Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
Engaging lessons, revision materials and activities for students of all ages.
I studied for a Degree and D.Phil in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford and enjoy a teaching career inspiring and enthusing the next generation.
A complete resource to enable you to teach chemical equations effectively.
L3 - introducing word equations and how to interpret and write them
L4 - investigating stoichiometry and change in mass when magnesium burns in air
L5 - symbol equations including understanding how to name compounds and balance equations.
Worksheets for each lesson and answers also provided. Extension materials on worksheets introduces the concept of ionic equations and redox half equations as well.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
The accompanying worksheets allow students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
The resources are written by a post-doctoral research chemist from the University of Oxford turned secondary school chemistry teacher.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Required practicals will replace controlled assessment in the new GCSE.
This bundle of resources contains worksheets for the first 5 practical activities along with expected results and mark scheme as appropriate.
PA 1 Making Salts
PA 2 Neutralisation Higher Tier
PA 2 Neutralisation Foundation Tier
PA 3 Electrolysis
PA 4 Temperature Changes
These record and worksheets are much more than a method. They are designed to track students performance towards achieving their apparatus and skills and provide information to help them understand the background chemistry which is key to understanding an experiment and not just completing it. All the sheets can be bound together in-house into a Required Practicals workbook/log book, or you could hand the sheets out separately.
Practical work may be assessed through the terminal examinations - be sure that your students haven’t just done the practicals but understand them fully!
AQA state:
Practical work is at the heart of science – that’s why we have placed it at the heart of each of our GCSE science specifications. By carrying out carefully considered practical work, students will enhance their investigative thinking, improve their mastery of techniques and consolidate their understanding of key scientific concepts.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time and support your students to understand the practical work in greater depth.
This premium resource pack is contains all the resources for 7-10 complete lessons with Powerpoints, worksheets, lesson activities, hints and tips. Discount compared with buying separately!
PDF files and word documents included for easy viewing on tablet or computer.
L1 - Atoms and elements - includes lesson powerpoint.
L2 - Observing and carrying out chemical reactions - includes lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L3 - Word Equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers.
L4 - Practical to burn magnesium in air - lesson powerpoint and worksheet with method, results and analysis.
L5 - Balancing chemical equations including ionic and half equations - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheets with answers including extension worksheets on ionic equations and half equations.
L6 - Separating mixtures part 1 - techniques and practicals (enough for 2 lessons) including powerpoint, revision notes.
L7 - Separating mixtures part 2 - chromatography - lesson powerpoint, revision handouts and worksheet with answers
The accompanying worksheets allow students to practice and for you to give feedback and help them to improve. The answers are included to help the busy teacher or non-specialist.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time!
These resources have been prepared for the new GCSE science examination specifications that are new for first teaching in 2016.
Get ahead with year 9 or use to plan your schemes of work for September. Buy individual resources or a set of lessons.
Fully resourced with Powerpoints, worksheets and lesson activities and key facts and opportunities for improvement and redrafting throughout.
Required practicals will replace controlled assessment in the new GCSE.
This bundle of resources contains worksheets for the first 5 practical activities along with expected results and mark scheme as appropriate.
PA 5 Rates of chemical reaction foundation tier
PA 5 Rates of chemical reaction higher tier
PA 6 Chromatography
PA 7 Identifying ions
PA 8 Purifying water
These record and worksheets are much more than a method. They are designed to track students performance towards achieving their apparatus and skills and provide information to help them understand the background chemistry which is key to understanding an experiment and not just completing it. All the sheets can be bound together in-house into a Required Practicals workbook/log book, or you could hand the sheets out separately.
Practical work may be assessed through the terminal examinations - be sure that your students haven’t just done the practicals but understand them fully!
AQA state:
Practical work is at the heart of science – that’s why we have placed it at the heart of each of our GCSE science specifications. By carrying out carefully considered practical work, students will enhance their investigative thinking, improve their mastery of techniques and consolidate their understanding of key scientific concepts.
Professor Bunsen resources are tested in school and make the new GCSE in chemistry engaging and exciting. Most importantly it could save you and your school time and support your students to understand the practical work in greater depth.
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.
Support your students to learn the definitions they need for all the year 1 and AS topics in the new specification A-level chemistry!
Each word document contains definitions that can be cut, individually folded over and used to revise or learn the accepted AQA definitions of key words and concepts for every topic.
Students should print the sheets in A3 or A4 and then cut each definition into a strip. Fold over and glue together to give a robust card. Shuffle and test yourself or each other. Keep each topic separate or mix it up, the units are marked on each card so they can easily be re-sorted. Fold and laminate for a longer lasting set.
Good for starter activities, revision and test yourself!
This resource contains definitions for:
3.1.1 Atomic structure
3.1.2 Amount of substance
3.1.3 Bonding
3.1.4 Energetics
3.1.5 Kinetics
3.1.6 Equilibria
3.1.7 Redox
3.2.1 Periodicity
3.2.2 Group 2 the alkaline earth metals
3.2.3 Group 7 the halogens
3.3.1 Introduction to organic chemistry
3.3.2 Alkane
3.3.3 Halogenoalkanes
3.3.4 Alkenes
3.3.5 Alcohols
3.3.6 Organic Analysis
Support your students to learn the definitions they need for all the year 2 A-level only topics in the new specification A-level chemistry!
Each word document contains definitions that can be cut, individually folded over and used to revise or learn the accepted AQA definitions of key words and concepts for every topic.
Students should print the sheets in A3 or A4 and then cut each definition into a strip. Fold over and glue together to give a robust card. Shuffle and test yourself or each other. Keep each topic separate or mix it up, the units are marked on each card so they can easily be re-sorted. Fold and laminate for a longer lasting set.
Good for starter activities, revision and test yourself!
This resource contains definitions for:
3.1.8 Thermodynamics
3.1.9 Rate equations
3.1.10 Equilibrium Constant Kp
3.1.11 Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells
3.1.12 Acids and bases
3.2.4 Properties of period 3 elements and their oxides
3.2.5 Transition metals and 3.2.6 ions in aqueous solution
3.3.7 Optical isomerism
3.3.8 Aldehydes and ketones
3.3.9 Carboxylic acids and their derivatives
3.3.10 Aromatic chemistry
3.3.11 Amines
3.3.12 Polymers and 3.3.13 amino acids and DNA
3.3.15 NMR
3.3.16 Chromatography and infrared spectroscopy
This bundle contains flashcards for the complete A-level chemistry syllabus. Based on AQA but should be consistent across the majority of A-level exam specifications.
The flash cards can be printed single sided then folded and glued to make a flashcard set or could also made into booklets.
I hand the cards out at the start of each topic and then do definitions tests weekly on the topic of the week.
Also included is a BONUS revision sheet on the chemistry Ks!
‘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.
Huge bundle of resources to support you in teaching unit 2 AQA GCSE chemistry.
Should be everything you need to teach this large and important unit, suited to separate and trilogy/combined science and a range of different abilities.
The worksheets also make good pre-preparation / revision for A-level.
Bundled resources contain multiple files.
Thanks for your interest!
Contains 16 lessons with resources to teach the complete unit 1 of the new GCSE specification in chemistry.
Powerpoints, worksheets and answers and chromatography assessed practical sheet.
Student revision guide including practice questions.
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.
10 fully resourced lessons with powerpoints, worksheets and mark schemes to teach the reactions on metals, acids, alkalis, salts titrations and electrolysis in an imaginative and fun way.
Resources to support teaching unit 3 - Quantitative Chemistry the new AQA 2016 syllabus.
Powerpoints, worksheets and activities including mark schemes, powerpoint and pdf files
Massive set of resources to teach this huge and technical unit. Structured questions novel examples and engaging materials to liven up a relatively dry topic.
Conservation of mass and balanced equations
Chemical measurements and mass changes
Reacting masses and mole calculations
Balancing equations using reacting masses
Limiting reactants
Concentration in solution
Making up a volumetric solution
Gas volumes and molar gas volume
Balloons and gas volume
Yield and atom economy