C5 Chemicals of the natural environment
For students and teachers
Extracting metals
- www.corusgroup.com/en/responsibility/education/
The company Corus has an educational website with a picture gallery about iron and steel making. - http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/Corus/14-16/steel/index.html
The schoolscience.co.uk website has a section sponsored by Corus with details of iron and steel making. This goes into more detail than required for this GCSE course. - www.alupro.org.uk/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/chemistry/usefulproductsrocks/electrolysisrev3.shtml
Websites that cover the extraction of aluminium include t he Alupro website and t he BBC Bitesize website
Recycling
- www.world-aluminium.org/environment/recycling/
The International Aluminium Institute website covers the recycling of aluminium. - www.cancan.enta.net/Recycling/Aluminium/aluminium.html
The Can~Can Company also supports a website with information about recycling aluminium.
The life cycle of metals
- www.corusgroup.com/en/responsibility/cspr/recycling_steel_packaging/the_steel_lifecycle/
The Corus website describes the lifecycle of steel. - www.alupro.org.uk/
The Alupro website has a section about the whole lifecycle of aluminium. - www.world-aluminium.org/environment/lifecycle/lifecycle1.html
So too does the website produced by the International Aluminium Institute
Gold
- www.dyjewels.com/je_goldfacts.shtml
www.responsiblegold.org/
These two websites give information about the metal gold.
For teachers
Background information
- http://www.galleries.com/minerals/halides/carnalli/carnalli.htm
For information about minerals formed by evaporation see this website about carnallite.
Teaching resources
- www.classroomvideo.co.uk
The video Atoms and Their Electrons is distributed by Classroom Video. - www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/alchemy/
The Alchemy? CD-ROMs are available from the Royal Society of Chemistry - www.scrib.org/education_zone/teachers_zone/teachers_zone.asp
The Steel Recycling Bureau’s website has an education zone with a section for teachers, which includes a downloadable information sheet about the steel cycle.