Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks with answers on haloalkanes and the environment
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To know how halogen radicals are produced from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the action of UV radiation
To construct equations for the production of halogen radicals from CFCs
To construct equations for the catalysed breakdown of ozone by Cl. and other radicals (NO.)
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks on Other Reactions of Alcohols
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To know the elimination of H2O from alcohols in the presence of an acid catalyst and heat to form alkenes
To know the substitution of alcohols with halide ions in the presence of acid to form haloalkanes
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks with answers on Haloalkanes and their reactions (part 2)
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To explain the trend in the rates of hydrolysis of primary haloalkanes in terms of the bond enthalpies of carbon-halogen bonds
To describe how the rate of hydrolysis of haloalkanes can be determined by experiment using water, ethanol and silver nitrate solution
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on Addition Polymerisation of Alkenes. This lesson follows the OCR specification.
**By the end of the lessons students should be able:
**1. To know the repeat unit of an addition polymer deduced from a polymer
**2. To identify the monomer that would produce a given section of an addition polymer
**3. To construct repeating units based on provided monomers
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A complete lesson including starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, main work tasks with answers for a KS5 lesson on Atomic Structure & Isotopes.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
To describe the atomic structure of an atom
To describe atomic structure in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons for atoms and ions, given the atomic number, mass number and any ionic charge
To define the term isotopes and to identify the atomic structure of isotopes in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons
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A structured Year 12 KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on Collision Theory and Rates of Reaction. Suitable for OCR Specification (AS Chemistry)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To explain the effect of concentration (including pressure of gases only) on the rate of reaction in terms of the frequency of collisions
To calculate the rate of reaction using the gradients of a concentration-time graph
To describe the techniques and procedures used to investigate reaction rates including the measurement of mass, gas volumes and concentration
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A structured Year 12 KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on The Boltzmann Distribution. Suitable for OCR Specification (AS Chemistry)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
**1. To draw a labelled diagram of the Boltzmann distribution
**2. To explain qualitatively the Boltzmann distribution and its relationship with activation energy
**3. To explain how temperature changes and catalytic behaviour effect the proportion of molecules exceeding the activation energy and hence the reaction rate using Boltzmann distributions
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A structured Year 12 KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on Catalysts. Suitable for OCR Specification (AS Chemistry)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
**1. To explain the effect of concentration (including pressure of gases only) on the rate of reaction in terms of the frequency of collisions
**2. To calculate the rate of reaction using the gradients of a concentration-time graph
**3. To describe the techniques and procedures used to investigate reaction rates including the measurement of mass, gas volumes and concentration
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, research task and plenary task on Dealing With Polymer Waste. Please see the lesson guidance for more information. This lesson follows the OCR specification.
By the end of the lesson students should be able:
LO1: To understand the benefits for sustainability of processing waste polymers by:
Combustion for energy production
Use as an organic feedstock for the production of plastics and other organic chemicals
Removal of toxic waste products such as HCl
LO2: The benefits to the environment of development of biodegradable and photodegradable polymers
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on addition reactions of alkenes. Suitable for the OCR specification
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know what an electrophile is
To describe what an electrophilic addition reaction is
To outline the mechanism for electrophilic addition
Mechanisms for electrophilic addition include halogen halides, halogen molecules, and the hydrogen molecule
Explanations surrounding major and minor products are also discussed in this lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on ** Explaining How Buffer Solutions Work** (Suitable for the OCR specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know a buffer solution is a system that minimises pH changes on addition of small amounts of an acid or base
To describe how a buffer solution is formed using weak acids, salts and strong alkalis
To explain the role of the conjugate acid-base pair in an acid buffer solution such as how the blood pH is controlled by the carbonic acid–hydrogencarbonate buffer system
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on the pH of weak acids. Suitable for the AQA specification
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To recall the expression of pH for weak monobasic acids
To calculate the pH of weak monobasic acids using approximations
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on ** Explaining How Buffer Solutions Work** (Suitable for the AQA specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know a buffer solution is a system that minimises pH changes on addition of small amounts of an acid or base
To describe how a buffer solution is formed using weak acids, salts and weak bases
To explain qualitatively the action of acidic and basic buffers
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and plenary task all with answers on pH indicators & Titration Curves
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
LO1. To explain indicator colour changes in terms of equilibrium shift between the HA and A- forms of the indicator
LO2. To explain the choice of suitable indicators given the pH range of the indicator
LO3. To describe an experiment for creating a titration curve
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Buffer Solution Calculations (part 2) (Suitable for the OCR Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate the pH of a weak acid-strong alkali buffer solution
To calculate equilibrium concentrations, moles or mass of the components of a weak acid- strong alkali buffer solution
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A structured KS5 revision lesson including starter activity and main work task (3 rounds of questions) all with answers included on Revision on Buffer Solutions (Suitable for the OCR Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To review how to calculate the pH of a buffer solution containing a weak acid and a strong alkali
To review how to calculate the pH of a buffer solution containing a weak acid and the salt of the weak acid
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Buffer Solution Calculations (Suitable for the AQA Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate the pH of a buffer solution containing a weak acid and the salt of a weak acid by using the Ka expression and pH equation
To calculate equilibrium concentrations, moles or mass of the components of a weak acid-salt of a weak acid buffer solution
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Buffer Solution Calculations (part 2) (Suitable for the AQA Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate changes in pH when a small amount of acid or alkali is added to an acidic buffer solution
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on Amino Acids And Their Reactions
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know the general formula for an α-amino acid as RCH(NH2)COOH
To understand the following reactions of amino acids:
(i) reaction of the carboxylic acid group with alkalis and in the formation of esters
(ii) reaction of the amine group with acids
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on Condensation Polymers
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
1.To know that condensation polymerisation can lead to the formation of i) polyesters ii) polyamides
2. To predict from addition and condensation polymerisation:
i) the repeat unit from a given monomer(s) (ii) the monomer(s) required for a given section of a polymer molecule (iii) the type of polymerisation
3. To understand the acid and base hydrolysis of i) the ester groups in polyesters ii) the amide groups in polyamides
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