‘Big ideas’ in chemistry is about identifying and systematically teaching the overarching principles and crucial concepts your students need to become outstanding chemists. Many resources and books are produced with a single exam specification in mind which can leave your students with better knowledge in some areas than others and can make changing exam boards more difficult due to costs of resourcing. Liberate yourself from the exam specification and teach this amazing subject holistically ensuring your students have the detailed knowledge they need to gain confident mastery and an ability to apply their knowledge in unfamiliar scenarios. ‘Big ideas’ enables easier transfer between exam boards for students and teachers (especially non-specialists), and ‘connections’ enables you to place your own emphasis during teaching on concepts important to the actual exams your students will be sitting.

8 fully resourced lessons with powerpoints, worksheets and mark schemes to teach this demanding and extensive unit in an imaginative and challenging way. 1) Conservation of mass, Mr and percentage of an element in a compound 2) Mass lost in reactions involving gases, calculations of mean, range and uncertainty. 3) Moles calculations and calculations of reacting masses 4) Balancing equations using reacting masses 5) Limiting reactant and excess reactant, understanding the terminology and moles calculations. 6) Concentrations in solution including moles calculations and making a volumetric solution of copper sulphate. 7) Volumes and moles of gases, the molar gas volume. 8) Yield, atom economy and moles calculations.

This is a Higher Tier Chemistry resource containing concise revision notes, activities and exam style questions with mark schemes that have been created to be specific to the Paper 1H 2022 Advance information from AQA. Cornell note style booklet with ribbon for students to take their own notes as they use the booklet to revise or as you deliver the revision session. Each booklet should take about 1 hour to complete. Structure your revision around these and spend less time making notes and more time practicing applying your knowledge. This bundle contains ALL the booklets to help students to prepare for the major focus of the content of Paper 1H. AQA Advance Information 2022 • 4.1.2 The periodic table • 4.2.1 Chemical bonds, ionic, covalent and metallic • 4.2.2 How bonding and structure are related to the properties of substances • 4.2.3 Structure and bonding of carbon • 4.3.2 Use of amount of substance in relation to masses of pure substances • 4.4.1 Reactivity of metals • 4.4.2 Reactions of acids • 4.4.3 Electrolysis • 4.5.1 Exothermic and endothermic reactions Required practical activities that will be assessed: • Required practical activity 1: preparation of a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt from an insoluble oxide or carbonate, using a Bunsen burner to heat dilute acid and a water bath or electric heater to evaporate the solution. • Required practical activity 2: determination of the reacting volumes of solutions of a strong acid and a strong alkali by titration. • Required practical activity 4: investigate the variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions such as, eg, acid plus metals, acid plus carbonates, neutralisations, displacement of metals.