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Over 200 resources available for KS3-KS4 Science, KS5 Chemistry and Whole School! Lesson resources are suitable for live lessons in school, remote teaching at home or independent student study. It’s your choice how you use them 😊 Don’t forgot to explore my free resources too!
This is an engaging KS5 revision lesson the Kinetics topic in A Level Chemistry (Year 13)
Students will be able to complete three challenging question rounds on kinetics covering:
Measuring Reaction Rates
Orders of reactants
Concentration-time graphs
Rate-concentration graphs
Clock Reactions
Initial rates
Arrhenius Equation
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A practical lesson on the theory on precipitation and ligand substitution reactions of transition metals.
By the end of the practical lesson students should be able to:
LO1: To make observations of the reactions of Cu2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Mn2+ and Cr3+ in aqueous sodium hydroxide and ammonia
LO2: To construct ionic equations for the redox reactions that take place
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This lesson should be completed after students have made flashcard/notes on the theory lesson so that they are able to answer the practical questions (see ‘Precipitation and Ligand Substitution Reactions’ in my TES Shop for this lesson) **
Students are encouraged to continue to use their flashcards following this lesson to improve their recall on this topic
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A complete KS5 lesson including starter activity, main work task and answers on acid-base titration procedures
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
Outline the techniques and procedures used when preparing a standard solution of required concentration
Outline the techniques and procedures used when carrying out acid–base titrations
Determine the uncertainty of measurements made during a titration practical
All tasks have worked out answers which will allow students to self assess their work in the lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks on Stereoisomerism in Complex Ions
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To understand the types of stereoisomerism shown by metal complexes, including those associated with bidentate and multidentate ligands including:
(i) cis–trans isomerism e.g. Pt(NH3)2Cl2
(ii) optical isomerism e.g. [Ni(NH2CH2CH2NH2)3] 2+
To understand the use of cis-platin as an anti-cancer drug and its action by binding to DNA preventing cell division
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Metallic Bonding and Structure
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To describe the structure of metals
To explain metallic bonding as strong electrostatic attraction between cations and delocalised electrons
To explain the physical properties of giant metallic structures
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks on the oxidation of alcohols
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To know that alcohols can undergo combustion reactions in the presence of oxygen
To know alcohols can be oxidised by an oxidising agent called acidified potassium dichromate
To know the products and reaction conditions for the oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes and carboxylic acids
To know the products and reaction conditions for the oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity and AfL work tasks and main work tasks with answers on Haloalkanes and their reactions (part 2)
**By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able:
To explain the trend in the rates of hydrolysis of primary haloalkanes in terms of the bond enthalpies of carbon-halogen bonds
To describe how the rate of hydrolysis of haloalkanes can be determined by experiment using water, ethanol and silver nitrate solution
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A structured KS5 revision lesson including starter activity and main work task (3 rounds of questions) all with answers included on Revision on Buffer Solutions (Suitable for the OCR Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To review how to calculate the pH of a buffer solution containing a weak acid and a strong alkali
To review how to calculate the pH of a buffer solution containing a weak acid and the salt of the weak acid
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A structured KS5 lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work task all with answers on Buffer Solution Calculations (part 2) (Suitable for the AQA Specification)
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To calculate changes in pH when a small amount of acid or alkali is added to an acidic buffer solution
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A complete lesson including starter activity and main work tasks with answers for a KS4 GCSE lesson on electrolysis of ionic compounds. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and higher tier combined science
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Know what electrolysis is and to state its uses
Explain how electrolysis works
Predict the reactions that occur at each electrode
Students will be able to take rich notes on Electrolysis
The lesson presentation enables teachers to guide students through the process of electroylsis and how to predict the products formed from a particular ionic compound
The lesson ends with a main work task for students to complete. Students will be able to self or peer assess their answers to this task using the detailed answers provided
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Lesson 2 of 3 on Redox Reactions in AS Chemistry. This lesson focuses on HALF EQUATIONS. The lesson includes starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, main work tasks with answers (NOTE: Lesson 1, 2 and 3 are available as a bundle resource). This topic is also likely to be recapped in year 13 when students are introduced to redox reactions and electrode potentials
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Understand what a half equation is
Explain what a redox equation is
Construct half equations from redox equations
Students will be able to take rich notes on this topic
The teacher will be able to quickly assess students’ understanding of half equations by carrying our mini AfL tasks either on mini white boards or in students’ books
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A well structured lesson including starter activity, mini AfL work tasks with answers, and plenary task on trends of physical and chemical properties of halogens
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
To describe and explain the trend in electronegativity, boiling and melting points of the halogens
To describe and explain the trend in oxidising ability of halogens and reducing ability of the halide ions
To outline experiments to support the trend in oxidising ability of halogens
Students will be able to take rich notes on this topic
The teacher will be able to quickly assess students’ understanding on trends of halogens by carrying our mini AfL tasks either on mini white boards or in students’ books
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A well structured lesson including starter activity and mini AfL questions on relative atomic mass and relative formula mass. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and Combined Science (higher tier and foundation)
The lesson begins with a short starter task (DO NOW) on understanding the numbers in the periodic table
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
To identify the relative atomic mass of an element from the periodic table
To be able to define the term relative atomic mass
To calculate relative formula masses from atomic masses
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks on atomic structure. Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry and Combined Science (Higher and foundation)
By the end of this lesson KS4 students should be able to:
Describe the atomic structure of an atom
Construct a diagram of the atomic structure of an atom
Calculate the number of sub-atomic particles in different elements
The teacher will be able to check students have met these learning objectives through mini AfL tasks for students to complete
All tasks have worked out answers, which will allow students to self assess their work during the lesson
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A complete lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and main work tasks (all with answers included) on the Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds. Suitable for OCR A level Chemistry
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To understand the oxidation of aldehydes using Cr2O72-/H+ to form carboxylic acids
To understand nucleophilic addition reactions of carbonyl compounds with:
NaBH4 to form alcohols
HCN (NaCN (aq)/H+ (aq)) to form hydroxynitriles
To construct the mechanism for nucleophilic addition reactions of aldehydes and ketones with NaBH4 and HCN
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This is an exam revision resource on A level Chemistry Titration Calculations. Suitable for All A level Chemistry exam boards.
This resource includes 6 exam style questions on titration calculations (acid-base & year 12 redox) and structured model answers for each question. Each exam question is worth 6 or 7 marks.
This resource is suitable for a lesson or an independent study task/homework task for students to complete
A useful list of all the keywords and definitions students will be introduced to during the OCR A, A level Chemistry Specification in Year 12. (NOTE: This document can also be used and adjusted as necessary for other specifications such as AQA and Edexcel, as there is a large overlap of topics taught across these specifications)
A printable flashcard revision of this resource can be found in my shop here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12890451
A structured lesson including starter activity, AfL work tasks and lesson slides on the properties of alkanes. Suitable for the OCR specification
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To know alkanes are saturated alkanes containing sigma (σ)bonds that are free to rotate
Explain the shape and bond angle round each carbon atom in alkanes in terms of electron pair repulsion
Describe and explain the variations in boiling points of alkanes with different carbon chain lengths and branching in terms of London forces
All questions come with answers
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A structured KS5 lesson (Part 2 of 2) including starter activity and practice questions with answers on ionisation energy
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies down a group
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies across period 2
To explain the trend in first ionisation energies across period 3
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A complete KS5 lesson including starter activity, main work task and answers on acids, bases and neutralisation
By the end of this lesson KS5 students should be able to:
LO1. To know the formula of common acids and alkalis
LO2. To explain the action of an acid and alkali in aqueous solution and the action of a strong and weak acid in terms of relative dissociations
LO3. To describe neutralisation as a reaction of:
(i) H+ and OH– to form H2O
(ii) acids with bases, including carbonates, metal oxides and alkalis (water-soluble bases), to form salts, including full equations
All tasks have worked out answers which will allow students to self assess their work in the lesson
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