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IGCSE Chem Topic 14 – Organic Chemistry
Here are some key terms for this topic: Key Terms C14
IGCSE Chemistry: Topic 14 Organic Chemistry, a series of 11 lessons from Sal Sciab.
IGCSE Chemistry: Organic Chemistry – part 1, a 14m lesson from ChemistryKlipz.
GCSE Bitesize has revision pages (that take you through the topic), a test and an activity – just scroll down to ‘Crude oil & fuels’ and ‘Useful substances from crude oil’. GCSE s-cool – Products from Crude Oil includes polymerisation – revision notes & animations, practise exam questions & a revision summary. Skoool Chemistry – click on ‘2. Oil Products’ for excellent lessons that take you through the topic (including alkanes & alkenes); also a glossary of key terms. Chemactive worksheets & answers just click on Oil questions. For Doc Brown’s Chemistry quizzes, word-fills, crosswords and study notes go here and just scroll down.
14.1 Names of Compounds & 14.3 Homologous Series
The functional group concept explained – intro to organic cmpds (The Virtual School):
Formula of organic compounds (The Virtual School):
Infographic from Compound Interest – just click on it to enlarge.
14.2 Fuels
Fractional Distillation – The Virtual School (4m 6s):
Crude Oil Fractions & their Uses – The Virtual School (4m 6s):
Oil Distillation – a great 3 minute video or watch Science Bank 1 (Raw Materials): you only need part 1, Crude Oil & Fractional Distillation (up to 5m 20s).
Here is an animation to show the formation of coal and oil.
Fuels revision flash cards from Quizlet:
http://quizlet.com/18110634/igcse-review-c141-fuels-flash-cards/
14.4 Alkanes & 14.5 Alkenes
K4 Chemistry Alkanes & Alkenes (includes polymers) from Sean Hunt
Hydrocarbon Cracking & why it is done (The Virtual School):
Carrying out the practical and what happens if you get suck-back.
Testing alkenes with bromine (The Virtual School):
Chemistry – an introduction
Some great Chemistry revision sites
SYLLABUS:
The full syllabus for Cambridge (CIE) 0620 IGCSE Chemistry is here.
PAST PAPERS:
IGCSE Centre has all the past exam papers and mark schemes from 2002 onwards, IGCSEWorld has many too. AceThem and ExtremePapers also have past exam papers with mark schemes. At AOLpapers you can download all the past papers, markschemes, examiner reports etc from 2008 – 2015. There are many other sites that keep opening and closing – just remember our syllabus for IGCSE Chemistry is Cambridge (CIE) 0620.
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS & WORKSHEETS:
Mister Guch for Chemistry worksheets and mark schemes, as well as Chemactive.
Doc Brown’s site is full of quizzes, worksheets, crosswords and other good stuff, just scroll down to find what you want but wear your dark glasses – it’s colourful!
You can practise balancing chemical equations here – and it’s fun (honestly).
TUTORIALS & TESTS:
GCSE Bitesize for tutorials, tests, video clips and other activities. You’ll have to search to find the right topic but it’s there.
S-cool for tutorials, tests and revision sheets by topic.
IntelEducation for tutorials and tests by topic from Skoool.
GCSE Science for tutorials, quizzes & revision questions.
A Quantitative Chemistry quiz – for teams or individuals.
VIDEOS:
Cambridge Home School has a large range of videos covering IGCSE Chemistry
As does IGCSE Tube
Socratic Chemistry has a huge collection of videos explaining every Chemistry topic (a lot is applicable to IB Chemistry – so more detailed than we need).
Cambridge Home School has a large range of videos covering IGCSE Chemistry, as does IGCSE Tube
Freesciencelessons – lessons for AQA Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
REVISION NOTES:
Accelerated Study Notes – if you don’t like our revision guide (above), try these.
ANIMATIONS:
Fantastic interactive simulations from PhET (University of Colorado) – just choose the topic & have a play.
INFOGRAPHICS:
From ‘the chemistry of chocolate’ to ‘the aroma of new cars’, compound interest has superb infographics on all sorts of everyday chemical compounds.
DEFINITIONS of science & engineering terms.
Some great Chemistry apps.
Some great Biology revision sites
SYLLABUS:
The full syllabus for Cambridge (CIE) 0610 IGCSE Biology is here
This is the Learner Guide for IGCSE Biology from Cambridge and this is their interactive Learner Overview.
PAST PAPERS:
IGCSE Centre has all the past exam papers and mark schemes from 2002 onwards, IGCSEWorld has many too. AceThem and ExtremePapers also have past exam papers with mark schemes. At AOLpapers you can download all the past papers, markschemes, examiner reports etc from 2008 – 2015. There are many other sites that keep opening and closing – just remember our syllabus for IGCSE Biology is Cambridge (CIE) 0610.
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS:
Biology IGCSE Questionbank for exam question practice by topic and with the answers. There’s other stuff there too.
TUTORIALS & TESTS:
GCSE Bitesize for tutorials, tests, video clips and other activities. You’ll have to search to find the right topic but it’s there.
S-cool for tutorials, tests and revision sheets by topic.
IntelEducation for tutorials and tests by topic from Skoool.
Mr Exham IGCSE revision – some excellent revision material here including some great powerpoints (but bear in mind these are for Edexcel IGCSE Biology, so there are slight differences in content).
IGCSE Biology Vocab at Memrise – helps you to revise key vocabulary items from the Edexcel course. Other subjects are also there.
VIDEOS:
Click4Biology – short video lessons covering IGCSE Biology topics (some in more detail than we need; some topics we don’t need).
Socratic Biology has a huge collection of videos explaining every Biology topic (a lot is applicable to IB Biology – so more detailed than we need).
Ms Cooper’s IGCSE Biology – over 30 videos and counting.
Mr Dare iGCSE Biology videos – lessons on almost 30 topics.
Freesciencelessons – lessons for AQA Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
REVISION NOTES:
Accelerated Study Notes – if you don’t like our revision notes, try these.
Biology Notes for IGCSE 2014 – does exactly that and more.
iGCSE Biology – a site to help students with the Edexcel iGCSE Biology course.
You can also buy revision notes at Stuvia and Scribd.
ANIMATIONS:
Over 200 medical animations that include fertilisation, ovulation, birth, heart anatomy, effects of smoking & high cholesterol.
DEFINITIONS of science & engineering terms.
Some revision games. This one is Alien Abduction and covers vocabulary linked to plants:
Play this game on the what2learn site
There are more games at the bottom of this page (zombie attack is my favourite).
IGCSE Biology Revision Quiz – organisms and life processes from mrexham
Here’s a nice powerpoint that revises a number of topics:
Biology Revision Guides
Here is a list of revision guides for IGCSE Biology (also guides for Chemistry and Physics):
Revision Notes & other powerpoints
CIE IGCSE Biology complete notes from Samiya
Flash cards for igcse biology from Sachu Rajan
CIE IGCSE Biology flashcards from Samiya
Igcse revision checklist biology. from biologia, geologia , poesía , vida,
Igcse biology concepts revision chapter 1 to 8 from King Ali
Glossary:
Igcse bio from Sony Digity