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.
4.1.2.6 Group 7 the halogens
The name’s Bond, Ionic Bond… electrons taken, not shared!
From excruciating jokes to deep voices and floating tin foil, extraordinary explosions and how to make exploding purple spiders. Halogens in a new way, with a serious worksheet to complete at the end.
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.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Unit 4.1.2.6 (part 2) reactions of the halogens and periodic trends
Powerpoint lesson on the reactions of halogens and trends in reactivity in the
periodic table. Contains powerpoint lesson and question bank resources.
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.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
This is a Higher Tier Chemistry revision booklet (16 pages) containing revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that is specific to the 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session.
4.2.3 Structure and bonding of carbon
4.2.3.1 Diamond
4.2.3.2 Graphite
4.2.3.3 Graphene and fullerenes
Plus combining strategies to predict the properties of unfamiliar substances
This booklet forms part of a set of booklets to support your revision for the 2022 AQA Chemistry Exam Papers.
This is a 20 page Higher Tier Chemistry revision booklet containing notes and exam style questions with mark schemes that is specific to the 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session.
4.2.2 How bonding and structure are related to the properties of substances
4.2.2.1 The three states of matter
4.2.2.2 State symbols
4.2.2.3 Properties of ionic compounds
4.2.2.4 Properties of small molecules
4.2.2.5 Polymers
4.2.2.6 Giant covalent structures
4.2.2.7 Properties of metals and alloys
4.2.2.8 Metals as conductors
This is an 18 page Higher Tier Chemistry revision booklet containing notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that is specific to the 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session.
4.2.1 Chemical bonds, ionic, covalent and metallic
4.2.1.1 Chemical bonds
4.2.1.2 Ionic Bonding
4.2.1.3 Ionic Compounds
4.2.1.4 Covalent bonding
4.2.1.5 Metallic bonding
This booklet forms part of a set of booklets to support your revision for the 2022 AQA Chemistry Exam Papers.
This is a Higher Tier Chemistry revision booklet containing concise revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that is specific to the 2022 Advance information from AQA.
Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session. Each booklet should take about 1 hour to complete. Structure your revision around these and spend less time making notes and more time practicing applying your knowledge.
4.4.1 Reactivity of metals
4.4.1.1 Metal oxides
4.4.1.2. The reactivity series
4.4.1.3 Extraction of metals and reduction
4.4.1.4 Oxidation and reduction in terms of electrons
This booklet forms part of a set of booklets to support your revision for the 2022 AQA Chemistry Exam Papers.
This premium resource pack is contains all the resources for 7-10 complete lessons with Powerpoints, worksheets, lesson activities, hints and tips. Discount compared with buying separately!
PDF files and word documents included for easy viewing on tablet or computer.
L1 - Atoms and elements - includes lesson powerpoint.
L2 - Observing and carrying out chemical reactions - includes lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L3 - Word Equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L4 - Practical to burn magnesium in air - lesson powerpoint and worksheet with method, results and analysis.
L5 - Balancing chemical equations including ionic and half equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheets with answers including extension worksheets on ionic equations and half equations.
L6 - Separating mixtures part 1 - techniques and practicals (enough for 2 lessons) including powerpoint, revision notes.
L7 - Separating mixtures part 2 - chromatography - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers
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.
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!
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.
A complete resource to enable you to teach chemical equations effectively.
L3 - introducing word equations and how to interpret and write them
L4 - investigating stoichiometry and change in mass when magnesium burns in air
L5 - symbol equations including understanding how to name compounds and balance equations.
Worksheets for each lesson and answers also provided. Extension materials on worksheets introduces the concept of ionic equations and redox half equations as well.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make 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.
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.
This bundle of resources contains worksheets for the first 5 practical activities along with expected results and mark scheme as appropriate.
PA 5 Rates of chemical reaction foundation tier
PA 5 Rates of chemical reaction higher tier
PA 6 Chromatography
PA 7 Identifying ions
PA 8 Purifying water
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.
Required practicals will replace controlled assessment in the new GCSE.
This bundle of resources contains worksheets for the first 5 practical activities along with expected results and mark scheme as appropriate.
PA 1 Making Salts
PA 2 Neutralisation Higher Tier
PA 2 Neutralisation Foundation Tier
PA 3 Electrolysis
PA 4 Temperature Changes
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.
Help your students to understand the meaning of -ide and -ine.
Are you preparing to teach halogen displacement to year 9 or 10? These simplified resources are designed to help you to make this material accessible but while retaining the challenge expected in the new science specifications.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.