Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
These sheets ask questions which when answered summarise the whole of the iGCSE Chemistry course, with one sheet per topic.
They can be used one at a time, at the end of a topic, or at the end of the year as a revision resource
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
The answers to this exercise are now also available in my shop
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
The answers to these sheets are also included on a separate document, so they make a great independent revision resource
This unit was planned as part of the Chemistry IB Option B - Biochemistry scheme of work, and covers the topics in B.10
It includes a full PowerPoint, along with a student version to use as notes, which has spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete. It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
- Stereoisomerism
- 2-amino acids
- Fischer and CORN projections
- Stereochemistry in Carbohydrates
- Stereochemistry cyclic forms of monosaccharides
- Stereochemistry in cellulose
- Stereochemistry in fatty acids
- Stereochemistry in retinal and vision chemistry
Also available in my Shop as part of a bundle of Biochemistry resources, which between them cover all the information needed for the IB Option B syllabus - heavily discounted!
Scheme of work planned for the IGCSE acids and bases unit, but could be modified for other exam boards.
The scheme includes PowerPoints, activities, practicals and worksheets and was planned to take up to 7 lessons. The PowerPoint on soluble salts covers making soluble salts in 3 different ways and so will take 3 lessons.
Topics:
- Acids, bases and salts
- Preparation of Soluble Salts - metal + acid, metal oxide + acid and acid + alkali
- Preparation of Insoluble salts
- Acidic, basic and amphoteric oxides
Resources covering the iGCSE topics of
Experimental Techniques
Fundamental ideas
Air and Water
Metals and Metal Extraction
Acids, Bases and Salts
Organic Chemistry
Moles
These sheets ask questions which when answered summarise all of the Chemistry topics covered on the iGCSE Coordinated course, with one sheet per topic.
They can be used one at a time, at the end of a topic, or at the end of the year as a revision resource
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
18 homework projects on key stage 3 science, linked to the Exploring Science scheme of work.
7A - Cells
7B - Reproduction
7C - Adaptations
7E - Acids and Alkalis
7F - Chemical reactions
7H - Solutions
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
8A - Food and Digestion
8C - Microbes and Disease
8E - Classifying Elements
8I - Heating and Cooling
9B - Health and Fitness
9C - Plants
9E - Metals and their reactions
9G - Environmental Chemistry
9L - Pressure
Recycling
This booklet and accompanying PowerPoints covers the Moles topic for iGCSE Chemistry. It would also be useful for other courses, as it covers all of the topics in the list below.
The booklet is designed to be interactive and to be filled in by the students, accompanied by the PowerPoints. It includes spaces for worked calculations, exercises, past paper questions (taken from the Cambridge iGCSE papers) and two practicals. The answers to the exercises are also provided for the workbook and are shown on the PowerPoints.
What exactly is a mole?
How can we convert between masses and moles?
How do we deal with diatomic molecules?
Converting between mass and moles in compounds
Calculating the % by mass of an element in a compound
Balancing Equations
Reacting Masses
Limiting Reagents
Percentage Yield
Practical - How much copper sulphate can we get from malachite?
Percentage Purity
Empirical Formula
Moles in Gases
Moles in Solutions
Titrations
Practical – What is the concentration of sodium hydroxide?
I also have another scheme of work where this booklet has been altered slightly for the Co-ordinated Science Chemistry moles unit.
A PowerPoint covering all the topics covering in Organic Chemistry for the iGCSE Coordinated Science course. The accompanying booklet has gaps and questions for the students to fill in as they go through the PowerPoint.
This was designed for a low ability group with weaker writing skills in order to move through the content more quickly. It includes the topics of:
Crude Oil
Fractional Distillation
Structure of alkanes, alkenes and alcohols
Properties and reactions of alkanes
Cracking of alkanes
Saturated vs. Unsaturated Compounds
Addition reactions of alkenes
Reactions and uses of alcohols
Macromolecules
Synthetic plastics
Addition and condensation polymers
Natural Macromolecules
This 86 slide PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Periodicity, and covers the necessary content for Standard Level topics. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are the fully completed PowerPoint, a student version of the PowerPoint with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics included are:
- The development of the Periodic Table
- The structure and arrangement of the Periodic Table
- How metallic/non-metallic properties change as you go left to right across the periodic table
- How atomic radius of elements changes across periods and down groups, and why this occurs
- How ionic radius of ions changes across periods and down groups, and why this occurs
- How first ionisation energies of elements changes across periods and down groups, and why this occurs
- How electron affinity of elements changes across periods and down groups, and why this occurs
- How electronegativity of elements changes across periods and down groups, and why this occurs
- Properties and reactions of the Group I metals
- Properties and reactions of the Group XVII non-metals
- The acid-base character and reactions of the period 2 and 3 oxides
This PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the D.5 section. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are the fully completed PowerPoint, a student version of the PowerPoint with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions, with markschemes.
Topics covered include:
- The differences between viruses and bacteria
- The structure of viruses
- How viruses reproduce and replicate
- How viruses are treated by interrupted stages of the replication process
- Oseltamivir and Zanamivir - structure and action
- HIV and AIDS
- Treatment of HIV and AIDS
This PowerPoint was planned as part of the Higher Level IB scheme of work on Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the D.9 section. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are the fully completed PowerPoint and a student version of the PowerPoint with sections to complete independently.
Topics covered include:
- Worked example of the identification of aspirin by NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Worked example of the identification of an unknown compound from NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Extraction and purification of organic products
- Worked example of hormone concentration using partition coefficients
- How polarity affects the partition coefficients
- Raoult´s Law
- Fractional Distillation
- Drug detection in sports
- Drug detection in forensic science
- Chemistry of breathalyzer tests
- HPLC and Gas chromatography
Nine homework projects for the Exploring Science 7 scheme of work.
7A - Cells
7B - Reproduction
7C/7D - Adaptations
7E - Acids and Alkalis
7F - Simple Chemical Reactions
7H - Solutions
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
Recycling
Each project comes with a level ladder style success grid for students to maximise their learning
These PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Structure and Bonding and cover the necessary content for both the Standard and Higher Level topics. They would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics included are:
Ionic Bonding
What is ionic bonding?
Common positive and negative ions
Working out the formula of ionic compounds
Giant ionic lattices
Properties of ionic substances
Covalent Bonding
What is covalent bonding?
How to draw Lewis structures
How to tell if a substance will be ionic or covalent
The Octet rule and how it can be broken
Coordinate bonds and compounds which contain them
Resonance structures
VSEPR theory
Shapes of molecules with up to 6 bonding pairs
Shapes of molecules with up to 6 bonding and lone pairs
Giant covalent bonding - diamond, graphite and silica
Intermolecular Bonding
- London forces
- Permanent dipole-permanent dipole forces
- Permanent dipole-induced dipole forces
- Hydrogen bonding
- Solubility and intermolecular forces
Metallic Bonding
How do we describe a metallic structure?
How to predict which metal will have the high melting point
Properties of metals
Properties of alloys
Advanced covalent bonding, electron domains and molecular geometries
Assigning formal charge
Exceptions to the octet rule
Formation of sigma and pi bonds
The composition of single, double and triple bonds
Resonance hybrids and delocalisation
The structure of benzene - Kekule and delocalised
Absorption of UV light in the atmosphere
Catalysis of ozone depletion by CFCs and NOx gases
Hybridisation
sp3, sp2, sp hybridisation: how it happens, resulting shapes and how to identify molecules with each type of hybridisation.
This booklet and accompanying PowerPoints covers the Moles topic for iGCSE Coordinated Science. It would also be useful for other courses, as it covers all of the topics in the list below.
The booklet is designed to be interactive and to be filled in by the students, accompanied by the PowerPoints. It includes spaces for worked calculations, exercises, past paper questions (taken from the Cambridge iGCSE papers) and a practical. The answers to the exercises are also shown on the PowerPoints.
What exactly is a mole?
How can we convert between masses and moles?
How do we deal with diatomic molecules?
Converting between mass and moles in compounds
Calculating the % by mass of an element in a compound
Balancing Equations
Reacting Masses
Limiting Reagents
Moles in Gases
Moles in Solutions
Titrations
Practical – What is the concentration of sodium hydroxide?
I also have another scheme of work where this booklet has been altered slightly for the iGCSE Triple Chemistry moles unit.
This 2 week KS3 scheme of work was designed to take 4x100 minute lessons. The aim of the project is to guide students to research, test, ´market´ and evaluate their own handwarmer.
The lessons are broken down as follows:
Lesson 1 - Research and Planning
Lesson 2 - Testing hand-warmer options
Lesson 3 - Product Design
Lesson 4 - Pitching the design to peers and evaluation
Originally designed to link Science with Business and Enterprise, it could also be used to encourage the use of transferable skills in science, and would make an independent and interactive ´end of year´ activity.
These three 2 week KS3 scheme of work were designed to take 4x100 minute lessons each. The aim of the projects were to guide students to research, test, ´market´ and evaluate their own product. These products were a fertiliser, a chemical hand-warmer and a mobile phone chargers.
The lessons are broken down as follows:
Lesson 1 - Research and Planning
Lesson 2 - Testing options
Lesson 3 - Product Design
Lesson 4 - Pitching the design to peers and evaluation
Originally designed to link Science with Business and Enterprise, they could also be used to encourage the use of transferable skills in science, and would make independent and interactive ´end of year´ activities.
This lesson was planned as a stand alone investigation lesson for KS3, designed to allow students to work on their practical skills. When observed it got an ´Outstanding´ (for what it is worth), and I have attached the lesson plan.
It involves a ´poisoning´ scenario where students are asked to identify an unknown powder used to poison someone. Students are asked to choose the equipment that they will use, test some named powders and use this to identify the unknown powder. They are then asked to write a letter to a detective (using a level ladder as a guide) explaining how they identified a poison. They should then peer assess against the level ladder.
Scheme of work planned for the IGCSE scheme on equilibria, but would be suitable for other exam boards too.
PowerPoints cover:
Equilibria and how they can be altered
Properties, reactions and uses of Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Ammonia
The Haber Process
Properties, reactions and uses of Sulphur, Sulphur Dioxide and Sulphuric Acid
The Contact Process
Also included are a practical activity and a computer research task (could be a homework)
27 homework projects on key stage 3 and keystage 4 science, linked to the Exploring Science and GCSE schemes of work.
All come with fully differentiated level ladders to allow for maximum pupil progress
A bargain at less than a pound a project!
Key Stage 3
7A - Cells
7B - Reproduction
7C - Adaptations
7E - Acids and Alkalis
7F - Chemical reactions
7H - Solutions
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
8A - Food and Digestion
8C - Microbes and Disease
8E - Classifying Elements
8I - Heating and Cooling
9B - Health and Fitness
9C - Plants
9E - Metals and their reactions
9G - Environmental Chemistry
9L - Pressure
Recycling
Key Stage 4
Genetics
Hydroponics
Extracting Copper
Nanoparticles and Smart Materials
Oil
Analysing Substances
Forces and Momentum
Waves and Communication
Energy and Payback Time