There are lots of resources for IBDP students but a dearth of material for IBDP teachers. This is perhaps not surprising; the student market is larger (and more desperate?), and vanishing few people have the experience and expertise to build what teachers need. Here are a few resources I prepared.
(As of 2024, my time is fully on my font & Cantonese businesses, and I no longer teach. I am unlikely to develop more IB Chem material unless there is a visible demand for them.)
I take decades of experience in chemistry, teaching, programming, and illustration, and combine them into interactive, attractive, and scientifically sound experiences. There is a mix of free and licensed offerings for the 2025 syllabus, including worksheets, slides, and courses for professional development.
If you are a teacher and have special requests, feel free to reach out to me by email (jon at atlas3i.com) or Discord.
These resources are also available in
Currently there are no Paper 1 section B (practical / data based) questions for the new syllabus. I have drafted Series A, 10 problems of [10] points each, that are formatted similar to actual papers, covers all of the prescribed practicals, and are supplied with colored solutions.
As perpetual teacher licenses, these are available for purchase (as a product in my font workshop) or US$ 40, that you can use with your students either as practices or tests. This should save you about 20 hours of work.‡ A demo of the first question is provided here.
‡ But you should still get your school to pay for this work expense!
If there is enough demand, I am open to preparing a Series B which would also be 10 x [10] and similar in construction to Series A, so you can use one for practice and the other for tests. And ideally this would be completed by a Series C that are [20] questions that are tightly integrated with the theory-syllabus (and thus more suitable for exam / exam preparations).
Want to learn about doing molecular modeling, simulations, data-based practicals, or image analysis with your students? Back in 2019 the IBO commissioned a set of teacher-oriented tutorials from me, and these are available to you for free as part of the new IB Exchange initiative. Sign into the myIB platform as a teacher to access this. You can also learn about this from a Cat 3 professional development workshop… but that was authored in 2014, and in the digital world a decade is a lifetime.
I am Jon Chui, a PhD chemist with BSc(s) in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry. While primarily a physical organic chemist (synthetic ion channels), my grab-bag of research experiences spans computationally predicting, then slamming muons in a synchrotron with strange alkenes, synthesizing aluminium carbenes, RNA in vitro selection, and process chemistry at Merck.
Between 2012–2022 I taught exclusively IBDP Chemistry and Theory of Knowledge, with 75–90 students each year while supervising 6–8 Extended Essay projects. With the IBO, I was a senior examiner, facilitated workshops, and developed materials for teacher-training workshops as well as Teacher Support Materials. From 2016, I started and maintained the unofficial Teacher Resources Exchange for DP Chemistry.
