This full Lesson PowerPoint will allow you to introduce the concept of Electrolysis and examine a few common examples of electrolysis reactions (including suggested practical activity). The resource is easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. **For Higher-tier students, this lesson should be followed by my subsequent lesson “Electrolysis and Half-equations” to ensure all points on the specification are met. **

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach students the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry required content on Solubility and Precipitates. Two full lesson PowerPoints are provided: Solubility and Precipitates Covers the solubility rules and what happens during precipitation reactions plus some Higher-tier only content on ionic equations. Making a precipitate In this lesson students are able to learn the method to make their own pure, dried precipitate. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes. Other GCSE lessons are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about combustion of different fuels. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. You'll also need to download the FREE worksheet "8Ea Products of Combustion" from my shop.

This PowerPoint (including suggested practical demos and class tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the Allotropes of Carbon (including diamond, graphite, graphene and fullerenes). The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry lesson on Group 7, the Halogens. This lesson covers the physical properties and appearances, plus reactions of halogens with metals. To cover the full content on halogens you will also need the follow-up lesson “SC17c Halogen Reactivity” on displacement reactions and reactions of halogens + hydrogen. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning opportunities) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Group 0, the Noble Gases. This also serves as a general introduction to the “Groups in the Periodic Table” topic. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Earth’s early atmosphere and how it changed to the present composition. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need my FREE resource “SC21a-b Earth’s Atmosphere cut & stick” from my shop.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about isotopes and calculating relative atomic mass. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Only the Higher students need to be able to calculate relative atomic mass - this is signposted throughout the lesson. You will also need to download the free worksheets “SC3c_Isotopes worksheets and mark-schemes” from my shop - OnSpecScience.

Full Lesson PowerPoint sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lessons on hydrocarbons in crude oil and natural gas and also on the alkanes homologous series. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need to download my FREE resource “SC20a Hydrocarbons and Alkanes” from my TES shop.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach two lessons to a broad range of abilities about the extraction of metals from their ores. This is an important topic at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. Also included is an outline and equipment list for this whole topic; the other lessons are available to buy individually and as a bundle from my shop, OnSpecScience.

This PowerPoint (including a suggested practical investigation) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the properties of ionic substances and why they exist. For the practical task you will need to download the FREE resource “SC5c Testing Ionic Compounds method” from my shop, OnSpecScience. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how to name ionic compounds and predict their formulae, including using of brackets to write the formula for compounds containing polyatomic ions. You will need to download the FREE resource, “SC5b Ionic Formulae worksheet” which is available from my shop. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the the properties of simple and giant covalent substances. This also encompasses the new material on polymers. You will need to download the worksheet that I have made freely available “Properties of molecules cut and stick activity sheet”. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how covalent bonds form and how to draw them using dot and cross diagrams. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical task) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about ceramic materials and their uses and properties. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint to teach students practical skills relating to evaporation and crystallisation of copper sulphate solution. This is designed to link in to the Year 9 lesson on ceramics (which introduces cyrstal lattices) and provides preparation for the GCSE Core Practicals that require crystallisation of salts. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.