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Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on strong acids and the pH scale
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate the pH of a strong acid
To convert between pH and [H+(aq)]
To apply the relationship between pH and [H+(aq)] to work out pH changes after dilution
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Covalent and Dative Covalent Bonding
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To know covalent bonding as electrostatic attraction between a shared pair of electrons and the nucleus
To construct dot and cross diagrams of molecules and ions to describe single and multiple covalent bonding
To apply the term average bond enthalpy as a measurement of covalent bond strength
To know what a dative covalent bond is
To construct dot and cross diagrams of molecules and ions to describe dative covalent bonding
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and modelled questions on Ionic Bonding
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know ionic bonding as electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions, and the construction of ‘dot-and-cross’ diagrams
To explain solid structures of giant ionic lattices are a result of oppositely charged ions strongly attracted to each other in all directions
To link the structure and bonding of ionic compounds on their physical properties including melting and boiling points, solubility and electrical conductivity in solid, liquid and aqueous states
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This is an engaging KS5 revision lesson the Kinetics topic in A Level Chemistry (Year 13)
Students will be able to complete three challenging question rounds on kinetics covering:
Measuring Reaction Rates
Orders of reactants
Concentration-time graphs
Rate-concentration graphs
Clock Reactions
Initial rates
Arrhenius Equation
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A structured KS5 lesson (Part 2 of 2) including starter activity and practice questions with answers on ionisation energy
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies down a group
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies across period 2
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies across period 3
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A structured KS5 lesson (Part 1 of 2) including starter activity and practice questions with answers on ionisation energy
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To define the term ‘first ionisation energy’ and successive ionisation energies
To describe the factors affecting ionisation energy
To explain the trend in successive ionisation energies of an element
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and modelled practice questions on The Effect of Temperature on the Rate Constant (The Arrhenius Equation).
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
Explain qualitatively the effect of temperature change on a rate constant,k, and hence the rate of a reaction
To Know the exponential relationship between the rate constant, k and temperature, T given by the Arrhenius equation, k = Ae–Ea/RT
Determine Ea and A graphically using InK = -Ea/RT+ InA derived from the Arrhenius equation
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks Electrons and Atomic Orbitals
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know that atomic orbitals are a region around the nucleus that occupy electrons
To illustrate the shape of s, p and d orbitals
To describe the number of orbitals that make up the s, p and d sub shells and the number of electrons that fill the sub shells
To deduce the electronic configuration of atoms and ions in the s and p-block
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
Important Note For Teachers: A lesson on electronic configuration of d-block elements is available as a separate lesson in my shop
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Mass Spectroscopy. Suitable for OCR AS Chemistry
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To determine the relative atomic masses and relative abundances of the isotope using mass spectroscopy
To calculate the relative atomic mass of an element from the relative abundances of its isotope
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A structured Year 13 KS5 lesson ( lesson 2 of 2) on Concentration-Time Graphs. Lesson includes starter activity, worked examples and Afl quiz
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To deduce zero & first order reactants from concentration-time graphs
To calculate the rate constant of a first order reactant using their half-life
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A structured Year 13 KS5 lesson ( lesson 1 of 2) on Concentration-Time Graphs. This lesson includes starter activity, worked examples and main work task. This lesson is part of the Year 13 topic on Rates which is also discussed in Year 12
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know the techniques and procedures used to investigate reaction rates
To calculate reaction rates using gradients from concentration-time graphs
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity on initial rates and clock reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To determine the rate constant for a first order reaction from the gradient of a rate- concentration graph
To understand how rate-concentration graphs are created
To explain how clock reactions are used to determine initial rates of reactions
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and model example questions and answers and practice questions on the rate equation and calculating the rate constant
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To determine the order of a reactant from experimental data
To calculate the rate constant, K, from a rate equation
To calculate the units of the rate constant
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL tasks and main work task on Orders of Reactants
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To recall the terms rate of reaction, order, overall order and rate constant
To describe how orders of reactants affect the rate of a reaction
To calculate the overall order of a reaction
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured A level Chemistry lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides with answers on the rate determining step
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To explain and use the term rate determining step
To deduce possible steps in a reaction mechanism from the rate equation and the balanced equation for the overall reaction
To predict the rate equation that is consistent with the rate determining step
3 revision documents summarising the equations and conditions students need to remember for the following chapters in AQA AS Chemistry:
The halogens
Group 2 metals
Alkanes
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4 structured lessons covering topics from AS Chemistry Alkanes from the AQA Specification
Lesson 1: Fractional Distillation of Crude Oil
Describe what crude oil contains and to understand its uses
Explain how crude oil is separated into useful fractions on an industrial scale
Explain how crude oil is separated into useful fractions on an industrial scale
Lesson 2: Cracking of Alkanes
To describe what cracking is and its economic benefits
To explain what thermal and catalytic cracking
To compare and evaluate the conditions for and the products of thermal and catalytic cracking
Lesson 3: Combustion of Alkanes
To understand why alkanes are good fuels
To recall the complete and incomplete combustions equations (both word and symbol) of alkanes
To explain the environmental problems associated with pollutant products when alkanes are used as fuels
To explain the use of catalytic convertors and processes such as flue gas desulfurisation to remove gaseous pollutants produced during alkane combustion
Lesson 4: Free Radical Substitution of Alkanes
1)To know what a free radical is
2) To describe the reaction mechanism for the free-radical substitution of alkanes including initiation, propagation and termination
3) To analyse the limitations of radical substitution in synthesis by formation of a mixture of organic products
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks on cracking of alkanes
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To describe what cracking is and its economic benefits
To explain what thermal and catalytic cracking
To compare and evaluate the conditions for and the products of thermal and catalytic cracking
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on free radical substitution reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
1.To know what a free radical is
2. To describe the reaction mechanism for the free-radical substitution of alkanes including initiation, propagation and termination
3. To analyse the limitations of radical substitution in synthesis by formation of a mixture of organic products
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on halogenoalkanes and their chemical reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To Identify haloalkanes as primary, secondary or tertiary
To understand why haloalkanes are more reactive than alkanes
To describe what a nucleophile is and to state some examples
To outline the mechanism of nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions involving haloalkanes
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
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