This is really simple. A named monomer followed by the named polymer. The structure of both are shown clearly to help with relating the polymer to the monomer and vice versa.

A quick revision of isomerism then an animation of polarimetry. Comments welcome. This replaces a similar resource that didn't actually upload the resource!

What if you could do drugs but only do half the damage? A few months ago the BBC news website carried a series of images of people made up to look as if only half of their body was damaged by drugs, a sort of left-handed Dorian Gray portrait. I found the pictures intriguing and with just PowerPoint and Paint I have made a set of images that are quite striking and may provoke debate. The photographer is Roman Sakovich.

Resource that allows students to compare the spectra of the isomers of butanol and identify the unknown

A carefully constructed sequence of exercises to teach students how to write chemical formulae. Then students are taken through writing equations with a worked example and then a series of questions.

A power point to show the alkane family properties both chemical and physical.

A power point that explains double bond structure. It starts wityh bond angles and develops into sigma and pi bonds. Comments welcome.

Much has been made of our medal winners at the olympics. Here is Andrew Osagie's story. He wasn&'t even expected to qualify for the final but he did. He ran faster than the gold medal wimmers in the last three olympics, he became the fastest Briton over 800m in the last 20 years. He finished last. Daqvid Rudesha broke the world record and all the other runners posted personal bests, season&';s best or broke national records. Andrew finished last but it was the race of the century, he didn't give up, he used the example of the others to inspire him to a new personal best.

I don't know what prompted it but a student asked me, 'How many atoms are there in me?' After a quick calculation based on her mass and the atoms all being carbon, the number was too big to visualise. Hence the subsequent question from the same student, 'So how big would that be if every atom was a one pence piece?' This is the result. Thanks Niamh, for the original question

This introduces cis and trans isomerism. Let me rephrase that. This introduces E/Z isomerism.

This powerpoint is meant to be used in conjunction with a molecular modelling kit. Students work in groups to build what they think are the isomers called for. They can then rotate the chains to find out which ones are the same. Namenclature can also be tested Comments welcome.

A version of the glossary provided by the exam boards. This one has had its reading age reduced but not it's content or it&'s usefulness. It can also be used to introduce the terms in KS3 if you are 'Getting Practical'

This can be used as an introduction to ethene. It is designed to help students link the displayed formula, that is common in texts, to the idea of a covalent bond being a shared pair of electrons. Comments and feedback are welcome

A powerpoint that can be used as an alternative to a worksheet for the reaction of zinc and sulphuric acid. Using a little copper sulphate solution will speed it up

A powerpoint to display with all the relevent details and a worksheet if needed

A powerpoint instruction sheet and an excel spreadsheet that plots the graphs for you

Isotopes of hydrogen are used to show what isotopes are. Calculations of Relative Atomic Mass are covered through a worked example using chlorine and then an exercise using copper

A simple table of common ions that pupils can reference when working out formulae. Old fashioned but great for those stretching and challenging formulae questions

Some general guidance for taking staged photos for school display. Photo permission would be required for publishing or display outside school

Active reading sheets get pupils to read the information several times and analyse it in different ways. Pupil read the sheet then re-read it to add titles to paragraphs, then re-read it to find the negatives, then re-read to find the positives, then re-read to find business strategies. A useful way to put across a lot of information without copying and with the knowledge that it will be read. Comments welcomed