'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the chemical bonding section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A snakes & ladders starter game
2: A student summary sheet
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: An ionic compound formula dice game
5: A drawing covalent molecules activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question on metallic bonding
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This bundle includes a range of games covering the following areas:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
18: Current electricity
19: Circuits
20: The early Universe
21: Energy from the nucleus
22: Forces
23: Heat transfer
24: Hydraulics
25: Kinetic energy
26: The life cycle of a star
27: Mains electricity
28: Making elements
29: Motion
30: The national grid
31: Power
32: Radiation
33: Renewable energy
34: Resultant force
35: The solar system
36: Sound waves
37: Spring constant
38: The Big Bang
39: The eye
40: Work done
41: X rays
42: Speed
43: Enzymes
44: Digestion
45: Evolution
46: Adaptations
47: Biodiversity
48: Decay
49: Deforestation
50; Diabetes
51: Drug testing
52: Food security
53: Genetic engineering
54: Growing microbes
55: Reproductive hormones
56: Meiosis
57: Mitosis
58: Reflexes
59: Plant hormones
60: Temperature control
61: The use of glucose
62: Tropic levels
63: Using plant hormones
I have also attached a range of other revision materials that you might find helpful to use with your students.
Thanks for looking & good luck with your exams
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the oil & it's uses content from the KS4 GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A alkanes card sort activity
4: A fractional distillation 6 mark question
5: A cracking 6 mark question
6: A polymerisation 6 mark question
7: A marking activity
8: A cracking & alkenes game
9: A cracking card sort
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metals section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A copper smelting starter activity
4: A blast furnace question
5: A purifying copper information hunt
6: A 6 mark question on titanium production
7: A 6 mark question on metallic issues
8: A aluminium & titanium literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the changing planet content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A structure of the Earth dice game
5: An atmosphere development sequencing activity
6: A 6 mark question on continental drift
7: A 6 mark question on the carbon cycle
8: A 6 mark question on the Earths atmosphere
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Core Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Atomic structure
2: The periodic table
3: Metals
4: Oil & it's uses
5: The changing planet
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 5 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 5 Weekly revision resources covering cells, the heart, enzymes, the periodic table, the immune system, diseases, salts & electrolysis
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 160mb of resources & 157 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sewage treatment content in the 2015 GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A key information highlighting activity
4: A dice game AFL activity
5: A sewage treatment model
6: A 6 mark question to be used as assessment
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the relative formula mass & atomic structure content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An atomic structure starter activity
3: An atomic structure of the first 20 elements activity
4: A RFM snakes & ladders game
5: A atomic structure micro teaching activity
6: A maze game
7: A question sheet
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the concentration section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An unit conversion starter game
3: A suggested role play activity
4: An equation conversion interactive notebook activity
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: 3 short use of equation activities
7: A sheet for students to work through
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 7 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 7 Weekly revision resources covering acids & alkalise, fission & fusion, digestion, matter, radiation, water treatment and heat transfer
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 142mb of resources & 168 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
Thanks for looking
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the periodic table & atomic theory content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A summary sheet
4: Interactive notebook activities
5: A dice AFL game
6: A development of the periodic table literacy activity
7: A key word card sort
8: A periodic table construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sustainability & water treatment content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook acitivity
4: A sustainability game
5: A water treatment 6 mark question
6: A sewage treatment model
7: A potable water literacy activity
8: A sustainable resources card sort
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reacting masses section on the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification with a section to remind students how to calculate the percentage mass of compounds. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of moles starter game
3: A percentage of nitrogen in compounds task
4: A percentage of elements in a compound task
5: A reacting masses interactive notebook activity
6: A series of reacting masses questions
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the spectroscope content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A starter game
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A spectra comparison activity
5: A spectroscope modelling activity
6: A 6 mark AFL question
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
Thanks for looking
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the electron structure content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A atomic number starter game
3: A drawing electron structure circus activty
4: A key word card sort
5: A drawing electron structure trick
6: A plenary dice game
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This resource is a bundle of lessons covering the electrolysis section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This bundle includes lessons on:
1: Acids & alkalies (students need to be aware of how they form ions)
2: Basic electrolysis
3: Electrolysis of aluminium
4: Electrolysis of brine
5: Electrolysis of water
6: A revision lesson
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metallic bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A student information sheet
3: A dice AFL game
4: A key information snakes & ladders game
5: A properties of metallic bonding information hunt
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A sheet for students to work through
8: A possible metallic bonding model activity
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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