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.
Mark scheme, word file and pdf provided
Structured approach to teaching this tricky topic. Concept of limiting reactant and associated moles calculations.
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.
This is an end of unit test for unit 3 chemistry for the new specification AQA syllabus.
Provided as editable word file - include your own school's logo
Also viewable as pdf
Full mark scheme provided.
The test is designed to fit in a 1 hour lesson with time for distribution and collection and is provided with a MS. Tested in the classroom it differentiates well for students aiming for grades 4-9 for the new specification.
Part A - recall of facts and equations
Part B - application to examination questions
Covers...
1) Chemical measurements, conservation of mass and quantitative interpretation of chemical equations
2) Use of moles
3) Maximum theoretical mass and use of moles to calculate this
4) Concentration of solution
5) Percentage yield
6) Atom economy
7) Volume of gas.
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.
Resources to support teaching acid and alkali titrations, calculations and the GCSE assessed practical on neutralisation
Success Criteria
I can describe the steps involved in doing a titration
I can identify the useful facts in titration questions
I can calculate calculate the concentration of an unknown acid or alkali
I can carry out a neutralisation practical to determine the concentration of an unknown acid or alkali.
I write Professor Bunsen resources to teach and test in my own classroom. I hope that I manage to make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
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.
Powerpoint lesson linked to workbook for the lesson with spaces for students to write answers, example examination questions and a mark scheme for the workbook.
Save time by avoiding the need for your students to write out lengthy sets of notes or draw diagrams. The work book includes spaces for marking and feedback including checked by teacher and verbal feedback given. Also leaves space to stick in improvement work or complete on the page. Could substitute for class books providing evidence for progress over time linked to success criteria.
Success criteria covered in this lesson are:
I understand that an exothermic reaction is one that transfers energy to the surroundings so the temperature of the surroundings increases.
I understand that an endothermic reaction is one that takes in energy from the surroundings so the temperature of the surroundings decreases.
I can explain and evaluate uses of exothermic and endothermic reactions
I can investigate the variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions such as neutralisation reactions.
I write Professor Bunsen resources to teach and test in my own classroom and try to make the resources compatible with a lot of the ways in which we are currently being asked to teach science including feedback and improvements and redrafting. The new specifications are intensive on time, and I am testing out moving towards workbooks and away from ordinary class books. These could be differentiated towards your own students.
I hope that I manage to make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
Powerpoint lesson linked to workbook for the lesson with spaces for students to write answers, example examination questions and a mark scheme for the workbook.
Save time by avoiding the need for your students to write out lengthy sets of notes or draw diagrams. The work book includes spaces for marking and feedback including checked by teacher and verbal feedback given. Also leaves space to stick in improvement work or complete on the page. Could substitute for class books providing evidence for progress over time linked to success criteria.
Success criteria covered in this lesson are:
I understand that an exothermic reaction is one that transfers energy to the surroundings so the temperature of the surroundings increases.
I understand that an endothermic reaction is one that takes in energy from the surroundings so the temperature of the surroundings decreases.
I can explain and evaluate uses of exothermic and endothermic reactions
I can investigate the variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions such as neutralisation reactions.
I write Professor Bunsen resources to teach and test in my own classroom and try to make the resources compatible with a lot of the ways in which we are currently being asked to teach science including feedback and improvements and redrafting. The new specifications are intensive on time, and I am testing out moving towards workbooks and away from ordinary class books. These could be differentiated towards your own students.
I hope that I manage to make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
This is a pack of two lessons to teach titrations and strong and weak acids with an introduction to the meaning of pH. It has two powerpoints and worksheets in word and pdf format with answers to the worksheet as well.
Titration methodology
Calculations
A3 grid
Resources for the neutralisation assessed practical differentiated for higher and foundation tier students
The meaning of strong acid in terms of complete ionisation of acid molecules in water
The meaning of weak acid in terms of partial ionisation of acid molecules in water
Comparison of the terms concentrated and dilute with strong and weak and an explanation of how a weak acid can still be concentrated and a strong acid could still be dilute.
Grid to test understanding of key vocabulary in the ppt file.
Meaning of pH in terms of the change in 10x each time you go down a pH unit - does not include logarithms it is described in an accessible way that allows students to calculate changes in concentration as pH unit changes.
I write Professor Bunsen resources to teach and test in my own classroom. I hope that I manage to make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
Powerpoint lesson linked to workbook for the lesson with spaces for students to write answers, example examination questions and a mark scheme for the workbook.
Save time by avoiding the need for your students to write out lengthy sets of notes or draw diagrams. The work book includes spaces for marking and feedback including checked by teacher and verbal feedback given. Also leaves space to stick in improvement work or complete on the page. Could substitute for class books providing evidence for progress over time linked to success criteria.
Success criteria covered in this lesson are:
I can draw simple reaction profiles for exothermic and endothermic reactions to show their relative energies.
I can annotate the reaction profiles to show the activation energy and overall energy change
I can explain whether a reaction is exothermic or endothermic using reaction profiles
I can explain that activation energy is the minimum energy required for a reaction to occur.
I write Professor Bunsen resources to teach and test in my own classroom and try to make the resources compatible with a lot of the ways in which we are currently being asked to teach science including feedback and improvements and redrafting. The new specifications are intensive on time, and I am testing out moving towards workbooks and away from ordinary class books. These could be differentiated towards your own students.
I hope that I manage to make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
6 page worksheet to support students with the following success criteria:
1) You should be able to describe the flame tests used to identify metal ions
2) You should be able to describe how to use sodium hydroxide to identify metal cations
Mark scheme included
A quick off the shelf revision lecture style powerpoint ideal for a lunchtime revision session on Unit 3.1.1 atomic structure
Includes atomic structure
Fundamental particles
Mass number and isotopes
Electron configuration
8 page worksheet to support students learning to identify anions in solution including activities and exam questions
1) Identifying carbonate anions
2) Identifying chloride, bromide and iodide anions
3) Identifying sulfate anions
Mark scheme also included
This bundle of resources contains powerpoints and worksheets to help you introduce students to:
1) Naming chemical compounds
2) Writing word equations
3) Practical investigation into a simple reaction to understand conservation of mass
4) Interpreting symbol formulae
5) Balancing chemical equations
6) Basic introduction to ionic equations and spectator ions
7) Basic introduction to redox half equations and balancing equations using electrons.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheets allow 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. Files are also saved as their PDF versions which are compatible with iBooks, mobiles and tablets.
These resources have been prepared by a post-doctoral Oxford University educated chemistry teacher and director of school science.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
A complete revision guide that can be copied, distributed to students and used until fully published resources become available. Already tried and tested as a Christmas revision guide for year 9 students learning from the draft specifications, this 20 page fact based booklet adapts and extends the exam specification to support revision for assessments and tests. Covers:
Atoms, Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
Chemical Symbols
Word Equations
Ionic Equations
Half Equations
Changing model of the atom
Protons, neutrons and electrons
The early periodic table
NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE - booklet of practice questions and answers for use and adaptation in school.
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.
Professor Bunsen Alpha Resources tailored to the United States NGSS.
This resources is written for MS-PS1-1 and introduces a new character for the USA - Seaborg!
Academic Standards - NGSS
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures
Disciplinary Core Ideas DCI - PS1.A Structure and Properties of Matter
Substances are made from different types of atoms, which combine with one another in various ways. Atoms form molecules that range in size from two to thousands of atoms. (MS-PS1-1).
Each pure substance has characteristic physical and chemical properties (for any bulk quantity under given conditions) that can be used to identify it. (MS-PS1-2),(MS-PS1-3).
The resources are written by a post-doctoral research chemist from the University of Oxford turned secondary school chemistry teacher.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Required practicals will replace controlled assessment in the new GCSE.
These record and worksheets are much more than a method. They are designed to track students performance towards achieving their apparatus and skills and provide information to help them understand the background chemistry which is key to understanding an experiment and not just completing it. All the sheets can be bound together in-house into a Required Practicals workbook/log book, or you could hand the sheets out separately.
Practical work may be assessed through the terminal examinations - be sure that your students haven’t just done the practicals but understand them fully!
AQA state:
Practical work is at the heart of science – that’s why we have placed it at the heart of each of our GCSE science specifications. By carrying out carefully considered practical work, students will enhance their investigative thinking, improve their mastery of techniques and consolidate their understanding of key scientific concepts.
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 and support your students to understand the practical work in greater depth.
Required practicals will replace controlled assessment in the new GCSE.
These record and worksheets are much more than a method. They are designed to track students performance towards achieving their apparatus and skills and provide information to help them understand the background chemistry which is key to understanding an experiment and not just completing it. All the sheets can be bound together in-house into a Required Practicals workbook/log book, or you could hand the sheets out separately.
Practical work may be assessed through the terminal examinations - be sure that your students haven’t just done the practicals but understand them fully!
AQA states:
Practical work is at the heart of science – that’s why we have placed it at the heart of each of our GCSE science specifications. By carrying out carefully considered practical work, students will enhance their investigative thinking, improve their mastery of techniques and consolidate their understanding of key scientific concepts.
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 and support your students to understand the practical work in greater depth.