{"id":332212,"date":"2026-09-03T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=332212"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:49:13","slug":"grade-11-chemistry-a-fantastic-start-to-the-dp-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/09\/03\/grade-11-chemistry-a-fantastic-start-to-the-dp-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 11 Chemistry | A Fantastic Start to the DP Journey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a wonderful milestone for me as a Chemistry educator \u2014 16 out of 17 students in our Grade 11 cohort have chosen Chemistry as one of their DP subjects!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a real testament to the collective hard work of our students, families and teachers<\/strong>, and it is especially rewarding to see this after having worked with some of these students for the past four years<\/strong>. Watching their confidence and interest in Chemistry develop over time has been incredibly rewarding.<\/p>\n

Over the past two weeks, we have focused on establishing the essential foundations needed for success in Diploma Chemistry<\/strong>. Students have explored:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39 Atomic structure<\/strong> and the organisation of the periodic table
\n\ud83d\udd39 Ion formation<\/strong> and writing chemical formulae
\n\ud83d\udd39 Different types of chemical reactions<\/strong> through practical investigation
\n\ud83d\udd39 Essential laboratory skills and safety procedures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our practical work has been particularly important as students begin to develop the precision, observation, data collection and scientific communication skills they will need throughout the DP course.<\/p>\n

Next week<\/strong>, we will bring this foundation phase together by working on:<\/p>\n

\ud83e\uddea Translating word equations into chemical equations<\/strong>
\n\ud83d\udcd0 Revisiting the mathematical skills<\/strong> needed for Chemistry
\n\ud83d\udcd6 Taking part in an IB Chemistry Data Booklet scavenger hunt<\/strong> to become familiar with one of the key resources they will use throughout the DP<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the week, we hope to begin our first DP unit: Structure 1 \u2013 Models of the Particulate Nature of Matter<\/strong>, where students will start developing a deeper understanding of matter at the atomic and molecular level.<\/p>\n

It has been a fantastic start, and I am excited to see this group continue to grow into confident, curious and capable Chemistry students.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a wonderful milestone for me as a Chemistry educator \u2014 16 out of 17 students in our Grade 11 cohort have chosen Chemistry as one of their DP subjects! This is a real testament to the collective hard work of our students, families and teachers, and it is especially rewarding to see this after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":332215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,99,194,118,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-grade-12","category-secondary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}