For my amusement

I dont’t know why.

Just practice at recognising types of chemical species.

A simple, photocopiable worksheet (black and white!) that gives practice at interpreting simple chemical formulae. The examples get harder as you proceed. It is comprised of two pages of examples. It is suitable for KS3 and KS4 students. It could be used in class or for homework.

I made a simple summary sheet as a revision resource. It aims briefly to summarise the benzene evidence.

Add motion to your lesson. This is a simple animation of the reaction mechanism. It is presented as a single powerpoint slide

i made a tiny video

For fun

Link didn’t work so I have re- uploaded it

just because.

A simple wordsearch on 1 side of A4. It is quite a challenge! For GCSE chemists. ( I have now removed an error which had two letters in one box and one box with a space. I had to make it bigger and spread the puzzle onto two sides, one side with clues and one with the puzzle grid. Apologies to those who bought the defective version- contact me for a replacement)

with some easter eggs

A plant dye is used in a question about reactions of organic functional groups. It is pertinent to the study of phenols. (NB I had previously ommited the reaction of phenol rings with bromine, now tried to include this)

An exam style question on DDT. With my answers.

A very simple worksheet focusing on purity and mixtures, and separation techniques.

Just for fun

Join the mixture to the technique

Quick and short presentation on how to balance the manganate (vii) half equation, to save you time. I have now added the oxidation of ethanol by acidified potassium dichromate (VI) as another example.