This full lesson PowerPoint (including practical activity) can be used to teach a broad range of abilities about mixtures and how to separate certain mixtures using filtration. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. When doing this lesson, it will benefit students if they have already had some experience of naming equipment and / or drawing scientific diagrams. If this has not been done, I have a suitable lesson available in my shop entitled “Science Practical Skills - Equipment and Safety”. I have also included my Overview and Equipment document for the whole 7E topic. All lessons listed in the document are available from my shop.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical task) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about simple explosions and the difference between chemical and physical changes. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This full lesson PowerPoint and worksheet (with answers) will allow you to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Molar Volumes of Gases. The resource is easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and is appropriate for Triple Science classes, Higher tier only.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach two lessons to a broad range of abilities about the extraction of metals from their ores. This is an important topic at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. Also included is an outline and equipment list for this whole topic; the other lessons are available to buy individually and as a bundle from my shop, OnSpecScience.

This PowerPoint (with suggested practical activity) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the three states of matter, conversions between these states and how to prepare/interpret a heating curve. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how to name ionic compounds and predict their formulae, including using of brackets to write the formula for compounds containing polyatomic ions. You will need to download the FREE resource, “SC5b Ionic Formulae worksheet” which is available from my shop. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This full lesson PowerPoint is designed to teach Year 7 students about Bunsen burners and how to light and use them safely. This is the third in a series of three lessons I have planned which focus solely on teaching students about the basics of safe and accurate practical work. Visit my shop to find the other lessons in this series: Year 7 Equipment and Safety Year 7 Measuring Skills Plus a whole catalogue of other KS3 Science and KS4 Chemistry lessons.

This full lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Chemical Cells and Fuel Cells. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for TRIPLE SCIENCE ONLY, Foundation and Higher tiers. Please note that this lesson covers the Edexcel Chemistry Paper 1 content on chemical cells and hydrogen fuel cells. “Recall that a chemical cell produces a voltage until one of the reactants is used up” “Recall that in a hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell hydrogen and oxygen are used to produce a voltage and water is the only product” “Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of fuel cells for given uses” This lesson does not cover the Paper 2 content comparing and contrasting hydrogen and petrol as fuels. For that content, see my lesson SC20f on Cracking and Alternative Fuels.

This PowerPoint (including a suggested practical investigation) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the properties of ionic substances and why they exist. For the practical task you will need to download the FREE resource “SC5c Testing Ionic Compounds method” from my shop, OnSpecScience. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about catalysts and the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions. These are important topics at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach students how to calculate reacting masses (the mass of product made by a given mass of reactant and vice versa). Two PowerPoints are provided: Higher-tier lesson The PowerPoint (plus worksheet with exam-style practice questions) will allow you to teach Higher-tier only content on stoichiometry and then use this alongside numbers of moles to calculate reacting masses. Foundation-tier lesson Foundation students need to learn how calculate reacting masses but they do not need to learn how to calculate numbers of moles. The PowerPoint aimed at Foundation students revisits Relative Formula Mass and shows how to use this to approach Reacting Masses in a different way. It can also be used as backup for Higher students who struggle with Moles. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes! Other lessons on Calculations involving Mass (including the preceding lesson on Moles) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

This full Lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach students the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry content on breaking down hydrocarbons (cracking) and comparing hydrogen versus petrol as fuels for vehicles.The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Note: this lesson covers the Edexcel Paper 2 specification point on hydrogen fuel cells which is relevant to both Combined Science and Triple Science students: “Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using hydrogen, rather than petrol, as a fuel in cars” For full coverage of the Triple-only Paper 1 content, evaluating hydrogen fuel cells alongside chemical cells, see my separate lesson “SC16a Chemical Cells and Fuel Cells”.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson explaining why there are energy changes in exothermic and endothermic reactions, including drawing reaction profiles and the new content on bond energies and their use to calculate reaction outcomes. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers (the final activity & learning objective is Higher-tier only).

Full Lesson PowerPoint sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Dynamic Equilibrium. The resource is easy to follow for teachers and readily accessible for students. For Combined Science, Foundation students only need to cover the first two objectives; Higher tier candidates also need to learn about factors affecting the position of the equilibrium. Triple Science students also need to do the follow-up lesson (SC15b) on Factors affecting Equilibria. A clearer version of the worksheet can be downloaded from my shop in needed. Search for "GCSE Chemistry Haber Process worksheet to go with lesson CC12a SC12a “Dynamic Equilibrium”.

These lesson PowerPoints (including practical activity) can be used to teach a broad range of abilities about key terms relating to solutions and how to test the solubility of a substance. There are two versions of the lesson, one aimed at Higher ability groups and one more accessible to mixed / lower ability groups. Each has its own version of the worksheet. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

These lesson PowerPoints (with suggested practical task) will allow you to deliver two lessons to a broad range of abilities. Lesson 1 introduces the reactivity series of metals, sets up a simple experiment and then focuses on balancing chemical equations. Lesson 2 builds upon these skills by looking at the reactions of metals with oxygen, water and acids. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about neutralisation and its "real world" uses. There are two PowerPoints in this package; one for use as an ICT suite/iPad research lesson (or could also be used with appropriate textbook/literature resources), while the second allows you to deliver a two-part practical lesson where students investigate how indigestion remedies neutralise stomach acid. The lessons are in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This double-lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lessons on Methods of Separation and Purification, including filtration, evaporation & crystallisation, simple distillation and fractional distillation. The resources allow delivery of one lesson covering the required theory for each separation technique, then an optional second lesson where the pupils use filtration and evaporation as part of a purification process (distillation is carried out by the students in a separate Core Practical lesson). Full equipment lists are provided for the teacher demonstrations and class practical tasks. To go with this lesson you will need to download the free activity “SC2d Simple and Fractional Distillation cloze text worksheet”. All of the resources are easily accessible for students, simple to follow and appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach students the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry required content on Solubility and Precipitates. Two full lesson PowerPoints are provided: Solubility and Precipitates Covers the solubility rules and what happens during precipitation reactions plus some Higher-tier only content on ionic equations. Making a precipitate In this lesson students are able to learn the method to make their own pure, dried precipitate. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes. Other GCSE lessons are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach students the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry required content on the reactions of acids with metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides and metal carbonates. Two full lesson PowerPoints are provided: Reactions of Acids Introduces the key rules for acid reactions and deals primarily with word equations, though there are some opportunities for balanced equation practice in the final task. Acid reactions and Balanced Equations This lesson builds upon the rules learned in lesson 1, while recalling formulae and skills learned in previous lessons, so that students learn to write balanced equations for acid reactions with minimal provided. A homework sheet (plus mark-scheme) is then included for students to practise what they learn across the two lessons. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Other GCSE lessons (including others from the Acids and Alkalis topic) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.