'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 broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on moles & molar volume
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice Rf calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a set of 15 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reactivity series content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game based on practical command words
3: A reaction of metals with water activity
4: A reaction of metals with acid activity
5: A reactivity series practical design activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A sheet for students to fill out during a reactivity series investigation
8: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the conservation of mass content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson]
3: A starter game to re-enforce that mass can not be lost in a reaction
4: A calculating mass of products and reactants activity
5: A balancing equations activity
6: A conservation of mass using RFM activity
7: 50 extra conservation of mass questions
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the factors affecting rate of reaction section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game looking at key words used in practical investigations
3: Activities looking at the affect of surface area, temperature, catalysts and concentration on rate of reaction
4: A question for students to work through for homework
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on bonding. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A question on atomic structure
4: A questions looking simple ionic bonding
5: A question looking at covalent bonding
6: A question on giant ionic bonding
7: A question on simple covalent molecules
8: A question on giant covalent molecules
9: A question on graphite
10: A question on diamond
11: A question on metallic bonding
12: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
13: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on Chemistry practicals. For each required practical there is an explanation of how to carry it out, a long answer question looking at getting students to write methods, a diagram / model to help students write a method and an answer to each question. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A slide on key vocabulary to do with practicals
4: A questions looking at endo and exothermic reaction practicals
5: A questions looking at the density required practical
6: A questions looking at chromatography practicals
7: A questions looking at rate of reaction practicals
8: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
9: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ways of reducing the use of resources part of the new AQA 2016 Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A starter literacy game
2: A recycling glass information hunt activity
3: A recycling metals group activity
4: A power point to lead students through the lesson
5: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the life cycle assessments content of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort activity
3: A life cycle assessment of window frame activity
4: A life cycle assessment of paper & plastic bag activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the hydrogen fuel cells section of the new 2015 Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A literacy starter activity
2: A modelling a hydrogen fuel cell activity
3: A annotating a diagram activity
4: A bond energy calculation activity
5: An energy level diagram activity
6: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the electrolysis content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question analysis activity
3: A literacy activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: An electrolysis model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: 2 slides that can be used for flipped learning
8: A key information starter game
9: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the calculating rate of chemical reactions content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A calculations snakes & ladders game
4: A rate of reaction graph activity
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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 GCSE bonding, structure and the properties of matter revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the chromatography content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A suggested chromatography demo
4: Student sheets designed to lead students through the required practical
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on making polymers
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on reacting masses
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