'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 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 new lesson covering the calculating empirical formula content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students though the lesson
2: A dice calculating percentage mass starter activity
3: An empirical formula circus of questions
4: A empirical formula by percentage mass plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the collision theory content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A definition construction activity
3: Various model building activities
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the using the Earth’s resources and sustainable development content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: A card sort activity
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out about the problems & solutions to sustainability issues
6: A group work activity on wheat students have covered in the lesson
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the extraction of metals content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A question analysis starter activity
3: A reactivity series activity
4: A copper smelting activity
5: A iron extraction activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A copper extraction student sheet
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the ionic bonding content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet with activities for students to work through
3: A literacy starter game
4: A giant ionic bonding model activity
5: A video showing how to model ionic bonding
6: A 6 mark plenary 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 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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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 carboxylic acids content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A exam question answer analysis starter activity
3: Activities going through the properties & strength of carboxylic acids
4: A how esters are produced activity
5: A question sheet for students to work through
6: A method for investigating the reaction of carboxylic acid and calcium carbonate
7: A 6 mark assessment question
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
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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This is a new resource covering the Moles content of the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An inquiry question starter activity
3: 2 working out the number and mass of moles tasks
4: A working out how many moles of an element circus activity
5: A dice game plenary activity
6: The Avogadro number game
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
10: A question sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the acid rain 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 fill in
3: A burning fuels starter activity
4: A formation of acid rain activity
5: A problems caused by acid rain activity
6: A 6 mark assessment activity
7: A group presentation activity
8: A slide that can be used for flipped learning
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 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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the electrolysis of brine content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A key information highlighting activity
4: A AFL dice game
5: A electrolysis of brine modelling activity
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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 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 broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on investigations involving the production of gas
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on cracking hydrocarbons
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on moles & molar volume
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