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 four PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Kinetics, and cover the necessary content for both the Standard and Higher Level topics. It 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:
- What is rate of reaction?
- Methods of measuring the rate of reaction
- Collision Theory
- The effect of temperature, concentration, pressure, surface area and catalysts on the rate of reaction
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curves
- The effect of temperature on Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curves
- The rate constant and rate equation
- Determining the order of reaction from experimental data
- Characteristics of 0, 1st and 2nd order reactions
- Using reaction mechanisms to identify the rate determining step
- Using the rate determining step to determine the reaction mechanism of a reaction
- Mechanisms of reactions involving catalysts
- The Arrenhius Equation
- Determining the activation energy of a reaction via line of best fit and equation methods
- Effect of activation energy on the rate of reaction
- Effect of a catalyst on the Arrenhius equation
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 series of two lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE ion testing, but could be modified for other exam boards.
Includes PowerPoints to lead the students through investigating the colours of the different ions
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 fertiliser.
The lessons are broken down as follows:
Lesson 1 - Research and Planning
Lesson 2 - Testing fertiliser 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 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 method of charging a mobile phone
The lessons are broken down as follows:
Lesson 1 - Research and Planning
Lesson 2 - Testing charger 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.
A series of two lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.6 unit of work about alcohols, carboxylic acids and the production of esters
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
A series of 17 lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3 unit of work. These lessons were designed for 100 minute lessons.
Included are lessons on:
1. The Periodic Table
2. Trends in the Periodic Table
3. Hard and Soft water
4. Water softening
5. Water purification
6. Energy from reactions
7. Energy level diagrams
8. Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
9. Cation Tests
10. Anion Tests
11. Calculating the concentration of solutions
12. Titrations
13. Effect of temperature of equilibrium
14. Effect of pressure on equilibrium
15. The Haber Process
16. Alcohols
17. Carboxylic acids and Esters
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany each topic.
Also available on my resource page in 6 individual units, for those who do not want to download 87 files in one go!
A series of three lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.3 unit of work about energetics, including Q=mcT, how to calculate the energy change from bonds broken and bonds made and how to draw enthalpy level diagrams for reactions.
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
A series of three lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.5 unit of work about equilibria
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
A series of four lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.4 unit of work about qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Lessons on cation and anion testing, titrations and how to calculate the concentration of a solution
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
This scheme of work was planned as part of the iGCSE course, but could be used for other courses. It includes PowerPoints, activities, experiments, homework and formative assessment resources.
The topics covered are:
- Elements, compounds and mixtures
- Atomic Structure
- Isotopes
- Ionic and Covalent Bonding
- Conservation of Mass and Balancing Equations
8 homework projects on key stage 3 and 4 Physics, linked to the Exploring Science and iGCSE schemes of work.
All homework projects are fully differentiated, with level ladders provided to maximise pupil progress
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
8I - Heating and Cooling
9I - Electricity in the Home
9L - Pressure
Forces and Momentum
Waves and Communication
Energy and Payback time
2 homework projects suitable for KS4 students on the topics of genetics and hydroponics.
Each project comes with a level ladder style success grid, broken down into grades A*-D, for students to maximise their learning
Two lessons designed to cover the topics of stability of compounds (carbonates, nitrates and hydroxides) and the limecycle for the iGCSE, but could also be used for other exam boards.
Includes PowerPoints, two practical activities and a computer research task
A series of nine homework projects suitable for KS4 students covering Biology, Chemistry and Physics topics.
- Genetics
- Hydroponics
- Extracting Copper
- Oil
- Analysing Substances
- Nanoparticles and Smart Materials
- Waves and Communication
- Energy and Payback Time
- Forces and Momentum
Unit of work on structure and bonding focusing on the four different types of bonding - ionic, covalent (simple and giant) and metallic.
The Unit includes a PowerPoint and a booklet. The booklet provides spaces for the students to fill in answers as they go through the PowerPoint and also includes an exam question summary of each type of bonding. The answers to the questions are also included.
Could be used for students to learn the topic independently in a flipped classroom setting, or in class with a lower ability group.
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)
These 16 PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Acids and Bases, Redox Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, 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:
- What are acids and bases?
- Bronsted Lowry acids and bases (and conjugate acids and bases)
- Amphiprotic and amphoteric substances
- Lewis acids and bases
- Reactions of acids with metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal carbonates and metal hydrogencarbonates, bases and alkalis
- Making salts
- What is pH and how to calculate the pH of both acids and bases
- Using the dissociation constant of water to calculate pH
- Acid deposition - how it occurs and how it can be treated
- Calculations involving Ka, pKa, Kb, pKb, pH and pOH
- Using the relationships Kw = Ka x Kb and pKa + pKb = pKw
- Titration curves for titrations involving any combination of strong and weak acids and bases
- Indicators - how to select a suitable indicator for a titration
- How to calculate the pH of salt solutions
- Buffers - what are they, how are they made and how do they work (including calculations)
Reduction and Oxidation
Oxidation states and how to determine them
Naming compounds using oxidation states
Oxidising and reducing agents
Half equations in molten substances
Half equations in acidic solutions
The activity series
Redox titrations
Winkler method to determine biochemical oxygen demand
Voltaic Cells
Electrolytic Cells
Cell potentials
The standard hydrogen electrode
Ecell and spontaneity
Working out cell potentials
Polarity and direction of electron flow
The electrochemical series
Electrolysis of aqueous solutions
The effect of the nature of electrodes on the products
Electroplating
Electrolysis of water
Quantitative electrolysis
- Different kinds of formula e.g. molecular, empirical
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Compounds involving a benzene ring
- Homologous Series
- IUPAC nomenclature
- Naming halogenoalkanes
- Naming alcohols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids
- Esters
- Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, halogenoalkanes and amines
- Structural Isomerism
- Functional Group Isomerism
- Benzene and Aromatic Compounds
- Combustion of alkanes
- Reaction of alkanes with halogens
- Reactions of alkenes
- Addition polymerisation
- Oxidation of alcohols
- Nucleophilic Substitution mechanisms of primary, tertiary and secondary halogenoalkanes
- Factors affecting the rate of nucleophilic substitution
- Electrophilic Addition mechanisms
- Markovnikov´s Rule
- Electrophilic subtitution mechanisms
- Reduction Reactions
- Reaction pathways and synthetic routes
- Cis-trans isomerism
- Conformational isomerism
- Optical isomerism
- Optical Isomers and Plane-polarised light
- Racemic mixtures
- Diastereoisomers
