This PowerPoint is designed to introduce the Law of Conservation of Mass, closed systems and looks at simple examples of conservation of mass in solutions and chemical reactions. This lesson is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is required learning for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Be aware: this resource covers the basics; it does not deal with more complex ideas linked to conservation of mass (e.g., reacting masses) as they are covered in a later lesson. As such, this content may take a whole lesson to cover with weaker students but will be completed very quickly with higher-ability / motivated students. Follow-up lessons on Calculations involving Mass are available from my shop individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about combustion of different fuels. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. You'll also need to download the FREE worksheet "8Ea Products of Combustion" from my shop.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the differences between pure and impure substances, with additional info on how malting and boiling points determine the state of a substance. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on the reactivity of halogens and their displacement reactions. Prior to teaching this, you will need to have delivered lesson SC17b on the properties, appearances and reactions of halogens with metals. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need to download my FREE resource “SC17c Halogen displacement method” from my TES shop.

Full Lesson PowerPoint sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry lesson on Group 7, the Halogens. This lesson covers the physical properties and appearances, plus reactions of halogens with metals. To cover the full content on halogens you will also need the follow-up lesson “SC17c Halogen Reactivity” on displacement reactions and reactions of halogens + hydrogen. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning opportunities) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Group 0, the Noble Gases. This also serves as a general introduction to the “Groups in the Periodic Table” topic. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Earth’s early atmosphere and how it changed to the present composition. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need my FREE resource “SC21a-b Earth’s Atmosphere cut & stick” from my shop.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the history of the Atomic Model, including Dalton, Thomson and Rutherford’s investigations, plus the size and scale of atoms. This lesson also covers how to calculate numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons in any given atom. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how to name ionic compounds and predict their formulae, including using of brackets to write the formula for compounds containing polyatomic ions. You will need to download the FREE resource, “SC5b Ionic Formulae worksheet” which is available from my shop. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how covalent bonds form and how to draw them using dot and cross diagrams. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full lesson PowerPoint to teach students practical skills relating to evaporation and crystallisation of copper sulphate solution. This is designed to link in to the Year 9 lesson on ceramics (which introduces cyrstal lattices) and provides preparation for the GCSE Core Practicals that require crystallisation of salts. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) will allow you to teach a range of abilities about collision theory, including the new material on activation energy, and how temperature, pressure, surface area and concentration affect rates of reaction. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need the FREE resource “SC18b Collision theory worksheet” from my TES shop.

This PowerPoint (with suggested practical demonstrations) will allow you to teach a range of abilities about Rates of Reaction and how to plot them graphically. Contrary to the suggested teaching order, this lesson is best delivered after teaching about collision theory and factors affecting reaction rate. The lesson consolidates factors affecting reaction rate, demonstrates the techniques used in the subsequent core practical, and provides much needed practice at drawing, interpreting and annotating reaction rate curves. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Worksheets and mark-schemes providing practice at calculating Relative Atomic Mass. This goes with my full lesson PowerPoint GCSE Chemistry Isotopes and Relative Atomic Mass (SC3c CC3c).

This PowerPoint (plus worksheet) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how to calculate relative formula masses and empirical formulae. The resource is required learning for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course, Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tier. It is accessible for students and easy to follow for teachers. Follow-up lessons on Calculations involving Mass (including a practical lesson on Empirical Formula) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

This PowerPoint will allow you to deliver the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry Core Practical in which electrolysis of copper sulphate solution is performed using copper electrodes. It includes the background theory that students need to know. The experiment is complex and time-consuming, so I have suggested some short-cuts and have provided easy-to-follow methods to share with students. I’ve also included exemplar data for students to analyse if their experimental data is not sufficient. The resources are easy to follow for teachers and readily accessible for students. This is required learning for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and High-tier. Other GCSE lessons (including other lessons on Electrolysis) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

These PowerPoints will allow you to teach students the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry required content on the reactions of acids with metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides and metal carbonates. Two full lesson PowerPoints are provided: Reactions of Acids Introduces the key rules for acid reactions and deals primarily with word equations, though there are some opportunities for balanced equation practice in the final task. Acid reactions and Balanced Equations This lesson builds upon the rules learned in lesson 1, while recalling formulae and skills learned in previous lessons, so that students learn to write balanced equations for acid reactions with minimal provided. A homework sheet (plus mark-scheme) is then included for students to practise what they learn across the two lessons. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Other GCSE lessons (including others from the Acids and Alkalis topic) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.