Five sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Quantitative Chemistry. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Conservation of mass, Relative formula mass, Uncertainty, Moles, Balancing equations, Limiting reactants, Concentration, Percentage yield, Atom economy, Volumes of gases

Five sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Atomic structure, Plum pudding model, Periodic table, Group 0, Noble gases, Group 7, Halogens, Group 1, Alkali metals, Transition Metals

Three sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Organic Chemistry. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Organic chemistry, Alkanes, Alcohols, Alkenes, Carboxylic acids, Esters, Polymers, Feedstock, Fuels, Crude oil, Cracking, Petrochemicals, Polymerisation

Four sheets of straightforward but challenging revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - The Rate and Extent of Chemical Change. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Rate of reaction; Collision theory; Activation energy; Catalysts; Reversible reactions; Dynamic equilibrium; Le Chatelier’s Principle

Four sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Chemical Changes. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. Keywords Reactions of acids with metals; Salts; Neutralisation; Soluble salts; pH scale; Titrations; Electrolysis; Metal extraction; Half equations

Four sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Energy Changes. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Energy transfer, Exothermic, Endothermic, Reaction profiles, Bond energy, Energy level diagrams, Chemical cells, Fuel cells

Seven sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Using Resources. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Renewable resources, Finite resources, Sustainable development, Potable water, Waste water treatment, Extracting metals, Life cycle assessment, LCA, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Corrosion, Rusting, Alloys, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites, Haber process, NPK fertilisers,

Three sheets of straightforward but challenging revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Chemical Analysis. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. Key words: Purity; Formulations; Chromatography; Mixtures; Identification of gases; Identification of ions; Flame tests;

Seven sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Bonding, Structure and The Properties Of Matter. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Chemical bonds, Ionic bonding, Covalent bonding, Ionic compounds, Covalent compounds, Metallic bonding, States of matter, State symbols, Polymers, Giant structures, Alloys, Graphite, Graphene, Fullerenes, Diamond, Nanoparticles

Three sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Atmosphere; Global warming; Pollutants; Pollution; Greenhouse gases; Climate change; Chemistry

Three sheets of straightforward revision questions. Written to provide simple recall test of what students have learned and need to learn (to reassure them as much as anything). Taken pretty much directly from the AQA 9-1 GCSE syllabus - Chemistry of The Atmosphere. Answer sheets are included. Would work well as a starter, plenary or on a VLE. ***Key words: *** Early Atmosphere, Volcanoes, Evolution of atmosphere, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, Methane, Greenhouse effect, Global warming, Climate change, Carbon footprint, Pollutants

A wordsearch, colouring, labeling worksheet to engage foundation tier GCSE students. Answer sheet provided.

This is an 8 slide structured powerpoint for students to edit. It looks at balancing simple equations. It deals, as you’d expect, with numbers of molecules, numbers of atoms, subscript, conservation of atoms. I wrote it to accompany a GCSE module on combustion and air pollution. It is in the form of a workbook where students can edit the powerpoint presentation; moving atoms around (copying and pasting as necessary). There is a worked example to start with and the slides get harder. It works well on a smartboard. For lower ability students it is better done in smaller chunks. It could be used as a homework if put on a VLE. A powerpoint with the answers is included (useful for self/peer marking).

A revision worksheet for GCSE students. It shows how the charge of an ion and the position in the periodic table are related to atom structure. It leads them from this to working out formulae. I’ve used it with groups across the ability range. Also included a summary sheet for the charges on ions

Triangle puzzle on polymers where students match sentence fragments to construct a large hexagon. It is a revision activity which works across the ability range and is enjoyed by students. This could be used for groups of three, and it works well as a race. An answer sheet is provided. Introduction to refining and polymerisation. An onscreen cloze/labelling activity written in Excel; it ticks each word as students get them correct. Students like it because it gives immediate feedback. I’ve used it with all ability groups at GCSE. If you want to work out how it’s done, the password to unprotect it is ‘eliziczac’. Save as a template to stop students overwriting the original. Works well on a VLE.

A revision activity for students which uses editing a colourful powerpoint as a hook to get them into the science of moles, bonding etc. It works well with students who find moles too abstract. Students open it within powerpoint to edit the slides before viewing as a slideshow. I’ve used it with very weak KS4 groups. It can easily be edited to suit any syllabus: exercises cover bonding, compounds, the Periodic Table, calculating molar mass of compounds etc. An answer powerpoint is provided. It could easily be used as a homework on the VLE.