This full lesson PowerPoint is designed to teach Year 7 students about the names and uses of Scientific equipment, plus how they are drawn and labelled in scientific diagrams. This is the first in a series of three lessons I have planned which focus solely on teaching students about the basics of safe and accurate practical work. Visit my shop to find the other lessons in this series: Year 7 Measuring Skills Year 7 Bunsen Burners Plus a whole catalogue of other KS3 Science and KS4 Chemistry lessons.

To go with my KS3 lesson on Burning Fuels. This worksheet covers the products formed when hydrocarbons combust (completely) and serves as an introduction to writing word equations for combustion. Best used alongside a suitable demo or video of the setup shown on the worksheet.

This full lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how longitudinal and transverse waves differ from one another. It will also allow you to explore the essential characteristics of transverse waveforms, allowing students to perform simple calculations involving wavelength, amplitude and frequency. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This double lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how we detect and use sound. The first lesson focuses on our ears, the limits of human hearing and the various uses of infrasound and ultrasound. The second lesson is ICT-based and focuses on safe use of sound and the impact that human noise pollution has on wildlife. 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 (plus an engaging practical demo) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about how sound travels through different materials. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This full lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about what causes sound and why sounds vary in pitch and volume. As well as containing the required worksheet, this package also contains an outline and equipment lists for the rest of the Sound topic. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. This is one of several lessons that I offer for free so users can sample my work before deciding whether to pay for further resources. The other free lessons that I offer are detailed in the attached document “Year 7 Science lessons checklist”. If you find these lessons useful, please leave constructive reviews and take a look at the many discounted bundles that I offer across KS3 and KS4.

Practical method and worksheet to go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson on “Properties of Ionic Compounds”. Full details and equipment list for students to test solubility and conductivity of substances, to determine whether or not they are ionic.

Worksheet to go with my lesson on Ionic Compounds - Naming and Formulae. The worksheet provides practice at using ionic charges to determine the formula of a given compound, including use of brackets for polyatomic ions. Answers are included.

To go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson “Ions and Ionic Bonding”. Answers to the first half of the sheet (covering key-term definitions and formation of some common ions) are included. Answers to the second half cannot be presented in the same way and are in the associated PowerPoint which can be purchased from my shop. They are pretty straighforward to figure out if you do not want to purchase the entire lesson.

To go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson on Electron Configuration.

Worksheet to go with my lesson 7Be “Puberty and Growing Up”. It contains questions comparing life cycles of humans with pigeons and on the key steps in the menstrual cycle.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach two lessons to a broad range of abilities about the extraction of metals from their ores. This is an important topic at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers. Also included is an outline and equipment list for this whole topic; the other lessons are available to buy individually and as a bundle from my shop, OnSpecScience.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about displacement reactions involving metals and metal compounds. This is an important topic at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about catalysts and the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions. These are important topics at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

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.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical task) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about simple explosions and the difference between chemical and physical changes. 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 GCSE Chemistry lesson on “Distillation and Methods of Separation”. See that resource for further instruction and context.

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.