[Catalist] Chemistry Resources - A review of 2 Books

[Ann Moseley]

Thanks Leon, super helpful!

On 3 December 2016 at 13:12, Leon Harris <leon at quoll.com> wrote:

> Greetings to all!
>
> I have had a fantastic Future Science PD, and wanted to share some loot
> that I scored which I hope will help out colleagues in Chemistry Y12.
>
> I got my hands on 2 little books.
> Two of them are in the form of study guides and they are:
> Unit 3 Chem Notes, A summary of VCE Chemistry Unit 3. 4e, Jennifer Willis,
> pub Nelson/Cengage, 2016
> Unit 4 Chem Notes, A summary of VCE Chemistry Unit 4. 4e Jennifer Willis,
> pub Nelson/Cengage, 2016
>
> I draw these books to your attention because they may provide an
> alternative to the excellent Lucarelli & Proctor books that we often set
> our students as suggested/optional revision material. Each book is
> approximately 100 pages.
>
> The writing style is crisp, minimalistic on words and includes both sample
> "type" questions and "things to remember" - ie common "gotchas". Each
> "unit" has its own glossary and revision check list.
> This is a very student-friendly format, highly focussed on exam
> performance. SHE is covered in an embedded manner. For example, when
> looking at fuel content of substances, bioethanol and biogas production is
> well covered, together with environmental impacts and a nod to current
> areas of research. (Oh man I hate biogas. I once was in charge of fixing up
> a hopelessly overloaded biogas plant that just continued to wash out all
> its microbes. We spent a fortune on sewerage bills as a result!).
> In my opinion, these a well written and helpful. They cover a lot of the
> new material in ATAR well, and provide some useful supplementary questions.
> They don't pretend to be a complete textbook, but rather form a useful set
> of practice material, together with some condensed, notes to remind/help
> the student complete the question sets.
>
> In summary, although each of these two books are approximately $30, and
> there are two for Y12, they provide some good supplementary material which
> may help "polish" your students for their WACE. I am grateful to have them,
> and I think that most schools would benefit from at least one set, if just
> for teacher resources.
>
> Cheers,
> Leon
>
>
>
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