This PowerPoint will allow you to deliver the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry Core Practical in which copper sulphate salt is prepared from copper oxide and sulphuric acid. It includes an easy-to-follow method to share with students, plus a brief look at how this method could be applied to a six-mark question. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and High-tier. Other GCSE lessons (including other lessons on Acids and Alkalis) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

Table to complete, jumbled help-sheet for support, plus answers. For use with my whole lesson PowerPoint SC7d on Types of Substances and Bonding Models.

This PowerPoint allows two lessons to be taught in which students observe several separation techniques, answer (and mark) in-depth analysis questions, then use the same techniques to process rock salt and produce a purer form of table salt. The format of the lesson is designed to begin embedding core practical analysis skills at an early age. This lesson is best taught at the end of the Year 7 Mixtures and Separations topic. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about displacement reactions involving metals and metal compounds. 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.

This PowerPoint (with suggested practical activities) contains content for two full lessons. The resources will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about corrosion, rusting and will introduce the reactivity series of metals. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. This is one of several lessons that I offer for free so users can sample my work before deciding whether to pay for further resources. The other free lessons that I offer are detailed in the attached document “Year 8 Science lessons checklist”. If you find these lessons useful, please leave constructive reviews and take a look at the many discounted bundles that I offer across KS3 and KS4.

To go with my lesson PowerPoint SC17c Halogen Reactivity.

To go with my lesson SC20d "Complete and Incomplete Combustion".

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about the physical properties of metals and their reactions with non-metals. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

To go with my Year 8 lesson 8Gd "Reactions of Metals and Acids".

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical task) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about the uses and properties of rocks, focusing on porosity/permeability. 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 (with suggested practical task) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about the formation and structure of igneous and metamorphic rocks. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. You will also need the free resource "8Hb_Investigating Crystal Formation" from my TES shop.

Full lesson PowerPoint sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about the Rock Cycle. This lesson serves as a great intro to the Year 8 Rocks topic. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. You will also need the free resource "8H Rock Cycle worksheets + answers" from my TES shop.

To go with my lesson SC21a-b "Earth's Atmosphere".

Full lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about global warming and climate change. 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 my FREE resources "8Ee Climate Change Cards" and "8Ee Climate Change graph" from my shop.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about neutralisation and its "real world" uses. There are two PowerPoints in this package; one for use as an ICT suite/iPad research lesson (or could also be used with appropriate textbook/literature resources), while the second allows you to deliver a two-part practical lesson where students investigate how indigestion remedies neutralise stomach acid. The lessons are in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical activity) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about universal indicator and pH. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This cut and stick goes with my full lesson PowerPoint on Properties of Covalent Molecules (SC7a CC7a).

Full Lesson PowerPoint (including suggested practical activity) sufficient to teach a GCSE lesson on Paper Chromatography. This could be used a good starting point for teaching the new Edexcel 9-1 specification lessons CC2c/d (Combined Science) and SC2c/d (Triple Science). The resource is accessible for students, easy to follow and is appropriate for Foundation and Higher tiers.

An ideal lesson to use with students who are new to Secondary Science - just to get them thinking about what Science really is and why it's important.

This PowerPoint (with suggested practical activity) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the three states of matter, conversions between these states and how to prepare/interpret a heating curve. 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.