All key terms

Chemistry · KS3 to A Level

Chemistry Key Terms

Every word a chemistry department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on a genuinely different model of the atom, drawn, because the real curriculum teaches three different ones in sequence — a Dalton-style particle scene at Key Stage 3 (the national curriculum names only that model, not the electron), a nucleus and electron shells at GCSE, and an electron-configuration diagram with a mass-spectrum inset at A Level — and the numbers on each appear again beside the same words in the list; a further twenty-one pages carry a real drawn figure wherever a picture genuinely teaches faster than a sentence: a reaction profile's hump, a titration curve's end point, the three ways atoms bond, Le Chatelier's balance tipping. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in a chemistry classroom — a solution is not an answer to a problem, reduce is not making something smaller, a radical is not extreme — the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.