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A Science teacher by trade, I've also been known to be found teaching Maths and PE! However, strange as it may seem, my real love is designing resources that can be used by other teachers to maximise the experience of the students. I am constantly thinking of new ways to engage a student with a topic and try to implement that in the design of the lessons.

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A Science teacher by trade, I've also been known to be found teaching Maths and PE! However, strange as it may seem, my real love is designing resources that can be used by other teachers to maximise the experience of the students. I am constantly thinking of new ways to engage a student with a topic and try to implement that in the design of the lessons.
Topic C3.1: Introducing chemical reaction (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science & Chemistry)
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Topic C3.1: Introducing chemical reaction (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science & Chemistry)

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This bundle of 9 lessons covers the majority of the content in the sub-topic C3.1 (Introducing chemical reactions) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science and GCSE Chemistry specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Formulae of ionic compounds Conservation of mass Writing chemical equations Writing ionic equations The mole Mole calculations All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Atom economy
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Atom economy

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This is a concise, fast-paced lesson which guides students through the critical skills needed to calculate the atom economy of a chemical reaction. It has been designed for GCSE students and focuses on the calculation as well as interpreting the final value. In order to calculate the mass of the desired product and other products, students have to be able to calculate the relative formula mass - therefore time is taken to revisit these skills and worked examples are used with this and the actual calculations to enable the students to visualise how they should set their work out. The lesson finishes with some progress check questions where students are challenged to state which of four chemical reactions has the highest atom economy. This lesson could be taught in combination with the percentage yield topic and an accompanying lesson on that calculation is available on this site.
Topic C2: Elements, compounds and mixtures (OCR Gateway A GCSE Chemistry)
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Topic C2: Elements, compounds and mixtures (OCR Gateway A GCSE Chemistry)

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This bundle of 19 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C2 (Elements, compounds and mixtures) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Chemistry specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Relative formula mass Empirical formula Pure and impure substances Filtration and crystallisation Distillation Chromatography Metals and non metals Electronic structure Forming ions Ionic compounds Simple molecules Giant covalent structures Polymer molecules Metallic bonding Allotropes of carbon Graphene and the fullerenes Changing state Nanoparticles All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C10: Metals (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)
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Topic C10: Metals (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)

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This bundle of 6 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C10 (Metals) of the core and supplement sections of the Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: Describe the general properties of metals Describe metallic bonding in terms of the lattice and electrons and use this to explain malleability and conductivity Describe alloys as a mixture of a metal with another element Explain why alloys are used instead of pure metals The reactivity series The use of carbon for the extraction of metals from their ores The series of reactions in the extraction of iron Extraction of aluminium All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding
Topic C9: The Periodic Table (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)
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Topic C9: The Periodic Table (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)

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This bundle of 6 lessons covers all of the content in Topic C9 (The Periodic Table) of the core and supplement sections of the Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: The Periodic Table as a method of classifying elements and its use to predict properties Describe the relationship between group number and outer shell electrons Describe and predict the properties of the Group 1 elements Describe the properties and reactions of the Group 7 elements The transition elements The noble gases All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding
Topic C2: Experimental techniques (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)
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Topic C2: Experimental techniques (Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award)

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This bundle of 5 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C2 (Experimental techniques) of the core and supplement sections of the Cambridge iGCSE Science Double Award specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: Understand the use of paper chromatography Interpreting paper chromatograms Pure and impure substances Separation methods including filtration, crystallisation, distillation, fractional distillation and paper chromatography All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding
Topic P4.3: Radioactivity (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic P4.3: Radioactivity (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 7 lessons covers most of the content in sub-topic P4.3 (Radioactivity) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics or specification points covered within these lessons include: Atomic nuclei Isotopes Unstable nuclei and emitting particles or gamma rays Writing balanced equations to represent decay The concept of the half-life The different penetrating powers of alpha, beta and gamma Recall the differences between irradiation and contamination All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C3.2: Energetics (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C3.2: Energetics (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 2 lessons covers all of the content in the sub-topic C3.2 (Energetics) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Distinguish between endothermic and exothermic reactions Draw and label a reaction profile for both reactions Explain activation energy Calculate energy changes in a chemical reaction by considering bond making and bond breaking energies All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C2.3: Properties of materials (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C2.3: Properties of materials (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 3 lessons covers the majority of the content in the sub-topic C2.3 (Properties of materials) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Recall that carbon can form four covalent bonds Explain the properties of diamond, graphite, fullerenes and graphene in terms of their structures and bonding Use data to predict states of substances under given substances All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C3.3: Types of chemical reactions (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C3.3: Types of chemical reactions (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 4 lessons covers the majority of the content in the sub-topic C3.3 (Types of chemical reactions) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: Explain reduction and oxidation in terms of the loss or gain of oxygen and the loss or gain of electrons Recall that acids form hydrogen ions when they dissolve in water and solutions of alkalis contain hydroxide ions Recognise and describe neutralisation reactions Write balanced equations for the reactions of carbonates and metals with acids Recall that relative acidity and alkalinity are measured by pH and describe techniques and apparatus to take these measures All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Addition polymerisation
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Addition polymerisation

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This is a concise, fast-paced lesson that introduces students to addition polymers and guides them through drawing displayed formulae to represent both the monomers and polymers involved in these reactions. Students will learn the conditions needed for these reactions and that the polymers produced by addition reactions are the only products. The main part of the lesson involves a step by step guide to show students how to draw displayed formulae. Hints are given throughout the process so that students can remember the key ideas and are able to represent these substances accurately. A number of progress checks have been written into the lesson so that students can assess their understanding any misconceptions can be addressed. This lesson has been written for GCSE students
Reactivity series of metals
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Reactivity series of metals

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An engaging, practical-based lesson presentation (34 slides), accompanied by an assistance sheet, which together look at how the results of displacement reactions can be used to order the metals into the reactivity series. The lesson begins by introducing a displacement reaction and ensuring that students understand the meaning of this term and how it relates to the topic of the lesson. Students will carry out a series of 12 displacement reactions, involving 4 different metals and will then be challenged to interpret the results to place the metals into their allocated positions in the series. Moving forwards, the students are given the results of more reactions, some which occurred and others which didn’t so they can place the remaining metals into the reactivity series. Time is also taken to understand how the position of hydrogen in the series can be used to predict the results of reactions between metals and acids. This lesson has been written for GCSE students but could be used with higher ability KS3 students
Temperature and the position of equilibrium
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Temperature and the position of equilibrium

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This lesson explores how the temperature affects the position of equilibrium in a reversible reaction. This can be a difficult topic for students to understand and therefore the aim has been on the key details. The lesson begins by challenging the students to recall the rules of a dynamic equilibrium in order to recognise how if the equilibrium position changes then so do the concentrations. Links are made during the lesson to related topics such as endothermic and exothermic reactions and some time is taken to go back over calculating energy changes so that the type of reaction can be determined. The forward reaction in the Haber process is used as the example so students can see how an increase in temperature in this exothermic reaction would lead to a decrease in the yield of ammonia. Students are then challenged to use this example to explain how a decrease in temperature would affect the production of methanol. This worksheet is differentiated so students who need extra assistance can still access the learning. This lesson has been written for GCSE students.
Elements
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Elements

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This is an engaging lesson which uses a range of tasks and quiz competitions to ensure that the important details about elements are embedded so that students can use them in related Chemistry topics. The lesson begins by looking at the chemical symbols that are used with the elements. Students do not have to know the symbols off by heart because of the widely available Periodic Table but a sound knowledge will always help going forward. Time is taken to ensure that students understand how the symbols have to be written so that those with two letters consist of a capital and a lower case letter. In a race against each other, students are challenged to complete a crossword by converting symbols to the name of elements. This will result in a winner, a second placed and a third placed student who can be given a gold, silver and bronze medal. The atoms within each of these medals is explored so that students can learn that the gold and silver medals will only be made up of one type of atom and are therefore elements whilst the bronze is an alloy. The remainder of the lesson looks at some of the uses of the different elements and a homework task gets students to put this into written form. This lesson is suitable for both KS3 and GCSE students.
Alkenes
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Alkenes

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This is an engaging and informative lesson that looks at the group of unsaturated hydrocarbons known as the alkenes and focuses on a few properties, their displayed and chemical formulae and identification. This lesson has been designed for GCSE students and works nicely with the “alkanes” lesson as students can use learning from both lessons. The lesson begins by ensuring that students recognise a key difference between the alkenes and the alkanes in terms of the carbon-carbon bond. This shows them that there is no such substance as methane. They are guided through the rules of drawing alkenes, with examples of ethene and propene used so that they can then apply this technique to draw butene. Working together with the teacher, they will be able to write the general formula that connects this group of substances. The rest of the lesson focuses on the term unsaturated and how this affects them in terms of the identification test with bromine water as well reactions with hydrogen. The lesson finishes by getting students to recognise a use of ethene in making the alcohol, ethanol.
Topic C9: Separate Chemistry 2 (Edexcel GCSE Chemistry)
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Topic C9: Separate Chemistry 2 (Edexcel GCSE Chemistry)

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This bundle of 7 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C9 (Separate Chemistry 2) of the Edexcel GCSE Chemistry specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Detecting cations Detecting anions Alkanes as saturated hydrocarbons Alkenes as unsaturated hydrocarbons Testing with bromine water Complete combustion of hydrocarbons Polymers Biological polymers Alcohols Carboxylic acids Production of ethanol Nanoparticles All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C2.1: Purity and separating mixtures (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C2.1: Purity and separating mixtures (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 10 lessons covers all of the content in the sub-topic C2.1 (Purity and separating mixtures) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics covered within these lessons include: Explain what is meant by the purity of a substance and use melting point to distinguish pure from impure Calculate the relative formula mass separately and in a balanced symbol equation Deduce the empirical formula of a compound Explain that many useful materials are formulations of mixtures Describe and explain the processes of filtration, crystallisation, simple distillation and fractional distillation Describe the processes of paper and thin-layer chromatography Recall that chromatography involves a mobile and stationary phase Interpret chromatograms All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C2.2: Bonding (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C2.2: Bonding (OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 10 lessons covers the majority of the content in the sub-topic C2.2 (Bonding) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: Describe metals and non-metals and explain the differences between them Formation of ions Common reactions of metals Explain how the atomic structure of metals and non-metals relates to their position in the Periodic Table Explain how electron arrangement is related to group and period number Describe and compare the nature and arrangement of chemical bonds in ionic compounds, simple molecules, giant covalent structures, polymers and metals Explain chemical bonding in terms of electrostatic forces and as the transfer or sharing of electrons Construct dot and cross diagrams for simple covalent structures and ionic substances All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C1.2: The Periodic Table (AQA Trilogy GCSE Combined Science)
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Topic C1.2: The Periodic Table (AQA Trilogy GCSE Combined Science)

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This bundle of 6 lessons covers all of the content in the sub-topic C1.2 (The Periodic Table) of the AQA Trilogy GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: The arrangement of the Periodic Table by atomic number and electron configuration Development of the Periodic Table Metals and non-metals Group 0 Group 1 Group 7 All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
Topic C4: Organic chemistry (Edexcel iGCSE Chemistry)
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Topic C4: Organic chemistry (Edexcel iGCSE Chemistry)

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This bundle of 9 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C4 (Organic chemistry) of the Edexcel iGCSE Chemistry specification. The sub-topics and specification points covered within these lessons include: [a] Introduction Know that a hydrocarbon is a compound of hydrogen and carbon atoms only Know what is meant by the term homologous series and functional group Understand how to name compounds containing up to six carbon atoms Be able to write the structural and displayed formula of an organic molecule [b] Crude oil Know that crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons Describe how the process of fractional distillation separates crude oil into fractions Know the names and properties of the main fractions Know the possible products of complete and incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons with oxygen in the air Understand why carbon monoxide is poisonous Describe how long chain alkanes are converted to alkenes and shorter chain alkanes by cracking [c] Alkanes Know the general formula for the alkanes and explain why they are classified as the saturated hydrocarbons Understand how to draw the structural and displayed formula for the alkanes [d] Alkenes Know that alkenes contain the functional group C=C and know their general formula Explain why the alkenes are described as the unsaturated hydrocarbons Understand how to draw the structural and displayed formula for the alkenes Describe how bromine water can be used to distinguish between an alkane and an alkene [e] Alcohols Know that the alcohols contain the functional group -OH Understand how to draw structural and displayed formula for the first 4 alcohols Know that ethanol can be manufactured by reacting ethene with steam and by the fermentation of glucose [f] Carboxylic acids Know the functional group of the carboxylic acids Understand how to draw structural and displayed formula for the acids Describe the reactions of the acids with metals and metal carbonates Know that vinegar is an aqueous solution containing ethanoic acid [h] Synthetic polymers Know that an addition plymer is formed by joining many small molecules called monomers Understand how to draw the repeat unit of an addition polymer All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.