I have been teaching Science, with a specialism in Chemistry for 18 years. I am currently Head of Chemistry and am heavily involved with producing new and innovative resources for both the new A-Level and GCSE Chemistry specifications. I fervently strive to make my resources high quality and engaging and as such all my resources have been trialled within my department at my school.
I have been teaching Science, with a specialism in Chemistry for 18 years. I am currently Head of Chemistry and am heavily involved with producing new and innovative resources for both the new A-Level and GCSE Chemistry specifications. I fervently strive to make my resources high quality and engaging and as such all my resources have been trialled within my department at my school.
This revision pack contains a series of exercises to review the main areas of the Amount of Substance topic.
Topics covered: Moles, Avogadro constant, Ideal gas Equation, Empirical formula, Molecular formula, Equations & calculations, Atom economy.
Solutions provided (please let me know if there are any glaring errors so that they can be rectified quickly).
All my individual organic chemistry learning grids for the full AQA Chemistry A-level in one place.
The pack includes Aldehydes and ketones (3.3.8), Carboxylic acids and derivatives (3.3.9), Aromatic Chemistry (3.3.10), Amines (3.3.11), Polymers (3.3.12), Amino acids/Proteins/DNA (3.3.13) and Organic synthesis/NMR/chromatography (3.3.14/15/16) - there is no grid for Optical isomerism.
The resources are intended as a collaborative revision activity.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a separate learning checklist for each topic.
I have collated a range of different question types in this activity sheet based on Hess' Law thermochemical cycles. The focus is on using standard enthalpy of combustion and standard enthalpy of formation data to perform the required calculations.
Suitable for all major exam boards, solutions provided.
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the organic chemistry topic (5.7) in the new AQA Trilogy Science qualification.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
Differentiated for Foundation and Higher students, with a version containing ? squares to allow for the use of exam-style questions in addition.
Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grids allow groups of 2 or 3 students to work together to review each topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version of each grid attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklists for all topics.
Covers Periodicity, Group 2 and Group 7
This resource is a worksheet looking at the evidence for intermolecular forces. Students have to plot boiling point data and interpret the trends they find. Solutions provided.
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2 or 3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2/3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
Suitable for new A-Level 3.2.5 Transition Metals.
I have found this part of the new specification to be lacking good resources, so I am slowly building mine up for this area of the course. So far this bundle comprises a PowerPoint on the structure of DNA and the action of the anticancer drug cisplatin; a set of 15 MCQs with answers; and a learning grid which makes a great revision resource on the topic.
Check back soon for additions to this bundle
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the Organic synthesis (3.3.14), Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (3.3.15) and Chromatography (3.3.16) topics of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a separate learning checklist for each topic.
This presentation is a comprehensive tutorial for the shapes of molecules section of the Bonding topic (3.1.3.5).
The concepts of VSEPR theory are clearly laid out with step-by-step instructions and examples to highlight ideas involved. The tutorial ends with a range of molecules to encourage students to think through a range of examples found in previous exam questions.
Successive ionisation energies and first ionisation energy across a period are used to provide evidence for electronic structures. Students must plot graphs of the data provided and use them to interpret the ideas involved. Solutions provided.
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2/3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
All the learning grids together for the full A-Level Chemistry inorganic topics.
Includes
- Periodicity of period 3 elements and their oxides
- Transition metals
- Reactions of ions in aqueous solution
Each learning grid contains the corresponding revision checklist for that topic.
This is a collaborative revision resource, with groups of 2 or 3 students working together. They take it in turns to roll 2 dice and determine a grid reference. They must then explain to the others what the contents of the chosen cell mean. This can be made more challenging by finding 2 grid references and making links between them. There is a second grid containing '?' squares when students should answer an exam-style question. A learning checklist is provided.
Presented in an easy to follow format, the key objectives for this topic are broken down into revision tasks to help students revise the topic.
Tasks relate to rate of reaction, effect of temperature/concentration/pressure/catalyst on rate, Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions, activation energy and build in difficulty to build confidence in the topic.
Includes a revision checklist for the topic.
Revision lesson in competition form for the new AQA GCSE spec 4.2.1 - Chemical Bonds. Students work in groups on activities related to the topic to try and generate the largest score they can according to marks allocated for a variety of different task styles. Tasks range from simple tweets to newspaper articles and drama pieces. Also suitable for the current AQA GCSE Additional Science/Chemistry C2.1 Structure and Bonding.
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the periodic table topic (5.1) in the new AQA Trilogy Science qualification.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question.
Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
This resource has been produced as a collaborative revision activity. It matches the Polymers (3.3.12) topic of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. They must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the other members of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the Properties of period 3 elements and their oxides (3.3.14) topic of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a learning checklist for the topic