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 complete lesson including starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, main work tasks with answers for a KS4 GCSE lesson on waste water treatment.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
State the stages of waste water treatment
Explain the stages of waste water treatment
Compare the ease of treating waste, ground and salt water
Students will be able to take rich notes on waste water treatment.
The teacher will be able to quickly assess students’ understanding of waste water treatment by carrying our mini AfL questions using A,B,C cards or mini white baords
The lesson ends with a main work task for students to complete. Students will be able to self or peer assess their answers to this task using the detailed answers provided
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A well structured lesson including starter activity and plenary task on reactions of halide ions.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Describe an experiment to identify sodium halides with sulfuric acid (evidence of trend in reducing power)
Describe an experiment to identify metal halides with silver ions
Analyse various experiments (in questions) based on identifying halide ions
Students will be able to take rich notes throughout the lesson
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A well structured lesson including starter activity and mini AfL questions on percentage yield and atom economy. Only suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry (not required for combined science)
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) recapping titrations and calculating the concentration of solutions
Then by the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
To calculate percentage yield from balanced symbol equations
To calculate atom economy from balanced symbol equations
To calculate the masses and moles of products or reactants from balanced symbol equations
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A whole lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Specific Heat Capacity. Suitable for AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science (both higher and foundation)
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the effect of increasing the temperature of a system in terms of particles
State the factors that are affected by an increase in temperature of a substance
Calculate specific heat capacity
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured Year 13 KS5 lesson ( lesson 2 of 2) on Concentration-Time Graphs. Lesson includes starter activity, worked examples and Afl quiz
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To deduce zero & first order reactants from concentration-time graphs
To calculate the rate constant of a first order reactant using their half-life
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3 Full Lesson Bundle on Buffer Solutions. This bundle covers the AQA A Level Chemistry specification. Please review the learning objectives below.
**Part 1: Explaining How Buffer Solutions Work
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
**Part 2: Buffer Solution Calculations (Part 1)
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
Part 3: Buffer Solution Calculations (Part 2)
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 well structured KS5 Lesson on Phenols. The lesson contains a starter activity, mini AfL questions and practice questions, all with answers included
By the end of the lesson students should:
To recall and explain the electrophilic substitution reactions of phenol:
with bromine to form 2,4,6-tribromophenol
(ii) with dilute nitric acid to form a mixture of 2-nitrophenol and 4-nitrophenol
(j) To explain the relative ease of electrophilic substitution of phenol compared with benzene, in terms of electron pair donation to the π-system from an oxygen p-orbital in phenol
To understand the weak acidity of phenols shown by its neutralisation reaction with NaOH but absence of reaction with carbonates
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on the synthesis of hydroxynitriles. Suitable for AQA A level Chemistry.
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know how to name hydroxynitriles
To understand the steps of the nucleophilic addition reaction mechanism to form hydroxynitriles
To be able to explain how a racemic mixture of hydroxynitriles can be produced
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on Carboxylic Acids and Esters. Suitable for AQA A level Chemistry
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know how to draw and name carboxylic acids (Y12 recap)
To construct equations for the reaction of carboxylic acids with carbonates based on their weak acidic properties
To know how to name and draw esters
To know how esters are formed from the reaction of carboxylic acids with alcohols
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4 Full Lesson Bundle which covers the lessons on carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids, esters and acyl chlorides from the OCR A Level Chemistry Specification. See below for the lesson objectives
Lesson 1: Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds
To understand the oxidation of aldehydes using Cr2O72-/H+ to form carboxylic acids
To understand nucleophilic addition reactions of carbonyl compounds with:
NaBH4 to form alcohols
HCN (NaCN (aq)/H+ (aq)) to form hydroxynitriles
To construct the mechanism for nucleophilic addition reactions of aldehydes and ketones with NaBH4 and HCN
Lesson 2: Testing for Carbonyl Compounds
To understand the use of Tollens’ reagent to:
(i) detect the presence of an aldehyde group
(ii) distinguish between aldehydes and ketones, explained in terms of the oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids with reduction of silver ions to silver
To understand the use of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine to:
(i) detect the presence of a carbonyl group in an organic compound
(ii) identify a carbonyl compound from the melting point of the derivative
Lesson 3: Carboxylic acids and Esters
To explain the water solubility of carboxylic acids in terms of hydrogen bonding
To recall the reactions in aqueous conditions of carboxylic acids with metals and bases (including carbonates, metal oxides and alkalis)
To know the esterification of: (i) carboxylic acids with alcohols in the presence of an acid catalyst (ii) acid anhydrides with alcohols
To know the hydrolysis of esters: (i) in hot aqueous acid to form carboxylic acids and alcohols (ii) in hot aqueous alkali to form carboxylate salts and alcohols
Lesson 4: Acyl Chlorides and Their Reactions
To know how to name acyl chlorides
To recall the equation for the formation of acyl chlorides from carboxylic acids using SOCl2
To construct equations for the use of acyl chlorides in the synthesis of esters, carboxylic acids and primary and secondary amides
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on acyl chlorides and their reactions. Suitable for AQA A level Chemistry
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To know how to draw and name acyl chlorides
To identify the products of and write equations for acylation reactions of water, alcohols, ammonia and amines with acyl chlorides
To outline the mechanism of nucleophilic addition-elimination reactions of acyl chlorides water, alcohols, ammonia and primary amines
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68 flashcards on OCR A level Chemistry keywords and definitions - Year 12 content only
Specific printing instructions have been included and should be followed so that flashcards can be successfully printed.
Important Note: These flashcards are only suitable to be printed as A6 flashcards (1/4 size of A4)
Included are keywords from the following OCR A Level chemistry modules:
Module 2 – Foundation Chemistry
Module 3 – The Periodic Table & Energy
Module 4 – Core Organic Chemistry
A theory revision lesson reviewing the methods and exam questions for PAG 1 (1.1-1.3) OCR Practicals.
Included in this resource is a printable handout which enables students to:
Recall the experimental set up and method for OCR PAG 1 Practicals
Evaluate the practical methods
Complete exam style questions
There are 5 exam style questions included. Answers to these questions are also included
These resource is ideal for revision of PAG 1 practicals in the run up to external exams or mocks.
3 revision documents summarising the equations and conditions students need to remember for the following chapters in AQA AS Chemistry:
The halogens
Group 2 metals
Alkanes
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks Electrons and Atomic Orbitals
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know that atomic orbitals are a region around the nucleus that occupy electrons
To illustrate the shape of s, p and d orbitals
To describe the number of orbitals that make up the s, p and d sub shells and the number of electrons that fill the sub shells
To deduce the electronic configuration of atoms and ions in the s and p-block
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
Important Note For Teachers: A lesson on electronic configuration of d-block elements is available as a separate lesson in my shop
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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 moles and volumes (solutions and gas volumes)
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
To calculate the amount of substance in mol, involving solution volume and concentration
To understand the terms dilute, concentrated and molar
To explain and use the term molar gas volume
To calculate the amount of substance in mol, involving gas volume
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks on the electronic configuration of d-block elements
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To recall the order of electron shells to be filled
To construct electronic configurations of d-block atoms and ions
To know the elemental anomalies in electron filling of d block atoms
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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 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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