some simple keywords worksheets for words to do with cooking and sorting out, useful for pupils with english as an additional language

a research worksheet i made for pupils to find out information about different kinds of intelligent packaging, quite simple so may be good with a lower ability group

a lesson presentation and practical table for the new edexcel spec, reaction of metals. many thanks to other contributers who i have borrowed slides from

a set of worksheets to go with a simple mystery powders investigation, where you give pupils a set of five white powders, one of which is unidentified (use simple safe powders, such as calcium carbonate etc) and get them to carry out a range of tests to work out what the mystery powder is

a video showing the reactions of the alkali metals

a simple chemistry wordsearch where pupils have to think of chemistry words then find them on the sheet, makes a fun starter/settling activity

a periodic table for printing and use with students

a simple results table that could be used for a lower ability class to test a range of household solutions for their pH

a simple review test i made could be used at the end of a topic to check pupil knowledge or as a starting point with ks3 students

this has a suggested organisation cards using four teams, i have made a worksheet with suspects and the victim, the attacker is always the cinema mangaer, i make blood splatter by drawing the splatter with a uv pen and then getting people to scan for it with uv you need slime made from fybogel (if you put highlighter ink fluid in the water it glows with uv) and pva slime (recipes from about.com chemistry) and i used four weapons (a book, a glass ashtray, a broom handle and a wooden rolling pin) there are also deduction cards so teams can find out who did it at the end

this shows different types of weathering on gravestones, useful for year 9 allows for a little bit of emapthy in discussions about weathering as well

a simple fire triangle starter sheet could be used with lower ability groups

a nice elements and symbols card sort that could be used as a starter to a lesson or as part of a main activity

simple hydrocarbon element cards that can be used with pupils to make simple hydrocarbons, good kinaesthetic activity for low ability pupils

a simple starter activity of a polluted city with a timeline for pupils to describe what the city is/was like now and in the past, a good thinking activity

a simple cut out and sort or join up word matching exercise on acids and alkalis

a simple writing frame to aid pupils with planning an investigation into the rate of reaction of marble chips and acid

a worksheet with instructions for pupils to make different coloured pigments, a good strutured practical that could be used as a training for coursework

copies of mendeleevs periodic table that could be laminted and given to students as part of a history of the periodic table lesson

a simple table for pupils to complete summarising the main features of the group one metals