year working closely with academics across more than 30 institutions, actively listening to their pressures and persistent challenges. This direct feedback has been the driving force behind the significant expansion of our Smart Worksheet Library. We’ve built a series of curriculum aligned, pedagogically sound, and academically responsive resources to help students grasp core chemistry concepts, develop problem solving strategies, and apply theory to practical contexts.
As well as our existing resources, our expanded Chemistry offering now includes:
- “Stoichiometry: balancing chemical reactions” up-skills students in balancing simple to complex chemical reactions facilitated by visual feedback and exploratory simulations.
Physical Chemistry
- “Introduction to Kinetics” supports students in identifying the order of a reaction from rate equations and plots, and determining the units of the rate constant.
- “Arrhenius equation: activation energy” guides students through components of the Arrhenius equation, and how to use this to calculate rate constant. Students’ then construct plots to explain the effect that catalysts have on the kinetics of a reaction.
- “Equilibrium and Gibbs free energy” elucidates the connection between reaction equilibrium and spontaneity through application of the Van ’t Hoff equation
- “Ideal gas law” guides students on how to recognise when gas law derivates, Charles’, Boyle’s and Avagardro’s law, should be applied, and to perform associated calculations. Students then analyse experimental results to identify an unknown metal by measuring the displacement of gas in an eudiometer when dissolved in acid.
- “Heat capacity and calorimetry” guides students through identifying exothermic and endothermic reactions, calculating heat exchange, and enthalpy and constructing plots using a coffee cup calorimeter.
- “Redox titration” supports students on how to identify when running redox titrations may be beneficial, the identification of equivalence points, and concentration calculations applied to scenarios such as determining hydrogen peroxide concentration in hair bleach, and ascorbic acid concentration in orange juice.
Analytical Chemistry
- “Thin layer chromatography (TLC) analysis” up-skills students in measuring TLC plates accurately, calculating Rf values and drawing conclusions about the identity of analgesics in a variety of scenarios.
- “Gas Chromatography Analysis” supports students in their understanding of GC methodology, including predicting order of elution, determining appropriate sample preparation, and refining methods to improve chromatogram resolution.
- “HPLC analysis” supports students interpretation of chromatograms by calculating efficiency, selectivity and resolution of peaks, then applying these principles to analyse the efficacy of various methods in context.
- “UV-Vis calibration curves” guide students on the application of Beer-Lambert equation to construction of calibration curves to determine unknown concentrations of chemical compounds in a variety of scenarios.
- “NMR: Interpreting spectra” provides an expansion on the topics in “NMR fundamentals,” supporting students on complex coupling, and mapping spectra peaks to the protons of various compounds.
- “13C-NMR fundamentals” guides students through spectra interpretation, by predicting chemical shifts, assigning peaks, and comparing 13CNMR spectra with DEPT-135 spectra of the same compound.
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