The Global Frameworks for Chemistry Education Project

The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) roadmap for the chemical sciences, 'Chemistry for Tomorrow's World' identifies major societal challenges that need to be addressed by the chemical sciences in the 21st century and recognises seven priority areas - air and water, energy, raw materials, food, human health, future cities and lifestyle and recreation. 

The Global Frameworks for Chemistry Education project explores the fundamental science that underlies the priority areas.  The chemical sciences have a crucial role to play in tackling these challenges. It is vital that the core chemistry education in schools and colleges equips students with the knowledge and skills required to enable them to become the scientists and informed citizens of the future who, ultimately, will be tackling these challenges. 

Frameworks for the 11-14 and 14-16 age ranges and the Developing A Global Framework for Chemistry Education report are available below and represent the output of the first stage of the RSC's wide-ranging Global Frameworks for Chemistry Education project. 

The frameworks are not intended to represent a curriculum. Instead they represent an illustration of how the contextual approach based on global challenges can be applied to curriculum design. 

The frameworks have also been populated with examples of how the core chemistry content could be delivered within these global contexts. This allows the frameworks to also act as a tool to aid educators in the contextualisation of core chemistry content for delivery in the classroom.