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Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on the properties of alkenes. This lesson is an introduction to the chapter on alkenes. This lesson follows the OCR specification.
By the end of the lessons students should be able:
1)To know the general formula of alkenes
2)To explain the shape and bond angle around each carbon atom of a C=C bond
3)To describe how π and σ bonds are formed in alkenes**
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A structured KS5 lesson (Part 1 of 2) including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Intermolecular Forces (London forces and permanent dipole-dipole interactions)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
Understand intermolecular forces based on induced-dipole interactions and permanent dipole-dipole interactions
Explain how intermolecular forces are linked to physical properties such as boiling and melting points
Compare the solubility of polar and non-polar molecules in polar and non-polar solvents
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on the acid dissociation constant Ka
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To understand the acid dissociation constant, Ka, as the extent of acid dissociation
To know the relationship between Ka and pKa
To convert between Ka and pKa
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and plenary task all with answers on Neutralisation & Titration Curves
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To interpret titration curves of strong and weak acids and strong and weak bases
To construct titration curve diagrams of strong and weak acids and strong and weak bases
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A complete lesson including risk assessment and post practical analysis on AS Chemistry PAG 2.1 :Determination of concentration of hydrochloric acid
Students will learn how to:
Plan an acid-base titration practical
Assess the risks of an acid-base titration practical
How to use a range of practical equipment safely and accurately
How to record observations
How to analyse titration results to determine an unknown concentration
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on strong acids and the pH scale
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate the pH of a strong acid
To convert between pH and [H+(aq)]
To apply the relationship between pH and [H+(aq)] to work out pH changes after dilution
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on the pH of weak acids
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To recall the expression of pH for weak monobasic acids
To calculate the pH of weak monobasic acids using approximations
To analyse the limitations of using approximations to Ka related calculations for ‘stronger’ weak acids
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A structured KS5 lesson (part 2 of 2) including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Intermolecular forces (Hydrogen bonding)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To understand hydrogen bonding as intermolecular forces between molecules containing N, O or F and the H atom of –NH, -OH or HF
To construct diagrams which illustrate hydrogen bonding
To explain the anomalous properties of H2O resulting from hydrogen bonding
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on the Ionic Product of Water, Kw
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
LO1: To recall the expression for the ionic product of water, Kw (ionisation of water)
LO2: To calculate the pH of strong bases using Kw
LO3: To apply the principles for Kc, Kp to Kw
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on free radical substitution reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
1.To know what a free radical is
2. To describe the reaction mechanism for the free-radical substitution of alkanes including initiation, propagation and termination
3. To analyse the limitations of radical substitution in synthesis by formation of a mixture of organic products
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on halogenoalkanes and their chemical reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To Identify haloalkanes as primary, secondary or tertiary
To understand why haloalkanes are more reactive than alkanes
To describe what a nucleophile is and to state some examples
To outline the mechanism of nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions involving haloalkanes
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on addition reactions of alkenes. Suitable for the AQA specification
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know what an electrophile is
To describe what an electrophilic addition reaction is
To outline the mechanism for electrophilic addition
Mechanisms for electrophilic addition include halogen halides, halogen molecules, hydrogen molecule and sulfuric acid
Explanations surrounding major and minor products are also discussed in this lesson
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3 revision documents summarising the equations and conditions students need to remember for the following chapters in AQA AS Chemistry:
The halogens
Group 2 metals
Alkanes
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on the properties of alkanes. Suitable for the OCR specification
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know alkanes are saturated alkanes containing sigma (σ)bonds that are free to rotate
Explain the shape and bond angle round each carbon atom in alkanes in terms of electron pair repulsion
Describe and explain the variations in boiling points of alkanes with different carbon chain lengths and branching in terms of London forces
All questions come with answers
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Bronsted Lowry Acids and Bases
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To describe the difference between a BrØnsted Lowry acid and base
To identify conjugate acid-base pairs
To explain the difference between monobasic, dibasic and tribasic acids
To understand the role of H+ in the reactions of acids with metals and bases (including carbonates, metal oxides and alkalis), using ionic equations
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on IR Spectroscopy. Suitable for OCR AS Chemistry.
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
To understand the absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases containing C=O, O-H and C-H bonds, their suspected link to global warming and resulting changes to energy uses
2)To understand how infrared spectroscopy works
3)To understand the application of infrared spectroscopy
To interpret IR spectra
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Combined Techniques. Suitable for OCR AS Chemistry.
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1)To apply combined spectroscopic techniques (IR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and elemental analysis) to identify the structures of unknown compounds
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on the combustion of alkanes. Suitable for the OCR specification.
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To understand why alkanes are good fuels
To recall the equations (both word and symbol) for complete combustion of alkanes of alkanes
To recall the equations (both word and symbol) for incomplete complete combustion of alkanes of alkanes
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A structured KS5 lesson (Part 1 of 2) including starter activity and practice questions with answers on ionisation energy
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To define the term ‘first ionisation energy’ and successive ionisation energies
To describe the factors affecting ionisation energy
To explain the trend in successive ionisation energies of an element
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks Electrons and Atomic Orbitals
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know that atomic orbitals are a region around the nucleus that occupy electrons
To illustrate the shape of s, p and d orbitals
To describe the number of orbitals that make up the s, p and d sub shells and the number of electrons that fill the sub shells
To deduce the electronic configuration of atoms and ions in the s and p-block
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
Important Note For Teachers: A lesson on electronic configuration of d-block elements is available as a separate lesson in my shop
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