'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.
A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Chemistry specification, Fuels from Oil in the Oil section. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An AFL dice game
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A graph activity
4: Properties of alkane information hunt activity
5: A crude oil literacy activity
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 and activities covering the mixtures & separation section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy group starter activity
3: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
4: Activities on distillation, crystallisation, filtration & chromatography
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: An activity that can be used for homework
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reactivity series content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game based on practical command words
3: A reaction of metals with water activity
4: A reaction of metals with acid activity
5: A reactivity series practical design activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A sheet for students to fill out during a reactivity series investigation
8: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the electrolysis of aluminium content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A 6 mark starter activity
2: A aluminium electrolysis model activity
3: A micro teaching task
4: A power point to lead students through the lesson
5: A 6 mark assessment lesson
6: A literacy activity
7: A electrolysis game
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 states of matter content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling states of matter activity
4: A micro-teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
7: A homework task
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 fertilisers section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A Haber process recall game
3: A use of fertilisers SPAG activity
4: Information on the reactions that produce ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate and ammonium phosphate
5: Sheets for students to gather information on
6: A making fertilisers industrially vs in the lab activity
7: A making ammonium sulphate plenary activity
8: A possible 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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This resource is a whole lesson with activities for the making ethanol part of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet on ethanol production
3: A AFL dice game
4: 2 AFL 6 mark questions
5: A making ethanol information hunt starter activity
6: Making ethanol by fermentation & hydration activity
7: Properties of alcohols activities
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
11: A question sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reducing the use of resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A what is recycling activity
3: A key information starter game
4: A sheet for students to fill in about different types of recycling
5: A dice assessment game
6: Slides that go through the recycling of glass, paper & metal
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework task
9: Photos showing how recycling can be modeled
10: A video that can be used for a flipped learning activity if you want
11: Videos showing how you can get students to tell stories about recycling
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the molar gas volume content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A gas volume maze starter game
3: A moles in different volumes of gas activity
4: A calculating mass activity
5: A calculating volume activity
6: A volume of gas produced during an investigation activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reacting acids & metals content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
3: A command word starter game
4: A reactivity series activity
5: A equation activity
6: A practical design activity
7: A group presentation activity
8: A graph analysis activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the conservation of mass content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson]
3: A starter game to re-enforce that mass can not be lost in a reaction
4: A calculating mass of products and reactants activity
5: A balancing equations activity
6: A conservation of mass using RFM activity
7: 50 extra conservation of mass questions
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 factors affecting rate of reaction section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game looking at key words used in practical investigations
3: Activities looking at the affect of surface area, temperature, catalysts and concentration on rate of reaction
4: A question for students to work through for homework
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the properties and effects of atmospheric pollutants content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A air pollution spag activity
4: A long answer question analysis activity
5: A group work task
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: 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 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 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 lesson with activities covering the electrolysis of water content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game to remind students what they have already covered on electrolysis
3: A SPAG activity
4: A modelling activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A flipped learning slide
7: A group task
8: A dice assessment game
9: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resources is a lesson with activities covering the pure substances content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A pure substances literacy activity
4: A purity of a substance graph activity
5: A purity and melting point activity
6: A melting / freezing point of salty water graph activity
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: 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 covering the plastic waste content in the new AQA Chemistry specification. The resource includes:
1: A power point which leads students through the lesson
2: A disposal of plastic waste information hunt activity
3: A plastic waste literacy starter activity
4: A plastic recycling activity
5: A 6 mark plenary activity
6: A dice AFL game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the covalent 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 number of bonds an atom will form game
3: A series of covalent compounds for students to draw
4: A simple covalent compounds spag activity
5: A simple covalent compounds modeling activity
6: A giant covalent compounds literacy activity & presentation
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video showing how to carry out the modeling 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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