Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
This is a brilliant, two-page ionic bonding worksheet that is suitable for GCSE, IGCSE and MYP students.
The worksheet comes with full solutions and has been hand-made and checked by me (I’m a high school chemistry teacher with 15 years of experience).
In the worksheet, students have to fill in the blanks, add electrons to shells and draw a full diagram.
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 10 and 20: Organic Chemistry.
This bundle includes six PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
10.0: Organic Intro
10.1: Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
10.2: Functional Group Chemistry
20.1: Types of Organic Reactions
20.2: Synthetic Routes
20.3: Stereoisomerism
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 8 and 18: Acids and Bases.
This bundle includes eight PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
8.1: Theories of Acids and Bases
8.2: Properties of Acids and Bases
8.3: The pH scale
8.4: Strong and Weak Acids and Bases
8.5: Acid Deposition
18.1: Lewis Acids and Bases
18.2: Calculations with Acids and Bases
18.3: pH Curves
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This PowerPoint Presentation covers most of the requirements for Group 1 Alkali Metals unit for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry in a clear and coherent manner.
These slides may also be useful for other exam boards, such as AQA, WJEC, CIE, etc., if modified after download.
Specification statements covered include:
Describe the reactions of these elements with water and understand that the reactions provide a basis for their recognition as a family of elements
Describe the relative reactivities of the elements in Group
Explain the relative reactivities of the elements in Group 1 in terms of distance between the outer electrons and the nucleus.
This PowerPoint presentation goes through the basics of ion formation and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students. Metals are clearly shown to lose electrons, whereas non-metals are clearly shown to gain electrons. Key words such as ‘anion’ and ‘cation’ are included, and electron shell/‘dot and cross’ diagrams with sqaure brackets are given (i.e. in the same format as required by the exam).
Activities included (feel free to edit or modify after download):
Whiteboard.fi starter
Main teaching content (beginning from first principles with simple atomic structure, leading into ion formation)
Google Doc suggested plenary (feel free to copy the slide into a Google Doc. or print for students to fill in)
Some syllabus references that this PPT satisfies (to name but a few):
AQA GCSE Chemistry:
4.2.1.1 Chemical Trends:* Ionic bonding occurs in compounds formed from metals combined with non-metals.*
4.2.1.2 Ionic Bonding: Students should be able to draw dot and cross diagrams for ionic compounds formed by metals in Groups 1 and 2 with non-metals in Groups 6 and 7.
**Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry: **
1.37: Understand how ions are formed by electron loss or gain
1.40: Draw dot-and-cross diagrams to show the formation of ionic compounds by electron transfer, limited to combinations of elements from Groups 1, 2, 3 and 5, 6, 7
This beautiful crossword puzzle is suitable for both CIE and Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry students. An answer sheet is provided too.
Key words covered by this crossword include:
Acidic oxide
Decomposition
Precipitation’
Neutralisation
Amphoteric oxide
Basic oxide
Neutral oxide
Acid
Base
Flame test
Dissociate
Indicator
I am an IGCSE Chemistry teacher with almost two decades of experience and I have created this resource from scratch.
A very fun activity that can be used anywhere in a lesson, but works especially well as a starter, plenary or homework.
This worksheet is probably best given to students in year 9 and older. It is basically a series of questions to test their skills in writing down times of the day in German, followed by a useful wordsearch that introduces some new vocabulary. Students will have to write down times of the day like the examples below:
12.35 = fünfundzwanzig vor eins
3.15 = Viertel nach drei
This worksheet also introduces learners to the words 'mittag' and 'mitternacht'.
This is the perfect starter, plenary or homework for any advanced biology lesson that introduces students to cellular respiration. This resource is suitable for 'A' - Level and IBDP students.
This quick quiz (with answers) covers the following:
1. The differences between reduction and oxidation (essential prior knowledge for any student hoping to learn about respiration)
2. The four main stages of glycolysis
There is also a handy acronym at the end that helps students to remember the four stages of glycolysis
This is a really clear PowerPoint that shows students how to use Hess's Law to solve problems. Includes a number of examples to help students see Hess's Law being used effectively.
Printable and fully editable, this PowerPoint is suitable for advanced chemistry classes (e.g. 'A' - Level and IB Diploma)
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 3 and 13: Periodicity.
This bundle includes four PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
3.1: Periodic Table
3.2: Periodic Trends
13.1 : First Row D-Block Elements
13.2: Coloured Complexes
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 4 and 14: Bonding.
This bundle includes seven PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
4.1: Ionic Bonding and Structure
4.2: Covalent Bonding
4.3: Covalent Structures
4.4: Intermolecular Forces
4.5: Metallic Bonding
14.1: Further Aspects of Covalent Bonding
14.2: Hybridization
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This PowerPoint Presentation covers most of the requirements for the Covalent Bonding unit for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry in a clear and coherent manner.
These slides may also be useful for other exam boards, such as AQA, WJEC, CIE, etc., if modified after download.
Specification statements covered include:
1.31 describe the formation of a covalent bond by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms.
1.32 understand covalent bonding as a strong attraction between the bonding pair of electrons and the nuclei of the atoms involved in the bond.
1.33 explain, using dot and cross diagrams, the formation of covalent compounds by electron sharing for the following substances:
Hydrogen, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, water, methane, ammonia, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ethane, ethene.
1.34 recall that substances with simple molecular substances are gases or liquids, or solids with low melting points.
1.35 explain why substances with simple molecular structure have low melting points in terms of the relatively weak forces between the molecules.
1.36 explain the high melting points of substances with giant covalent structures in terms of the breaking of many strong covalent bonds.
A powerpoint presentation all about the differences between small covalent molecules and giant covalent network structures. Suitable for 'A' - level or high ability GCSE classes. Can be used effectively as a handout. Students particulary enjoy the part about the allotropes of carbon
This ten word crossword puzzle is designed to review the key vocabulary found in the ionic bonding topic, and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students.
Clues and answers are as follows:
anion: A negative ion
cation: A positive ion
lost: Positive ions are formed when electrons are ____
gained: Negative ions are formed when electrons are ______
oppositely: An ionic bond is defined as the electrostatic force of attraction that exists between two ________ charged ions
metals: These usually form positive ions
nonmetals: These usually form negative ions
chloride: This is the name of the negative ion found in table salt
lattice: Many ions join together to form a large _______ structure
soluble: Ionic compounds are usually _______ in water
This ten word crossword puzzle is designed to review the key vocabulary found in the covalent bonding topics, and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students.
Clues and answers are as follows:
In a covalent bond, a pair of electrons is ____________ between two atoms. [shared]
A covalently bonded compound that is needed for photosynthesis to take place [Carbon dioxide]
We do not need to draw the inner _________ in a dot-and-cross diagram [shells]
This is a type of diagram we can draw to represent covalent bonding. [dot-and-cross]
Covalent bonding only happens between _____- ________ atoms [non-metal]
Covalent bonds are ________ [strong]
A covalently bonded compound that is responsible for all life on Earth [Water]
A covalently bonded compound that has the formula HCl [hydrogen chloride]
These are shared between atoms during covalent bonding [electrons]
After covalent bonding, each atom has a ______ outer shell. [full]
Syllabus references that this resource satisfies (to name but a few):
AQA GCSE Chemistry:
**4.2.1.1 Chemical Trends:Covalent bonding occurs in most non-metallic elements and in compounds of non-metals.
4.2.1.4 Covalent Bonding: When atoms share pairs of electrons, they form covalent bonds. These bonds between atoms are strong
4.2.1.4 Covalent Bonding: The covalent bonds in molecules and giant structures can be represented in the following forms (dot and cross and ball and stick examples given in the specification)
**Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry: **
1.44: Know that a covalent bond is formed between atoms by the sharing of a pair of electrons
1.45: Understand covalent bonds in terms of electrostatic attractions
1.46: Understand how to use dot-and-cross diagrams to represent covalent bonds
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any class about DNA structure. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
The location of DNA in the cell
The nucleotide as the basic building block of DNA
Complimentary base pairing
This is a lot of fun and your kids will love it. If your students have never learnt anything about DNA before, then you could provide the students with a summary to help them as they do the puzzle.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any class about elements, compounds and isotopes. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
1. The differences between elements and compounds in terms of physical structure, ease of separation and reactivity
2. Groups and periods in the periodic table, and how they relate to valence electron and shell number
3. The atomic definition of isotopes
This is a lot of fun and your kids will love it. If your students have never learnt anything about elements, compounds and isotopes before, then you could provide the students with a summary to help them as they do the puzzle.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
A fun, clear, comprehensive and varied worksheet that works well as starter, plenary or as a chunk of the main body of lesson.
Suitable for GCSE or IGCSE Chemistry, Science (Double Award) or Science (Single Award), this resource covers:
1.The meaning of 'group number' and how this relates to reactivity trends
2. How 'group number' relates to outer shell electrons
3. Names of groups in the periodic table
4. Similarities in reactivity between elements
5. Differences between elements and compounds
Comes complete with answers. Great for peer or self-assessment.
Included in this pack are both the word doc (which you can edit) and pdf versions.
A well presented, professional looking word search that introduces lots of vocabulary that students can use when describing their families. Can used to start (recommended), to finish or for homework. Let me know what you think. You may want to add an element of competition and say "the first person to find all of the words will win a prize". This should make it more fun.