This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the change in mass every 15 seconds for 3 minutes. It is based on chem guide UK’s video on how surface area affects rate of reaction.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr12 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on crude oil and fractional distillation with pictures
TASK 1 - Questions based on paragraph
TASK 2 - Cut and stick activity where students sort the products of crude oil into the fractionating column [gives boiling points for easier acces]
Answers to tasks
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Information and picture on the water cycle
TASK 1 - 8 x questions based on this
Information and picture on the carbon cycle
TASK 2 - 8 questions based on this
Information and picture on the nitrogen cycle
TASK 3 - 8 questions based on this
EXTENSION - students summarise water, carbon and nitrogen cycles and identify the key processes
Answers to tasks 1, 2, 3 included
No answers for extension
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and is 50 minutes long
Included:
What Carbon is
Aerobic respiration - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Photosynthesis - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from picture
Combustion - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Decomposition - what this means
ACTIVITY - identify the keyword from the description
The carbon cycle - picture
Whole class check - what is the process in the picture
ACTIVITY - identify the process by numbers in the picture
Independent questions - very simple
Plenary - identify, describe, explain the parts of the carbon cycle. Can be done as an exit ticket where students pick one to answer
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This is an hour long lesson created for SEN students in Yr10.
Included:
Starter
Content & Presentation - how to arrange an equation using baking a cake as an equation, word equations from sentences, what are chemical reactions
Teacher modeling how to write an equation using words in a sentence
You try - identifying reactants and products
You try - completing word equations (gap fill)
Activity - identify which reactions are chemical
PRACTICAL* conducting and writing down observations from three chemical reactions
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of lower ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
The names of the first 4 hydrocarbons
Mnemonic for remembering these
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure - first four only
Moly mod activity
Plenary - exit ticket
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
You will need calcium carbonate strips to assess water hardness, universal indicator strips, and 4 x water samples e.g. seawater, rainwater, river water, tapwater.
Information of residue and pH level requirements for drinking water.
Worksheet includes:
Practical picture that students label for equipment list
Prediction
Gapfill activity method completion
Risk assessment precaution table completion
What did students change, measure, keep the same
Results table to record the pH, calcium carbonate level and mass of residue
Conclusions - which water sample is potable
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate, could they repeat their experiment
You can have students complete a bar graph as well
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid using a gas syringe.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the volume of gas that is collected every 15 seconds for 3 minutes.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
This worksheet was created for students in an SEN school.
Neutralisation word equations: acid + alkali -> salt + water
30 questions -
Fill in the missing acid, metal and salt questions (fill in the gap)
Colour coordinated (15), then no colours (15)
Extension -
6 questions where students name the salt formed (3) and write word equations (3) from a written question. Can be scaffolded by underlining using different colours.
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Created for Yr10 students in an SEN school. Starter assume you’ve already taught fractional distillation.
Included:
2 x worksheets on slide 1 and 2
Starter activity
Combustion definition
Fire triangle and sources of each side
Burning fossil fuels pollutants and monoxide vs dioxide
ACTIVITY - complete the fire triangle and match the name of the chemical to the symbol
Complete and incomplete combustion equations
ACTIVITY - complete general equation for both types of combustion
ACTIVITY - apply this to written sentences with methane, ethane and propane
ACTIVITY - keyword check, are the descriptions incomplete or complete combustion
Plenary - table completion
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Created for yr10 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
2 x worksheets, print slide 1 and 2 single sided
Requisition list
Fire triangle starter and answers
Safety in the lab
ACTIVITY - students complete the risk assessment table by picking a hazard and precaution
PRACTICAL PART 1 - blue vs orange flame / which is complete vs incomplete using water in boiling tube. Students complete a table, answer questions and complete equations.
PRACTICAL PART 2 - heating up water using alcohols in spirit burners and paraffin in a spirit burner. Conclusion and evaluation write up.
Slide to help with write up
Plenary - exit ticket
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of middle ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
Recap of naming shapes [for hydrocarbon link]
The names of the first 10 hydrocarbons
Linking this to the naming shapes
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure
Plenary - exit ticket
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school - 50 minutes long.
***Edited to include all answers, an additionally final check activity [storyboard gapfill],better picture for current atmosphere, better questions for devonian period
Included:
What the atmosphere is
Geological periods of the earth - this will be beyond their understanding, briefly explain that the age of earth is given names same as humans e.g. baby, toddlers, teen etc
The Hadean Eon and atmosphere composition of Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
The Archaen Eon and changing atmosphere of the Earth [decreasing volcanic activity, earth cooling]
ACTIVITY - Gapfill activity
Devonian Period and changing atmosphere of the Earth [plant evolution]
Photosynthesis definition with picture
ACTIVITY - equation fill in the blank
ACTIVITY - questions on devonian period
Current atmosphere of the Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
FINAL ACTIVITY - Story board gapfill of the changing atmosphere over time
Questions are simple. Follows teacher instruction then studen task format
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This resource was created for students in an SEN school - Yr11/12
Included:
What crude oil is
What fractional distillation is
The properties of crude oil organised in a table
ACTIVITY - are these properties near the top or bottom of the fractionating column? they have the table on their worksheet
ACTIVITY - Gapfill of how a fractionating column works
ACTIVITY - cut and stick of uses of crude oil fractions
EXTENSION - gapfill of difference between bitumen and petrol, copy and complete in books
Plenary - exit ticket, students circle the correct answer or write the correct answer on a post it
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This is a year 10 lesson created for pupils in an SEN school
Included:
Content and presentation - demo ideas, how to use periodic table, reactivity of metals, where metals and non-metals are found and properties of metals vs non-metals
Activities - What are the symbols of certain elements, what groups/periods elements are found in, identify whether elements are metals and non-metals and complete a table of properties of metals vs non-metals
Print slide 2 and 3 single sided for the worksheets
This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and can cover two 50 minute lessons.
Included: Part 1
Starter - fluoride
The Water Cycle picture - teacher explanation of key words
ACTIVITY - Keyword match
ACTIVITY - fill in the missing keywords on the water cycle picturE
ACTIVITY - number the points where the description is happening on the water cycle
Potable water information - nets on mountains and desalination
INDEPENDENT TASKS - Exam questions
Included Part 2 -
Potable water picture - sedimentation, filtration clorination
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - Making potable water from dirty water using alum and by making a filtration tower. Instructions and equipment.
Risk assessment for practical
Table for observations
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating the reactions of metals magnesium, zinc, iron and calcium with hydrochloric acid. They use a thermometer to record the temperature change.
Worksheet includes:
Practical picture
Prediction
Gapfill activity method completion
What did students change, measure, keep the same
Results table to record final temperature and order of reactivity
Graph completion
Conclusions - which most reactive and why / evidence of this [graph]
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
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Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr10 and Yr11 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on human impacts on environment
Students highlight key information
15 Questions based on paragraph
Answers to tasks included
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Created for students in Yr8, 9 and 10 in an SEN school
Included:
Starter
Neutralisation equation
Neutralisation in everyday life [bees, wasps, heartburn, tooth decay]
The metal salts formed from using hydrochloric, sulphuric and nitric acids
Activities -
Complete everyday neutralisation tables
Whole class check for understanding - what is the salt formed
Complete salt names from word equations [gapfill]
Complete a mind map for neutralisation
All answers included
Worksheets - print slide 1 to 2 double sided, slide 3 separate