this shows different types of weathering on gravestones, useful for year 9 allows for a little bit of emapthy in discussions about weathering as well

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

a research worksheet i made for pupils to find out information about different kinds of intelligent packaging, quite simple so may be good with a lower ability group

a keywords sheet for the old edexcel patterns in properties module still useful as a starter because it asks pupils to find definiotns of atom, element, etc

if you drop raisins in lemonade they sink to the bottom, then float and then sink again. this sheet contains six theories that can be photocopied and then stuck around the room, i demonstrated the experiment and then got pupils to move to the theory they thought best described what happened and told them to be prepared to defend their ideas

a set of display material on famous scientists and their qoutes, some are heros and some are villains and some occupy that grey area in between, makes a nice display to go with the unit i developed on heros and villains which i'll try to upload soon

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

Top trumps of the elements.

Two powerpoints, one on sources of electricity (including renewable sources) with a picture of the blue lagoon in Iceland, which is geothermal, and another about showing tectonic plates pulling apart in Pingvellir national park, a volcanic crater and geyser along with the beautiful Gulfloss waterfall and the blue lagoon

A little separating techniques starter and an activity where pupils can make teabags from different materials and work out which one is best.

A couple of sheets on acids and alkalis and one to be used with flame tests.

simple hydrocarbon element cards that can be used with pupils to make simple hydrocarbons, good kinaesthetic activity for low ability pupils

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

some simple worksheets on rocks useful for special needs/lower ability pupils

some simple keywords worksheets for words to do with cooking and sorting out, useful for pupils with english as an additional language

worksheets on molecular organic formulae

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.

This is the planning for all of the core GCSE chemistry for the new edexcel core GCSE science.

A worksheet and activity that uses coloured playballs to help pupils visualise balanced equations, they use the attached key to build the reactions on the worksheet and balance them