Here’s a guided worksheet to help mid-lower ability students with calculating Rf values for the chromatography practical.
It can be a good idea to use this sheet whilst students are waiting for their results to develop during the practical or can be a stand alone worksheet.
Here’s complete lesson on the electrolysis of aqueous solutions. It fits in well with the AQA required practical and includes the following:
Retrieval questions & answers
Key terms activity with answers
Think/Pair/Share task
Worked example on the outcomes of aqueous solutions
Practical looking at four aqueous solutions
Mini whiteboard check plenary
This lesson works well when combined with my Electrolysis RP worksheet: /teaching-resource/electrolysis-rp-aqa-9-1-12623495
Here’s a lesson I use to introduce students to the theory of neutralisation and also the method used to make soluble salts.
The lesson involves the following learning stages:
Linked starter questions & answers
Theory of naming salts
Task on naming salts (+ extension task)
Video link covering the method of making soluble salts
Practice exam question & markscheme
This lesson pairs well with my practical worksheet: /teaching-resource/making-soluble-salts-rp-9-1-aqa-12608889
This worksheet is made to guide students through a practical that makes soluble Copper sulfate salts from Copper oxide & Sulfuric acid.
This is designed for a lower ability group and includes key concepts that link with the AQA Trilogy Specification.
Here’s a ready to go resource for A-level biology students working through the OCR Genetic Manipulation unit.
Students can scan the QR codes using iPads, laptops, chromebooks or their own phones. The QR codes will take them to videos or articles that will support them as they work through the questions.
This is an excellent way of helping students to develop their understanding of gene therapy techniques (e.g. CRISPR) and how these are used.
Here’s a lesson that acts as a suitable introduction to titrations. The lesson covers:
Titration method
Equipment
End points
Indicators
Method for a practical
Follow up questions for the practical
The lesson is based around an RSC practical and provides several opportunities for think-pair-share work or targeted questioning.
Feedback is always appreciated!
This helpsheet can be used to support KS3 or KS4 scientists in setting up and completing a lab report for an investigation. It contains guidance to each key part of a lab report and allows students to mark these off as they go along!
The resource helps students with the following steps:
Introduction
Aim
Hypothesis
Method
Tables for results
Graphs for results
Discussion & Conclusion
This summary task asks students to identify organelles based on their description. Once identified, student can colour the plant & animal cell diagrams to show the correct location of each organelle.
A few variations of the task are included, so tasks can be assigned based on students’ ability.
Answers are also included for quick self or peer assessment.
Feedback is always appreciated :)
Here’s a boomark that can be given to students at the start of each year to help them with their unit conversions.
It’s a quick and easy way to help students to get used to looking for unit conversions in exam questions & also getting them used to quick conversions.
The boomark covers:
Units of length & distance
Units of volume
Units of mass
Here’s a worksheet that can be used as an introduction or summary to the ‘Making Copper sulfate salts’ required practical for combined or separate chemistry courses.
The sheet includes sections on:
Background information on neutralisation reactions
Key definitions
Word equations for making salts
The method - including a list of key terms
Exam style questions
The resource also has QR codes that can be scanned to take students to useful webpages or videos that will help them with the sheet.
Here’s a worksheet that can be used as an introduction or summary to the ‘Investigating Springs ’ required practical for combined or separate chemistry courses. This is designed for the AQA 9-1 GCSE but is also compatible with other courses.
The sheet includes sections on:
Background information on forces, extension & Hooke’s Law
Key definitions & calculations
Practice questions to calculate the spring constant
Graph plotting exam style question
Exam style questions
The resource also has QR codes that can be scanned to take students to useful webpages or videos that will help them with the sheet.
Answers are also included.
Here’s complete lesson that introduces students to the key details of reversible reactions. It fits in well with the AQA curriculum and also covers the hydration of anhydrous copper sulfate as an example.
Retrieval questions & answers
Key terms activity with answers
Detailed explanation of reversible reaction
Mini whiteboard check of key principles
Case study and questions
Exam question plenary
Feedback is always appreciated :)
Here’s an activity that can be used to summarise the names and differences between Alkanes & Alkenes. This works well as a lesson activity or as a revision activity.
Students should cut out each domino.
Rearrange them so that the end of one leads into the start of another.
Check their answers with you (answer sheet included in the resource)
Stick the correct order into their book.
Each domino also has a number on it so that a correct sequence can be written down, a process that doesn’t involve any cutting or sticking. This is useful approach for students that prioritise cutting/sticking over the actual activity.
ere’s a really engaging activity that encourages students to practice their using the W = m x g calculations.
The activity includes:
10 calculation cards: each with a different scenario that requires students to calculate either mass, weight or gravitational field strength.
2 additional challenge cards
A worksheet that could be printed to help organise their answers
An answer sheet for checking work at the end of the activity.
This active task would suit any KS3 class and possibly a lower set KS4 class.
Students always find predicting the products of electrolysis with aqueous solutions quite tricky - so I made this helpsheet to support my students until they were able to remember the rules themselves!
Here’s an interactive resource that helps students to get to grips with the key differences and similarities between the Group 1 elements.
The task allows students to research and compile information on Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium & Caesium. They can use this information to play against each other by comparing the boiling points, mass numbers, atomic numbers, reactivity and electron configuration of each element.
The resource includes instructions and also extension questions for students that finish early.
Here’s a worksheet that can be used as an introduction or summary to the ‘Investigating Wave Speed ’ required practical for combined or separate physics courses. This is designed for the AQA 9-1 GCSE but is also compatible with other courses.
The sheet includes sections on:
Background information on wave types & measuring waves.
Key definitions & calculations
Practice questions to calculate frequency & wave length from a displacement graph.
Extended writing question on method design.
Exam style questions
The resource also has QR codes that can be scanned to take students to useful webpages or videos that will help them with the sheet.
Answers are also included.
Here’s a worksheet that can be used as an introduction or summary to the resistance in a wire required practical for combined science or separate physics courses.
The worksheet covers:
Background information
Key terms
Resistance calculations
The method
Exam style questions
The resource also has QR codes that can be scanned to take students to useful webpages or videos that will help them with the sheet.
Answers are also includedl
Here’s an interactive resource that can be used as an end of unit summary or as a tool for Year 11 Revision.
This foldable will test the skills of students to recall, manipulate and apply some of the key equations from the AQA P5 unit. It’s also quite a hands on resource that works well with mid - lower ability KS4 groups.
Print the sheet for each student - make sure it’s double sided!
Ask students to cut along the dotted lines & fold along the solid lines.
Students should then complete the foldable flap for each equation and use these to answer the questions.
The back section of the sheet can then be stuck into their books.
Feedback is always appreciated!
Here’s a free Introduction to respiration from my 5.2.2 Respiration Key notes collection.
My Key notes summarise the non-negotiables that students need to know about the Cellular respiration sub-topic within the A-level Biology course.
Each key note sheet is split into three ‘key’ sections. Sections will vary depending on the lesson but they all contain a ‘key terms’ section and useful diagrams. This resource is made to support the OCR A-level course but can also be used with other exam boards.
The whole set of key notes for this sub topic can be purchased from my store.