Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
Author of 'The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know' which is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798536722/ Currently teaching IBDP and IGCSE Chemistry at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm originally from North Wales in the UK.
This is the perfect starter, plenary or homework for any advanced biology lesson that introduces students to cellular respiration. This resource is suitable for 'A' - Level and IBDP students.
This quick quiz (with answers) covers the following:
1. The differences between reduction and oxidation (essential prior knowledge for any student hoping to learn about respiration)
2. The four main stages of glycolysis
There is also a handy acronym at the end that helps students to remember the four stages of glycolysis
This is the third chapter of my book: The Quick Guide to Classroom Management.
In this chapter, you will learn a series of effective secrets which are guaranteed to help you improve the behaviour of your students.
This is a really clear PowerPoint that shows students how to use Hess's Law to solve problems. Includes a number of examples to help students see Hess's Law being used effectively.
Printable and fully editable, this PowerPoint is suitable for advanced chemistry classes (e.g. 'A' - Level and IB Diploma)
This worksheet is probably best given to students in year 9 and older. It is basically a series of questions to test their skills in writing down times of the day in German, followed by a useful wordsearch that introduces some new vocabulary
A summary sheet containing useful words and phrases to describe your feelings in German.
This will benefit your high ability KS3 students, along with your GCSE kids, as they will be able to describe their feelings about themselves and others. Very good preparation for oral examinations.
This is the second chapter in my book: The Quick Guide to Classroom Management. This chapter covers:
1. The features present in all outstanding lessons
2. How to keep your students on-task through effective starter activities and games
3. How to make your students subtly aware of the learning outcomes, so that maximum memory retention takes place
4. How to enhance learning by using your physiology
This resource is guaranteed to help you make your lessons more stimulating
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any periodic table class. This crossword tests students knowledge of:
Group number
Names of groups (e.g. The 'Halogens' are the group 7 elements)
Symbols (e.g. Ca is the symbol for calcium)
Properties (e.g. Potassium has similar properties to sodium because it is in the same group)
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the periodic table before, then you could provide the students with a periodic table to help them as they do the puzzle.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any radioactivity and isotopes class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Isotopic/atomic structure
The difference between alpha, beta and gamma radiation
Knowledge of the isotopes of hydrogen (i.e. deuterium and tritium)
Radioactive decay and half-life
The use of Uranium-235 as an electricity generating fuel
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the radioactivity and isotopes before, then you could provide the students with a summary to help them as they do the puzzle.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This resource is fun for your students and it will really help to build time-related vocabulary (particularly when dealing the confusing 'halb' descriptor).
It's up to you how you use this one. It is basically a blank clock face with some German vocabulary on it. You may want to use it to test students or give as a homework. You will have to decide on the task that you can use this resource for.
This is an awesome crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any periodic table and electron shells class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Order of filling of electrons
Position of elements in the periodic table
Electronic configurations of type 2,8,2 (s,p and d orbitals are not covered)
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. The kids will literally have to hunt through a periodic table to find answers to clues such as:
This element has an electronic configuration of 2,7
This element has an electronic configuration of 2,8,5
The first three periods of the periodic table are tested.
In this pack you get a PPTX (which you can edit), a pdf version and a png of the puzzle itself (in case you want to project it on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in).
This is basically a big collection of worksheets that covers the entire content from a typical IGCSE Edexcel Chemistry first year class (i.e. Year 10 in the British system). This workbook has massive crossover with other IGCSE Chemistry and GCSE chemistry syllabuses.
Guaranteed to:
Save you planning time
Provide meaningful material for homework or classwork
Can be set in sequence as separate assignments or could even be printed out in entirety and given to students at the start of the academic year.
Topics covered:
Particle Theory
Density, pressure and diffusion
Changes of state (solids, liquids and gases)
Cooling curves
Mixtures
Separating mixtures (chromatography, distillation, filtration and crystallization)
Atomic structure (including isotopes, RAM, electronic configurations. relative isotopic mass, relative molecular mass, relative formula mass and molar mass)
Writing and balancing equations
Molar calculations (including The Mole, Empirical Formula, Molecular Formula, Reacting Mass Calculations, Percentage Yield
Ionic bonding
Covalent bonding (including ‘dot and cross’ diagrams and ‘giant’ structures)
Metallic bonding
Electrolysis (solutions and molten compounds)
The periodic table (groups and periods)
Group 1
Group 7
Oxygen chemistry
Carbon dioxide chemistry
Hydrogen chemistry
Reactivity series (including ‘galvanising’ and ‘sacrificial protection’
Extraction of metals
Crude oil
The only disadvantages of this resource are:
It’s a big word document so might need a little tidying-up prior to printing
There’s no answers with it yet (but I’m working on that)
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 3 and 13: Periodicity.
This bundle includes four PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
3.1: Periodic Table
3.2: Periodic Trends
13.1 : First Row D-Block Elements
13.2: Coloured Complexes
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 4 and 14: Bonding.
This bundle includes seven PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
4.1: Ionic Bonding and Structure
4.2: Covalent Bonding
4.3: Covalent Structures
4.4: Intermolecular Forces
4.5: Metallic Bonding
14.1: Further Aspects of Covalent Bonding
14.2: Hybridization
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This professional PowerPoint bundle covers everything the students need to know for the 2016 Course Guide for IBDP Chemistry Topics 7 and 17: Equilibrium.
This bundle includes two PPTs (which match the Course Guide):
7.1: Equilibrium
17.1: The Equilibrium Law
Each PPT professionally covers all required areas of the Course Guide for this topic, including:
Essential Ideas
Nature of Science
International Mindedness
Theory of Knowledge
Key Understandings
Application/Skills
Guidance
These PPTs have been painstakingly developed over many years and are guaranteed to satisfy immediately. Not only will you save valuable time by purchasing these PPTs, but your students will also receive the very best instructional PPTs out there
This PowerPoint Presentation covers most of the requirements for the Covalent Bonding unit for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry in a clear and coherent manner.
These slides may also be useful for other exam boards, such as AQA, WJEC, CIE, etc., if modified after download.
Specification statements covered include:
1.31 describe the formation of a covalent bond by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms.
1.32 understand covalent bonding as a strong attraction between the bonding pair of electrons and the nuclei of the atoms involved in the bond.
1.33 explain, using dot and cross diagrams, the formation of covalent compounds by electron sharing for the following substances:
Hydrogen, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, water, methane, ammonia, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ethane, ethene.
1.34 recall that substances with simple molecular substances are gases or liquids, or solids with low melting points.
1.35 explain why substances with simple molecular structure have low melting points in terms of the relatively weak forces between the molecules.
1.36 explain the high melting points of substances with giant covalent structures in terms of the breaking of many strong covalent bonds.
A very clear powerpoint presentation showing the ‘arrows in boxes’ electronic sub shell filling order from hydrogen to krypton. My students find this very helpful and it is useful when printed as a handout. It also shows clearly the incomplete 4s subshell in chromium and copper.
A powerpoint presentation all about the differences between small covalent molecules and giant covalent network structures. Suitable for 'A' - level or high ability GCSE classes. Can be used effectively as a handout. Students particulary enjoy the part about the allotropes of carbon
A well presented, professional looking word search that introduces lots of vocabulary that students can use when describing their families. Can used to start (recommended), to finish or for homework. Let me know what you think. You may want to add an element of competition and say "the first person to find all of the words will win a prize". This should make it more fun.