Based on AQA chemistry specification.

An exam-style question about paracetamol. Part of the Practicexamques series.

I got out my felt pens again and made a naive little movie of this reaction, just to show where the atoms come from and go to. No mechanism in sight.

Exam-style questions centered around tryptophan.

Open the html file et voila. Drag the descriptions to the correct places and get a prize. Please note: in order to provide a rich interactive experience, my drag & drop resources are mini-web sites local to your computer. After unzipping, they comprise a folder containing the main .html file and another folder containing the graphic resources and my coding to make the resource work. Double click on the .html file and the resource will work. If, however , you move or delete any of the files from this hierarchy, the resource will not work.

A tiny sheet where the student fills in the name of the reaction and the required reagents in the boxes. Start of a series. Covers reactions in OCR B.

A tiny sheet where the student fills in the name of the reaction and the required reagents in the boxes. Start of a series. Covers reactions in OCR B.

A tiny sheet where the student fills in the name of the reaction and the required reagents in the boxes. Start of a series. Covers reactions in OCR B.

As it says on the tin. AQA GCSE science.

Made in response to confusion of a student. A tiny, nutty little video about this. Sixth formers might find it amusing and therefore memorable.

2,2,4-trimethylpentane, or iso-octane used to feature heavily in the OCR Salters A level chemistry, because it is an important additive to petrol. It has slipped out of the specification, but the examiner must be sitting on many questions that might be recycled to test understanding. This is a simple information sheet that gives answers to a legacy question that one of my students was completing. It aims to answer difficulties with the question in a graphic way. The sheet runs to three pages and examines isomerism.

Join the ions that cause precipitation. I have included an answer plus an OCR table of solubilities.

I made a crazy little video thing to give insight into precipitation.

I made a series of templates for the main aliphatic reaction mechanisms in OCR chemistry A level. They resemble exam questions where students have to complete the reaction with partial charges, lone pairs and curly arrows. The intention is that they can be printed out by students as often as is required, for practice. A solution is provided for each example. Included are: nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic addition, radical substitution and elimination.

Sixth formers love cut & stick. They reinforce understanding and promote discussion. Cut sheet and stick sheet, with spaces to write in bond angles, number of bonding pairs and number of lone pairs.

Part of my series of A level style questions on unfamiliar structures: comprises two pages of questions.

the all new shiny improved version, with four titration curves. Just for fun

a wacky video about the motor effect. just for fun

I did a very simple animation of TOFMS with hot cathode ionization. Mainly to amuse myself.

Just because I could. I made a wacky video about this. There is no commentry. For a change, I thought that sixth formers might add their own voice over.