This PowerPoint (including suggested practical demos and class tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the Allotropes of Carbon (including diamond, graphite, graphene and fullerenes). The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This double-lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lessons on Methods of Separation and Purification, including filtration, evaporation & crystallisation, simple distillation and fractional distillation. The resources allow delivery of one lesson covering the required theory for each separation technique, then an optional second lesson where the pupils use filtration and evaporation as part of a purification process (distillation is carried out by the students in a separate Core Practical lesson). Full equipment lists are provided for the teacher demonstrations and class practical tasks. To go with this lesson you will need to download the free activity “SC2d Simple and Fractional Distillation cloze text worksheet”. All of the resources are easily accessible for students, simple to follow and appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on the reactivity of halogens and their displacement reactions. Prior to teaching this, you will need to have delivered lesson SC17b on the properties, appearances and reactions of halogens with metals. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need to download my FREE resource “SC17c Halogen displacement method” from my TES shop.

Full Lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach the GCSE 9-1 specification Chemistry lesson on Earth’s early atmosphere and how it changed to the present composition. The resource is accessible for students, easy for teachers to follow and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. You will also need my FREE resource “SC21a-b Earth’s Atmosphere cut & stick” from my shop.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about isotopes and calculating relative atomic mass. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Only the Higher students need to be able to calculate relative atomic mass - this is signposted throughout the lesson. You will also need to download the free worksheets “SC3c_Isotopes worksheets and mark-schemes” from my shop - OnSpecScience.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the history of the Atomic Model, including Dalton, Thomson and Rutherford’s investigations, plus the size and scale of atoms. This lesson also covers how to calculate numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons in any given atom. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the history of the Periodic Table; including how Mendeleev arranged his early version, how Mendeleev predicted the properties of unknown elements and how the modern version differs from Mendeleev’s. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full lesson PowerPoint to teach students practical skills relating to evaporation and crystallisation of copper sulphate solution. This is designed to link in to the Year 9 lesson on ceramics (which introduces cyrstal lattices) and provides preparation for the GCSE Core Practicals that require crystallisation of salts. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about key problems associated with manufacturing materials (greenhouse gases, acid rain, toxic gases and plastics in the environment). The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about metallic bonding and how it results in some of the key properties of metals. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a range of abilities about catalysts and catalytic converters, including the new material on activation energy and enzymes. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about fossil fuels, how they form, and what the issues are with them. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

To go with my lesson "Factors affecting reaction rate". Use page 1 for lower ability (has prompts) or page 2 for higher students (blank slate).

To go with my Year 8 lesson on "Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks".

Worksheets and mark-schemes providing practice at calculating Relative Atomic Mass. This goes with my full lesson PowerPoint GCSE Chemistry Isotopes and Relative Atomic Mass (SC3c CC3c).

To go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson on “Distillation and Methods of Separation”. See that resource for further instruction and context.

This PowerPoint (plus worksheet) are designed to introduce the meaning of concentration in Chemistry and teaches students how to use cubic decimetres to calculate concentration of solutions in g dm-3. The lesson is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is required learning for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers. Be aware: this resource covers concentration in g dm-3 only. Triple Science students will also need to learn about concentrations in mol dm-3 but this is covered in a later lesson, once moles have been introduced Follow-up lessons on Calculations involving Mass are available from my shop individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

This PowerPoint will allow you to deliver the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry Core Practical in which copper sulphate salt is prepared from copper oxide and sulphuric acid. It includes an easy-to-follow method to share with students, plus a brief look at how this method could be applied to a six-mark question. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and High-tier. Other GCSE lessons (including other lessons on Acids and Alkalis) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

These lesson PowerPoints (with suggested practical task) will allow you to deliver two lessons to a broad range of abilities. Lesson 1 introduces the reactivity series of metals, sets up a simple experiment and then focuses on balancing chemical equations. Lesson 2 builds upon these skills by looking at the reactions of metals with oxygen, water and acids. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activity) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about air pollution that comes from combustion of fossil fuels. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.