Mole calculations spread across three levels. The sheets include the formulae and 9 or so questions. The easy one are gimmes for most GCSE groups, medium and hard are intended for higher abilities and A Level or IB. I usually let pupils choose their sheet. Hard Q7, someone asked for clarification 8 g of O = 0.5 moles 1:1 ratio n=m/Mr, 0.5=7/Mr, hence Mr is 14, Nitrogen, acidic 2:1 ratio n=m/Mr, 0.5 x 2=7/Mr, hence Mr is 7, Lithium (Li2O), a strongly basic oxide.

Some ideas that you can use when you want a simple starter or plenary. All generic and ready to be cut, pasted and filled in as needed

Some resoruces to help, not all these are mine so I bundled all the items I used and say thanks to those whose work I stole. Discusses fractional distillation. I run the activity by making a 'column', out of two lines of tables, then give the pupis a boiling point. They enter the column from base, then move up to their condensing point.

A nice simple 20 question test, ideal for about a hour lesson. The answers are in a very basic form.

This is an action packed lesson I wrote for an interview. The main activity involved having all the equation cards made up, one set per group. Then use the relevant slide and pupils work together to make the word equation (be careful extending into writing symbols and balancing them as pupils can get distracted by this). The rest is self explanatory, contact me if you need to though.

I nice lesson where pupils are challenged to use cross curricular maths links to find the volumes of objects, including fruits, and thus find their density. Simple plenary of does it float or not based on their calculations. The worksheet is hard work, but as long as pupils stay focused on what they know.

Some powerpoints I made to teach evaporation, PV being constant and Brownian motion. Thanks for the typo notice, duly corrected. Thanks to the folk who wrote the worksheets.

Two simple lessons for specific heat capacity and latent heat, with some interactivity and practicals. The word document is a steal from someone else, so thank you to them.

I run this a three lesson set up. Lesson 1 - choose groups with the hyperlink on the lesson plan slide. Groups have the worksheet to framework planning. The focus is on idea generation and job delegation. Orders for equipment to technicians. Lesson 2 - A chance to practise experiments and complete posters and examples Lesson 3 - 30 minutes to prepare the marketplace, then 7 minutes per changeover and the pupils get the second worksheet. The .pdf goes nicely full screen (cntl L) and as they tidy up they fill in ideas by way of plenary.

Some simple lesson plans for teaching chromatography, separating substances and chemical/physical change. Use the picture on the first slide for a discussion on whether purity is important through the prism of drug taking. Illegal drugs are an unknown purity and content, one of the reasons they are dangerous. Saltiest sweat, use brine water for the best results.

A few simple lesson that follow the IB course, but I am sure work for A level

A follow on from part 1 following the IGCSE syllabus, there is a hard exam (I took 61-70% to be A, and 10% off per grade) and some resources I have collated from other TES users, thank you to them.

some simple ideas to use, simply cut, paste and fill in with the questions you want.

Powerpoints for mass/weight, Hooke's Law, density, pressure and falling objects (same speed). The pressure mice makes a nice starter or potentially a great investigation. The Nails idea makes for a lovely challenge or starter. The gravity bubbles are a steal from another TES user. Triangular questions are tarsia puzzles.

This worksheet should be foolproof, and introduces the idea of critical angles, with the possible extension to find the refractive index from it.

The video questions work alongside the old Scientific eye video if you have it, sadly too large for TES.

powerpoints for lessons and a test

Hand this out to pupils and have them cut along all the dotted lines. They will have a Q with the wrong answer, get them to find the correct answer to the Q, the answer, sets up the next Q, repeat until the final card links up to the first. I also dropped on a powerpoint for the lesson, takes pupils through the idea of shared electrons and dot and cross diagrams.

Two powerpoints. P3.4 is a cheap and cheerful lesson. P3.5 is an activity, inspired by Practical Action, where pupils construct there own turbine and power it with hairdriers to lift mass. Hence they can calculate energy (mgh), power, and use the power of the hairdrier to get an efficiency. The pdfs are supported material I used as inspiration supplied by Practical Action. You can find them and more nice shiny ideas at www.practicalaction.org/schools. Thanks to them.

Some powerpoints I made about transferring kinetic into potential energy, generating electricity with renewables versus non-renewables, and Sankey diagrams. The island hopping is a good chance for AfL as it is open ended. The setting out equations cards are useful for frameworking those struggling with equations.

Some simple lessons, and two worksheets. The Madonna one is sadly true, but is very useful for getting pupils to recognise the value of having scientific evidence.