Programme 11: Industrial Chemistry

Curriculum Relevance

National Curriculum England and Wales

Science Sc3 Materials and Their Properties
Key Stage 4

Changing materials

2. Pupils should be taught:

Useful products from organic sources

d) that alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons, and alkenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons
e) how addition polymers can be formed from the products of crude oil by cracking and polymerisation

Useful products from metal ores and rocks

g) about the variety of useful substances that can be made from rocks and minerals

Useful products from the air

l) the importance for agriculture of converting nitrogen to ammonia
m) how nitrogenous fertilisers are manufactured

Scotland

Mainly Standard Grade but parts of it could be used for Intermediate 2 and some sections out of the Higher Course.

Northern Ireland Curriculum
Key Stage 4

Science (Double)

Materials and Their Uses
Properties and Uses

Pupils should have opportunities to:

e) use scientific knowledge and information to evaluate the social, economic and environmental factors associated with the manufacturing process.

Classification
g) explain the physical processes by which different chemicals are obtained from oil.

Chemical Reactions
Pupils should have opportunities to:

Chemical Change
e) learn how chemicals are obtained from oil by cracking
f) understand the process of addition polymerisation and esterification

Science (Single)

Chemical Reactions
Chemical Change
c) learn that useful products can be manufactured from various raw materials.
g) learn how chemicals are obtained from oil cracking
h) investigate quantitatively the different factors that effect the rates of chemical reactions and relate these to the practical problems associated with the manufacturing processes in industry
i) find out that some chemical reactions are exothermic while others are endothermic