'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 lesson with activities covering the oil & it's uses content from the KS4 GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A alkanes card sort activity
4: A fractional distillation 6 mark question
5: A cracking 6 mark question
6: A polymerisation 6 mark question
7: A marking activity
8: A cracking & alkenes game
9: A cracking card sort
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This resource is a whole lesson and activities on the cleaner fuels content of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point leading students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark starter question
3: An information hunt activity
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A micro teaching plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metals section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A copper smelting starter activity
4: A blast furnace question
5: A purifying copper information hunt
6: A 6 mark question on titanium production
7: A 6 mark question on metallic issues
8: A aluminium & titanium literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the changing planet content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A structure of the Earth dice game
5: An atmosphere development sequencing activity
6: A 6 mark question on continental drift
7: A 6 mark question on the carbon cycle
8: A 6 mark question on the Earths atmosphere
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A new lesson on Iron & Steel. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point1 leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of steel
4: Blast furnace stage cards
5: Uses of different steels activity
6: Mock exam question on the blast furnace
A new lesson on Aluminium & Titanium in the metals section. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point1 leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on why titanium production is expensive
4: Titanium production stage cards
5: Literacy activity
This resource is a set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE new spec . All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed using the new content in the 2015-2016 specification and is designed to help get students started straight away in September
This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry GCSE. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed over the last three years and has been proven to help students gain more marks in GCSE long answer questions
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 using the Earth’s resources and sustainable development content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: A card sort activity
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out about the problems & solutions to sustainability issues
6: A group work activity on wheat students have covered in the lesson
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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 designed to help students understand how elements in the periodic table are arranged. Students need to understand that the periodic table is a way of organizing all known elements based on their properties. Elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number, and elements in the same column, or group, have similar chemical behaviors. The periodic table also helps students predict how elements might interact, showing trends in properties like reactivity and atomic size across periods and groups. This resource contains 3 separate activities with an instruction sheet outlining how to use this resource:
Understanding electron structures
Students need to understand that electrons are arranged in specific energy levels, or shells, around the nucleus of an atom. Each shell can hold a certain number of electrons: the first shell can hold up to 2 electrons, the second can hold up to 8, and so on. These arrangements determine an element’s chemical properties, as electrons in the outermost shell, or valence electrons, are the ones involved in chemical reactions. With low ability students in a small class, you can use the blank electron structure sheets showing the element symbol and empty electron shells, and as a class you can use counters to show the electron structures of the atoms. With higher ability classes, you can either give pairs of student’s electron structures to fill in or put the blank electron structures around the sides of the room that they fill in then bring to the middle of the room to be used centrally.
Constructing the periodic table activities
Once you’ve got a full set of 20 electron structures you can get down to helping students construct a periodic table. There are a number of easy steps that you can follow to help them put a periodic table together. Also, if you don’t want students to do this as a full class, I have used small packs of element with electron structure cards that students can use in pairs.
If you are doing this as a large modelling activity, you can add on labels showing students the names of groups and periods. You’ll then have the opportunity to ask students loads of questions about the electron structure of atoms and what we can tell about elements based on where they have been placed in the periodic table.
A set of 5 posters covering most of the key mathematical ideas covered in the KS4 syllabus. The posters can be printed out in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy changes section of the new AQA Chemistry 2016 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A counting the types of bond in a compound activity
3: A step by step guild on how energy change is calculated
4: A calculating total bond energy in a compound activity
5: A using energy change to draw an energy level diagram plenary activity
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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:
Atoms, elements & compounds
Mixtures
Atomic structure
The periodic table
Groups in the periodic table
Transition metals
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 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 lesson with activities covering the potable water content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A desalination information hunt pair activity
4: A 6 mark plenary question on distillation
5: A suggested demo on distillation to carry out
6: A desalination modeling activity
7: Flipped learning information slide
8: A key information starter game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the atomic structure section of the new AQA Chemistry 2015 specification. This resource includes
1: A starter blockbusters game to remind students how to use a periodic table
2: A atomic diagram activity
3: A drawing electron structure dice game
4: A what you can tell from an atoms symbol activity
5: A element analysis plenary activity
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