{"id":332419,"date":"2026-09-10T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=332419"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:50:43","slug":"g-11-and-12-chemistry-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/09\/10\/g-11-and-12-chemistry-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"G 11 and 12 Chemistry update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Grade 12 DP Chemistry \u2013 Exploring Enthalpy Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This week, Grade 12 students continued their study of <strong>enthalpy changes<\/strong>, completing an experiment on the <strong>enthalpy change of combustion<\/strong>. Alongside collecting data, students considered <strong>sources of error, assumptions, and possible improvements<\/strong> to their experimental method.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Students also applied <strong>bond enthalpies<\/strong> to calculate energy changes and became more familiar with using values from the <strong>IB Chemistry Data Booklet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we will continue with <strong>Hess\u2019s Law<\/strong> and aim to wrap up the <strong>SL energetics<\/strong> content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Grade 11 DP Chemistry \u2013 Building the Foundations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This week, Grade 11 students continued building their <strong>foundational IB Chemistry knowledge<\/strong>, completing a formative task to check their understanding of the areas covered so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We also completed another practical, focusing on developing <strong>essential laboratory skills<\/strong>, including titration techniques and safe handling of acids and bases.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, students will complete one more practical on <strong>preparing copper(II) sulfate crystals<\/strong> before officially beginning the <strong>DP Chemistry syllabus with Structure 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3027-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332534 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3027-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3033-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332536 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3033-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3022-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332541 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_3022-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 12 DP Chemistry \u2013 Exploring Enthalpy Changes This week, Grade 12 students continued their study of enthalpy changes, completing an experiment on the enthalpy change of combustion. Alongside collecting data, students considered sources of error, assumptions, and possible improvements to their experimental method. Students also applied bond enthalpies to calculate energy changes and became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":332532,"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":[99,194,118,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-grade-12","category-secondary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332419","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=332419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}