A simple walk through coupling with a few simple examples

simple powerpoint template that can be used to print two A5 sheets of questions and answers. Some are easy and will be revision of KS3, others introduce ideas from Gateway Science C4 comments welcome

A series of quotes, some historic, some popular, that can be displayed in rooms during science week. Can also be run as a slideshow before assemblies or on TV screens.

Students write formulae from names and calculate relative molecular masses from formulae. A simple two sided sheet that covers all the formulae and masses needed in the Y10 OCR course but will be useful for other boards. comments welcome.

Simple powerpoint detailing metal properties

A fact-packed powerpoint that starts with the newly formed Earth and its volcanic emission and finishes with the modern atmosphere. Comments welcome

An active reading worksheet that contains a lot of information. Pupils read it through and then read it again to give titles to paragraphs. Then they have to read it again to sift out various bits of information. Reviews welcome

A powerpoint that shows how to calculate %Composition and sets it in the context of fertilisers

This is a three slide powerpoint. Print out the first two and you have a cut and paste activity. I added the third slide so that pupils could self mark the activity. It saves a lot of writing about intercourse which some pupils in year seven find difficult to do. Comments and feedback welcome

A simple table of common ions that pupils can reference when working out formulae. Old fashioned but great for those stretching and challenging formulae questions

Pupils read big question and background statements before handling the grid. Helpful statements are ticked, unhelpful are crossed and true but irrelevent statements are indicated. The newspaper stops heat transfer as it is an insulator, the direction of energy flow is irrelevent. Comments welcome.

Four clear powerpoint slides that show crystallinity in HDPE, random chains in LDPE, thermosetting polymers and thermosoftening polymers. I go through it using the IWB but print out the slides, two on a paged,backed, without the diagrams, to give pupils the opportunity to draw out the different structures.

A powerpoint that shows the triester structure of fats and then looks at the different types of fatty acids. Comments welcome

A link from pH work in year 7 though GCSE to A-level

Simple power point that builds up the bohr model of the atom. Comments welcomed

Thanks to google earth for the satellite images. This shows the area round Vesuvius and allows pupils to discuss why some people live in the shadow of volcanoes.

There is a work book and an answer sheet in the resource. Pupils can be guided through the work book although more able pupils will be able to use it as an independent study booklet. I have included answers as colleagues found them helpful. Reviews and constructive criticism welcome

This presentation animates the nucleophilic addition of CN- to carbonyls and shows the mark scheme from an exam paper.

I made this presentation from the mark schemes of exam papers. It includes the examiners comments and notes. AQA are quite picky about getting the mechanisms just right so I went to the source, the examiners and not the texts.

The OLD AQA unit C1 syllabus turned into a series of questions and answers. Great for starter questions Great for knowledge acquisition. The format is a table with two columns, one Questions, the other Answers. Students fold the paper in half and ask themselves the question, then turn over for the answer. Great for revision in pairs or with a parent, even if they don’t know the chemistry, because the answers are already there. Designed for the OLD AQA GCSE Chemistry unit C1 revision, even last minute revision.