Having taught in the UK and abroad, I've experienced teaching many different syllabi including SABIS, AQA, WJEC and Cambridge. I develop resources to help teachers model key concepts, provide practice for students and include answers to help students self-assess their work. Planning for a 27 lesson week can be stressful to say the least, so I hope you find my resources useful. Thank you for choosing my lesson/s, I hope they enrich your teaching practice and make your life easier.
Having taught in the UK and abroad, I've experienced teaching many different syllabi including SABIS, AQA, WJEC and Cambridge. I develop resources to help teachers model key concepts, provide practice for students and include answers to help students self-assess their work. Planning for a 27 lesson week can be stressful to say the least, so I hope you find my resources useful. Thank you for choosing my lesson/s, I hope they enrich your teaching practice and make your life easier.
This PowerPoint presentation provides a comprehensive lesson on internal energy for science students. It begins with an engaging starter activity to review foundational concepts such as specific heat capacity, energy transfer mechanisms, and kinetic energy stores. Key learning objectives include:
Defining internal energy as the sum of kinetic and potential energy of particles in a substance.
Exploring how heating affects a substance’s internal energy, temperature, and state of matter.
Differentiating between changes in kinetic energy and potential energy during state changes like melting, boiling, and freezing.
Understanding particle arrangements and movements in solids, liquids, and gases.
The presentation also includes interactive tasks like gap-fill exercises, diagrams, and detailed explanations of heating curves. Practice questions reinforce understanding and encourage critical thinking about energy transfer and particle behavior during heating and phase transitions.
This PowerPoint resource guides students through the investigation of the specific heat capacity of an object, focusing on key scientific methods and calculations. Designed to meet curriculum requirements, it includes:
Starter Activity: Questions to review the definition and formulae for specific heat capacity, as well as real-life applications (e.g., why a full kettle takes longer to boil).
Step-by-Step Practical Instructions: Setting up equipment, including a mass balance, immersion heater, thermometer, and electrical circuit. Recording data such as voltage, current, and temperature changes over time. Performing the experiment with and without insulation to explore energy loss.
Key Equations: Includes Q=mcΔT and E=IVt for calculating energy transfer and specific heat capacity.
Analysis and Interpretation: Discussion on the effect of insulation on reducing energy loss. Exploring the precision and repeatability of results. Extension ideas, such as testing different materials or types of insulation.
Graphical Representation: Opportunities to plot temperature vs. time and analyze trends.
Reflection and Method Writing: Students are encouraged to write a clear, repeatable method and reflect on the reliability of their results.
This resource is perfect for supporting students in mastering practical skills, data analysis, and understanding energy transfer concepts in a controlled, engaging environment.
This PowerPoint is designed to help students explore and understand the factors influencing specific heat capacity and how it can be calculated. Perfect for secondary school science lessons, this resource includes:
Starter Activity: Engage students with questions reviewing heat transfer concepts, such as conduction, insulation, and radiation.
Big Question: “What is specific heat capacity, and how is it calculated?” guides the lesson focus.
Key Definitions and Examples: Explain the concept of specific heat capacity with relatable analogies, such as why sand heats up faster than water.
Interactive Activities: Gap-fill tasks to reinforce key definitions. Questions analyzing materials with low or high specific heat capacities.
Calculations: Practice problems using the formula Q=mcΔT, with step-by-step guidance for solving specific heat capacity problems.
Discussion Points: Explore real-world applications, like why water heats up slower than metals and how mass affects heating time.
Plenary and Reflection: End with a plenary to revisit the big question and consolidate understanding.
This resource is ideal for supporting students in mastering thermal energy concepts while encouraging critical thinking and application.
This PowerPoint resource provides an interactive approach to teaching the concepts of heat transfer, energy efficiency, and insulation. Perfect for secondary school science classes, it includes:
Starter Activity: Review key heat transfer concepts with targeted questions on conduction, convection, and radiation.
Big Questions: Investigate how heat is lost from homes and how insulation helps reduce costs and energy waste.
Detailed Explanations: Explore real-life applications of heat transfer, including loft insulation, cavity walls, radiator reflectors, and double-glazed windows.
Practice Problems: Include payback time calculations to analyze the financial and environmental benefits of insulation.
Interactive Tasks: Fill-in-the-blank activities, practical questions, and opportunities to reflect on energy-saving strategies.
This resource is designed to support student understanding of thermal energy transfer and encourage critical thinking about sustainable living.
This PowerPoint resource is perfect for teaching the concepts of thermal energy transfer through convection and radiation. Designed with clarity and interactivity in mind, it includes:
Starter Activities: Thought-provoking questions to activate prior knowledge about heat conductors and insulators.
Learning Objectives: Clearly defined goals to help students understand convection currents, describe radiation, and differentiate between heat transfer methods.
Detailed Explanations: Step-by-step breakdowns of convection and radiation with real-life examples like heating in homes and energy transfer in space.
Interactive Tasks: Gap-fill activities, question prompts, and diagram-drawing exercises to consolidate learning.
Demonstrations: Visual examples and experiment-based questions to bring abstract concepts to life.
Ideal for secondary school science lessons, this resource supports active learning and engagement.
Learning Objective:
Investigate which materials are good insulators of heat.
Method:
Set up your boiling tubes: leave one unwrapped and wrap each of the others in a different material, using elastic bands or tape to hold the material in place. Try to make the different wrappings roughly the same thickness.
Prepare lids for the containers, made out of the same material as the wrapping, if possible, otherwise made from aluminium foil or cling film.
Make a hole in each lid which is just big enough for the thermometer to fit through.
Use the measuring cylinder to pour 20ml of hot water into each boiling tube.
Put the lids onto the containers, with a thermometer fitted through each lid so that it rests near the bottom of the water.
Start the stopwatch and measure the starting temperature of the water.
After 15 minutes, measure the temperature of the water in each beaker.
Learning Objectives:
State how energy and temperature are measured.
Describe the difference between heat and temperature.
Describe how energy is transferred from one object to another.
Explain what is meant by thermal equilibrium.
Enhance your IB Chemistry DP exam preparation with these multiple-choice test papers covering Structures 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 of the 2025 syllabus. Ideal for teachers and students, this resource includes:
A 30-mark Standard Level (SL) paper to be completed in 50 minutes.
A 40-mark Higher Level (HL) paper to be completed in 65 minutes.
Comprehensive mark schemes for both SL and HL papers.
A generic answer sheet for students to record their responses.
Perfect for in-class assessments or practice exams, these papers are designed to reflect the new IB Chemistry format for first assessment in 2025. Get your students exam-ready with these structured and time-effective resources!
• Calculate the power of an electrical device.
• Practice converting units using kilo, mega and giga prefixes.
• Rank electrical appliances in order of power.
• Rearrange the electrical power equation to calculate the energy transferred.
• Calculate efficiency using input and output power.
Define a catalyst.
Describe how adding a catalyst affects the rate of reaction.
Use a reaction profile diagram to explain in detail the effect of adding a catalyst.
Investigate which catalyst is best for a reaction using a variety of catalysts and use sample data to plot a graph.
To define rate of reaction and the units for rate of reaction.
To plot and use a graph to calculate the gradient to measure the initial rate of reaction.
To calculate the gradient of a tangent to the curve on these graphs as a measure of rate of reaction at a specific time.
Calculate the stopping distance from the thinking distance and the braking distance
• Categorise factors which affect thinking distance, braking distance, and both.
• Calculate the braking distance of a car.
Describe the difference between mass and weight.
Describe the forces acting on an object falling through a fluid.
Explain what terminal velocity is and when it is reached.
• Describe the effect of changing the mass or the force acting on an object on the acceleration of that object.
• Calculate the force required to cause a specified acceleration on a given mass.
• Perform calculations involving the rearrangement of the F = ma equation.
Describe the motion of an object by interpreting velocity–time graphs.
Describe how the gradient of a velocity–time graph represents the acceleration.
Calculate the acceleration of an object by calculating the gradient from a velocity–time graph.
Describe the difference between speed and velocity.
Calculate the acceleration of an object using the change in velocity and time.
Rearrange the acceleration equation to calculate change in velocity or time.
