AQA GCSE chemistry revision (Atomic structure and bonding)

Resources developed to support revision of atomic structure and bonding for AQA GCSE chemistry. Consists of two activities:

Activity 1: (you will need 1 dice per game played, I usually run a whole class game)
Set of 40 keyword cards and a game board. Split class into 2 or more teams. All teams start on the red start square. Pick a team to play first , one member of this team picks a card without showing anyone and sketches a diagram representing this keyword. The colour square represents how long their team have to guess or if other groups are allowed to guess. If the team guess correctly they throw dice, move forward that number of spaces and repeat. If team don’t guess in time the play moves on to next team. Any team that guess correctly on an all play take control. The team that lan on the finish and answer the all play correctly are the winners.

Activity 2: (you will need 2 dice per revision grid, I use 1 blue and 1 red)
Consists of a 6x6 grid. Each row of the grid corresponds to a area within the topic (the periodic table, atomic structure, Groups 0, 1 and 7, Bonding, Monomers and polymers, properties of substances). Each row is split into 6 different types of activity (exam style question, state facts, describe experiments, define keywords, open questions, draw diagram)

1. Students throw two dice to pick which cell they will respond to (dice 1 = row number, dice 2 = column number).
2. If they know the answer straight away they write it in their book and tick the correct space in the answer grid using your black pen. Shake the dice again to select the next question.
3. If they do not know the answer they try to find it using the text books, notes or revision guides. When they find the answer write it their book and tick the correct space in the answer grid using a green pen. Shake the dice again to select the next question.
4. If students can’t find the answer, put a cross in the space on the answer grid using the red pen and shake the dice again to select the next question.

At the end of the lesson the review grids will now help to prioritise the topics and types of questions students need to revise.
Subjects with the most red ‘x’ should be the priority. they are secure in subject that have mainly black ‘/’. These will require only occasional reviews.