Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Three GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering atomic and ionic electronic structure and ionic bonding.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 2-4 and Powerpoint 2 from my bundle on KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
Parent and student friendly mark schemes so you can use these to support your learning.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see how this fits into the unit and the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
AQA GCSE Combined Science Chemistry - **FOUNDATION TIER **
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic. Include a mixture of cloze word fact sections with recall and exam style questions. Now with free suggested answer sheets to support non-specialists or parents/students revising. Provided as Powerpoint and PDF.
These 12 printable A3 mats cover the following content
Unit 9 - Chemistry of the atmosphere (6 mats)
The composition and evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere
The proportions of different gases in the atmosphere
The Earth’s early atmosphere
How oxygen increased
How carbon dioxide decreased
Carbon dioxide and methane as greenhouse gases
Human activities which contribute to an increase in greenhouse gased in the atmosphere
Global climate change
The carbon footprint and its reduction
Common atmospheric pollutants and their sources
Atmospheric pollutants from fuels
Properties and effects of atmospheric pollutants
Unit 10 - Using resources (6 mats)
Using the Earth’s resources
Potable water
Waste water treatment
Alternative methods of extracting metals
Life cycle assessment
Recycling
Ways of reducing the use of resources.
Two GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering ionic structure and bulk properties of ionic compounds.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 5 and 6 and Powerpoint 3 from my scheme of work for KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
Parent and student friendly markschemes so you can use these to support your learning.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
Two GCSE chemistry worksheets with mark schemes covering giant covalent structures, carbon allotropes, polymers and macromolecules.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated into your lesson.
The resources are Worksheets 9-10 and Powerpoint 5 from my bundle on KS4 Bonding, Structure and Properties.
Parent and student friendly mark schemes so you can use these to support your learning.
These worksheets could be used for any exam board and for double or triple science and contain a range of challenges and space for feedback and reflection.
The scheme of work is included here so you can see how this fits into the unit and the other resources available. If you like these, why not check out the full bundle!
Thank you for your interest.
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.1.15 Amount of Substance - Lesson or Revision workbook with answers
This workbook covers a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell Style notetaking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
Colour is used for the different types of sections to make the booklet more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible for all students but particularly those who have dyslexia.
The booklet can also be produced as a revision guide for the topic and contains all the notes and practice past paper questions you would need to revise along with worked examples. Parent and student friendly containing answers to all questions.
This booklet is 34 pages long with answers to past paper questions provided at the back from page 27 onwards. It is provided in word and pdf.
Contents
How NMR works
The NMR spectrum
Interpreting 13C NMR spectra
Interpreting 1H NMR spectra
Explanation of spin coupling and multiplicity
Combining techniques
4.1.3 Properties of transition metals (chemistry only)
PowerPoint lesson covering the transition elements and a comparison between the transition elements and group 1 with worksheet and answers.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
Fully resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
This is a Higher Tier Chemistry resource containing concise revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that have been created to be specific to the Paper 1H 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session. Each booklet should take about 1 hour to complete. Structure your revision around these and spend less time making notes and more time practicing applying your knowledge.
This bundle contains ALL the booklets to help students to prepare for the major focus of the content of Paper 1H.
AQA Advance Information 2022
• 4.1.2 The periodic table
• 4.2.1 Chemical bonds, ionic, covalent and metallic
• 4.2.2 How bonding and structure are related to the properties of substances
• 4.2.3 Structure and bonding of carbon
• 4.3.2 Use of amount of substance in relation to masses of pure substances
• 4.4.1 Reactivity of metals
• 4.4.2 Reactions of acids
• 4.4.3 Electrolysis
• 4.5.1 Exothermic and endothermic reactions
Required practical activities that will be assessed:
• Required practical activity 1: preparation of a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt from an insoluble oxide or carbonate, using a Bunsen burner to heat dilute acid and a water bath or electric heater to evaporate the solution.
• Required practical activity 2: determination of the reacting volumes of solutions of a strong acid and a strong alkali by titration.
• Required practical activity 4: investigate the variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions such as, eg, acid plus metals, acid plus carbonates, neutralisations, displacement of metals.
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.2.5 Transition Metals
These workbooks cover a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell Style notetaking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
I have used colour consistently for the different types of sections to make the booklet accessible, especially more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible.
Parent and student friendly too with answers.
Contents
Booklet 1 - 30 pages
• The general properties of transition metals and definitions
• Metal complexes and ligands
• Substitution reactions
• Shapes of complex ions
Booklet 2 - 24 pages
• Formation of coloured ions
• Colorimetry and the concentration of transition metal ions in solution
• Variable oxidation states
• Vanadium species in oxidation states V, IV, III and II
• Tollen’s Reagent
Booklet 3 - 16 pages
• Redox titrations with MnO4-
o Calculating the percentage of iron in an iron tablet and moss killer
o Calculating the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in hair bleach
o Calculating the percentage of iron and carbon in steel
o Indirect redox titrations using zinc metal
• Redox titrations with other oxidising agents e.g. Cr2O72-
Booklet 4 - 19
• Transition metals as catalysts
• Heterogeneous catalysts
o Contact Process
o Haber Process
• Homogeneous autocatalysis in the reaction of MnO4- and C2O42-
• Homogeneous catalysis by Fe(II)/Fe(III) of reaction of S2O82- and I-
This is a Higher Tier Chemistry revision booklet (16 pages) containing revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that is specific to the 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session.
4.2.3 Structure and bonding of carbon
4.2.3.1 Diamond
4.2.3.2 Graphite
4.2.3.3 Graphene and fullerenes
Plus combining strategies to predict the properties of unfamiliar substances
This booklet forms part of a set of booklets to support your revision for the 2022 AQA Chemistry Exam Papers.
Thinking small - do you really understand dust?
This lesson is an activity loaded and practically based introduction to nanoscience which encourages students to explore the meaning of the word small. By participating in a range of activities they will gain an understanding of the scale of different objects. This lesson is designed to be accessible to a range of abilities and requires only basic practical equipment.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Powerpoint lesson introducing moles calculations with reacting masses including worksheets and answers.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Resources to support teaching unit 3 - Quantitative Chemistry the new AQA 2016 syllabus.
Powerpoints, worksheets and activities including mark schemes, powerpoint and pdf files
Massive set of resources to teach this huge and technical unit. Structured questions novel examples and engaging materials to liven up a relatively dry topic.
Conservation of mass and balanced equations
Chemical measurements and mass changes
Reacting masses and mole calculations
Balancing equations using reacting masses
Limiting reactants
Concentration in solution
Making up a volumetric solution
Gas volumes and molar gas volume
Balloons and gas volume
Yield and atom economy
This is a well resourced bundle of materials to teach the reactivity of metals.
Reactions of metals with oxygen
Reactions of metals with water (alkali metals) and acids (group 2)
Formulating the reactivity series
Alkali metals
Description of metals reacting by losing electrons
Preparation and differentiated worksheets
Metal displacement and redox reactions
OIL RIG
Includes full lesson powerpoint that should cover approximately three lessons and supporting resources in word and pdf format.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
A simple introduction to functional groups, ethanol, ethanol acid and esters.
Straightforward powerpoint accessible to foundation tier that can be co-taught with the work book to support students in their first introduction in functional group organic chemistry.
Workbook and powerpoint both cover:
Part 1 – Organic chemicals and functional groups
Part 2 – Alcohols
Part 3 – Carboxylic Acids
Part 4 – Esters
Success criteria covered
You should know what a functional group is and know what the functional group for an alcohol, a carboxylic acid and an ester is
You should be able to interpret information about alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters
You should be able to recognise alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters from their names or formulae
You should be able to give examples of alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters and explain their uses
This powerpoint forms the basis of an interactive session I run every year for parents of year 11 students. We usually run one in October and another in February.
The aim of this session is slightly different to a conventional lecture to parents which might focus abstractly on different techniques and on the websites that deliver content. These are easy to find by parents in a simple web search anyway.
What I aim to do when leading this session is make parents revise.
I try to show them what works, what is boring and doesn't work, what they are tempted to do instead of revise and most importantly when to spot these things happening with their child.
The resources themselves are mainly a prompt to promote discussion and debate and to help parents to leave enlightened rather than full of a list of strategies and websites.
It is also a really fun session to deliver. I tease parents by doing the "teacher thing" I tell them not to talk over me, I make them work in silence during parts of the session, and I ask them AfL questions using lolly sticks! Seeing the looks on the parents' faces is worth running the session for alone ;-)
On a very serious note though, parents who have been through this training become very effective home study partners and the impact on work produced at home is measurable and rapid especially when supporting pupil premium parents who perhaps didn't receive this sort of support themselves.
Support your students to learn the definitions they need for all the year 1 and AS topics in the new specification A-level chemistry!
Each word document contains definitions that can be cut, individually folded over and used to revise or learn the accepted AQA definitions of key words and concepts for every topic.
Students should print the sheets in A3 or A4 and then cut each definition into a strip. Fold over and glue together to give a robust card. Shuffle and test yourself or each other. Keep each topic separate or mix it up, the units are marked on each card so they can easily be re-sorted. Fold and laminate for a longer lasting set.
Good for starter activities, revision and test yourself!
This resource contains definitions for:
3.1.1 Atomic structure
3.1.2 Amount of substance
3.1.3 Bonding
3.1.4 Energetics
3.1.5 Kinetics
3.1.6 Equilibria
3.1.7 Redox
3.2.1 Periodicity
3.2.2 Group 2 the alkaline earth metals
3.2.3 Group 7 the halogens
3.3.1 Introduction to organic chemistry
3.3.2 Alkane
3.3.3 Halogenoalkanes
3.3.4 Alkenes
3.3.5 Alcohols
3.3.6 Organic Analysis