'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 set of 17 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Chemistry exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
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This resource is a power point containing method cards for the 31 required practicals in the AQA Science specification. The slides can either be printed off for students to use or be used during revision sessions.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the fertilisers section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A Haber process recall game
3: A use of fertilisers SPAG activity
4: Information on the reactions that produce ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate and ammonium phosphate
5: Sheets for students to gather information on
6: A making fertilisers industrially vs in the lab activity
7: A making ammonium sulphate plenary activity
8: A possible model activity
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: 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 lesson with activities covering the factors affecting rate of reaction section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game looking at key words used in practical investigations
3: Activities looking at the affect of surface area, temperature, catalysts and concentration on rate of reaction
4: A question for students to work through for homework
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on bonding. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A question on atomic structure
4: A questions looking simple ionic bonding
5: A question looking at covalent bonding
6: A question on giant ionic bonding
7: A question on simple covalent molecules
8: A question on giant covalent molecules
9: A question on graphite
10: A question on diamond
11: A question on metallic bonding
12: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
13: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reactivity series content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game based on practical command words
3: A reaction of metals with water activity
4: A reaction of metals with acid activity
5: A reactivity series practical design activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A sheet for students to fill out during a reactivity series investigation
8: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the corrosion & it's prevention section of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A marking a 6 mark question starter activity
3: An information gathering activity
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the calculating rate of chemical reactions content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A calculations snakes & ladders game
4: A rate of reaction graph activity
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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This resource is a GCSE bonding, structure and the properties of matter 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:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
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 quantitative chemistry 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:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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 bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a bundle of 12 GCSE Science paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 12 sections in the second Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, variation & evolution
4: Chemical analysis
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: The Atmosphere
8: Using resources
9: Forces
10: Magnets & electromagnetism
11: Space
12: Waves
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the chromatography 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 suggested chromatography demo
4: Student sheets designed to lead students through the required practical
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 lesson with activities covering the polymers content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A polymerization card sort
5: A drawing polymers activity
6: A polymer strength data analysis activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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 set of 19 exam questions designed to improve how students answer questions based around practicals and practical data. The areas that the questions cover are:
1: Line transects
2: Electrolysis
3: Chromatography
4: Growing bacteria
5: Enzymes
6: Aerobic respiration
7: Anaerobic respiration
8: Using a potometer
9: Osmosis
10: Waves
11: Black body radiation
12: Temperature changes
13: Respiration in worms
14: Acceleration
15: Resistance
16: Decay
17: Refraction
18: Rate of reaction
19: Insulation
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on making polymers
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on reacting masses
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