Designed for foundation class for new AQA 9-1 GCSE. This lesson follows on from the electrolysis required practical. Everything you need for the lesson is included here, rules for predicting products, AfL mini whiteboard activity and key word recap. Does not go into half equations at electrodes.

A revision power point I have put together to use with foundation paper Y11 students for their final lesson before the paper 1 exam. I have tried to cover something from each topic (atomic structure, bonding, acids and alkalis, electrolysis, extracting metals and exo and endothermic reactions). This is designed to be basic to refresh memories and pick up 1 mark answers. Looks at making salts and energy changes required practicals as well a refresher on variables and mean.

Whole lesson for Life Cycles Assessment part of the using resources unit. Designed for AQA 1-9, new specification. Starter, exam question, information to collect and comparison needs to be made to give an opinion in the style of a 6 mark question. Information and pictures included so that the students can collect the information that they think they will need to answer the question. I have also put together a work sheet with the question to answer, the mark scheme, space for their notes and space to fully answer the question. I will then review the answers before the next lesson and set targets for improvement.

I put this resource together to help my Y11’s to revise for the required practicals. It gives a basic outline of the method for each of the 6 Chemistry practicals in the new 9-1 Trilogy specification, along with the variables (where necessary), diagrams of equipment, some hints and tips and safety pointers that may be useful for the exams. I have also included links to other topics in the specification - there is no information on these but it gives students an indication of where these practicals may be linked to other topics. I have found this really useful to use alongside exam questions.

A guide for the common command words in Science. For each command word there is success criteria, key words/phrases to use and a worked example highlighting where the success criteria are used.

Starts with a reminder of the reactivity series. Practical for students to observe different reactivities and questions to answer.

Encourages pupils to think about the impact of extracting metals. Covers extraction with carbon and electrolysis. Differentiated task included.

Covers how soluble salts are made and separated from solution. Key word recall, recap of separation techniques and products of metal + acid reaction.

Covers how salts are made and how they are named (chlorides, sulphates and nitrates). This lesson followed the soluble salts required practical. Lots of mini white board practice built in and differentiated task.

Includes practical involving testing different substances the universal indicator with questions to answer and a differentiated task.

Introduction on how to calculate RFM. Includes lots of mini whiteboard practice and a differentiated task.

Designed for a foundation class covering both electrolysis of molten compounds and the extraction of aluminium. Covers the use of cryolite etc. Differentiated exam Qs task included.

Revision lesson following a unit introducing chemistry and the idea of chemical reactions. Atomic structure, using the periodic table, how we know a reaction is happening, choosing elements for a purpose and properties of elements. Differentiated task, key word activity, extensions and peer assessment. Please read the notes in the power point for directions of how the tasks are intended to be completed.

A revision lesson based around the 6 mark question on the development of the Earth’s atmosphere from the summer 2018 exam. Looks at the question, command word and what it means, identifying the topic and key words etc. Walks through the knowledge needed to answer the question, look at mark scheme and then attempt question again. FInish with extension to a different question.

Introduction to using the periodic table, atoms, elements, reactions and compounds. Worksheet to test use of the periodic table and a diagram of an atom to label. The demos could be anything to show different ways that we know a chemical reaction is happening and show elements and compounds reacting. I did demos of burning magnesium, acid + bicarb, lead nitrate + potassium iodide.

I used this as a revision lesson at the end of the unit, but would work equally well as a follow up lesson after teaching atomic structure. Key word activity, AfL, differentiated exam question, literacy task. Please see the notes in the power point for direction on how I carry out the key words activity. Levelled worksheets are shown on the hidden slide, I hand annotated these as can be seen on the pictures. My class found these very helpful.

Lesson on Le Chatelier and the effect of changing conditions and the position of the equilbrium and yield of products/reactants. Assumes that reversible reactions and equilibrium has already been taught.

Revision lesson of RFM build around the summer 2018 exam question. This lesson was put together for foundation tier students, but content applies to higher tier. Discusses the command word, topic and key words of the questions then walks through the information that students need to answer the question with mini white board practice questions at each stage. FInally use knowldge to answer the exam question as a class and then further question individually.

Lesson build around the summer 2018 exam question on chromatography. The lesson looks at the exam question, command word, key words and topic. Students are then guided through the steps that they need to be able to answer question on chromatography including: what it is how it works the method calculating Rf values There is practice for the students at each step. A method with space for explanation of importance is included.

A revision lesson based around the s=summer 2018 exam question on crystalisation. This question was common to both H and F tier. Covers naming salts and reactants, the steps for crystalisation, naming apparatus and looks at the general mark scheme to this question.