'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
This resource is a power point containing 75 practice quantitative chemistry calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class. Some of the areas covered are:
1: RFM
2: Yield
3: Moles
4: Rate of reaction
5: Number of atoms
6: Reacting mass
7: Rf
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This resource is a bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry, using resources revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Chemistry 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Finite resources
The impact of human growth
Water treatment
Distillation
Sewage treatment
Extracting copper
LCA
Rusting
Recycling
Alloys & polymers
Haber process
Making ammonium sulphate
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy changes section of the new AQA Chemistry 2016 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A counting the types of bond in a compound activity
3: A step by step guild on how energy change is calculated
4: A calculating total bond energy in a compound activity
5: A using energy change to draw an energy level diagram plenary activity
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sustainability & water treatment content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook acitivity
4: A sustainability game
5: A water treatment 6 mark question
6: A sewage treatment model
7: A potable water literacy activity
8: A sustainable resources card sort
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This resource is a set of 15 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a set of 18 multiple choice rate of reaction questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the life cycle assessments content of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort activity
3: A life cycle assessment of window frame activity
4: A life cycle assessment of paper & plastic bag activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the catalysts content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A command word starter game
3: A catalyst graph activity
4: A catalyst method analysis activity
5: A catalyst method construction activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A homework activity
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Electrolysis of brine fully resourced lesson. It includes a 6 mark question electrolysis starter activity, a power point which will take students through the lesson, a electrolysis of brine DART's activity, 3 past paper questions with mark schemes and a electrolysis of brine 6 mark question plenary.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the extraction of metals content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A question analysis starter activity
3: A reactivity series activity
4: A copper smelting activity
5: A iron extraction activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A copper extraction student sheet
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the conservation of mass content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson]
3: A starter game to re-enforce that mass can not be lost in a reaction
4: A calculating mass of products and reactants activity
5: A balancing equations activity
6: A conservation of mass using RFM activity
7: 50 extra conservation of mass questions
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the natural polymers content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A condensation polymerization activity
4: A starch and cellulose activity
5: A protein activity
6: A DNA activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Le Chatelier’s principle & Haber Process section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
4: A modelling activity
5: A Le Chatelier’s spag activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: An information hunt
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A homework activity
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a whole lesson with activities for the making ethanol part of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet on ethanol production
3: A AFL dice game
4: 2 AFL 6 mark questions
5: A making ethanol information hunt starter activity
6: Making ethanol by fermentation & hydration activity
7: Properties of alcohols activities
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
11: A question sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reactions of alkenes content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An alkene key information starter game
3: Activities looking at the reactions with water, bromine and hydrogen
4: A 6 mark assessment question on addition polymerisation of alkenes
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on water treatment. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A question on water filters
4: A question on desalination
5: Questions on water treatment
6: A data analysis question on sewage
7: A question on sewage treatment
8: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
9: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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