Reaction mechanisms are beautiful dances, with the dancing atoms throwing out two (heterolytic ) or one (homolytic) arms out to their partner. Thus, I added a little beat to this reaction mechanism.

A simple handout illustrating a simple calculation of percentage yield. May save you some time.

Part of a series. I tend to do one for my students when we come across an example in a question.

Join the mixture to the technique

I have tried to produce a clear example of an acid/base titration for use on the board or as a handout. I used colour to make it as clear as possible.

For display.

Label the diagram.

I made a simple worksheet about density. 5 pages. Two of info, one table of values, a page of questions and my answers. I have now added a keynote and powerpoint version.

I made a tiny presentation for teaching ester nomenclature. Students are challenged with a few structures and challenged to name them. The following slide gives the answer. Available in powerpoint and keynote.

This is also available on my You Tube channel below.

As it says on the tin. Suitable for AQA GCSE chemistry.

I made a series of templates for the main aliphatic reaction mechanisms in OCR chemistry A level. They resemble exam questions where students have to complete the reaction with partial charges, lone pairs and curly arrows. The intention is that they can be printed out by students as often as is required, for practice. A solution is provided for each example. Included are: nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic addition, radical substitution and elimination.

Use the proton NMR trace to distinguish which is which.

An explanation of paper chromatography in a movie, with voiceover. In this animation, the dyes don’t smear, so students can see what is meant to happen, rather than what really does.

A very eccentric revision movie about making salts. Uses repetition to aid memory.

A device to help students remember the first ten names of the alkanes, and hence have the key to IUPAC nomenclature

A cut N stick version of my interactive cycle.

Exam boards often take unknown substances and ask students to apply their understanding of chemistry to them. To provide practice answering this type of question, I am developing a series of worksheets with this type of question. The series is called “Practicexamquest.”

One of a series.

I have tried to illustrate the concept of separation of water molecules rather than breaking covalent bonds when water is heated with a quick and dirty animation. Click on the water boiling.html file and it will run in your browser.