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.
4.1.2.6 Group 7 the halogens
The name’s Bond, Ionic Bond… electrons taken, not shared!
From excruciating jokes to deep voices and floating tin foil, extraordinary explosions and how to make exploding purple spiders. Halogens in a new way, with a serious worksheet to complete at the end.
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.
Free taster lesson. This Powerpoint lesson introduces the properties of metals and non-metals using a video clip link from a Harry Potter film. Students explore how the Death Eaters attack the Millennium Bridge and how the properties of metals help us to understand the catastrophic failure of the bridge in the film without resorting to magic! Engaging links then made with the Millennium Bridge on its opening and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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4.1.2.4 Group 0 the noble gases
Make the noble gases interesting and exciting with this powerpoint and worksheet combination. Involving video links, AfL, lots of fact based knowledge and an engaging format, this topic is brought to life providing a foundation for students’ understanding of electron structure and its effect on reactivity and bonding.
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.
Professor Bunsen Alpha Resources tailored to the United States NGSS.
This resources is written for MS-PS1-1 and introduces a new character for the USA - Seaborg!
Academic Standards - NGSS
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures
Disciplinary Core Ideas DCI - PS1.A Structure and Properties of Matter
Substances are made from different types of atoms, which combine with one another in various ways. Atoms form molecules that range in size from two to thousands of atoms. (MS-PS1-1).
Each pure substance has characteristic physical and chemical properties (for any bulk quantity under given conditions) that can be used to identify it. (MS-PS1-2),(MS-PS1-3).
The resources are written by a post-doctoral research chemist from the University of Oxford turned secondary school chemistry teacher.
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This electrolysis resource is free for a limited time only so please download and make use of it - in both PDF/Word formats with an answer sheet showing the expected results.
These record and worksheets are much more than a method. They are designed to track students performance towards achieving their apparatus and skills and provide information to help them understand the background chemistry which is key to understanding an experiment and not just completing it. All the sheets can be bound together in-house into a Required Practicals workbook/log book, or you could hand the sheets out separately.
Practical work may be assessed through the terminal examinations - be sure that your students haven’t just done the practicals but understand them fully!
AQA state:
Practical work is at the heart of science – that’s why we have placed it at the heart of each of our GCSE science specifications. By carrying out carefully considered practical work, students will enhance their investigative thinking, improve their mastery of techniques and consolidate their understanding of key scientific concepts.
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 and support your students to understand the practical work in greater depth.
A complete resource to enable you to teach chemical equations effectively.
L3 - introducing word equations and how to interpret and write them
L4 - investigating stoichiometry and change in mass when magnesium burns in air
L5 - symbol equations including understanding how to name compounds and balance equations.
Worksheets for each lesson and answers also provided. Extension materials on worksheets introduces the concept of ionic equations and redox half equations as well.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheets allow 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.
The resources are written by a post-doctoral research chemist from the University of Oxford turned secondary school chemistry teacher.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
This bundle of resources contains powerpoints and worksheets to help you introduce students to:
1) Naming chemical compounds
2) Writing word equations
3) Practical investigation into a simple reaction to understand conservation of mass
4) Interpreting symbol formulae
5) Balancing chemical equations
6) Basic introduction to ionic equations and spectator ions
7) Basic introduction to redox half equations and balancing equations using electrons.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheets allow 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. Files are also saved as their PDF versions which are compatible with iBooks, mobiles and tablets.
These resources have been prepared by a post-doctoral Oxford University educated chemistry teacher and director of school science.
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A complete revision guide that can be copied, distributed to students and used until fully published resources become available. Already tried and tested as a Christmas revision guide for year 9 students learning from the draft specifications, this 20 page fact based booklet adapts and extends the exam specification to support revision for assessments and tests. Covers:
Atoms, Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
Chemical Symbols
Word Equations
Ionic Equations
Half Equations
Changing model of the atom
Protons, neutrons and electrons
The early periodic table
NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE - booklet of practice questions and answers for use and adaptation in school.
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.
This premium resource pack is contains all the resources for 7-10 complete lessons with Powerpoints, worksheets, lesson activities, hints and tips. Discount compared with buying separately!
PDF files and word documents included for easy viewing on tablet or computer.
L1 - Atoms and elements - includes lesson powerpoint.
L2 - Observing and carrying out chemical reactions - includes lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L3 - Word Equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L4 - Practical to burn magnesium in air - lesson powerpoint and worksheet with method, results and analysis.
L5 - Balancing chemical equations including ionic and half equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheets with answers including extension worksheets on ionic equations and half equations.
L6 - Separating mixtures part 1 - techniques and practicals (enough for 2 lessons) including powerpoint, revision notes.
L7 - Separating mixtures part 2 - chromatography - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers
The accompanying worksheets allow 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.
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!
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.
4.1.1.2 Mixtures
Two part Powerpoint lessons on techniques for separating mixtures including two practicals, filtration, crystallisation and chromatography as well as a homework survival activity inspired by Bear Gryll’s. The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve.
PDF files included for easy viewing in iBooks, tablets or mobile devices.
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!
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout
4.1.1.1 Atoms, elements and compounds
Introduction to balancing symbol equations
Powerpoint lesson to introduce students to balancing chemical equations. The accompanying worksheets with lots of unfamiliar examples allow 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. There is an extension worksheet which introduces ionic equations and redox half equations in the simplest of terms. This appears on the exam specification at the beginning of unit 1 but is dealt with here in an understandable format for your gifted and talented GCSE students.
PDF files included for easy viewing in iBooks, tablets or mobile devices.
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!
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout
4.1.1.1 Atoms, elements and compounds
Burning magnesium in air
Powerpoint lesson to accompany the the practical oxidation of magnesium ribbon in air.
The accompanying worksheet allows students to follow the method and record their observations. They can also practice interpreting their observations, giving you the chance to give feedback and help them to improve. PDF files included for easy viewing in iBooks, tablets or mobile devices.
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!
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
4.1.1.1 Atoms, Elements and Compounds
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Word Equations**
Powerpoint lesson introducing the concept of chemical equations. This lesson starts by supporting students’ understanding of a chemical equation to describe a reaction in words. It also addresses the convention for naming compounds. 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. PDF files included for easy viewing in iBooks and mobiles.
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!
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
4.1.1.1 Atoms, Elements and Compounds
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Chemical reaction and making observations**
Powerpoint lesson introducing chemical reactions and making observations. This complete lesson includes a worksheet for associated practical work and the expected observations and answers for the busy teacher. PDF files included for easy viewing in iBooks or tablets.
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!
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.