I currently teach IGCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Also A level Biology. The resources I produce for my lessons are carefully planned and I try to involve a lot of self-learning to allow students to develop these important skills needed for further education.
I currently teach IGCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Also A level Biology. The resources I produce for my lessons are carefully planned and I try to involve a lot of self-learning to allow students to develop these important skills needed for further education.
This formative assessment is designed to evaluate students’ understanding of energetics, a core topic in secondary chemistry. Fully compatible with Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge specifications, this resource offers a structured approach to testing key concepts in exothermic and endothermic reactions, energy level diagrams, and enthalpy change calculations.
Key Features
Thorough coverage of exothermic and endothermic processes, including reaction profiles, bond energy calculations, and the interpretation of energy change data.
Engaging and varied question types, from recall and definitions to energy level diagram analysis and bond enthalpy calculations.
Real-world applications, with contexts such as self-heating cans, instant cold packs, and combustion reactions.
Ideal for classroom assessment, homework, revision, or flipped learning tasks.
Educational Benefits
Reinforces students’ ability to describe, interpret, and calculate energy changes in chemical reactions.
Supports exam preparation by promoting correct use of terminology and calculation methods.
Suitable for mixed-ability classes, with scaffolding and stretch opportunities built in.
Answers for calculations included
This formative assessment resource is designed to assess student understanding of acids, alkalis, indicators, neutralisation, and titration techniques—essential topics in secondary chemistry. Aligned with Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge specifications, the activity provides a comprehensive and structured approach to evaluating both theoretical knowledge and practical application.
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Key Features**
Covers core content, including the pH scale, properties of acids and alkalis, neutralisation reactions, indicators, and the method and calculations involved in titrations.
Includes real-world practical contexts, such as acid-base titrations using sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid, with worked examples for analysis.
Scaffolded question format, progressing from straightforward recall to applied problem-solving, chemical equations, and titration calculations involving molarity and volume.
Flexible application for in-class assessment, homework, revision sessions, or flipped learning.
Educational Benefits
Assesses students’ confidence with both the conceptual and practical aspects of acid-base chemistry.
Strengthens scientific literacy and numeracy through interpretation of results and quantitative titration work.
Encourages accurate use of vocabulary, such as “neutralisation,” “indicator,” and “concentration.”
Differentiated to support a wide range of learners, while offering extension opportunities for higher-ability students.
This formative assessment resource is designed to assess student understanding of qualitative chemical tests used to identify common gases, ions, and compounds. Fully aligned with Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge curricula, it provides a rigorous and accessible way to evaluate key practical chemistry knowledge.
Key Features
Covers essential chemical tests for gases (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, chlorine), cations (using sodium hydroxide), anions (carbonates, sulfates, halides), and tests for water and purity.
Structured progression, from recall of test procedures to application, data analysis, and explanation of test outcomes.
Ideal for use in the classroom, as homework, or in preparation for practical exams or mock assessments.
Educational Benefits
Reinforces practical chemistry knowledge and strengthens exam readiness for qualitative analysis questions.
Encourages correct use of scientific vocabulary and structured, accurate explanations.
Supports data interpretation skills, linking observations to chemical identities.
Accessible for all learners, with clear layout and question scaffolding, while offering challenge questions for deeper thinking.
This formative assessment resource is designed to evaluate students’ understanding of rates of chemical reactions, a fundamental topic in secondary chemistry. Fully aligned with Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge specifications, this activity helps teachers assess knowledge of key concepts and students’ ability to apply them in real-world and experimental contexts.
Key Features
Comprehensive coverage of factors affecting reaction rate, including temperature, concentration, surface area, catalysts, and collision theory.
Progressively structured questions, from basic recall to extended responses that require interpretation of graphs, analysis of data, and explanation of practical scenarios.
Incorporates experimental contexts, such as magnesium in acid, sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid, and catalytic decomposition, allowing students to apply theoretical knowledge to practical situations.
Flexible use as an in-class assessment, homework, flipped learning task, or exam preparation activity.
Educational Benefits
Helps identify misconceptions and gaps in understanding prior to summative testing.
Reinforces key scientific terminology and the ability to describe and explain changes in rate.
Develops data handling and graph interpretation skills through real-life reaction rate investigations.
Differentiated by design, supporting a wide range of learners while offering challenge questions for high achievers.
This formative assessment resource provides a comprehensive way to assess student understanding of the reactivity series of metals, a key topic in secondary chemistry. Fully aligned with international curricula such as Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge, it supports the development of both conceptual understanding and practical application.
Key Features
Covers key concepts including the reactivity series of metals, displacement reactions, reactions of metals with water and acids, and extraction methods based on reactivity.
Structured question progression, starting with fundamental recall and moving towards application, data interpretation, and prediction of chemical behaviour.
Includes experimental scenarios, with questions based on observations, word and symbol equations, and analysis of results.
Flexible for classroom or homework use, revision, or as a diagnostic tool before or after teaching the topic.
Educational Benefits
Reinforces understanding of chemical patterns and practical implications in metal reactivity.
Supports the development of critical thinking through comparison, explanation, and evaluation tasks.
Encourages accurate use of chemical equations and terminology.
Suitable for mixed-ability groups, with visual support and increasing levels of challenge.
This well-structured formative assessment resource is designed to support students in developing a clear understanding of periodic trends across the Periodic Table. Fully aligned with Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge specifications, it provides an effective means of checking progress on key chemical concepts related to atomic structure and periodicity.
Key Features
Targets essential concepts, including trends in atomic radius, ionisation energy, reactivity, melting/boiling points, and metallic/non-metallic character across periods and down groups.
Progressive question structure, beginning with recall tasks and advancing to interpretation of data tables, graphs, and periodic patterns.
Includes comparative tasks, encouraging students to explain and justify trends between elements in Groups 1, 7, and across Period 3.
Flexible use for in-class assessment, homework, revision, or as a pre-topic or post-topic diagnostic.
Educational Benefits
Builds a foundation for later topics in bonding, reactivity, and electronic configuration.
Reinforces key terminology and scientific reasoning when analysing and comparing chemical trends.
Encourages students to link atomic structure with observable trends and physical/chemical properties.
Differentiated by design, with a clear layout that supports all learners while offering stretch questions for higher achievers.
This comprehensive formative assessment resource is designed to support students in mastering the core principles of atomic bonding, including ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding. It is fully aligned with key international science curricula, such as Edexcel IGCSE, AQA, and Cambridge, and is suitable for use across a range of ability levels.
Key Features
Thorough coverage of atomic structure and bonding types, including electron transfer and sharing, dot-and-cross diagrams, and properties of ionic, covalent, and metallic substances.
Progressively structured questions that develop from basic definitions and recall to the application of bonding principles in unfamiliar contexts.
Versatile resource suitable for use in class, for homework, revision, or as part of a flipped learning approach.
Educational Benefits
Provides insight into students’ conceptual grasp of bonding before formal testing.
Reinforces scientific terminology and supports accurate diagrammatic representation of bonds.
Encourages students to make connections between bonding type, structure, and macroscopic properties.
Ideal for mixed-ability teaching groups, with accessible yet challenging content throughout.
Welcome aboard the Midnight Express, an opulent vintage train renowned for its luxurious journeys across picturesque landscapes.
However, tonight’s journey takes an unexpected turn when Mrs. Boucheron, a wealthy socialite, is found murdered in her cabin.
As the train hurtles through the night, suspicion falls on the eight eclectic passengers. You are the detective who must solve the mystery and identify the killer before the train reaches its final destination.
The story runs alongside tasks to test students’ knowledge and understanding of formulae and equations (physical chemistry).
The escape room is interactive. Students can move objects and click on them to reveal clues. No handouts are required but scrap paper is useful as some clues need to be written down and rearranged.
There are gentle hints at the top of each page but students should click around the whole room to move or reveal clues.
It is important clues are solved as they are required to pass to the next page.
The escape room is a great end-of-topic task to check student´s understanding in a novel way.
What is a digital escape room?
Digital Escape rooms are interactive activities that promote individual learning and peer collaboration through problem-solving. Each escape room has a range of activities to challenge the students while also covering the specification. This means they are an excellent resource to use as a revision tool. All of the activities are online, eliminating the need for printing materials.
How does the escape room work?
Students will be given a link to access the digital escape room. You do not need to provide an email address or a Google account to access the material. Escape rooms can be completed on laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, so they can be set as homework or used in cover lessons.
Starting the Task
• Give students the link to the escape room
• Students can enjoy working through the challenges with a partner but they can be completed alone.
• Students will need to look closely at the images. Some objects can be moved to reveal clues, other need to be clicked on.
• There is a teacher answer sheet provided if you need to guide students.
In the heart of Victorian London, a mysterious wave of terror has swept through the fog-laden streets.
The notorious Jack the Ripper has resurfaced, leaving a series of gruesome murders in his wake.
You are a young policeman racing against time to uncover the identity of Jack the Ripper before he claims his next victim.
The story runs alongside tasks to test students’ knowledge and understanding of the reactivity series to include:
understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on their reactions with :water and acid.
understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on their displacement reactions
know the order of reactivity of these metals: potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, zinc, iron, copper, silver, gold
know the conditions under which iron rusts
understand how the rusting of iron may be prevented
understand the terms: oxidation reduction redox oxidising agent reducing agent
The escape room is interactive. Students can move objects and click on them to reveal clues. No handouts are required but scrap paper is useful as some clues need to be written down and rearranged.
There are gentle hints at the top of each page but students should click around the whole room to move or reveal clues.
It is important clues are solved as they are required to pass to the next page.
The escape room is a great end-of-topic task to check student´s understanding in a novel way.
What is a digital escape room?
Digital Escape rooms are an interactive activity which promote both individual learning and peer collaboration through problem solving. Each escape room has a range of activities to challenge the students whilst also covering the specification. This means they are an excellent resource to use as a revision tool. All of the activities are online, eliminating the need for printing materials.
How does the escape room work?
Students will be given a link to access the digital escape room. You do not need to provide an email address or have a google account to access the material. Escape rooms can be completed on laptops, tablets and mobile phones, so they can be set as homework or used in cover lessons.
Starting the Task
• Give students the link to the escape room (on next page)
• Students can enjoy working through the challenges with a partner but they can be completed alone.
• Students will need to look closely at the images. Some objects can be moved to reveal clues, other need to be clicked on.
• There is a teacher answer sheet provided if you need to guide students.
A 39 page PDF document of organic chemistry exam questions. The topics include:
Reactions of carbonyl compounds
Aromatic carboxylic acids and their derivatives
Titration
Preparation and analysis of Paracetamol from phenol
Reactions of hydrocarbons and amino acids
Organic acids
Vitamin C
Reactions of Phenol
Reactions with alcohol
Benzene reactions
Hydrolysis of haloalkanes
Organic compounds containing nitrogen
Answer booklet included. Each question is on a separate sheet so teachers can choose which questions to provide for students.
The escape room is online and interactive, using the platform genially. No personal information is collected from the students.
The questions throughout the game are based on a knowledge of the kinetic theory, with multiple choice questions and general knowledge. Students should have some knowledge of the points listed below (or access to their notes/textbook for research purposes.
Specification points covered:
Properties of solids, liquids and gases and particle models
The effect of temperature and pressure on the volume of gases.
Describe the changes of state in terms of melting, boiling, freezing, evaporation, condensation, and sublimation.
Define the terms solute, solution, and solvent.
Describe and explain the term diffusion and what factors speed up diffusion in gases.
Icons on each page allow students to move through the story, or provide a clue. If students are stuck, they should try touching objects on the page as these can also hold clues.
I have provided the answers to the password questions. The multiple-choice questions allow students to pass to the next stage.
Please check out the video to see the type of clues.****
8 longer response exam questions and some multiple choice.
This document can be modified and the order of questions can be changed or removed.
The total time for this document is 65 minutes
Mark scheme is included.
I have used this document as a timed revision exercise but the document can be used as a summative exam.
Exam questions focus on the the periodic table and trends within the table.
38 longer response exam questions.
This document can be modified and the order of questions can be changed or removed.
The total time for this document is 8 hours.
Mark scheme is included.
I have used this document as a timed revision exercise but the document can be used as a summative exam.
Topics included:
Alkanes and Alkenes
Cycloalkanes
Alkanes: homologous series, isomerism and reactions
Alkanes: formulae, isomers and reactions
Analyse the properties of ethane, polymers and biodegradation
Comparing methods for making ethanol
Compounds from oil and fractional distillation
Demonstrate understanding of molecular formula
Experiment for the cracking of hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons: formulae, reactions and isomers
Producing ethanol and methanol
The questions test both knowledge and application of knowledge.
A useful revision tool for students preparing for the Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry exam Summer 2022.
The 12 paged booklet includes the specification points for students to plan their revision plus details of core practicals they could be tested on.
There are also a large range of revision questions to test student knowledge.
Great for class revision or homework.
Supports students with revision on specific topics.
A useful revision tool for students preparing for the Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry exam Summer 2022.
The 14 paged booklet includes the specification points for students to plan their revision plus details of core practicals they could be tested on.
There are also a large range of revision questions to test student knowledge.
Great for class revision or homework.
Supports students with revision on specific topics.
2 complete lessons introducing enthalpy changes. By the end of the lesson students should:
Know that enthalpy is the heat change measured at a constant pressure and state the standard conditions
Be able to define what we mean by standard enthalpy of a reaction
Be able to construct and interpret enthalpy level diagrams showing an energy change
Lesson includes discussion points and questions to check understanding.
A series of lessons that students can complete in class or at home. It is an introduction to the first units studied and builds on previous knowledge learned at GCSE.
Lessons include:
Describe the structure of the atom and atomic particles
Calculate mass number and atomic number
Define the term isotope
Explain what is relativity and why do we compare to carbon 12
Define relative isotopic mass, relative atomic mass, relative molecular mass and relative formula mass
A lesson to introduce the concept of covalent bonds through PPT and animation.
Students learn the rules of how to draw dot cross diagrams to represent covalent bonds and apply their knowledge to draw hydrogen chloride, chlorine, oxygen, ammonia, methane, ethane, ethene, water and carbon dioxide.