Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
This is a simple but effective tool for helping students to remember the key stages in Photosynthesis. Ideal for learners who are having difficulties transitioning from GCSE/IGCSE to A-Level/IB.
You may wish to cut up the answers and provide the blank chart for students to stick them on, or simply provide the blank chart and get the students to try and fill it in.
This chart covers:
1. The role of chlorophyll
2. The photolysis of water
3. The exchange of various (oxygen and carbon dioxide)
4. The role that hydrogen plays after photolysis is completed
5. Some chloroplast structure vocabulary (grana and stoma)
This PowerPoint presentation offers the perfect introduction to the alkanes unit of organic chemistry for advanced learners (e.g. 'A' - Level and IB students).
Beautifully illustrated and clear, this resource will enhance your delivery of this topic immensely.
This is the second chapter in my book: The Quick Guide to Classroom Management. This chapter covers:
1. The features present in all outstanding lessons
2. How to keep your students on-task through effective starter activities and games
3. How to make your students subtly aware of the learning outcomes, so that maximum memory retention takes place
4. How to enhance learning by using your physiology
This resource is guaranteed to help you make your lessons more stimulating
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any periodic table class. This crossword tests students knowledge of:
Group number
Names of groups (e.g. The 'Halogens' are the group 7 elements)
Symbols (e.g. Ca is the symbol for calcium)
Properties (e.g. Potassium has similar properties to sodium because it is in the same group)
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the periodic table before, then you could provide the students with a periodic table to help them as they do the puzzle.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This quick activity can be used as a starter, plenary or mid-lesson worksheet. Students have to fill in the boxes to show the stages in photosynthesis (and how they all link together). Students should be familiar with the following vocabulary:
Chloroplast
Chlorophyll
Grana
Stoma
This is a great worksheet for GCSE students and covers the basics of cell structure and function. I've included a pdf and a word doc version. It includes True/False questions, filling in the blanks, box matching and word choosing activities.
Use this sheet as a quick starter, plenary or homework.
Make sure you ask your kids to think of reasons behind the answers (especially the True/False questions). Get groups to write explanations for each answer to question 1 as a follow up activity (or as a good extension activity for students who finish early).
This fun and dynamic resource is perfect for IGCSE, GCSE and MYP Chemistry students. It covers all of the essential vocabulary of electrolysis including:
Anode
Cathode
Anion
Cation
Electrode
Electrolyte
REDCAT (Reduction at the cathode)
OILRIG (Oxidation is loss, reduction is gain)
PANCake (Positive Anode, Negative Cathode)
You can use this fun activity as a starter, plenary or 'breaker' within the lesson.
In this pack you get a pptx, pdf and a png file of the puzzle itself.
Suitable for Key Stage 3 onwards, these questions allow practice in the addition of fractions. Denominators are different, and answers can be given in mixed or classical form!
Brilliant as a starter or 'chunking' activity. Will keep students busy for a while.
This resource is fun for your students and it will really help to build time-related vocabulary (particularly when dealing the confusing 'halb' descriptor).
It's up to you how you use this one. It is basically a blank clock face with some German vocabulary on it. You may want to use it to test students or give as a homework. You will have to decide on the task that you can use this resource for.
This is the first chapter in my book, 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management'. This chapter covers the essential secrets to building effective rapport with your students. This is guaranteed to help you build positive relationships with all of the students you teach.
This is a fun MCQ and fill in the blanks quiz about cells, which is suitable for advanced learners (e.g. 'A' - Level or IB Diploma students). This quiz should save you a lot of time, and is the the perfect starter or plenary to an advanced-level cell biology lesson.
The quiz covers the following key words and phrases:
Cell membrane
Cytoplasm
Endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi bodies (you can change this to 'Golgi apparatus', if you wish)
Mitochondria
Nucleus
Ribosomes
Organelles
Enzymes
Proteins
Lysosomes
Vacuole
Nucleolus
Nuclear membranes
A brilliant, well-illustrated, clear and varied worksheet that works well as starter, plenary or as a chunk of the main body of lesson.
Suitable for GCSE or IGCSE Chemistry, Science (Double Award) or Science (Single Award), this resource covers:
1. The differences between elements and compounds in terms of physical structure (represented by diagrams), ease of separation and reactivity
2. Groups and periods in the periodic table, and how they relate to valence electron and shell number
Comes complete with answers. Great for peer or self-assessment.
Included in this pack are both the word doc (which you can edit) and pdf versions.
This is an awesome crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any periodic table and electron shells class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Order of filling of electrons
Position of elements in the periodic table
Electronic configurations of type 2,8,2 (s,p and d orbitals are not covered)
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. The kids will literally have to hunt through a periodic table to find answers to clues such as:
This element has an electronic configuration of 2,7
This element has an electronic configuration of 2,8,5
The first three periods of the periodic table are tested.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This is a brilliant, two-page ionic bonding worksheet that is suitable for GCSE, IGCSE and MYP students.
The worksheet comes with full solutions and has been hand-made and checked by me (I’m a high school chemistry teacher with 15 years of experience).
In the worksheet, students have to fill in the blanks, add electrons to shells and draw a full diagram.
This is my third book (published April 7th 2020). This file is a downloadable pdf. The book includes:
A risk-assessment list for teachers who are involved in online teaching (contains some not-so-obvious things to be aware of)
Tips for teachers when using social media
A list of 100 apps teachers can use for online learning, with advice on how how each one can be used.
Review on Amazon.com, April 17th 2020:
100 Awesome Online Learning Apps is actually quite an AWESOME book. The book is very timely and significant. It lists 100 different apps and divide them in four sub groups,
Communication & Collaboration
Creation
Constructing knowledge
Assessment and Feedback
This helps the book easier to navigate as per your needs. The description of each app is kept crisp and to the point. The author does not bore you with unnecessary details and just sticks to recording what it offers and it’s benefits. The whole world has turned to online teaching during these crazy times and it can be very difficult to decide on which app to use for what. One app may suit best for communication while another suits best for evaluation. This book from an experienced teacher and Google Certified educator comes as a relief and helps you decide. Best thing is both students and educators can use this for their benefit. Very useful and helpful.
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topic !: Stoichiometric Relationships.
This bundle includes three PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
1.1: Introduction to Matter
1.2: The Mole Concept
1.3: Reacting Masses and Volumes
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there.
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 2 and 12: Atomic Structure.
This bundle includes three PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
2.1: The Nuclear Atom
2.2: Electron Configuration
12.1: Electrons in Atoms
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 3 and 13: Periodicity.
This bundle includes four PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
3.1: Periodic Table
3.2: Periodic Trends
13.1 : First Row D-Block Elements
13.2: Coloured Complexes
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there