I usually get students to do this lesson after completing a practical circus/investigation into metals properties. Dingbats starter. Answers: copper, mercury, tungstem/tungsten, (I know I cheated!) iron and potassium. Mind map to be copied into books. The passport control I get students to act out in pairs at the end of the lesson.I usually finish off by showing youtubes of exceptions to the rules, such as a canon ball floating on mercury - a liquid, but still dense.

Worksheets for the required practicals including instructions and tips and typical questions.

Simple worksheet used to introduce pyramids of numbers and biomass. Students will need three different coloured pencils or felt pens, a ruler and pencil to complete.

A little booklet outlining the maths skills required for the GCSE Chemistry course. Including examples to complete and QR links to helpful websites.

A script about Bev and Kev preparing for a their first date, to be read by the teacher and acted out by a pair of students. It is even more effective if you bring in props like a TV remote, hairdryer etc. The remainder of students in the class listen carefully to the story so that they can calculate the cost of preparing for a date, using the student worksheet. An education as to why it is only fair for a man to pay for dinner on a first date, if nothing else!

Powerpoint showing the multiplication of Bob, a bateria.

Selection of solutions resources. Including two ppts of core notes. Key words worksheet, HW work sheet and a couple of sheets relating to possible pracs and demos. Also a stepping stones frame work for students to use to plan a method for obtaining pure salt from rock salt. Beat the teacher is a simple plenary - you read the script out loud, students put their hands up when they hear a mistake, but most importantly offer a correction.

Simple worksheet aimed at helping to introduce students to the terms reactants andproducts and to basic word equations.

Simple Power Point which could be used as a plenary after completing food tests or as a starter before students carry out food tests on different foods.

Research project where students learn by carrying out an inquiry as to whether they could live on their favorite food alone. Requires them to copy out a food pyramid, find out about different sources of nutrients and investigate deficiencies. Access to computers and reference books required.

Simple Venn diagram worksheet. Students have to place the statements in the correct place on the Venn diagram. Another plenary I find works really well with this topic is to arrange pupils into groups of two or three and provide each group with a petri dish lid or base and a lump of plastacine. Get the students to make particles out of the plastacine, then arrange them in the petri dish as you would find them in solids, liquids etc. The nice thing about making the partcles in the petri dishes is that you can put them on the projector and get the rest of the class to assess them.

A selection of resources aimed at making rocks a bit more interesting! Please read the Teacher Instructions sheet about how to use each resource - I promise I've kept it brief!

Current, voltage and circuits HW sheet.

Worksheet about lots of useful neutralisation reactions. Could be set for homework or used for cover lesson.

These are tasks aimed to accompany the awesome NASA Amazing Space website. www.amazing-space.stsci.edu. Print out one of the star witness articles of the class to read. Then get cracking with the tasks. You will find it useful to have copies of the Hubble Space Telescope downloadable PDF from the capture --> picture it, part of the website too.

Blank template pupil’s can use to create a newpaper front page.

Worksheet activity for pupils in KS3 on metal uses. Pupils have to find the name of different metals and then link them to the correct use.

A simple practical aimed at helping students to make a prediction. Pour 20mL of water into a 100mL measuring cylinder, add a squirt of washing up liquid and ¼ of a Berocca tablet, (any effervescent tablet will work – I just used this one as it doesn’t present any health and safety issues). I provided each group with a bag of Berocca tablets already broken into quarters, so they had to work out how many ¼ s made a ½ etc. It is a good idea to do this in a tray as it may overflow – although usually it runs out of water first, which is another good talking point.

Resources aimed a teaching pupils about/summarising chemical reactions (reactants and products, conservations of mass etc.), but also helping to develop revision technique - specifically the skill of identifying the most important points in a text and condensing them down into bullet points. I usually set the Chemical Reactions Notes Homework first and then plan the subsequent based upon the responses! One of the nice things about this homework is that it is super quick to mark because pupils are limited to writing four short sentences. In the follow up lesson I have lots of discussion with the pupils about how they were able to determine the most important points - what clues does the text contain? For example - subtitles, key words in bold/a different colour. We then complete the other two worksheets.

Simple worksheet where students have to read statements and then tick yes or no depending on whether they are correct or not. If they are incorrect they have to write a correct statement in the space provided.