The learning targets of the curriculum are categorised into three domains:
Knowledge and Understanding
Students are expected to:
- understand phenomena, facts and patterns, principles, concepts, laws and theories in chemistry;
- learn chemical vocabulary, terminology and conventions;
- appreciate applications of chemistry in everyday life;
- understand methods used in scientific investigations.
Skills and Processes
Students are expected to have:
- Scientific thinking
- Scientific method, scientific investigations and problem solving
- Decision making
- Practical work
- Information handling
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Learning and self-directed learning
Values and Attitudes
Students are expected to:
- develop curiosity and interest in making scientific investigation;
- develop personal integrity through objective observation and honest recording of experimental data;
- be willing to communicate and make decisions on issues related to chemistry and demonstrate an open-minded attitude towards the views of others;
- be aware that chemistry is a developing science and that it has its limitations;
- appreciate the interrelationship of chemistry with other disciplines in providing social and cultural values;
- be committed to working safely in a laboratory;
- be aware of the impact of chemistry in social, economic, industrial, environmental and technological contexts;
- appreciate the importance of lifelong learning in our rapidly changing knowledge-based society.
