a lesson presentation and practical table for the new edexcel spec, reaction of metals. many thanks to other contributers who i have borrowed slides from

a set of worksheets to go with a simple mystery powders investigation, where you give pupils a set of five white powders, one of which is unidentified (use simple safe powders, such as calcium carbonate etc) and get them to carry out a range of tests to work out what the mystery powder is

a powerpoint about the structure of the periodic table quite simple

my medium term plan for a forensics/CSI unit

a video showing the reactions of the alkali metals

Planning and activity book for alchemy module, I use this with year 7/8. Pupils start by looking at the core alchemical idea of the great work which is broken into four stages that they can draw pictures to describe. Then they look at the developing theory of the elements (I do flame tests here too), transmutation (changing one thing to another; I let pupils decide their own experiment to carry out so long as it is safe and involves a change), immortality and cosmetics, nuclear transmutation can be covered but I haven't planned it in yet, the big booklet may take some finishing or adapting.

All the planning for the chemistry section of the new additional science GCSE for Edexcel.

a simple chemistry wordsearch where pupils have to think of chemistry words then find them on the sheet, makes a fun starter/settling activity

a periodic table for printing and use with students

a set of data tables to help with a lesson on elcetron structure or the periodic table

a simple results table that could be used for a lower ability class to test a range of household solutions for their pH

a simple review test i made could be used at the end of a topic to check pupil knowledge or as a starting point with ks3 students

this has a suggested organisation cards using four teams, i have made a worksheet with suspects and the victim, the attacker is always the cinema mangaer, i make blood splatter by drawing the splatter with a uv pen and then getting people to scan for it with uv you need slime made from fybogel (if you put highlighter ink fluid in the water it glows with uv) and pva slime (recipes from about.com chemistry) and i used four weapons (a book, a glass ashtray, a broom handle and a wooden rolling pin) there are also deduction cards so teams can find out who did it at the end

a nice elements and symbols card sort that could be used as a starter to a lesson or as part of a main activity

a simple starter for lower ability students, where they use dictionaries to find definitions of solubility keywords

a simple level assessed task on simple chemical reactions based for pupils between level 4 and 7

a powerpoint i made for a lecture on the science of special effects this explains how to make a number of cheap movie effects good for STEM clubs etc

a simple writing frame to aid pupils with planning an investigation into the rate of reaction of marble chips and acid

some instructions on how to produce a good piece of rate of reaction coursework

a worksheet with instructions for pupils to make different coloured pigments, a good strutured practical that could be used as a training for coursework