Pupils cut out the 16 squares and sort into 4 piles - acids, bases, salts and water. They then use these to form neutralisation equations. These can then be stuck in books with + signs and arrows added to form correct word equations. Good for helping pupils to understand how to name salts.

4 PowerPoint slides that can be printed out for pupils to fill in. Summarises the whole of the Transition Element module in A2 OCR A Chemistry. Please leave feedback if you use this.

Powerpoint to explain cracking with activities. I demonstrated the cracking of paraffin. You need molymods for the pupils to act out cracking. I did this as a starter - http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/4-Pics-1-Word-C1a-6370544/

Lesson explaining covalent bonding with questions.

This relates to Module 3 of OCR A Level syllabus. Pupils try to match the questions to the correct answer to revise the topic.

Simple crossword to recap exothermic and endothermic reactions for AS Chemistry.

PowerPoint explaining polarity (dipoles) and electronegativity. Compliments OCR A syllabus but would probably go with others too.

A quiz in the format of an i-phone app. Pupils look at the 4 pictures and decide what the key word is using the letters at the bottom. All the words are linked to the Chemistry GCSE making this a useful revision aid. To those asking how you make your own, I used screen shots of the game (from Google) and copied and pasted my own images over the top. I then cut and pasted the correct letters from different screen shots to make sure the right letters were available. It was very time consuming but the pupils loved it so it was worth it.

A simple sheet for pupils to label the main parts of the National Grid. I made it for my bottom set Year 10 class, many of whom are SEN. Please give feedback as I'm new to teaching Physics!

Two pictures showing pollution with 10 differences. Simple starter for a low ability class.

A simple card sort, matching words to pictures. Examples include wavelength, amplitude, peak, trough etc. Made for a low ability group to recap the basics of waves and the wave equation. Feedback welcome.

Pupils race against each other to solve the clues to work out the 6 covalent compounds being described. Full instructions in word document. My class loved this. Please leave feedback.

An active way to teach waves, which I made to introduce my low ability Year 10s to waves. Print the circus and put the sheets at 5 stations around the room. Pupils move around the stations in groups filling in their sheet (print slide 5 of the powerpoint). Go through the answers on the powerpoint and then pupils fill in the blanks (print slide 11) to check their understand. Feedback appreciated.

A blank periodic table showing the first 36 elements. The names are listed at the bottom, pupils try to slot them into the right place from memory. A good starter, could be a competitions for who can get the most in the right place.

A game in the style of the popular app. Pupils use the 4 pictures to work out what the key word is. All the words are taken from AQA C1a but could be used for other specs too. I've edited it to remove a couple of mistakes. Please leave feedback.

Students are in pairs. One person in each pair is facing the board and the other is facing away from the board. The person facing the board has 30 seconds to describe the key word before the slide moves on, without mentioning any of the "taboo"

Powerpoint explaining hydrogen bonding. OCR A spec. Answers to starter: Van der Waal Forces Permanent Dipole Ionic

Students given a sheet each and have a set amount of time to think of something for each category beginning with A, B, C, D and E. Prize can be given for best answers. This is just a fun starter to get students thinking at the start of a lesson. I have included some suggested answers.

A game for recapping the periodicity of boiling points.

Teaches students the meaning of the words "outlier", "ranger", "mean", "best estimate", "hypothesis" and "true value". Aimed at a lower ability group.