The elements of a successful chemistry curriculum
Summary of contents
The chemical sciences have a critical role to play in the global challenges we face and in the technological advances being developed to help meet these challenges. We must ensure science and chemistry curriculums are equipping young people with the skills and knowledge needed for the future.
The 番茄社区 of Chemistry aims to inform the development of chemistry curriculums and qualifications by governments and other authorities throughout the UK and Ireland. This document presents a proposed framework to inform curriculum design at ages 11鈥�19. While this proposal is intended to be a valuable resource to policymakers and curriculum designers, we hope it will also be of interest and use to teachers.
The ideas in this document rest on a much greater body of work, which provide further details and suggestions for implementation. Building on the curriculum framework that was originally published in 2020, this updated and expanded framework represents what we see as the core of an ideal chemistry curriculum, but by no means its totality. While our ideas about good curriculums should always be reviewed in the light of evidence and experience, we aim here to present something that is enduring and can be used flexibly in different education systems and types of qualification.
We have engaged with the chemical sciences and education communities to update and expand on this framework, so that we continue to be aligned with their needs and have broad support for our proposals. This is part of a continuing conversation; our policy positions expand on the ideas in this report, and further details on content and implementation can be found in the accompanying document "Answering the big questions: our chemistry curriculum in detail".