'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: Chromatography
2: Testing for ions
3: Rate of reaction
4: Making salts
5: Neutralisation
6: Temperature changes
7: Water purification
8: Electrolysis
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the acids & alkali section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A suggested practical
4: A forming salts dice game
5: A definition construction activity
6: A forming ions & equation construction activity
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Chemistry spec
2: A number of questions looking at practicals students may be asked about other than required practicals
3: Electrolysis
4: Combustion
5: LCA
6: Metals
7: Acids & alkalis
8: The periodic table
9: Reactions
10: Allotropes of carbon
11: States of matter
12: The Haber process
13: The Earth
14: Molecules
15: And lots more
This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Chemistry exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bonding
2: Chemical analysis
3: Chemical reactions
4: Energy changes
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: Using resources
8: Atomic structure
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This resource is a set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Chemistry. Each card has criteria on one side, and students need to use it to put together their own flash card on the reverse. The areas covered by these cards are:
1: Atomic Structure
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Rate of Reaction
8: Using Resources
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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This resource is a set of 17 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Chemistry exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
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This resource is a bundle of over 800 chemistry calculation revision questions covering:
1: Moles
2: Titrations
3: Concentration
4: Number of atoms in a mole
5: Percentage mass
6: Percentage yield
7: Rf
8: Conservation of mass
9: Relative formula mass
10: Gas volume
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Core Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Atomic structure
2: The periodic table
3: Metals
4: Oil & it's uses
5: The changing planet
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This bundle includes a range of games covering the following areas:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
18: Current electricity
19: Circuits
20: The early Universe
21: Energy from the nucleus
22: Forces
23: Heat transfer
24: Hydraulics
25: Kinetic energy
26: The life cycle of a star
27: Mains electricity
28: Making elements
29: Motion
30: The national grid
31: Power
32: Radiation
33: Renewable energy
34: Resultant force
35: The solar system
36: Sound waves
37: Spring constant
38: The Big Bang
39: The eye
40: Work done
41: X rays
42: Speed
43: Enzymes
44: Digestion
45: Evolution
46: Adaptations
47: Biodiversity
48: Decay
49: Deforestation
50; Diabetes
51: Drug testing
52: Food security
53: Genetic engineering
54: Growing microbes
55: Reproductive hormones
56: Meiosis
57: Mitosis
58: Reflexes
59: Plant hormones
60: Temperature control
61: The use of glucose
62: Tropic levels
63: Using plant hormones
I have also attached a range of other revision materials that you might find helpful to use with your students.
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This resource is a bundle of knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Atomic Structure & Periodic Table
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Using Resources
8: Rate of Reaction
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This bundle is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question
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This resource is a bundle of 4 GCSE Chemistry paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the first Chemistry paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Atomic structure & periodic table
2: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
3: Chemical change
4: Energy change
5: Quantitative chemistry
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This is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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This resource is a bundle of 5 GCSE Chemistry paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Chemical analysis
2: Organic chemistry
3: Rate of reaction
4: The atmosphere
5: Using resources
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 5 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 5 Weekly revision resources covering cells, the heart, enzymes, the periodic table, the immune system, diseases, salts & electrolysis
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 160mb of resources & 157 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 7 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 7 Weekly revision resources covering acids & alkalise, fission & fusion, digestion, matter, radiation, water treatment and heat transfer
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 142mb of resources & 168 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
Thanks for looking
