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.
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.
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.
Worksheet on atomic structure and atoms and isotopes including challenge questions on isotopic abundancy and calculations of relative atomic mass (Ar).
Answers provided - word files and pdf files.
An easy session with worked examples to provide as much information as most staff need to know for the transition to progress 8.
This training session predicts the end of the flight path and while not offering concrete alternatives helps your staff to understand exactly what goes into the measure that their performance is now judged against.
Three case study worksheets with marksheets help staff to work out for themselves the progress 8 scores. These should be accompanied by the download of the most recent KS2 to GCSE performance tables from the DfE (not included).
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!
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
These simple revision mats can be printed A3 with a single sheet forming a revision activity for an entire topic.
These 5 printable A3 mats cover alkenes and include a separate powerpoint of model answers and a set in pdf file format as well.
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