Science Teacher and Marathon Runner! I graduated top of my class from the University of Limerick (BSc with concurrent teacher education) in 2015 and having taught in the Irish and UK system I have a in depth appreciation for curriculum. I currently teach Biology and Chemistry at A-Level and GCSE science in London. I am passionate about science and thoroughly enjoy creating resources, please feel free to review my resources.
Science Teacher and Marathon Runner! I graduated top of my class from the University of Limerick (BSc with concurrent teacher education) in 2015 and having taught in the Irish and UK system I have a in depth appreciation for curriculum. I currently teach Biology and Chemistry at A-Level and GCSE science in London. I am passionate about science and thoroughly enjoy creating resources, please feel free to review my resources.
An introduction lesson to electroylsis based on chemical changes for AQA combined science and GCSE chemistry.
Recap of ionic bonding and state symbols.
Predictions electroylsis of molten salts.
Simple half equation examples.
Exothermic and Endothermic as per AQA specication (Combined science/GCSE Chemistry).
Full set of slides, spaced practice and opportunity for self/peer assessment. Slides and worksheet can be easily adapted to suit other lessons/revision activities.
Measuring temperature change - AQA Combined science and GCSE Chemistry Chemical Changes.
Series of practical activities and associated questions that can be adapted for a range of abilities.
Simulation practical
Foundation style practical
Higher level practical and use of graph and LOBF to determine temperature change for endothermic and exothermic
Reaction Profiles - slides and activities that gets students to think about the change of energy in a reaction, practise drawing reaction profiles, calculating the difference in energy between reactants and products. The use of cataysts and their effect on activation energy is also elicited here. Associated worksheets are included. This resource is geared towards AQA combined science and GCSE chemistry but can be easily adapted.
Bond energy - eliciting prior knowledge of latent heat and introducing the concept of energies associated with bond breaking and bond forming.
This is a complete lesson as per AQA combined science and GCSE Chemsitry specifications on Energy Changes. The worked examples and questions used here can be easily adapted.
This resource also includes a mini teacher assessment.
A series of slides aimed at eliciting prior knowledge of latent heat and introducing the concept of energies associated with bond breaking and bond forming.
This is a complete lesson as per AQA combined science and GCSE Chemsitry specifications on Energy Changes. The worked examples and questions used here can be easily adapted.
This resource also includes a mini teacher assessment.
A series of slides and activities that gets students to think about the change of energy in a reaction, practise drawing reaction profiles, calculating the difference in energy between reactants and products. The use of cataysts and their effect on activation energy is also elicited here. Associated worksheets are included. This resource is geared towards AQA combined science and GCSE chemistry but can be easily adapted.
AQA Combined science and GCSE Chemistry Chemical Changes.
Series of practical activities and associated questions that can be adapted for a range of abilities.
Simulation practical
Foundation style practical
Higher level practical and use of graph and LOBF to determine temperature change for endothermic and exothermic
Lesson 1 of Energy Changes as per AQA specication (Combined science/GCSE Chemistry).
Full set of slides, spaced practice and opportunity for self/peer assessment. Slides and worksheet can be easily adapted to suit other lessons/revision activities.
Interactive set of slides that focus on revision of some practical skills and retrieval knowledge from OCR A / OCR B Chemistry at AS level.
Feel free to include some / all slides as part of a revision lesson.
AQA Combined Science and Biology
Organisation
A challenging lesson for a class who have carried out flipped learning on CHD. Includes a literacy task and ramped questions (Recall - Application of knowledge). It also includes a mini whiteboard task.
AQA Combined science - Organisation
Non communicable diseases associated with the heart. Slides include activities with mark schemes.
Questions that are ramped in difficulty focus on command words used in exam style Q.
Demonstration of how to interpret command words and how to show your thought process when responding to extended writing Q.
These slides offer some examples and can be used as a basis to build a greater bank of model answers / model approaches.
Additional resources to support students preparation for Biology A (Salters Nuffield) Advanced PAPER 3: General and Practical Applications in Biology.
Please feel free to use resoures as part of your own teaching.
Two lessons that cater for the teaching of Meiosis and Reproduction as per the AQA specifcaition for Inheritance, Variation and Evolution (Combined and Biology only).
Resource comes complete with:
Excellent lesson slides and Mark schemes
Mitosis activity (Flipped revision task / HW)
Sexual Vs Asexual literacy task
Exam style practice.
A complete set of lessons that cover the AQA combined science specification. Slides contain concise explanations and numerous worked examples. Associated worksheets are also included.
Please let me know about your experience of teaching quantitative chemistry!
Conservation of mass and balanced chemical equations
Relative formula mass
Mass changes when a reactant or product is a gas
Chemical measurements
Moles (HT only)
Amounts of substances in equations (HT only)
Using moles to balance equations (HT only)
Limiting reactants (HT only)
Concentration of solutions
A complete set of lessons as per the specificaiton for AQA combined science and GCSE Biology.
Photosynthetic reaction
Rate of photosynthesis
Investigating the effect of light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis
Limiting factors of photosynthesis
Light Intensity and the inverse square law
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
Includes worksheets, graphing, and investigation skills
A complete lesson as per the specificaiton for AQA combined science and GCSE Biology.
This lesson follows on from a lesson on ‘Limiting factors of photosynthesis’.
Gross curricular links made to proportionality of graphs.
Graph skills