Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
4 homework projects suitable for KS4 Chemistry students on Extracting Copper, Oil, Nanoparticles and Smart Materials and Analysing Substances.
Each project comes with a level ladder style success grid, graded A*-D, for students to maximise their learning.
Scheme of work designed for year 9 (starting the GCSE course early) on making salts. However it could also be used for a low-mid ability year 10/11 group
This resource includes:
- A full scheme of work, with objectives, practical activities etc.
- Presentations for the 6 lessons
- Worksheets
- Some exam style questions that could be used as an end of topic test, or as practice questions.
Lesson Titles:
- Recapping acids and alkalis
- Making soluble salts - metals and acids
- Making soluble salts - bases and acids
- Making soluble salts - metal carbonates and acids
- Making soluble salts - alkalis and acids
- Making insoluble salts
27 homework projects on key stage 3 and keystage 4 science, linked to the Exploring Science and GCSE schemes of work.
All come with fully differentiated level ladders to allow for maximum pupil progress
A bargain at less than a pound a project!
Key Stage 3
7A - Cells
7B - Reproduction
7C - Adaptations
7E - Acids and Alkalis
7F - Chemical reactions
7H - Solutions
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
8A - Food and Digestion
8C - Microbes and Disease
8E - Classifying Elements
8I - Heating and Cooling
9B - Health and Fitness
9C - Plants
9E - Metals and their reactions
9G - Environmental Chemistry
9L - Pressure
Recycling
Key Stage 4
Genetics
Hydroponics
Extracting Copper
Nanoparticles and Smart Materials
Oil
Analysing Substances
Forces and Momentum
Waves and Communication
Energy and Payback Time
A PowerPoint covering all the topics covering in Organic Chemistry for the iGCSE Coordinated Science course. The accompanying booklet has gaps and questions for the students to fill in as they go through the PowerPoint.
This was designed for a low ability group with weaker writing skills in order to move through the content more quickly. It includes the topics of:
Crude Oil
Fractional Distillation
Structure of alkanes, alkenes and alcohols
Properties and reactions of alkanes
Cracking of alkanes
Saturated vs. Unsaturated Compounds
Addition reactions of alkenes
Reactions and uses of alcohols
Macromolecules
Synthetic plastics
Addition and condensation polymers
Natural Macromolecules
Scheme of work for KS4 energetics (planned for IGCSE but could be used for other exam boards).
Includes PowerPoints, a practical, worksheets with answers and some past paper questions.
Covers:
Endothermic and Exothermic reactions
Use of Q=mcT for calculation of energy released by a fuel
Calorimetry
Calculation of energy changes using bond enthalpy data
What makes a good fuel?
Hydrogen, ethanol and nuclear fuels
This 50 slide PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB schemes of work on Energy. They would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints including many examples, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics covered include:
- Spontaneity and Disorder
- Entropy
- How to predict the sign of an entropy change
- Entropy across period 2
- Standard Entropy Change: ΔSθ
- Predicting whether a reaction will be spontaneous
- Calculating ΔSθ Universe
- Gibbs Free Energy
- At what temperature does a reaction become feasible?
- Gibbs Free Energy and Equilibrium
These 18 PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB schemes of work on Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the all of the Standard and Higher Level units. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
It includes 18 full PowerPoints, along with student versions to use as notes, which have spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete.
It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
Pharmaceutical Products and Drug Design
- Routes of drug administration
- Theraputic Effects of Drugs
- The Placebo Effect
- Side Effects
- Calculation of the Therapeutic Index
- The Therapeutic Window
- Bioavailability
- Tolerance and Addiction
- Drug Action
- Drug Development by both Drug Design and Drug Discovery
Aspirin and Penicillin
- History of Aspirin
- Method of Producing Aspirin
- Calculating the % Yield of Aspirin produced from Salicyclic Acid
- Effects of Aspirin
- Soluble Aspirin
- Development of Penicillin
- Structure of Penicllin
- How Penicillin Works
- Antibiotic Resistance
Opiates
- Morphine: Structure and action; side effects; withdrawal
- How opiates cross the blood-brain barrier
- Diamorphine
pH regulation of the stomach
- The need for stomach acid
- pH calculations to determine the concentration of acid in the stomach
- Antacids: equations for their reactions with stomach acid; side effects; calculation of quantity of acid neutralised
- Regulation of acid production using both H2-histamine receptor blockers (Zantac) and proton pump inhibitors (Omeprazole and Esomeprazole)
- Acid-base buffers: definition and calculations
- Hydrogencarbonate and carbonate buffers
Antivirals
- The differences between viruses and bacteria
- The structure of viruses
- How viruses reproduce and replicate
- How viruses are treated by interrupted stages of the replication process
- Oseltamivir and Zanamivir - structure and action
- HIV and AIDS
- Treatment of HIV and AIDS
Environmental impacts of Biochemistry
- Effects of PACs on the environment
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Nuclear Waste (both LLW and HLW)
- Chlorinated solvent waste
- Supercritical fluid waste
- Green Chemistry
- Biotechnologies in Green Chemistry
Taxol
- The Discovery of Paclitaxel
- Isolation of Taxol
- Structure of Taxol
- Semi-synthetic production of Taxol
- Clinical use of Taxol
- The use of chiral auxiliaries to produce one enantiomer of Taxol
- Confirmation of the purity of a single enantiomer drug
- Thalidomide
Nuclear Medicine
- The use of radionuclides in medicine
- Types of ionising radiation
- Radiotherapy
- Radioactive Decay
- Targeted alpha therapy
- Boron neutron capture therapy
- Use of gamma emitters in radiotherapy
- Radiodiagnostics
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Use of Technetium-99m
- Half life and decay constant calculations
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Drug Detection and Analysis
- Worked example of the identification of aspirin by NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Worked example of the identification of an unknown compound from NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Extraction and purification of organic products
- Worked example of hormone concentration using partition coefficients
- How polarity affects the partition coefficients
- Raoult´s Law
- Fractional Distillation
- Drug detection in sports
- Drug detection in forensic science
- Chemistry of breathalyzer tests
- HPLC and Gas chromatography
Introduction to Biochemistry
- Metabolism
- Biochemical reactions in terms of oxidation and reduction
- Respiration
- Photosynthesis
- Hydrolysis and Condensation reactions
Proteins
- 2 amino acids and their behaviour as zwitterions
- Gel electrophoresis
- Paper chromatography
- Peptides
- Hydrolysis of peptides
- Proteins - primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures
- Acid-base properties of amino acids and proteins
- Acid-base buffers
- Enzymes
- Induced fit theory
- Non competitive and competitive inhibition
- The Michaelis-Menten equation
- Protein Assays
Lipids
- Fatty acids
- Triglycerides
- Calculating the iodine number
- Hydrolysis of triglycerides
- Rancidity of fats
- Energy values of fats
- Phospholipids
- Steroids (including cholesterol)
- Sex hormones
- Anabolic steroids
Carbohydrates
- Monosaccharides
- Reducing sugars
- Disaccharides
- Polysaccharides
- Starch, glycogen and cellulose
Vitamins
- Preventing deficiencies
- Water and fat solubilities of vitamins
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Decomposition of vitamins
Environmental Impacts of Biochemistry
- Xenobiotics
- Metabolism of xenobiotics
- DDT
- PCBs
- Heavy metal toxicity
- Pharmaceutically active compounds and detergents
- Host-guest complexes
- Polymers
- Green Chemistry
Proteins
- 2 amino acids and their behaviour as zwitterions
- Gel electrophoresis
- Paper chromatography
- Peptides
- Hydrolysis of peptides
- Proteins - primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures
- Acid-base properties of amino acids and proteins
- Acid-base buffers
- Enzymes
- Induced fit theory
- Non competitive and competitive inhibition
- The Michaelis-Menten equation
- Protein Assays
Nucleic Acids
- Nucleic Acids
- Nitrogeneous Bases and Nucleotides
- ATP
- The structure of DNA
- DNA profiling
- DNA replication
- Transcription
- Genetic Engineering
Biological Pigments
- Coloured compounds and biological pigments
- Carotenes
- Porphyrins
- Haemoglobin
- Factors affceting oxygen uptake in haemoglobin
- Foetal haemoglobin
- Cytochromes
- Chlorophyll
- Anthocyanins
- Melanin
Stereochemistry in Biomolecules
- Stereoisomerism
- 2-amino acids
- Fischer and CORN projections
- Stereochemistry in Carbohydrates
- Stereochemistry cyclic forms of monosaccharides
- Stereochemistry in cellulose
- Stereochemistry in fatty acids
- Stereochemistry in retinal and vision chemistry
These two PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Organic Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the Standard Level topics. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics covered:
- Different kinds of formula e.g. molecular, empirical
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Compounds involving a benzene ring
- Homologous Series
- IUPAC nomenclature
- Naming halogenoalkanes
- Naming alcohols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids
- Esters
- Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, halogenoalkanes and amines
- Structural Isomerism
- Functional Group Isomerism
- Benzene and Aromatic Compounds
- Combustion of alkanes
- Reaction of alkanes with halogens
- Reactions of alkenes
- Addition polymerisation
- Oxidation of alcohols
- Nucleophilic substitution of halogenoalkanes
This unit was planned as part of the Chemistry IB Option B - Biochemistry scheme of work, and covers the topics in B.8
It includes a full PowerPoint, along with a student version to use as notes, which has spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete.
Topics covered are:
- Coloured compounds and biological pigments
- Carotenes
- Porphyrins
- Haemoglobin
- Factors affceting oxygen uptake in haemoglobin
- Foetal haemoglobin
- Cytochromes
- Chlorophyll
- Anthocyanins
- Melanin
Also available in my Shop as part of a bundle of Biochemistry resources, which between them cover all the information needed for the IB Option B syllabus - heavily discounted!
This unit was planned as part of the Chemistry IB Option B - Biochemistry scheme of work, and covers the topics in B.3
It includes a full PowerPoint, along with a student version to use as notes, which has spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete. It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
- Fatty acids
- Triglycerides
- Calculating the iodine number
- Hydrolysis of triglycerides
- Rancidity of fats
- Energy values of fats
- Phospholipids
- Steroids (including cholesterol)
- Sex hormones
- Anabolic steroids
Also available in my Shop as part of a bundle of Biochemistry resources, which between them cover all the information needed for the IB Option B syllabus - heavily discounted!
This unit was planned as part of the Chemistry IB Option B - Biochemistry scheme of work, and covers the topics in B.10
It includes a full PowerPoint, along with a student version to use as notes, which has spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete. It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
- Stereoisomerism
- 2-amino acids
- Fischer and CORN projections
- Stereochemistry in Carbohydrates
- Stereochemistry cyclic forms of monosaccharides
- Stereochemistry in cellulose
- Stereochemistry in fatty acids
- Stereochemistry in retinal and vision chemistry
Also available in my Shop as part of a bundle of Biochemistry resources, which between them cover all the information needed for the IB Option B syllabus - heavily discounted!
This unit was planned as part of the iGCSE scheme of work (Unit 16) but would be suitable for other courses. It includes PowerPoint presentations, formative assessment activities, experiments, homework and an assessment.
The topics covered are:
- Crude Oil and Hydrocarbons
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Alcohols
- Ethanol
- Carboxylic Acids
- Esters
These are the answers to my previously posted sheets which when answered summarise the whole of the iGCSE Chemistry course, with one sheet per topic.
They can be used one at a time, at the end of a topic, or at the end of the year as a revision resource
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic.
This PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the D.4 section. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are the fully completed PowerPoint, a student version of the PowerPoint with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions, with markschemes.
Topics covered include:
- The need for stomach acid
- pH calculations to determine the concentration of acid in the stomach
- Antacids: equations for their reactions with stomach acid; side effects; calculation of quantity of acid neutralised
- Regulation of acid production using both H2-histamine receptor blockers (Zantac) and proton pump inhibitors (Omeprazole and Esomeprazole)
- Acid-base buffers: definition and calculations
- Hydrogencarbonate and carbonate buffers
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
The answers to these sheets are also included on a separate document, so they make a great independent revision resource
This booklet and accompanying PowerPoints covers the Moles topic for iGCSE Chemistry. It would also be useful for other courses, as it covers all of the topics in the list below.
The booklet is designed to be interactive and to be filled in by the students, accompanied by the PowerPoints. It includes spaces for worked calculations, exercises, past paper questions (taken from the Cambridge iGCSE papers) and two practicals. The answers to the exercises are also provided for the workbook and are shown on the PowerPoints.
What exactly is a mole?
How can we convert between masses and moles?
How do we deal with diatomic molecules?
Converting between mass and moles in compounds
Calculating the % by mass of an element in a compound
Balancing Equations
Reacting Masses
Limiting Reagents
Percentage Yield
Practical - How much copper sulphate can we get from malachite?
Percentage Purity
Empirical Formula
Moles in Gases
Moles in Solutions
Titrations
Practical – What is the concentration of sodium hydroxide?
I also have another scheme of work where this booklet has been altered slightly for the Co-ordinated Science Chemistry moles unit.
These three 2 week KS3 scheme of work were designed to take 4x100 minute lessons each. The aim of the projects were to guide students to research, test, ´market´ and evaluate their own product. These products were a fertiliser, a chemical hand-warmer and a mobile phone chargers.
The lessons are broken down as follows:
Lesson 1 - Research and Planning
Lesson 2 - Testing options
Lesson 3 - Product Design
Lesson 4 - Pitching the design to peers and evaluation
Originally designed to link Science with Business and Enterprise, they could also be used to encourage the use of transferable skills in science, and would make independent and interactive ´end of year´ activities.
A series of two lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.6 unit of work about alcohols, carboxylic acids and the production of esters
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
A series of 17 lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3 unit of work. These lessons were designed for 100 minute lessons.
Included are lessons on:
1. The Periodic Table
2. Trends in the Periodic Table
3. Hard and Soft water
4. Water softening
5. Water purification
6. Energy from reactions
7. Energy level diagrams
8. Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
9. Cation Tests
10. Anion Tests
11. Calculating the concentration of solutions
12. Titrations
13. Effect of temperature of equilibrium
14. Effect of pressure on equilibrium
15. The Haber Process
16. Alcohols
17. Carboxylic acids and Esters
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany each topic.
Also available on my resource page in 6 individual units, for those who do not want to download 87 files in one go!
A series of three lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.3 unit of work about energetics, including Q=mcT, how to calculate the energy change from bonds broken and bonds made and how to draw enthalpy level diagrams for reactions.
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.