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This IGCSE Chemistry Core Practical Booklet covers the eight core practicals students are expected to have opportunities to carry out under the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry specification {9-1} . My booklet covers the following practicals :

1. Investigating the composition of inks
2. Investigating pH
3. Preparation of copper sulphate
4. Electrolysis
5. Acid‐alkali titration
6. Rates of reaction
7. Identifying ions
8. Combustion of alcohols

This booklet is different with respect to other IGCSE Chemistry core practical resources I have seen and researched in that I have actually listed the exact apparatus required, the concentrations of solutions required and the mass of reagents needed to carry out each of these experiments in a school laboratory to obtain meaningful data. Each core practical has been tried and tested successfully over the years with both my Triple and Double Award Chemistry students who are able to obtain data or results to assist them with the analysis components of each investigation and , where unsuccessful, provided opportunities to discuss with them potential experimental errors in their procedure.

For each experiment, aside from the full apparatus list, I have provided full methodology , results tables with units and graph paper where appropriate and incorporated this into the core practical. Each practical has questions that cover the apparatus and techniques, explore their mathematical skills , ability to scale and draw graphs, analyze and evaluate data. The questions are differentiated to allow for the range of abilities in your groups.

An advantage of the booklet is that the students write directly into the booklet. This allows for all the key core practical skills , knowledge and understanding to be located in one booklet and not dispersed among several exercise books, scraps of paper , non -chemistry books etc.
The booklet could be issued immediately to the students at the start of term or retained in the lab until all the core practicals are completed over the two years for each student
Once completed, the booklet can be issued to the student providing a useful resource of revision to assist them towards their final IGCSE Chemistry exams as they will certainly face questions covering the core practicals.

I have also included solutions to all the questions in my 50 page booklet.