Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Worksheets in pdf and word including mark schemes supporting students understanding of calculating the mean, range and uncertainty for their practical experiments.
Worksheet / revision mat suitable for revision of first teaching of quantitative chemistry.
Introduction or starter activity for higher ability and challenge/main activity for foundation.
Resources to support teaching unit 3 - Quantitative Chemistry the new AQA 2016 syllabus.
Powerpoints, worksheets and activities including mark schemes, powerpoint and pdf files
Massive set of resources to teach this huge and technical unit. Structured questions novel examples and engaging materials to liven up a relatively dry topic.
Conservation of mass and balanced equations
Chemical measurements and mass changes
Reacting masses and mole calculations
Balancing equations using reacting masses
Limiting reactants
Concentration in solution
Making up a volumetric solution
Gas volumes and molar gas volume
Balloons and gas volume
Yield and atom economy
This is a well resourced lesson on yield, atom economy and associated moles and equations calculations.
Includes full lesson powerpoint and a worksheet with answers in word and pdf format.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
This is a very chunky powerpoint lesson covering volumes and moles of gases.
Includes full lesson powerpoint and a number of different worksheets with answers in word and pdf format and a practical activity.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic. Now include free set of typed AND handwritten suggested answers.
PowerPoint provided. PDF version available separately at a discount.
These printable A3 mats cover unit 1 and unit 2
Mat 1
1) Atoms, elements and compounds
2) Mixtures
3) Development of the model of the atom
4) Relative electrical charges of subatomic particles
5) Size and mass of atoms
6) Relative atomic mass
7) Electronic structure
Mat 2
8) The periodic table
9) Development of the periodic table
10) Metals and Non-metals
11) Group 0
12) Group 1
13) Group 7
14) Transition metals
Mat 3
15) Chemical bonds
16) Ionic bonds and compounds
17) Covalent bonds compounds
18) Metallic bonding
Mat 4
19) States of matter
20) Structure and properties for ionic compounds
21) Properties of small molecules
22) Properties of polymers
23) Giant covalent structures
24) Metals and alloys
25) Conductivity
26) State symbols
Mat 5
27) Diamond
28) Graphite
29) Graphene and fullerenes
Mat 6
30) Bulk and surface properties and nanoparticles
31) Uses of nanoparticles
PHEW!!!! Should take a fair few lessons to work though and revise or can set as a homework sheet a week in the run up to exams.
An A3 grid to support students to learn and understand the different methods to make soluble salts. (docx and pdf)
Supportive checklist/table on the main reagents and methods for making salts (docx and pdf)
Practical method suitable for students to follow for making copper sulfate using sulphuric acid and copper oxide. (docx and pdf)
Have fun with a free bonfire night chemistry lesson or science club lunchtime special!
Inspire your KS3 or KS4 students to learn more about chemistry.
Teach them about the use of salts and metal powders in fireworks to create colours and sparkles (take real care when using metal powders such as iron) and make sure students know they should not be creating or dismantling their own fireworks.
Design a firework.
Links to spectroscopy of the stars
…and analysis of valuable old paintings to spot fakes using the technology seen in the art BBC TV series Fake or Fortune!
This is a very chunky powerpoint lesson covering concentrations and solutions questions.
Includes full lesson powerpoint and a number of different worksheets with answers in word and pdf format and a practical activity which is also used to recap uncertainty (a concept from earlier in the unit).
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Powerpoint lesson introducing the concept of limiting reactants and excess of a chemical reactant.
Contains complete lesson powerpoint with worked examples on limiting reactants and worksheets to practice more tricky examples from this higher tier chemistry only section.
Powerpoint lesson covering balancing equations using reacting masses.
Includes full lesson powerpoint and worksheet with answers in word and pdf format.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Powerpoint lesson introducing moles calculations with reacting masses including worksheets and answers.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Powerpoint lesson covering the change in mass observed in a reaction involving a gas, such as burning in air, or producing carbon dioxide. This lesson also deals with data analysis including the mean, range, uncertainty and anomalous results.
Worksheets included: balancing equation practice, mean, range, uncertainty, including answers and a wordsearch on moles and quantities to support students with new vocabulary.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Powerpoint lesson introducing:
Conservation of mass
Calculating Mr
Percentage of an element in a compound
Includes powerpoints and workheet including answers (pdf and word files provided)
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheet allows students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
These worksheets are designed to support the new AQA 2016 syllabus.
Give your student some quick practice at changing the subject of the equation and calculating a number of easy and more challenging examples of concentrations in g/dm3 and mol/dm3.
Some examples involve conversion between cm3 and dm3.
Differentiated sheet based on colour and concentration included for ELC or unit award.
This lesson is a review of students' understanding of ionic and covalent bonding. It includes a powerpoint, a worksheet and answers and practice exam questions and answers for both ionic bonding and covalent bonding.
Large A3 worksheet covering the covalent bonding sections of unit 2 of the AQA chemistry specification.
Keep them occupied for a lesson or use as revision.