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.
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.
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.1.15 Amount of Substance - Lesson or Revision workbook with answers
This workbook covers a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell Style notetaking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
Colour is used for the different types of sections to make the booklet more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible for all students but particularly those who have dyslexia.
The booklet can also be produced as a revision guide for the topic and contains all the notes and practice past paper questions you would need to revise along with worked examples. Parent and student friendly containing answers to all questions.
This booklet is 34 pages long with answers to past paper questions provided at the back from page 27 onwards. It is provided in word and pdf.
Contents
How NMR works
The NMR spectrum
Interpreting 13C NMR spectra
Interpreting 1H NMR spectra
Explanation of spin coupling and multiplicity
Combining techniques
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!
Support your students to learn the definitions they need for all the year 1 and AS topics in the new specification A-level chemistry!
Each powerpoint activity sheet contains a mind map for each of the topics covered and a glossary of words to cut out.
Students use the first mind map for reference and then cut out and stick the definitions on the second mind map. You could completely remove the words on the second mind map and encourage students to arrange the glossary themselves to make the activity more challenging.
3.1.1 and 3.1.2 Atomic structure and amount of substance
3.1.3 and 3.1.4 Bonding and energetics
3.1.5, 3.1.6 and 3.1.7 Kinetics, equilibria and redox
3.2.1 and 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 Periodicity, group 2 and group 7
3.3.1 and 3.3.2 Introduction to organic chemistry and alkanes
3.3.3 and 3.3.4 Halogenoalkanes and alkenes
3.3.5 and 3.3.6 Alcohols and organic analysis
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Mind maps linking key definitions for new specification AQA A-level Chemistry
Unit 3.1.1 Atomic Structure
Unit 3.1.2 Amount of substance
Cut and stick a comprehensive glossary onto a pre-prepared mind map showing the connections between the concepts and definitions in the topic.
How many marks do your students lose because they cannot correctly interpret the question or use the incorrect terminology in the definitions?
This activity is best printed A3 so the definitions can be easily read. Students can then prepare their own mind map definitions sheet by cutting and sticking the relevant definitions onto the mind map.
Make it more or less difficult by adjusting the mind maps to contain more or less information to help them.
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
A simple introduction to functional groups, ethanol, ethanol acid and esters.
Straightforward powerpoint accessible to foundation tier that can be co-taught with the work book to support students in their first introduction in functional group organic chemistry.
Workbook and powerpoint both cover:
Part 1 – Organic chemicals and functional groups
Part 2 – Alcohols
Part 3 – Carboxylic Acids
Part 4 – Esters
Success criteria covered
You should know what a functional group is and know what the functional group for an alcohol, a carboxylic acid and an ester is
You should be able to interpret information about alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters
You should be able to recognise alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters from their names or formulae
You should be able to give examples of alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters and explain their uses
UPDATED 09/2018
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic. With free suggested answers typed and handwritten onto completed sheets. These files are PowerPoints which you can tweak for your classroom if desired (but please do not re-distribute). Non-editable PDF files available separately at a discount.
These 6 printable A3 mats cover unit 8 - Chemical Analysis
Mat 1
Pure substances
Formulations
Elements, compounds and mixtures
Qualitative and quantitative tests
Gas tests
Mat 2
Chromatography
How paper chromatography separates mixtures
Distinguishing pure and impure substances
Interpretation of chromatograms
Calculation of Rf values
Mat 3
Identification of metal cations using sodium hydroxide
Al, Ca, Mg, Cu, Fe(II), Fe(III)
Identification of metal cations using flame tests
Li, Na, K, Ca, Cu
Flame tests of mixtures of metal cations
Mat 4
Identification of anions
Carbonates
Halides
Sulfates
Mat 5
Practice in identification of whole compounds by combining anion and cation tests
Mat 6
Instrumental methods versus chemical methods
Flame emission spectroscopy
Problem solving examples
This is a sequence of lessons to teach the topic of electrolysis. It contains three powerpoint presentations, a worksheet on ionic and half equations and the worksheets for the required practical on electrolysis. It could cover three lessons of teaching with another 2 to complete the required practical and so is resourced for 5 lessons in total.
Lesson 1
Powerpoint 1
The process of electrolysis
REDOX and loss and gain of electrons
Electrolysis of molten ionic compounds
Lesson 2
Powerpoint 2
Using electrolysis to extract metals
Electrolysis of aluminium oxide
Electroplating with copper
Half equations and Ionic Equations
Set homework: worksheet on ionic and half equations to be completed for homework here - mark scheme provided
Lesson 3
Required Practical 3
Lesson 4
Completion of booklet for required practical 3
Lesson 5
Powerpoint 3
Electrolysis in aqueous solution
Mixtures of ions
Electrolysis of brine
Competing reactions at electrodes
Electrolysis of acidified water
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!
Halogenoalkanes
Mat 1
Synthesis via free radical substitution
Nucleophilic substitution
Reaction with hydroxide
Reaction with cyanide
Damage to the ozone layer
Mat 2
Nucleophilic substitution reaction with ammonia to form an amine
Practice mechanism questions
Mat 3
Elimination reactions with hydroxide
Isomerism in elimination of asymmetric
halogenoalkanes
Mat 4
Practice questions
Alkenes
Mat 1
Electrophilic addition mechanism
HBr, bromine, and bromine water
Mat 2
Intermediates and practice questions
Mat 3
The reaction with concentrated sulfuric acid mechanism
Regents and conditions and practice questions
Mat 4
Addition polymerisation and practice questions
Mat 5
Steam hydration of ethene
Catalysed steam hydration
Dehydration of ethanol
Comparison between hydration and fermentation
Alcohols
Mat 1
Steam hydration of ethene
Glucose and empirical formula
Fermentation conditions and comparison with hydration
Mat 2
Reagents and conditions for the different methods of alcohol production
Mat 3
Oxidation of alcohols
Practical application of oxidation of alcohols and equipment
Mat 4
Mechanism for elimination/dehydration of alcohols
Formation of isomers from longer chain/or unsymmetrical alcohols
Mat 5
Identification of different types of organic compounds with test tube reactions and spectroscopy
AQA A-level chemistry unit 3.3.9 Aromatic Chemistry and the reactions of benzene and its derivatives - Lesson or Revision workbook with answers
This workbooks covers a whole unit of work combining detailed information sections with Cornell Style notetaking so the books can be used while you teach and students can add their own notes and ideas down the margin.
Colour is used consistently for the different types of sections to make the booklet more dyslexia friendly as I have found that chemistry notes and questions can often be very dense, and somewhat inaccessible for all students but especially students who have dyslexia.
The booklet can also be produced as a revision guide for the topic and contains all the notes and practice past paper questions you would need to revise along with worked examples. Student and parent friendly and can be used without a teacher.
This booklet is 25 pages long with answers to past paper questions provided at the back from page 21 onwards. It is provided in word and pdf. Please customise for personal use only and do not share or re-sell.
Contents
• Useful definitions
• Kékulé structure and problems with it
• Naming compounds based on benzene
• Electrophilic substitution reactions of benzene
Save time by avoiding the need for your students to write out lengthy sets of notes or draw diagrams. The complete unit 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.
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!
Huge pack of resources to teach a module on thinking skills and metacognitive approaches to science exam questions. Aimed at year 10/11 double or triple scientists. The resources focus on skills and contain examples from biology, chemistry and physics.
The questions selected can usually be answered from the information in the question meaning this work can be incorporated into teaching without worrying too much about where you are in the syllabus. Mark schemes are included.
Metacognition, which includes ideas such as learning to learn and developing thinking skills, can be applied to the way students tackle examination questions. This scheme of learning and accompanying lessons and resources,for science skills, breaks down the different types of questions that students meet and supports them to find learned strategies that work for them in how to tackle those questions.
Each skill comes complete with a PowerPoint, worksheet and mark scheme. The resources are based on AQA materials but the skills are transferable across other exam boards. All three sciences: biology, chemistry and physics, are covered.
Connections and tick boxes
Data in tables
Graphs
Data in bar and pie charts
Comprehension and application
Command words
Complicated diagrams
Extended response questions
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make GCSE science 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.