organic chemistry - great coverage

Covering the chemistry of carbon at age 16-18, for any specification, ACTT is large bank of resources which you can use immediately, or reorganise into a preferred teaching order. It looks at structures, reactions, mechanisms, homologous series and characteristic tests

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ACTT offers a modern approach to software that’s really kind of obvious: there are topics that teachers don’t need a hand with and others that they do. So we’ve classified organic chemistry into reactions and concepts that you can use flexibly. We’ve also taken care to weave the big organic themes through each topic.

Have it your way – topics, specification, syllabus
You’ll probably use our software menu as it delivers on the CD-ROM but a quick drag and drop changes the order in a jiffy. Explore a little more and you find a unique way of organising it. Firstly there’s a course administrators tool (Java plug-in required) that lets you drag the topics around and save the resulting menu. By spring 2006 you can return here to download a menu to match an exam board – so if you use say, OCR, AQA, Salters or Nuffield – you can obtain a menu organised in a familiar way. You may use our bulletin board to share your ‘topic tree’ or request one for your part of the world.

Expert extensions
An extension to the everyday menu, currently in testing, is a tool called ‘my content’ which is aimed at the expert user. Like many teachers they have amassed a collection of documents, models, pictures, PowerPoint slides and movie clips. These users will be able to use their materials alongside the delivered package or see the models in a full browser window.

SCORM
ACTT is ‘SCORM compliant’ such that menus take the form of .xml files which, with careful editing, you can further customise and exchange with others. If your school or college uses a VLE there is unusual scope for incorporating these organic chemistry modules within an online environment.