Stepping up to Chemistry

• Online resource aimed at pre-university

students to use the summer before starting

their course and also throughout their

first year (to replace “re-read your A-

level notes”)

• Designed to help with topics that are

generally found to be the most difficult to

aid the transition to university study

• Unique resource that is tailored for York

Chemists

Katrina Sayer, Chemistry

Stepping up to Chemistry

• Website designed by a third year student as a

BSc project

• Survey of year 1-3 ug students and first year

lecturers

Identify topics to included (most challenging

topics)

Feedback on content (revision notes, worked

examples, problems)

Preferred format (web/VLE, word docs, pdfs,

screencasts)

Feedback on style of the website

• Web/VLE site will be produced by an ug this

summer (internship)

Stepping up to Chemistry

Stepping up to Chemistry

Stepping up to Chemistry

Stepping up to Chemistry

Site includes:

• brief revision notes (emphasis on annotated

diagrams)

• links to varying existing resources, including:

recommended texts

laboratory videos (lab techiques)

• lots of worked examples

• problems (with outline answers, some delivered by

screencasts)

Stepping up to Chemistry

Stepping up to Chemistry