Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Two GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering ionic structure and bulk properties of ionic compounds.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 5 and 6 and Powerpoint 3 from my scheme of work for KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
Parent and student friendly markschemes so you can use these to support your learning.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
Two GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering giant covalent structures, carbon allotropes, polymers and macromolecules.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 9-10 and Powerpoint 5 from my bundle on KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
Parent and student friendly mark schemes so you can use these to support your learning.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see how this fits into the unit and the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
‘Big ideas’ in chemistry is about identifying and systematically teaching the overarching principles and crucial concepts your students need to become outstanding chemists. Many resources and books are produced with a single exam specification in mind which can leave your students with better knowledge in some areas than others and can make changing exam boards more difficult due to costs of resourcing. Liberate yourself from the exam specification and teach this amazing subject holistically ensuring your students have the detailed knowledge they need to gain confident mastery and an ability to apply their knowledge in unfamiliar scenarios. ‘Big ideas’ enables easier transfer between exam boards for students and teachers (especially non-specialists), and ‘connections’ enables you to place your own emphasis during teaching on concepts important to the actual exams your students will be sitting.
AQA GCSE Combined Science - **FOUNDATION TIER **
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic. Include a mixture of cloze word fact sections with recall and exam style questions. Now with free suggested answer sheets to support non-specialists or parents/students revising. Provided as Powerpoint and PDF.
These 12 printable A3 mats cover the following content
Unit 3 Quantitative Chemistry (3 mats)
Conservation of mass and balanced chemical equations
Relative formula mass
Mass changes when a reactant or product is a gas
Chemical measurements
Concentrations of solutions
Unit 4 Chemical Changes (9 mats)
The reactivity of metals
The reactivity series
Extraction of metals and reduction
Reactions of acids with metals
Neutralisation of acids and salt production
Soluble salts
The pH scale and neutralisation
Electrolysis of molten ionic compounds
Electrolysis in aqueous solution
Using electrolysis to extract metals
4.1.3 Properties of transition metals (chemistry only)
PowerPoint lesson covering the transition elements and a comparison between the transition elements and group 1 with worksheet and answers.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
Fully resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
This is a Higher Tier Chemistry resource containing concise revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that have been created to be specific to the Paper 1H 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session. Each booklet should take about 1 hour to complete. Structure your revision around these and spend less time making notes and more time practicing applying your knowledge.
This bundle contains ALL the booklets to help students to prepare for the major focus of the content of Paper 1H.
AQA Advance Information 2022
• 4.1.2 The periodic table
• 4.2.1 Chemical bonds, ionic, covalent and metallic
• 4.2.2 How bonding and structure are related to the properties of substances
• 4.2.3 Structure and bonding of carbon
• 4.3.2 Use of amount of substance in relation to masses of pure substances
• 4.4.1 Reactivity of metals
• 4.4.2 Reactions of acids
• 4.4.3 Electrolysis
• 4.5.1 Exothermic and endothermic reactions
Required practical activities that will be assessed:
• Required practical activity 1: preparation of a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt from an insoluble oxide or carbonate, using a Bunsen burner to heat dilute acid and a water bath or electric heater to evaporate the solution.
• Required practical activity 2: determination of the reacting volumes of solutions of a strong acid and a strong alkali by titration.
• Required practical activity 4: investigate the variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions such as, eg, acid plus metals, acid plus carbonates, neutralisations, displacement of metals.
This resource is designed to help A-level chemistry students get their heads around the multiple usage of the letter 'k' meaning
Kc - the equilibrium constant
Kstab - the stability constant of a complex
Ka - the acid dissociation constant
k - the rate constant
Thinking small - do you really understand dust?
This lesson is an activity loaded and practically based introduction to nanoscience which encourages students to explore the meaning of the word small. By participating in a range of activities they will gain an understanding of the scale of different objects. This lesson is designed to be accessible to a range of abilities and requires only basic practical equipment.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Resources to support teaching unit 3 - Quantitative Chemistry the new AQA 2016 syllabus.
Powerpoints, worksheets and activities including mark schemes, powerpoint and pdf files
Massive set of resources to teach this huge and technical unit. Structured questions novel examples and engaging materials to liven up a relatively dry topic.
Conservation of mass and balanced equations
Chemical measurements and mass changes
Reacting masses and mole calculations
Balancing equations using reacting masses
Limiting reactants
Concentration in solution
Making up a volumetric solution
Gas volumes and molar gas volume
Balloons and gas volume
Yield and atom economy
This is a well resourced bundle of materials to teach the reactivity of metals.
Reactions of metals with oxygen
Reactions of metals with water (alkali metals) and acids (group 2)
Formulating the reactivity series
Alkali metals
Description of metals reacting by losing electrons
Preparation and differentiated worksheets
Metal displacement and redox reactions
OIL RIG
Includes full lesson powerpoint that should cover approximately three lessons and supporting resources in word and pdf format.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Support your students to learn the definitions they need for all the year 1 and AS topics in the new specification A-level chemistry!
Each word document contains definitions that can be cut, individually folded over and used to revise or learn the accepted AQA definitions of key words and concepts for every topic.
Students should print the sheets in A3 or A4 and then cut each definition into a strip. Fold over and glue together to give a robust card. Shuffle and test yourself or each other. Keep each topic separate or mix it up, the units are marked on each card so they can easily be re-sorted. Fold and laminate for a longer lasting set.
Good for starter activities, revision and test yourself!
This resource contains definitions for:
3.1.1 Atomic structure
3.1.2 Amount of substance
3.1.3 Bonding
3.1.4 Energetics
3.1.5 Kinetics
3.1.6 Equilibria
3.1.7 Redox
3.2.1 Periodicity
3.2.2 Group 2 the alkaline earth metals
3.2.3 Group 7 the halogens
3.3.1 Introduction to organic chemistry
3.3.2 Alkane
3.3.3 Halogenoalkanes
3.3.4 Alkenes
3.3.5 Alcohols
3.3.6 Organic Analysis
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 to complete in class or at home. One sheet is a great starter activity or homework task. All the sheets form a useful revision workbook.
These 5 printable A3 mats cover 3.3.5 alcohols and includes a separate powerpoint containing model answers. Provided also as pdf files.
Mat 1
Steam hydration of ethene
Glucose and empirical formula
Fermentation conditions and comparison with hydration
Mat 2
Reagents and conditions for the different methods of alcohol production
Mat 3
Oxidation of alcohols
Practical application of oxidation of alcohols and equipment
Mat 4
Mechanism for elimination/dehydration of alcohols
Formation of isomers from longer chain/or unsymmetrical alcohols
Mat 5
Identification of different types of organic compounds with test tube reactions and spectroscopy
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.1.12 Acids and Bases - Three lesson / revision workbooks and notes with answers covering the whole unit.
These workbooks cover a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell note taking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
Colour is used consistently for the different types of sections to make the booklet more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible for all students but especially those who have dyslexia.
The booklets can also be produced as a revision guide for the topic and contains all the notes and practice past paper questions you need to revise along with worked examples. Parent and student friendly also.
These three work books are provided in word and pdf.
Contents
Workbook Part 1 - 21 pages
Brønsted Lowry Theory - Strong and Weak Acids and Bases
Acid Dissociation
pH
Calculating pH of strong acids
The ionic product of water KW
Calculating pH of a strong base
Workbook Part 2 - 25 pages
Weak acid dissociation constant Ka
Calculating the pH of a weak acid
Determining Ka by experimental methods
Titration curves
Indicators for titrations
Calibrating pH meters
Workbook Part 3 - 29 pages
Buffer solutions
Acidic buffers
Basic buffers
Calculating the pH of acidic buffer solutions
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.1.10 Amines - Lesson or Revision workbook and notes with answers
This workbook covers a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell Style note taking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
I have used colour consistently for the different types of sections to make the booklet more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible for students who have dyslexia.
The workbook can also be produced as a revision guide for the topic and contains all the notes and practice past paper questions you would need to revise along with worked examples. Parent and student friendly.
This booklet is 20 pages long with answers to past paper questions provided at the back from page 16 onwards. It is provided in word and pdf.
Contents
Amine functional group
Naming amines with alkyl chains and naming priorities in organic chemistry
Preparation of amines by the reaction of ammonia with halogenoalkanes
Preparation of aliphatic amines by reduction of nitriles
Preparation of aromatic amines by reduction of nitro compounds
Basic properties
Reactions with acyl compounds and acid anhydrides
Two GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering metallic bonding and the properties of alloys and other substances.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 11-12 and Powerpoint 6 from my bundle on KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
Parent and student friendly mark schemes so you can use these to support your learning.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see how this fits into the unit and the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic. Now include free set of typed AND handwritten suggested answers.
PowerPoint provided. PDF version available separately at a discount.
These printable A3 mats cover unit 1 and unit 2
Mat 1
1) Atoms, elements and compounds
2) Mixtures
3) Development of the model of the atom
4) Relative electrical charges of subatomic particles
5) Size and mass of atoms
6) Relative atomic mass
7) Electronic structure
Mat 2
8) The periodic table
9) Development of the periodic table
10) Metals and Non-metals
11) Group 0
12) Group 1
13) Group 7
14) Transition metals
Mat 3
15) Chemical bonds
16) Ionic bonds and compounds
17) Covalent bonds compounds
18) Metallic bonding
Mat 4
19) States of matter
20) Structure and properties for ionic compounds
21) Properties of small molecules
22) Properties of polymers
23) Giant covalent structures
24) Metals and alloys
25) Conductivity
26) State symbols
Mat 5
27) Diamond
28) Graphite
29) Graphene and fullerenes
Mat 6
30) Bulk and surface properties and nanoparticles
31) Uses of nanoparticles
PHEW!!!! Should take a fair few lessons to work though and revise or can set as a homework sheet a week in the run up to exams.