Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and practice questions with answers on Gibbs Free Energy (Part 2)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To state and use the relationship ΔG = ΔH-TΔS
To draw a link between ΔG and feasibility
To explain the limitations of predictions made by ΔG about feasibility, in terms of kinetics.
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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A structured Year 12 KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on The Boltzmann Distribution. Suitable for OCR Specification (AS Chemistry)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
**1. To draw a labelled diagram of the Boltzmann distribution
**2. To explain qualitatively the Boltzmann distribution and its relationship with activation energy
**3. To explain how temperature changes and catalytic behaviour effect the proportion of molecules exceeding the activation energy and hence the reaction rate using Boltzmann distributions
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A structured Year 12 KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on Catalysts. Suitable for OCR Specification (AS Chemistry)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
**1. To explain the effect of concentration (including pressure of gases only) on the rate of reaction in terms of the frequency of collisions
**2. To calculate the rate of reaction using the gradients of a concentration-time graph
**3. To describe the techniques and procedures used to investigate reaction rates including the measurement of mass, gas volumes and concentration
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A complete lesson including starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, main work tasks with answers for a KS4 GCSE lesson on waste water treatment.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
State the stages of waste water treatment
Explain the stages of waste water treatment
Compare the ease of treating waste, ground and salt water
Students will be able to take rich notes on waste water treatment.
The teacher will be able to quickly assess students’ understanding of waste water treatment by carrying our mini AfL questions using A,B,C cards or mini white baords
The lesson ends with a main work task for students to complete. Students will be able to self or peer assess their answers to this task using the detailed answers provided
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A structured Year 13 KS5 lesson ( lesson 1 of 2) on Concentration-Time Graphs. This lesson includes starter activity, worked examples and main work task. This lesson is part of the Year 13 topic on Rates which is also discussed in Year 12
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know the techniques and procedures used to investigate reaction rates
To calculate reaction rates using gradients from concentration-time graphs
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A complete lesson including starter activity and mini AfL questions on calculating moles and the number of atoms/particles/molecules using the mole equation. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and Higher tier combined Science
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) on previous KS4 knowledge about relative atomic mass of elements, calculating the relative molecular mass of compounds and balancing equations
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the measurement of amounts of substance in moles
Calculate the number of moles in a given mass
Calculate the mass of a given number of moles
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A well structured lesson including starter activity and mini AfL questions on percentage yield and atom economy. Only suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry (not required for combined science)
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) recapping titrations and calculating the concentration of solutions
Then by the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
To calculate percentage yield from balanced symbol equations
To calculate atom economy from balanced symbol equations
To calculate the masses and moles of products or reactants from balanced symbol equations
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on the properties of alkenes. This lesson is an introduction to the chapter on alkenes. This lesson follows the OCR specification.
By the end of the lessons students should be able:
1)To know the general formula of alkenes
2)To explain the shape and bond angle around each carbon atom of a C=C bond
3)To describe how π and σ bonds are formed in alkenes**
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A complete lesson including risk assessment and post practical analysis on AS Chemistry PAG 2.1 :Determination of concentration of hydrochloric acid
Students will learn how to:
Plan an acid-base titration practical
Assess the risks of an acid-base titration practical
How to use a range of practical equipment safely and accurately
How to record observations
How to analyse titration results to determine an unknown concentration
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL activities and main work task on amount of substance in equations. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and higher tier combined science
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) recapping moles
Then by the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
calculate the masses of substances in a balanced symbol equation
calculate the masses of reactants and products from balanced symbol equations
calculate the mass of a given reactant or product.
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks and main work tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on the electronic configuration of d-block elements
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To recall the order of electron shells to be filled
To construct electronic configurations of d-block atoms and ions
To know the elemental anomalies in electron filling of d block atoms
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A complete lesson including starter activity and main work tasks with answers for a KS4 GCSE lesson on electrolysis of ionic compounds. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and higher tier combined science
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Know what electrolysis is and to state its uses
Explain how electrolysis works
Predict the reactions that occur at each electrode
Students will be able to take rich notes on Electrolysis
The lesson presentation enables teachers to guide students through the process of electroylsis and how to predict the products formed from a particular ionic compound
The lesson ends with a main work task for students to complete. Students will be able to self or peer assess their answers to this task using the detailed answers provided
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A well structured lesson including starter activity, AfL activities and main work task with answers on reactions of metals with acids. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and higher tier combined science
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) recapping the definitions of oxidation, reduction and displacement reactions
Then by the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe how to make salts from metals and acids
Construct word equations from metal and acid reactions
Write full balanced symbol equations for making salts
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks and main work tasks for students to complete
Please download the free resource from my shop called: ‘names and formulae of compounds and ions’ to support students when writing symbol equations for this lesson
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A whole lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Internal Energy
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the particle model of matter
Understand what is meant by the internal energy of a system
Describe the effect of heating on the energy stored within a system
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
A whole lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Specific Heat Capacity. Suitable for AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science (both higher and foundation)
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the effect of increasing the temperature of a system in terms of particles
State the factors that are affected by an increase in temperature of a substance
Calculate specific heat capacity
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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OCR Required Practical on PAG 12.1: Investigating Iron Tablets.
This resource includes reasearch and planning guidance, experiment guidance and worked examples of the practical calculations. This resource also includes an amended student practical sheet to help students complete their observations and analysis of results.
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A whole lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Changes of State
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe how, when substances change state, mass is conserved
Describe energy transfer in changes of state
Explain changes of state in terms of particles.
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task with answers on density. Suitable for AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science (both higher and foundation)
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
To use the particle model to explain the different states of matter and differences in density
To calculate density, mass or volume using the density equation
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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A complete lesson including starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, main work tasks with answers for a KS4 GCSE lesson on forces, mass and weight.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Describe what a force is
Explain the difference between contact and non-contact forces
Explain the difference between mass and weight
Students will be able to take rich notes on forces, mass and weight on their prior KS3 knowledge on this topic
The teacher will be able to quickly assess students’ understanding of forces, mass and weight by carrying our mini AfL questions
The lesson ends with a main work task for students to complete. Students will be able to self or peer assess their answers to this task using the detailed answers provided, followed by a plenary quiz
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks on atomic structure. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and Combined Science (Higher and foundation)
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the atomic structure of an atom
Construct a diagram of the atomic structure of an atom
Calculate the number of sub-atomic particles in different elements
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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