Chemistry for Queensland Units 1–4 (Second edition) has been updated to align to the Chemistry 2025 General Senior Syllabus.

This new edition retains the best-in-market print Student Books, featuring a new ground-breaking digital teaching and learning experience that takes lesson planning and in-class instruction to a new level.

Guide every student to achieve their best with clear learning intentions and success criteria mapped to the syllabus. Students are supported at every step with targeted resources to address gaps in understanding. Prior knowledge quizzes lay the foundation, while ongoing confidence checks against success criteria ensure students stay on track and succeed!

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Module 1: Chemistry toolkit
Unit 1 Chemical fundamentals – structure, properties and reactions
Module 2: Atomic structure, the periodic table and isotopes
Module 3: Introduction to bonding
Module 4: Analytical techniques
Module 5: Compounds and mixtures
Module 6: Properties and structure of materials
Module 7: Mole concept and law of conservation of mass
Module 8: Chemical reactions
Unit 2 Molecular interactions and reactions
Module 9: Intermolecular forces
Module 10: Chromatography techniques
Module 11: Gases
Module 12: Aqueous solutions and molarity
Module 13: Solubility and identifying ions in solution
Module 14: Acids and bases
Module 15: Reactions of acids
Module 16: Rates of reaction
Module 17: Practical manual

Teresa Gemellaro holds a Bachelor of Science and Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Queensland. She has taught Chemistry, Mathematics and Science since 1980, with the majority of her career spent at Ayr State High School in North Queensland. Teresa is an experienced chemistry text book author, and has worked for the QCAA and its predecessor in many different roles—both Chemistry-related and other positions—since the mid 1980s.

Carrie Bloomfield has been teaching VCE Chemistry and Science in secondary schools for the past 11 years and is currently a leading teacher at Mount Eliza Secondary College. She is a VCAA assessor for Chemistry and has presented on science inquiry skills at previous workshops for the Oxford Science series. Carrie co-authored the Oxford University Press’s first editions of Chemistry for Queensland Units 1 & 2, Chemistry for Queensland Units 3 & 4.

Meriet Mikhail was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 2005, and has been the recipient of various awards and grants, presenting at both national and international conferences for vaccine development and disease epidemiology. She is currently a QCE and IB senior chemistry teacher, with over 12 years of experience teaching QCE chemistry. Meriet is currently the Head of Chemistry at Anglican Church Grammar School, and is a QCAA Subject Matter Expert for Chemistry.