IGCSE Chemistry

This course is lab-oriented, with a curriculum designed to give students a foundation in chemistry concepts as well as the opportunity to utilize principles of experimental design in laboratory inquiry and on a required independent student project. The course will include the major principles of chemistry: structure of matter, chemical and physical properties, periodic trends, molar and stoichiometric relationships, chemical reactions and equilibria, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, acid-base theory, and organic and environmental chemistry. Assessment will include an external examination and coursework evaluations by the teacher. This course has an associated Standards of Learning (SOL) test. Students will participate in this test only when they have not yet earned sufficient credit for graduation and/or satisfied federal testing requirements.