This is an engaging AS Chemistry lesson on the group 1 and 2 nitrate and carbonate decompositions and has grades C to A. The starter is fire writing using sodium nitrate solution. Please read CLEAPPS safety and Royal Society of Chemistry advice on this compound and the practical. For grade C students describe the reactions. For grade B students explain the decompositions and for grade A they evaluate their answers. An extra activity such a diamond 4 could be included for students to rank their answers. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

These fact sheets can be printed and given to more able pupils to highlight key facts about these 2 types of green energy.

This is a task that can be used as a plenary for AFL in the lesson, as a homework or as revision. It covers carbon macromolecules / allotropes. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

This is a set of resources that are used in metals lessons at KS3 and GCSE. The metal trump cards cover 12 metals including 3 alloys. The superplastic alloy has been included to challenge students. Each card lists key information such as elemental symbols, properties and metal uses. They can be used in a variety of lessons such as when students need to design a car for the future (see my other resources). Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

There are two resources - an example lesson and a tube map slide that is easy to modify. This is a student friendly alternative way of sharing learning outcomes with students at the start of lesson and assessing their learning at the end. The first slide can be shown to the students. Each tube line represents a different part of the lesson. The learning outcomes start easier and then become more challenging as the lesson progresses. The second slide can be printed and used as a personal learning checklist for the lesson and as an assessment for learning tool. Students rate their confidence on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 is low and 5 is high. They can share this score with the teacher using their fingers. They write this score in the left of the two boxes at the start and in the right of the two boxes after a learning activity.

This is a lesson on solubility where students carry out an independent practical to find a method for dissolving a sugar cube the fastest. Equipment could include a pestle and mortar, water bath, sugar cube, distilled water, tap water, thermometer, stop watch, beaker and measuring cylinder. Higher ability groups could design their own investigation and choose their equipment. Discuss what factors affect solubility. Students then compare the solubility of different solutes by drawing a bar graph of mean solubility values. Higher ability students may exclude anomalies when calculating the mean. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

This is a lesson on word and symbol equations for the KS3 acids and bases topic. Levels 4 to high level 6 are covered. This would also suit GCSE classes. Students replace pictures with words to write word equations in their books or on whiteboards. The level 6 task is writing symbol equations where the formulae of salts is provided. There are a variety of differentiated worksheets. There are acids and bases labels than be cut and laminated for a kinesthetic activity. They need to add water. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

A magazine template I created. Refers to Admiral Hyman Rickover's 1957 prophecy of the end of oil and National Geographic magazine's 2004 article 'the end of cheap oil'. I provide renewable energy info along with this template.

This is a worksheet that makes use of 2 websites to encourage pupils to bring together most of the main topics in OCR Gateway B2 core biology. Please e-mail feedback to rowan.savage@hotmail.com or to my TES inbox.

This is a Who wants to be a millionaire? quiz for the AQA C1.3 GCSE metals topic that will suit all exam boards. There are 'tip' boxes on the answer pages that elaborate on answers to develop student understanding. Questions include balancing equations, alloys and the reactivity series and so this is targeted for more able groups doing the higher exam paper. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

<p>A matching review activity about energy. </p>

This is a student friendly marking grid that was designed following a staff CPD session that I attended where an art teacher related how she provided students with specific pre-written assessment points that were numbered to reduce copying out. There are 6 marking points. I make the first 3 easier points for weaker students to meet and the last 3 more challenging points to stretch the students and provide evidence of progress. The grid can then be copied to a word document and printed two grids to one A4 page. An example lesson is provided (alternatives to fossil fuels) to see how this can be used in lesson. The students reply to their EBI in their books. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

This is an AS Chemistry lesson on calculating which chemical is in excess in a reaction. Also students calculate an enthalpy change using a graphical method for reactions that happen slowly and therefore heat is lost to the surroundings when recording the temperature rise. The graphical method involves estimating the actual temperature increase. There is opportunity to use hand warmers for the starter activity and reacting magnesium with oxygen (i.e. in air) as a main activity. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

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This is an AS level chemistry revision resource that can be used in lesson as a plenary, for AFL or set as homework. Alternatively it can be used as part of a revision lesson.

This is an instruction sheet for teachers and students on how to make a bioplastic using everyday lab resources. Silicone paper can be bought online. This sheet can be printed and laminated for the students. Photos and a lesson PowerPoint will be uploaded later. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.

Periodic table match up exercise for Key Stage 3 - use as a starter, revision or plenary

These are A4 moved classroom labels that I laminate and keep on the back of my door. Then when the class moved from a lab to an ICT room or the library we put this on the front of the door so that staff or students know where the class has moved to.

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This is a set of 6 trump cards on separating mixtures. They cover distillation, filtration, decanting, paper chromatography, magnet and gel electrophoresis (challenge). The PowerPoint can be modified. The Word document is printed and laminated. These can be used for Key Stage 3 groups as well as lower ability GCSE groups. Please rate this resource and leave feedback.