Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
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
A very clear powerpoint presentation showing the ‘arrows in boxes’ electronic sub shell filling order from hydrogen to krypton. My students find this very helpful and it is useful when printed as a handout. It also shows clearly the incomplete 4s subshell in chromium and copper.
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.
This is a really fun crossword puzzle and is the perfect quick starter or plenary to any GCSE level atomic structure lesson.
The puzzle includes answers and covers the following key words:
Ion
Isotopes
Neutron
Negatively
Mass number
Atomic number
Electron
Proton
Nucleus
The file is a PowerPoint, so the puzzle can be easily printed or even projected on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in. Since it is out of ten marks, you can quickly determine a percentage score for each student too.
This worksheet provides ten questions that help the students to practice their skills in balancing redox equations by adjusting coefficients and by adding OH-, H20, and H+ where necessary.
This worksheet is suitable for 'AS' - Level and IB Diploma Chemistry students. Syllabus reference: "Write ionic half-equations and use them to construct full ionic equations." (Edexcel 'AS' - Level Chemistry Specification, First Examinations 2014).
Full answers are provided in this package.
This is a perfect resource to use as a quick starter, plenary or homework. I have included both the pdf and docx files in this package.
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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 is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any radioactivity and isotopes class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Isotopic/atomic structure
The difference between alpha, beta and gamma radiation
Knowledge of the isotopes of hydrogen (i.e. deuterium and tritium)
Radioactive decay and half-life
The use of Uranium-235 as an electricity generating fuel
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the radioactivity and isotopes before, then you could provide the students with a summary 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 is a perfect starter activity for your IGCSE or GCSE chemists. With common acids, and some unusual ones, this resource acts as a great way to reinforce key understanding and extend those learners who already have a good grasp of the basics.
In this pack you will find:
The PDF worksheet
PDF answers
A basic worksheet for high ability GCSE classes and introductory 'A' -level classes all about isotopes. Students have to fill in the number of protons and neutrons for different isotopes.
This is a simple but effective tool for helping students to remember the key stages in Photosynthesis. Ideal for learners who are having difficulties transitioning from GCSE/IGCSE to A-Level/IB.
You may wish to cut up the answers and provide the blank chart for students to stick them on, or simply provide the blank chart and get the students to try and fill it in.
This chart covers:
1. The role of chlorophyll
2. The photolysis of water
3. The exchange of various (oxygen and carbon dioxide)
4. The role that hydrogen plays after photolysis is completed
5. Some chloroplast structure vocabulary (grana and stoma)
This is a fun (and challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any products from crude oil class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Fractional Distillation
What oil is and how it is formed
The different fractions obtained from crude oil
Alkanes and cracking
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the products of crude oil before then you could provide the students with a summary 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 is the perfect starter, plenary or homework for any advanced biology lesson that introduces students to cellular respiration. This resource is suitable for 'A' - Level and IBDP students.
This quick quiz (with answers) covers the following:
1. The differences between reduction and oxidation (essential prior knowledge for any student hoping to learn about respiration)
2. The four main stages of glycolysis
There is also a handy acronym at the end that helps students to remember the four stages of glycolysis
This is a great worksheet for GCSE students and covers the basics of cell structure and function. I've included a pdf and a word doc version. It includes True/False questions, filling in the blanks, box matching and word choosing activities.
Use this sheet as a quick starter, plenary or homework.
Make sure you ask your kids to think of reasons behind the answers (especially the True/False questions). Get groups to write explanations for each answer to question 1 as a follow up activity (or as a good extension activity for students who finish early).
A very fun activity that can be used anywhere in a lesson, but works especially well as a starter, plenary or homework.
This worksheet is probably best given to students in year 9 and older. It is basically a series of questions to test their skills in writing down times of the day in German, followed by a useful wordsearch that introduces some new vocabulary. Students will have to write down times of the day like the examples below:
12.35 = fünfundzwanzig vor eins
3.15 = Viertel nach drei
This worksheet also introduces learners to the words 'mittag' and 'mitternacht'.