IB Internal assessment presentation and sheets for students explaining what they are assessed on. I do one practice assessment and the Powerpoint refers to that. Slides go over the different criteria as does the student sheet. Student sheet also contains many suggested experiments (this is written for Physics, but most of it applies to Biology and Chemistry too).

Perfect for a concise Periodic table and bonding revision lesson. Covers properties of groups and ionic/covalent/metallic bonding with lots of examples. Useful for flipped learning too.

Print out both sheets - cut into dominoes and off you go! Completed dominoes should form a square/circle. Will take a group of 3 students about 20 - 25 minutes to do this excellent revision exercise. Also included is a sheet of Chemistry definitions to help their revision. Perfect activity for this time of year!

Practical activity and presentation on testing water and purifying. Use distilled water and a batch of dilute salty water as the two samples for the practical activity. Covers purifying water for consumption too.

Originally written for a top year 9 group, this is suitable for GCSE too. Causes of acid rain, composition of air, nitrogen oxides, climate change, ozone layer. It's all here presented in a clear and humorous style. Excellent activity at the end too.

Perfect for putting on a screen during Science open evenings or assemblies. A presentation containing animated gifs showing the wonder (and humour) of science. Always a big hit, especially with young audiences.

Presentations (3) covering all analytical tests for GCSE/IGCSE Chemistry. Anion, Cation and gas tests.

Presentation and worksheets covering all they need for GCSE/IGCSE Chemistry electrolysis - including Faradays.

Presentation, revision notes and worksheets of MOLE calculations at GCSE/IGCSE and introduction at A level. Done in a humorous fashion (?!).

Series of PowerPoints on the extraction of metals for GCSE/IGCSE Chemistry.

Written for year 9, could also be used for lower groups in KS4. Going through the properties of metals, their uses and reactions with acids in a humorous style.

Comprehensive presentation covering Reversible reactions and equilibria for GCSE. Done in a humorous style whilst also revising rates of reaction.

GCSE/IGCSE Chemistry bond energies presentation. Clear and simple explanation with examples.

I introduce mind-mapping in my first lesson with a class. I build up a mind-map about myself on the smartboard as a way of introduction – all my students now know I hate dogs and banks, support Nottingham Forest, love Physics and listen to Bruckner and RUSH. I then get students to do their own mind-map in the front of their books about themselves – making sure they use colour and illustrations to make them think and make the mind-map more memorable. For this Rocks lesson you can use their mind-mapping skills by putting notes on a PowerPoint set to “loop” and students have to organize the notes into a mind-map. Go to “Set-up slide show” and check the “loop continuously until ‘esc’” box. Then go to “Animations” and click on “Advance slide automatically” and put 10 seconds between each slide. It normally takes about 4 or 5 repetitions of the loop for students to complete their maps. This is especially useful for topics which are content heavy and where students need to remember facts such as Rocks or Radioactivity.

Presentation covers the whole of Orghanic chemistry for GCSE/IGCSE. Fractional distillation, Alkanes, alkenes, cracking, alcohols, addition reactions, polymers etc. Clear slides with humour too!

End of topic summary sheet to stick in their books. Useful for examination revision too. Could be used for them to write their own worksheets etc. Contains a 'party' analogy which I have found useful in explaining rates and collision theory.

Straightforward question sheet for use in class or as homework to re-cap work covered when studying the periodic table. Useful revision exercise.

Hazard symbols for year 7 - students then have to design their own.

Everything they need to know for GCSE Chemistry - formulae, reactions, pH scale, disassociation etc.