Starter/Plenary for explaining changes of state during heating and cooling

Quick crossword about properties of metals that can be used as a starter, plenary or just something to fill a 5min gap!!

Quick card sort to introduce or recap copper extraction and new ways of generating copper rich compounds

Activity to see the components of air and plotting the melting and boiling points on a temperature line

Used for independent learning for this topic from the C2 unit of OCR 21C. If pupils have questions they wrote them on post-it notes and stuck them on a board. They also got to reply to these questions when their peers looked at them. No teacher input what so ever! Updated with mark scheme & evaluation March 2014

Ideal for a back up activity, time filler or simple homework to introduce keywords in rocks topic. Answers are in excel document.

Questions can be used as end of unit assessment or for revision. This is based on OCR 21C GCSE Triple award science, but can be used for other specifications. The content covers atomic structure & electron configuration, trends in group 1 and 7, ionic theory and flame spectra

Used to assess literacy and also what they had learnt from doing the rock salt practical. Revision for separating mixtures too.

This can be used as a starter, plenary or for revising the sub-atomic particles.