This is the fourth chapter in my book, and describes the secrets you need to know if you want to teach advanced learners (GCSE and above) effectively.

This is a really clear PowerPoint that shows students how to use Hess's Law to solve problems. Includes a number of examples to help students see Hess's Law being used effectively. Printable and fully editable, this PowerPoint is suitable for advanced chemistry classes (e.g. 'A' - Level and IB Diploma)

This is the second chapter in my book: The Quick Guide to Classroom Management. This chapter covers: 1. The features present in all outstanding lessons 2. How to keep your students on-task through effective starter activities and games 3. How to make your students subtly aware of the learning outcomes, so that maximum memory retention takes place 4. How to enhance learning by using your physiology This resource is guaranteed to help you make your lessons more stimulating

This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any periodic table class. This crossword tests students knowledge of: Group number Names of groups (e.g. The 'Halogens' are the group 7 elements) Symbols (e.g. Ca is the symbol for calcium) Properties (e.g. Potassium has similar properties to sodium because it is in the same group) This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the periodic table before, then you could provide the students with a periodic table to help them as they do the puzzle. In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).

This resource is fun for your students and it will really help to build time-related vocabulary (particularly when dealing the confusing 'halb' descriptor). It's up to you how you use this one. It is basically a blank clock face with some German vocabulary on it. You may want to use it to test students or give as a homework. You will have to decide on the task that you can use this resource for.

This is the fifth chapter in my book, offering a comprehensive guide to using ICT in education. FULLY UPDATED FOR 2015 This guide is guaranteed to revolutionise the way you teach. This guide will benefit you immensely as it describes: 1. How to use smart phones and tablets effectively in the classroom 2. How to make use of Google forms and ICT-based peer assessment - saving you time and energy! 3. How to use your school's VLE and blogs in creative ways 4. How to use social media in education 5. How to train students to adapt themselves to new technology If you want to really revolutionize the way you teach, then this is the guide for you!

This is a brilliant, two-page ionic bonding worksheet that is suitable for GCSE, IGCSE and MYP students. The worksheet comes with full solutions and has been hand-made and checked by me (I’m a high school chemistry teacher with 15 years of experience). In the worksheet, students have to fill in the blanks, add electrons to shells and draw a full diagram.

This is basically a big collection of worksheets that covers the entire content from a typical IGCSE Edexcel Chemistry first year class (i.e. Year 10 in the British system). This workbook has massive crossover with other IGCSE Chemistry and GCSE chemistry syllabuses. Guaranteed to: Save you planning time Provide meaningful material for homework or classwork Can be set in sequence as separate assignments or could even be printed out in entirety and given to students at the start of the academic year. Topics covered: Particle Theory Density, pressure and diffusion Changes of state (solids, liquids and gases) Cooling curves Mixtures Separating mixtures (chromatography, distillation, filtration and crystallization) Atomic structure (including isotopes, RAM, electronic configurations. relative isotopic mass, relative molecular mass, relative formula mass and molar mass) Writing and balancing equations Molar calculations (including The Mole, Empirical Formula, Molecular Formula, Reacting Mass Calculations, Percentage Yield Ionic bonding Covalent bonding (including ‘dot and cross’ diagrams and ‘giant’ structures) Metallic bonding Electrolysis (solutions and molten compounds) The periodic table (groups and periods) Group 1 Group 7 Oxygen chemistry Carbon dioxide chemistry Hydrogen chemistry Reactivity series (including ‘galvanising’ and ‘sacrificial protection’ Extraction of metals Crude oil The only disadvantages of this resource are: It’s a big word document so might need a little tidying-up prior to printing There’s no answers with it yet (but I’m working on that)

This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topic 11: Measurement and Data Processing and Analysis. This bundle includes three PPTs (which match the Course Guide): 11.1: Uncertainty and Error 11.2: Graphical Techniques 11.3: Spectroscopic Identification Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including: Essential Ideas Nature of Science International Mindedness Theory of Knowledge Key Understandings Application/Skills Guidance These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there

This PowerPoint Presentation covers most of the requirements for the Covalent Bonding unit for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry in a clear and coherent manner. These slides may also be useful for other exam boards, such as AQA, WJEC, CIE, etc., if modified after download. Specification statements covered include: 1.31 describe the formation of a covalent bond by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms. 1.32 understand covalent bonding as a strong attraction between the bonding pair of electrons and the nuclei of the atoms involved in the bond. 1.33 explain, using dot and cross diagrams, the formation of covalent compounds by electron sharing for the following substances: Hydrogen, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, water, methane, ammonia, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ethane, ethene. 1.34 recall that substances with simple molecular substances are gases or liquids, or solids with low melting points. 1.35 explain why substances with simple molecular structure have low melting points in terms of the relatively weak forces between the molecules. 1.36 explain the high melting points of substances with giant covalent structures in terms of the breaking of many strong covalent bonds.

This is a full lesson plan that I created as part of my IB Maths AI Cat 1 course. It involves students using the free Desmos graphing software to explore translations and stretches of quadratic functions. I have included Word (editable) and pdf versions - a nice, quick lesson plan to present if you have an observation, for example. Curricula this most aligns with are as follows: IB Maths AI -Course Guide sections 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 A-Level Maths: Quadratic functions GCSE and IGCSE Maths: Graphs of Quadratic Functions

Slides presentations covering the following IB Maths SL AI units: 4.5: Set Notation and Sample Space Diagrams 4.6: Venn Diagrams 4.7: Discrete Random Variables 4.8: The Binomial Distribution 4.9: The Normal Distribution Bonus resource: Normal distributions past-paper questions, plus answers I am currently using these reosurces with my students at school and they find them to be really clear and helpful.

After teaching and tutoring thousands of chemistry students over the years, I've found that the topic of ions tends to cause tremendous confusion (and is generally poorly understood).This is one of those fundamental topics that must be understood properly if students are going to learn about balancing equations, stoichiometry and advanced level chemistry later in in school. I created this resource booklet as a very clear way for students to understand the following: • What the period and group numbers tell us about the structure of an atom • What anions and cations are • How to use the group number of an element to figure out what kind of ion it will form Complete with full colour images, activities and answers; this booklet finally offers a clear and comprehensive explanation of this fundamental topic in chemistry. At the end there is also a link to a website, where students can take this topic to the next level and learn about ionic bonding and the formulae of ionic compounds. I've set the price at 2 pounds because this resource took a lot of time to create, and is of a very high quality. All images have no attribution (they have been self-created or obtained from www.pixabay.com)

A multiple choice test on the elements of group 2 and group 7. Suitable for advanced level students.

This ten word crossword puzzle is designed to review the key vocabulary found in the ionic bonding topic, and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students. Clues and answers are as follows: anion: A negative ion cation: A positive ion lost: Positive ions are formed when electrons are ____ gained: Negative ions are formed when electrons are ______ oppositely: An ionic bond is defined as the electrostatic force of attraction that exists between two ________ charged ions metals: These usually form positive ions nonmetals: These usually form negative ions chloride: This is the name of the negative ion found in table salt lattice: Many ions join together to form a large _______ structure soluble: Ionic compounds are usually _______ in water

This PowerPoint presentation goes through the basics of ion formation and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students. Metals are clearly shown to lose electrons, whereas non-metals are clearly shown to gain electrons. Key words such as ‘anion’ and ‘cation’ are included, and electron shell/‘dot and cross’ diagrams with sqaure brackets are given (i.e. in the same format as required by the exam). Activities included (feel free to edit or modify after download): Whiteboard.fi starter Main teaching content (beginning from first principles with simple atomic structure, leading into ion formation) Google Doc suggested plenary (feel free to copy the slide into a Google Doc. or print for students to fill in) Some syllabus references that this PPT satisfies (to name but a few): AQA GCSE Chemistry: 4.2.1.1 Chemical Trends:* Ionic bonding occurs in compounds formed from metals combined with non-metals.* 4.2.1.2 Ionic Bonding: Students should be able to draw dot and cross diagrams for ionic compounds formed by metals in Groups 1 and 2 with non-metals in Groups 6 and 7. **Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry: ** 1.37: Understand how ions are formed by electron loss or gain 1.40: Draw dot-and-cross diagrams to show the formation of ionic compounds by electron transfer, limited to combinations of elements from Groups 1, 2, 3 and 5, 6, 7

This ten word crossword puzzle is designed to review the key vocabulary found in the covalent bonding topics, and is suitable for GCSE and IGCSE Level students. Clues and answers are as follows: In a covalent bond, a pair of electrons is ____________ between two atoms. [shared] A covalently bonded compound that is needed for photosynthesis to take place [Carbon dioxide] We do not need to draw the inner _________ in a dot-and-cross diagram [shells] This is a type of diagram we can draw to represent covalent bonding. [dot-and-cross] Covalent bonding only happens between _____- ________ atoms [non-metal] Covalent bonds are ________ [strong] A covalently bonded compound that is responsible for all life on Earth [Water] A covalently bonded compound that has the formula HCl [hydrogen chloride] These are shared between atoms during covalent bonding [electrons] After covalent bonding, each atom has a ______ outer shell. [full] Syllabus references that this resource satisfies (to name but a few): AQA GCSE Chemistry: **4.2.1.1 Chemical Trends:Covalent bonding occurs in most non-metallic elements and in compounds of non-metals. 4.2.1.4 Covalent Bonding: When atoms share pairs of electrons, they form covalent bonds. These bonds between atoms are strong 4.2.1.4 Covalent Bonding: The covalent bonds in molecules and giant structures can be represented in the following forms (dot and cross and ball and stick examples given in the specification) **Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry: ** 1.44: Know that a covalent bond is formed between atoms by the sharing of a pair of electrons 1.45: Understand covalent bonds in terms of electrostatic attractions 1.46: Understand how to use dot-and-cross diagrams to represent covalent bonds

This beautiful crossword puzzle is suitable for both CIE and Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry students. An answer sheet is provided too. Key words covered by this crossword include: Acidic oxide Decomposition Precipitation’ Neutralisation Amphoteric oxide Basic oxide Neutral oxide Acid Base Flame test Dissociate Indicator I am an IGCSE Chemistry teacher with almost two decades of experience and I have created this resource from scratch.

A well presented, professional looking word search that introduces lots of vocabulary that students can use when describing their families. Can used to start (recommended), to finish or for homework. Let me know what you think. You may want to add an element of competition and say "the first person to find all of the words will win a prize". This should make it more fun.

A powerpoint presentation all about the differences between small covalent molecules and giant covalent network structures. Suitable for 'A' - level or high ability GCSE classes. Can be used effectively as a handout. Students particulary enjoy the part about the allotropes of carbon