Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
Predominately a Chemistry teacher, although I dabble with Biology and Physics too. Most of my schemes of work were planned for either AQA or iGCSE schemes of work at KS4 and the IB at KS5 (although I have no official affiliation with the IB)
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
The answers to these sheets are also included on a separate document, so they make a great independent revision resource
Scheme of work planned for KS4 redox (originally for the IGCSE scheme of work). Includes a practical on oxidising and reducing agents, a full PowerPoint (41 slides) and a starter activity.
Students will learn:
How to define oxidation and reduction in terms of hydrogen, oxygen and electrons
Practicing writing half equations
How to assign oxidation states to transition metal ions
How to identify what has been oxidised and what has been reduced
Common oxidising and reducing agents - how these work and the colour changes involved
This unit was planned as part of the Chemistry IB Option D - Medicinal Chemistry scheme of work, and covers all the topics at HL. It would also be suitable for other schemes of work.
It includes 3 full PowerPoints, along with student versions to use as notes, which have spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete.
It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
Taxol
- The Discovery of Paclitaxel
- Isolation of Taxol
- Structure of Taxol
- Semi-synthetic production of Taxol
- Clinical use of Taxol
- The use of chiral auxiliaries to produce one enantiomer of Taxol
- Confirmation of the purity of a single enantiomer drug
- Thalidomide
Nuclear Medicine
- The use of radionuclides in medicine
- Types of ionising radiation
- Radiotherapy
- Radioactive Decay
- Targeted alpha therapy
- Boron neutron capture therapy
- Use of gamma emitters in radiotherapy
- Radiodiagnostics
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Use of Technetium-99m
- Half life and decay constant calculations
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Drug Detection and Analysis
- Worked example of the identification of aspirin by NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Worked example of the identification of an unknown compound from NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Extraction and purification of organic products
- Worked example of hormone concentration using partition coefficients
- How polarity affects the partition coefficients
- Raoult´s Law
- Fractional Distillation
- Drug detection in sports
- Drug detection in forensic science
- Chemistry of breathalyzer tests
- HPLC and Gas chromatography
This PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the D.2 section. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are the fully completed PowerPoint, a student version of the PowerPoint with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions, with markschemes.
Topics covered include:
- History of Aspirin
- Method of Producing Aspirin
- Calculating the % Yield of Aspirin produced from Salicyclic Acid
- Effects of Aspirin
- Soluble Aspirin
- Development of Penicillin
- Structure of Penicllin
- How Penicillin Works
- Antibiotic Resistance
A series of two lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE ion testing, but could be modified for other exam boards.
Includes PowerPoints to lead the students through investigating the colours of the different ions
These sheets ask questions which when answered summarise the whole of the iGCSE Chemistry course, with one sheet per topic.
They can be used one at a time, at the end of a topic, or at the end of the year as a revision resource
Obviously they don´t go into as much detail as past paper questions but they do provide a basic summary of questions that students must know the answers to in each topic
The answers to this exercise are now also available in my shop
This booklet and accompanying PowerPoints covers the Moles topic for iGCSE Chemistry. It would also be useful for other courses, as it covers all of the topics in the list below.
The booklet is designed to be interactive and to be filled in by the students, accompanied by the PowerPoints. It includes spaces for worked calculations, exercises, past paper questions (taken from the Cambridge iGCSE papers) and two practicals. The answers to the exercises are also provided for the workbook and are shown on the PowerPoints.
What exactly is a mole?
How can we convert between masses and moles?
How do we deal with diatomic molecules?
Converting between mass and moles in compounds
Calculating the % by mass of an element in a compound
Balancing Equations
Reacting Masses
Limiting Reagents
Percentage Yield
Practical - How much copper sulphate can we get from malachite?
Percentage Purity
Empirical Formula
Moles in Gases
Moles in Solutions
Titrations
Practical – What is the concentration of sodium hydroxide?
I also have another scheme of work where this booklet has been altered slightly for the Co-ordinated Science Chemistry moles unit.
Scheme of work for KS4 energetics (planned for IGCSE but could be used for other exam boards).
Includes PowerPoints, a practical, worksheets with answers and some past paper questions.
Covers:
Endothermic and Exothermic reactions
Use of Q=mcT for calculation of energy released by a fuel
Calorimetry
Calculation of energy changes using bond enthalpy data
What makes a good fuel?
Hydrogen, ethanol and nuclear fuels
This 50 slide PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB schemes of work on Energy. They would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints including many examples, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics covered include:
- Spontaneity and Disorder
- Entropy
- How to predict the sign of an entropy change
- Entropy across period 2
- Standard Entropy Change: ΔSθ
- Predicting whether a reaction will be spontaneous
- Calculating ΔSθ Universe
- Gibbs Free Energy
- At what temperature does a reaction become feasible?
- Gibbs Free Energy and Equilibrium
Three homework projects for the Exploring Science 7 scheme of work on Cells, Reproduction and Adaptations.
Each project comes with a level ladder style success grid for students to maximise their learning
18 homework projects on key stage 3 science, linked to the Exploring Science scheme of work.
7A - Cells
7B - Reproduction
7C - Adaptations
7E - Acids and Alkalis
7F - Chemical reactions
7H - Solutions
7I - Energy Resources
7J - Electricity in the Home
8A - Food and Digestion
8C - Microbes and Disease
8E - Classifying Elements
8I - Heating and Cooling
9B - Health and Fitness
9C - Plants
9E - Metals and their reactions
9G - Environmental Chemistry
9L - Pressure
Recycling
These PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Structure and Bonding and cover the necessary content for both the Standard and Higher Level topics. They would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics included are:
Ionic Bonding
What is ionic bonding?
Common positive and negative ions
Working out the formula of ionic compounds
Giant ionic lattices
Properties of ionic substances
Covalent Bonding
What is covalent bonding?
How to draw Lewis structures
How to tell if a substance will be ionic or covalent
The Octet rule and how it can be broken
Coordinate bonds and compounds which contain them
Resonance structures
VSEPR theory
Shapes of molecules with up to 6 bonding pairs
Shapes of molecules with up to 6 bonding and lone pairs
Giant covalent bonding - diamond, graphite and silica
Intermolecular Bonding
- London forces
- Permanent dipole-permanent dipole forces
- Permanent dipole-induced dipole forces
- Hydrogen bonding
- Solubility and intermolecular forces
Metallic Bonding
How do we describe a metallic structure?
How to predict which metal will have the high melting point
Properties of metals
Properties of alloys
Advanced covalent bonding, electron domains and molecular geometries
Assigning formal charge
Exceptions to the octet rule
Formation of sigma and pi bonds
The composition of single, double and triple bonds
Resonance hybrids and delocalisation
The structure of benzene - Kekule and delocalised
Absorption of UV light in the atmosphere
Catalysis of ozone depletion by CFCs and NOx gases
Hybridisation
sp3, sp2, sp hybridisation: how it happens, resulting shapes and how to identify molecules with each type of hybridisation.
A series of two lessons prepared for the AQA GCSE C3.6 unit of work about alcohols, carboxylic acids and the production of esters
Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans, practicals, activities, worksheets and exam questions to accompany the topic.
This unit was delivered to cover unit 8 of the IB - Acids and Bases, however it would be suitable for most post-16 programs of study.
It begins by recapping the subjects that students should be familiar with from GCSE, before building into more advanced topics. Each PowerPoint comes with a ´student version´ which has gaps for the students to complete, and contains several exercises for students to do. I have also included past paper questions and answer schemes.
Topics covered are:
- What are acids and bases?
- Bronsted Lowry acids and bases (and conjugate acids and bases)
- Amphiprotic and amphoteric substances
- Lewis acids and bases
- Reactions of acids with metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal carbonates and metal hydrogencarbonates, bases and alkalis
- Making salts
- What is pH and how to calculate the pH of both acids and bases
- Using the dissociation constant of water to calculate pH
- Acid deposition - how it occurs and how it can be treated
- Calculations involving Ka, pKa, Kb, pKb, pH and pOH
- Using the relationships Kw = Ka x Kb and pKa + pKb = pKw
- Titration curves for titrations involving any combination of strong and weak acids and bases
- Indicators - how to select a suitable indicator for a titration
- How to calculate the pH of salt solutions
- Buffers - what are they, how are they made and how do they work (including calculations)
This unit was delivered to cover unit 9 of the IB -Redox Processes, however it would be suitable for most post-16 programs of study.
It begins by recapping the subjects that students should be familiar with from GCSE, before building into more advanced topics. Each PowerPoint comes with a ´student version´ which has gaps for the students to complete, and contains several exercises for students to do. I have also included past paper questions and answer schemes.
Topics covered are:
Reduction and Oxidation
Oxidation states and how to determine them
Naming compounds using oxidation states
Oxidising and reducing agents
Half equations in molten substances
Half equations in acidic solutions
The activity series
Redox titrations
Winkler method to determine biochemical oxygen demand
Voltaic Cells
Electrolytic Cells
Cell potentials
The standard hydrogen electrode
Ecell and spontaneity
Working out cell potentials
Polarity and direction of electron flow
The electrochemical series
Electrolysis of aqueous solutions
The effect of the nature of electrodes on the products
Electroplating
Electrolysis of water
Quantitative electrolysis
These two PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Organic Chemistry, and covers some of the necessary content for the Higher Level topics. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics covered include:
- Nucleophilic Substitution mechanisms of primary, tertiary and secondary halogenoalkanes
- Factors affecting the rate of nucleophilic substitution
- Electrophilic Addition mechanisms
- Markovnikov´s Rule
- Electrophilic subtitution mechanisms
- Reduction Reactions
- Reaction pathways and synthetic routes
3 homework projects for the Exploring Science 8 and 9 schemes of work on Heating and Cooling, Energy and Electricity and Pressure
Each project comes with a level ladder style success grid for students to maximise their learning
These two PowerPoints were planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Periodicity, including Transition Metal Chemistry and the Chemistry behind coloured complexes, and cover the necessary content for both the Higher Level topics. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
Included are fully completed PowerPoints, student versions of the PowerPoints with sections to complete independently and some exam style questions.
Topics included are:
- Electronic structures of the Transition Metals
- Electronic structures of Transition Metal ions
- The definition of a Transition Metal
- Properties of Transition Metals
- Variable oxidation states and the trend in First Ionisation Energies
- Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism
- Complex Ions
- Transition Metals as catalysts
- How colour occurs in compounds
- Ligand Field Theory
- Which Transition Metals are coloured and which are colourless and why
- Factors which affect colour - including identity of the metal, charge on the metal and identity of the ligand
This PowerPoint was planned as part of the IB scheme of work on Medicinal Chemistry, and covers the necessary content for the all of the Standard and Higher Level units. It would also be suitable for other post-16 courses.
It includes 9 full PowerPoints, along with student versions to use as notes, which have spaces for the students to add in missing information and activities for them to complete.
It also includes exam questions for practice or assessment purposes
Topics covered are:
Pharmaceutical Products and Drug Design
- Routes of drug administration
- Theraputic Effects of Drugs
- The Placebo Effect
- Side Effects
- Calculation of the Therapeutic Index
- The Therapeutic Window
- Bioavailability
- Tolerance and Addiction
- Drug Action
- Drug Development by both Drug Design and Drug Discovery
Aspirin and Penicillin
- History of Aspirin
- Method of Producing Aspirin
- Calculating the % Yield of Aspirin produced from Salicyclic Acid
- Effects of Aspirin
- Soluble Aspirin
- Development of Penicillin
- Structure of Penicllin
- How Penicillin Works
- Antibiotic Resistance
Opiates
- Morphine: Structure and action; side effects; withdrawal
- How opiates cross the blood-brain barrier
- Diamorphine
pH regulation of the stomach
- The need for stomach acid
- pH calculations to determine the concentration of acid in the stomach
- Antacids: equations for their reactions with stomach acid; side effects; calculation of quantity of acid neutralised
- Regulation of acid production using both H2-histamine receptor blockers (Zantac) and proton pump inhibitors (Omeprazole and Esomeprazole)
- Acid-base buffers: definition and calculations
- Hydrogencarbonate and carbonate buffers
Antivirals
- The differences between viruses and bacteria
- The structure of viruses
- How viruses reproduce and replicate
- How viruses are treated by interrupted stages of the replication process
- Oseltamivir and Zanamivir - structure and action
- HIV and AIDS
- Treatment of HIV and AIDS
Environmental impacts of Biochemistry
- Effects of PACs on the environment
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Nuclear Waste (both LLW and HLW)
- Chlorinated solvent waste
- Supercritical fluid waste
- Green Chemistry
- Biotechnologies in Green Chemistry
Taxol
- The Discovery of Paclitaxel
- Isolation of Taxol
- Structure of Taxol
- Semi-synthetic production of Taxol
- Clinical use of Taxol
- The use of chiral auxiliaries to produce one enantiomer of Taxol
- Confirmation of the purity of a single enantiomer drug
- Thalidomide
Nuclear Medicine
- The use of radionuclides in medicine
- Types of ionising radiation
- Radiotherapy
- Radioactive Decay
- Targeted alpha therapy
- Boron neutron capture therapy
- Use of gamma emitters in radiotherapy
- Radiodiagnostics
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Use of Technetium-99m
- Half life and decay constant calculations
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Drug Detection and Analysis
- Worked example of the identification of aspirin by NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Worked example of the identification of an unknown compound from NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry
- Extraction and purification of organic products
- Worked example of hormone concentration using partition coefficients
- How polarity affects the partition coefficients
- Raoult´s Law
- Fractional Distillation
- Drug detection in sports
- Drug detection in forensic science
- Chemistry of breathalyzer tests
- HPLC and Gas chromatography
Teacher instructions for running a quick and fun activity for global warming - involves throwing plastic balls around the room, so safety warnings and clear instructions are advisable!
