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Over the last five years I have found the best way to stimulate learning is through engaging lessons. Lessons which apply scientific content to unusual, topical or popular scenarios. I currently have a range of premium and free resources to look through. I will continue to upload these resources as and when I can. Feel free to review, tweet or contact me regarding these resources or for ideas on current topics you are struggling to make engaging.

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Over the last five years I have found the best way to stimulate learning is through engaging lessons. Lessons which apply scientific content to unusual, topical or popular scenarios. I currently have a range of premium and free resources to look through. I will continue to upload these resources as and when I can. Feel free to review, tweet or contact me regarding these resources or for ideas on current topics you are struggling to make engaging.
KS3 science revision: Using metacognition to improve exam skills
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KS3 science revision: Using metacognition to improve exam skills

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The slides contain a series of thought processes and frameworks so teachers can model out load their approach for students to use during comprehension and reading of scientific ideas. The lesson could be adapted for other topics. This lesson focuses on an end of Year test including: Acids and alkalis, homeostasis, energy stores and transfers, the particle model and reflection/refraction. Lesson content -Students complete a recap quiz. -Students complete a reading task in which they synthesis the data to title paragraphs and write one question. -Students get into groups and circulate around the room reading an exam question, completing an answer, and folding it over so the next group cannot see their answer. Once back at their stations they draft a final answer to share to the class based on the class responses. -Meta cognition slides and exam style practice.
Environmental chemistry (KS3)
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Environmental chemistry (KS3)

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. A range of lessons are designed to relate to the future AQA syllabus as well as allowing students to apply a unit of work to novel and interesting applications e.g. Following Dr Who to the early Earth’s atmosphere, choosing an alternative fuel for a new Elon musk prototype car and narrating a climate change trailer for Leonardo Decaprio. It wa sa lot of fun teaching for what can be a very dry subject!
Potable water: Ship wrecked!
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Potable water: Ship wrecked!

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. students are introduced to a scenario where they are ship wrecked. Students need to prioritise what are the immediate, intermediate and long term actions to ensure safety of their crew. The lesson moves three days later to when the group are running out of potable water. Students move into groups, become experts in a purification technique and decide on where on a map would be best to use their technique. Students share their findings with the class and complete an AFl task showing their new knowledge. A dry topic made very… undry… wet.
Climate change and the greenhouse effect
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Climate change and the greenhouse effect

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to the Titans of the media who support and refute ‘climate change’. Students are introduced to the scientific method. Students use video clips and teacher led activities to learn about the greenhouse effect. Students apply their knowledge by writing a script and performing a voice over for the trailer of a leonardo decaprio documentary trailer.
Alternative fuels: hydrogen and biofuels
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Alternative fuels: hydrogen and biofuels

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to Elon Musk and his new prototype. Students choose a new fuel with an ‘expert task’. Student groups learn content and share their knowledge with the class before explaining to Mr Musk what would be the best fuel.
The Earth's atmosphere and it's evolution
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The Earth's atmosphere and it's evolution

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to how scientists investigate the Earth’s early atmosphere. They are introduced with the problem of not having empirical evidence (that cannot be directly observed). Students join Doctor who ona journey back to the beginning of the Earth’s early atmosphere. Students observe directly how the Earth’s atmosphere changes and plot the changes on a line graph that overlays oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen changes. Students finish the lesson with an introduciton into the modern day atmosphere.
Incomplete combustion: carbon monoxide and carbon particulates
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Incomplete combustion: carbon monoxide and carbon particulates

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Resources for two lessons. Students are introduced to a murder mystery in which (spoiler alert!) it is due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Students watch video clips and answer comprehension questions regarding the dangers and effects on the body. In the second lesson students focus on their scientific skills. Rewriting and improving a method for two environmental scientists investigating the relationship between distance from a city and the level of carbon particulates. Students represent the data with a line graph and form conclusions.
Air pollutants: sulphur dioxide and acid rain
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Air pollutants: sulphur dioxide and acid rain

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students watch a news report regarding an acidifed lake and form questions regarding how it may have happened. Students watch the demonstration: ‘Acid rain in a jar’ and complete a mini-quiz of their new knowledge. students are introduced to a environmental chemsitry scenario in which they need to complete a graph work to analyse why fish populations are increasing and decreasing during the year HINT: Acid rain is freezing in the winter and melting into the lake in the summer.
Combustion of fuels: Forest fires
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Combustion of fuels: Forest fires

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to an inquiry photograph regarding forest fires. Students use the scenario built up from a video clip that allow the students to investigate what causes combustion. Students are introduced to the evidence that oxygen is an reactant, carbon dioxide is a product. Students write a report to the firefighter with their findings and possible methods of putting the fire out.
Alkanes and Hydrocarbon Fuels
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Alkanes and Hydrocarbon Fuels

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to hydrocarbon fuels by planning and completing an experiment to test two hypotheses: H1) Longer chain hydrocarbons release more energy and H2) Shorter chain molecules burn cleaner. Students decide what application the fuels have in an AFl task. Bonus: A version of the lesson with a christmas theme is included "which fuels could power Santa’s Sleigh’.
Crude oil and distillation
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Crude oil and distillation

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students compete a discussion and inquiry question regarding tan oil. Students complete a range of tasks that introduces them to the mixture crude oil and links the theory of distillation to separation techniques (from Year 7).
Earth's Structure
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Earth's Structure

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Each lesson includes a ‘blast from the past quiz’, a range of activities and an AFL task that relates to their progress. This lesson is part of the Environmental Chemistry unit targeted at Year 8s. Students are introduced to the Earth’s structure through the use of models. Students complete a literacy task describing each layer of the Earth and complete a task that allows students to evaluate each model.
Christmas Science lessons
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Christmas Science lessons

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Deciding which alkane would best fuel Santa’s sleigh? Calculating how many carrots reindeers would need to eat to fuel their journey? How to use electrolysis to make christmas decorations? christmas quiz? That’s you sorted for the last week of term…
Christmas Chemistry: Choosing a new fuel for Santa's Sleigh
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Christmas Chemistry: Choosing a new fuel for Santa's Sleigh

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Santa is fed-up of crashing his sleigh due to the yearly decreases of christmas-spirit. He needs a new fuel, The lesson is focussed around alkanes and their use as a fuel. Students are demoed a methane bottle rocket (instructions attached) and evalaute it’s effective as a fuel Students use fuel burner to assess energy release and how clean they burn. Students write a letter to Santa explaining what they have found out (and whether they have been naughty or nice).
The Mole (topic 3 AQA Chemsitry)
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The Mole (topic 3 AQA Chemsitry)

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This lesson is a free resource from my quantitative chemistry SOW avalaible from my shop. All resources include a blast from the past recall starter, PowerPoints, resources, Higher tier and Foundation learning outcomes, practical experiment instructions and technician notes and exam practice with model answers.
Quantitative Chemistry (AQA Combined and separete Chemsitry Topic 3)
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Quantitative Chemistry (AQA Combined and separete Chemsitry Topic 3)

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A SOW of lessons to support Topic 3 of quantitative Chemistry. Lessons include Higher and foundation PowerPoints, learning outcomes and resources. Information regarding practical experiments and tips for non specialists are included. All lessons include a blast from the past mini quiz, model answers and links to the specification. enjoy! Free example avaliable here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-mole-topic-3-aqa-chemsitry-12029970
Making christmas decorations: Copper plating aluminium
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Making christmas decorations: Copper plating aluminium

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The naughty elves have stolen the Christmas decorations from the "chemistree" in the classroom (oh no!) Students follow the PowerPoint steps to copper plate a piece of aluminium to make a Christmas decoration they can take home (or decorate your chemistree). -Students identify equipment and risks -Remove the aluminium oxide layer using acid -Use a simple electrolysis to plate the aluminium in copper. This makes a great science club activity (focussing on the procedure and practical element) as well as a relevant end of term treat for KS4. Merry Christmas!
Isotopes, mass number and relative atomic mass
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Isotopes, mass number and relative atomic mass

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In the first lesson students use the hook of Ramesses II and carbon dating to introduce the idea of isotopes. Following the PowerPoint, students test their knowledge with a series of questions. In the second lesson students use sodium as an example to explore the idea of relative atomic mass. Students run through calculating relative atomic masses from isotope abundances and use their knowledge to answer the questions.
Conservation of Mass: Can Professor McG actually transfigure into a cat?
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Conservation of Mass: Can Professor McG actually transfigure into a cat?

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Students remind themselves of what are common indicators of a chemical reaction and watch the video link of Professor McG transfiguring into a cat from the first Harry Potter movie. Students then watch a demonstration of Lead nitrate + Potassium Chloride --> Lead chloride and Potassium nitrate. Students then calculate the masses of the reactants and products. After watching a clip of Antone Lavoisiuer of proving the conservation of mass, students use their knowledge to complete a series of questions