Laboratory design activity that could be used for an after school STEM club, mini science project, summer project or even a class task. Aimed at school level but can be as simple or challenging as you would like to make it :) A supporting PowerPoint is attached with ideas for student instructions ie group tasks visiting laboratories, what to focus on/take notes + photos of. This can be quite hands on and you can let students measure things and do conversions, creating keys and grids in their own laboratory design plans, if you have the facility to do so.

Starter worksheet (cloze passage) created for the new L3 Applied Science (from 2016) Unit 3 (I used this for an observation). To recall previous knowledge on fuels. Includes stretch and challenge/early finishers task at the bottom and task objective at the top. Main lesson task also included which guides students through how to structure and what to write and include for a lab report.

Organic mechanisms worksheets + answers nucleophilic substitution, nucleophilic addition, addition-elimination and elimination. Students are given the steps describing each mechanism and they have to put them in the correct order. Answers included. Suitable for A2 Chemistry students or applied science students studying #unit14chemistry #A2Chemistry

Worksheet resources for Learning Aim G, the Chemistry section of Unit 3 for L3 Applied Science. Hydrocarbons (including paraffin wax) as a fuel. Resource is for teachers.

A student-friendly checklist that is not overwhelming. This was created for Unit 6 Investigative Project Assignments A, B and C/D. These are preliminary checklists to get students started and on the right track. Checklist for P, M and D criteria for assignment A and just P criteria for assignments B and C/D. I have also made 2 short summary videos which may be helpful for students or new teachers; one is an intro to what Unit 6 is about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVKhB_3jiM and the other is aimed at students and explains how to get started with the literature review in assignment A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-dWTxqI9M Audit and action plan template also included, along with a suggested structure for the project proposal.

I created and wrote this booklet and delivered a session (lasts around 45min-1 hour depending which yoga sequences and meditation you choose to do) to a cohort of stressed out trainee teachers and staff just before the Christmas break. The session was well received and had excellent feedback with several people saying they found it really helpful. The booklet starts with assessing your level of stress, looking at how you spend your week (divided into 30min sections) - this is a good opportunity to discuss and be able to visualise work-life balance. The booklet then takes you through many ideas for stress management techniques, with a couple of mini activities including a page introducing the concept of a gratitude journal and a ‘meditation challenge’. At the end are some books, apps, journal articles and contacts in case people wish to find out more.

This PowerPoint is most useful for new teachers, teachers who have not taught VSEPR before (ideas for how to structure your lesson) or teachers who want ideas on how to make this topic more interactive and include ideas for kinaesthetic activities. This PowerPoint includes VSEPR yoga, VSEPR triominoes (I have not included the resource as it is a pack of cards, however I have included instructions and an image example so you can make your own) and VSEPR cut and sticks can also be made to keep your students engaged. Other interactive ideas could include online quizzes such as Kahoot, Bingo etc.

The new year is a time when many people set resolutions or ‘intentions’, however, these can be set at any time in the year and are beneficial towards our personal growth. Inside this short booklet are ideas of intentions (what habits/things do you want to create or release?) and how to go about choosing them positively (i.e. avoid negatives such as losing weight, how about 'eating healthier foods 70% of the time?) There are also prompts and ideas for starting your own gratitude journal and plenty of things to complete to get you thinking, including how we can view our challenges in a positive light - what can we learn from them? This booklet can be easily adapted if you wish to use it with a class, assembly, project, colleagues etc.

PowerPoints created for A2 OCR Chemistry - entropy and Gibbs for the energetics module.

A guide to PAG 9.1 suitable for students and teachers. This assumes a basic understanding of what is going on. PowerPoint includes the lesson/PAG aims, what you should be recording, how to set up your apparatus (ie fill burette first and keep tap closed), how to calculate volume of oxygen and concentration of hydrogen peroxide. PowerPoint also shows how your graph should look and what to include with your PAG submission. The starting exercises at the beginning refer to the A2 textbook and the RSC starter for 10 worksheets which are readily available online: https://edu.rsc.org/resources/kinetics-starters-2-16-18/4010281.article

Student (and teacher!) friendly assignment checklists for the first 2 assignments of Unit 18 (Industrial Chemical Reactions) in the Level 3 Applied Science. I have created these using my own interpretations of the brief and teacher guidance. Useful for teacher as can help speed up the marking process.

Suitable for all exam boards.

Link to (the familiar!) real world with the question: does adding sugar to tea cause it to cool down? An informative and step-by-step PowerPoint which guides students through the steps and knowledge involved in constructing a Born-Haber Cycle and calculating lattice enthalpy. Explains why a B-H cycle is used and what lattice enthalpy tells us. Refers to worked examples, questions and exam questions from OCR A syllabus so is ideal if you have a class set of the OCR textbooks too. Stretch and challenge is (and can be further) incorporated by examples using compounds made of ions with different charges, e.g. alumina. YouTube videos: Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGUA_EssMY&list=PLaD6fcqFKTWju1PsWNzEjMXZ3bCJ32ikf&index=13 Worked example for NaCl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjkdsaP8fPA&t=39s Worked example for MgCl2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUgKByeZg0c&t=48s

A resource created to assist teachers and students with delivery of the A2 OCR Chemistry PAGs. A PowerPoint to help you structure the beginning of the PAG lesson on 10.2 thiosulfate and acid. Can easily be amended and used as a template if preferred. Alternatively, this could be given to students as a guideline to assist them with their planning and calculations. Example results and graph for thiosulfate (part 1) included, showing the first order relationship. Possible extension opportunities include monitoring how temperature affects the rate of reaction - an Arrhenius plot could then be done as part of the analysis. Recommended for A-A* students. Gives students a checklist of what needs to be submitted. PowerPoint for PAG 9.3 rates attached also. This one includes OCR past paper questions (and answers) at the end as a plenary.

A booklet that can be done for homework or in class to help consolidate the theory from learning aim G. Includes possible exam questions that may come up in the Part B written paper.

Attached are step-by-step calculations with equations, ratios, units etc which were created for the new unit 19 in the level 3 applied science course (new from 2016). The calculations are for the determination of bicarbonate in bottled water, the amount of copper in brass and the amount of iron in iron tablets. There are 3 stages to the bottled water practical, the end answer states the concentration of bicarbonate in water (tap water was used to save money!) in moles per decimetre cubed.

Student worksheet including introduction, method, space for them to record results, structured calculations and error analysis. Created for the new BTEC L3 spec, unit 19 Practical Chemical Analysis. Can also be used for A Level Chemistry, HNC or other analytical science courses.

Designed for Unit 2 Practical Scientific Procedures & Techiques L3 Applied Science. Lesson activity for part of Assignment A teaching and completed ‘5 min lesson plan’ Credit to ‘teacher toolkit’ for the format of the lesson plan.

A PowerPoint lesson for Unit 4 assignment B preparation of an organic liquid. Includes lesson plan, helpful videos, pre-practical questions and starter activity worksheets (with teacher answers). I was observed in this lesson and obtained good feedback. Includes a worksheet to assist with ideas and a starting point for research tasks/discussion around P4. Other details: While students are refluxing for 30min, you could get them to look up literature values for the boiling point of the ester (so they know the temperature it should come out at during distillation) and research factors that affect purity and the effect that impurities will have on the boiling point. What are possible impurities and where may they come from etc. If you have efficient, confident students, this full lesson with the 3 stage practical including activities will take 3 hours. If your students are less confident, I recommend 4 hours. **note - **recommended videos included are from the RSC written lesson plan is mine, however the template is from ‘teacher toolkit’ :)

A powerpoint presentation (consisting of activities and answers and a link to the RSC video on NMR) and worksheet (comic strip to help students condense information and remember the main points of NMR) to assist teaching with the new L3 Applied Science Unit 19. This was created to help teach NMR spectroscopy. It has activities throughout and is step-by-step, I have simplified where possible. Has a couple of extension/early finishers activities in. I have created a series of 3 videos in which I teach NMR, the first can be found here and is about chemical equivalency :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fWA108hr8M