'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reacting masses section on the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification with a section to remind students how to calculate the percentage mass of compounds. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of moles starter game
3: A percentage of nitrogen in compounds task
4: A percentage of elements in a compound task
5: A reacting masses interactive notebook activity
6: A series of reacting masses questions
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the spectroscope content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A starter game
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A spectra comparison activity
5: A spectroscope modelling activity
6: A 6 mark AFL question
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is a bundle of lessons covering the electrolysis section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This bundle includes lessons on:
1: Acids & alkalies (students need to be aware of how they form ions)
2: Basic electrolysis
3: Electrolysis of aluminium
4: Electrolysis of brine
5: Electrolysis of water
6: A revision lesson
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The resource is a lesson with activities that can be used to introduce students to acid & alkali. This resource includes:
1: A starter literacy game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A spag activity
4: A key word summary activity
5: A card sort
6: A plenary dice game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the states of matter content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling states of matter activity
4: A micro-teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
7: A homework task
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering oil & it’s uses, space, electricity, motion, evolution and competition & adaptation
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 40mb of resources & 149 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the atomic theory development of atomic theory content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A key information highlighting activity
4: A modelling the development of atomic theory activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This bundle is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question
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This resource is a GCSE energy changes revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Energy level diagrams
Endo & exothermic reactions
Collision theory
Bond energy calculations
Batteries
Hydrogen fuel cells
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry, chemical analysis revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Chemistry 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Purity
Chromatography
Flame tests
Testing for sulphides
Testing for carbonates
Testing for metal ions
Instrumental analysis
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: Chromatography
2: Testing for ions
3: Rate of reaction
4: Making salts
5: Neutralisation
6: Temperature changes
7: Water purification
8: Electrolysis
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This resources is a lesson with activities covering the pure substances content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A pure substances literacy activity
4: A purity of a substance graph activity
5: A purity and melting point activity
6: A melting / freezing point of salty water graph activity
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice number of atoms / molecules calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice concentration calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a power point containing 75 practice gas volume calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a set of 21 multiple choice chemical analysis questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a set of 12 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the rate of reaction content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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