Spark Science provides high quality science educational resources for secondary school teachers.
From dual-coding, literacy and reading tasks, dyslexic friendly backgrounds, and continual Assessment for Learning (AfL) tasks embedded into all our lessons, Spark lessons will increase engagement, participation and understanding for your students.
Spark Science provides high quality science educational resources for secondary school teachers.
From dual-coding, literacy and reading tasks, dyslexic friendly backgrounds, and continual Assessment for Learning (AfL) tasks embedded into all our lessons, Spark lessons will increase engagement, participation and understanding for your students.
An interactive powerpoint resource designed for distance learning from home.
Students can work their way through questions on the powerpoints and all answers are revealed within the slides.
By the end of this resource, students should be able to:
Know how an acid reacts with metals, metal oxides (bases), metal hydroxides (alkalis), and metal carbonates
Write general equations, word equations and balanced symbol equations for reactions of acids
HIGHER – Be able to write ionic equations for the reactions of acids
NOTE: Students should already have some idea how to balance an equation and work out the formula of an ionic compound before attempting this lesson.
This resource contains a worksheet where students can practice drawing ionic bonding for a range of examples.
Examples get harder as the sheet progresses. First questions are structured with electron shells and brackets drawn for them.
Resource contains PDF copy and an editable PPT version.
Fully drawn answer sheet attached at the end of each document.
A resource for AS and A-Level students to help practice naming and drawing alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and haloalkanes using the IUPAC naming system. Students can practice structural, displayed and skeletal formula drawing as well as naming in this booklet.
All answers included.
Designed for the UK curriculum (OCR, AQA, Edexcel)
Resource designed for distance learning - GCSE Chemistry AQA - Chemical Changes - Acids and Alkalis
Contains links to useful youtube videos and extension acitivites
Students should be able to:
Identify common acids and alkalis
Know what ions are found in acids and alkalis
Know what an indicator is and give pros and cons for each
Worksheet to be used to help students understand the steps in carrying out a simple acid-base titration.
Worksheet also contains key questions about the set up of the experiment and the collecting of data.
Contains both a PDF copy and an editable PPT copy
Full answer sheet included at the end of each document
Resource contains a PDF of a blank mechanism map for AS chemistry students studying the new Edexcel syllabus (2016 onwards).
There is a blank and completed version of the map containing all reactions, mechanisms, conditions etc… that students should know for AS Organic Chemistry (Topic 6)
Worksheet to help students understand how to work out whether a substance is a solid, liquid or gas based on it’s melting point or boiling point.
Worksheet document contains answers at the end.
Contains PDF copy and editable PPT version
A short, engaging lesson (ideal to complete before a mid-topic summary) designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson teaches students about what a field is and how forces are felt within fields for different non-contact forces (especially gravitational fields and magnetic fields).
This resource contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including full answers, mini-practical with instructions for students
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
A mini “discovery” style practical
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe what a “field” is
Describe the effects of fields
Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
A simple but effective wall display of some of the most common chemical formulas used in chemistry (especially relevant for the KS3 and GCSE Chemistry syllabus).
An interactive powerpoint resource designed to be used for distance learning from home.
Also contains interactive questions, a cheat sheet of common ions and practice questions.
Students should be able to:
Predicting the formula of salts from their names and ions
This is a good practice worksheet for lessons or homework to get students to practice drawing dot-and cross diagrams, drawing 3D structures of molecules and ions, identify molecular shapes and bond angles.
Comes with worksheet and completed answer sheet.
Designed for the OCR A A-level course but will be applicable to all A-level chemistry courses.
This is a Year 7 lesson that covers plant cells, their components, their functions, how they differ to animal cells, and how to observe plant cells under a microscope.
This Lesson Contains
Lesson powerpoint with complete answers, plenary activity, interactive game for teaching rote learning of parts of the plant cell, challenge task, practical follow up questions
Student worksheet and complete and incomplete versions with answers (PDF and editable versions)
Practical instructions
Practical risk assessment (PDF and editable word versions)
Lesson Objectives
Identify parts of a plant cell from a diagram
Describe the function of each part of a plant cell
Compare the similarities and difference between an animal and plant cell
Use a microscope to view plant cells (pond weed)
This is the fourth lesson in the Year 8 “Working as a Scientist 2” topic.
This lesson gets students to practice maniplulating data to find means, medians and modes.
This lesson contains AFL whiteboard tasks to assess student understanding in real time, a data collection activity and various opportunities for students to practice calculations.
This lesson resource contains all answers as well as challenge tasks. It is designed to be easy to follow and present, so is great for non-specialist teachers.
Lesson resources:
Lesson powerpoint containing teacher help/instructions in the “notes” section, AFL whiteboard activity, student data collection and manipulation activities, challenge tasks throughout
Lesson objectives:
Describe what a mean, median and mode are
Calculate Mean, Mode and Median for a set of data
For this lesson students will need:
Calculators
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with AEN students and non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes and answers in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Risk assessment for class practicals
Printable practical instruction cards
Risk assessments for teacher demonstrations
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe what an exothermic and endothermic reactions is in terms of heat energy transfer
Give and identify examples of endothermic and exothermic reactions in everyday life
Identify reactions as exothermic or endothermic from measuring temperature changes in practical investigations
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
A comprehensive, engaging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher delivery notes in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Practical Risk Assessment
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe what physical changes and chemical reactions are
Know the different signs of a chemical reaction taking place
Class different examples as either physical changes or chemical reactions
Describe the difference between a physical change and chemical reaction
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing, practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes and answers in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Identify elements in chemical formula (using a periodic table)
Count the number of atoms in formulas containing subscripts
Count the number of atoms in formulas containing multipliers
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
This lesson contains AFL tasks which require mini-whiteboards, but can be adapted if these are not available.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes and answers in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Know what an “element” and a “compound” is
Describe the difference between an element and a compound
Know what an “atom” and a “molecule”
Describe the difference between an atom and a molecule
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
This lesson contains AFL tasks which require mini-whiteboards and molymods, but can be adapted if these are not available.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
**This lesson contains: **
Lesson powerpoint - including teaching notes and answers in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe what a chemical symbol is and explain why we use them
Identify elements from their chemical symbols using a periodic table
Classify chemical formulas as representing either elements or compounds
Understand how to count the number of atoms in a chemical formula containing subscripts
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up.
This lesson contains AFL which makes use of molymods and mini-whiteboards, but can be adapted if these resources are not available.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with SEN and non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes and answers in “notes” section
Student led lesson worksheet
Teacher answer sheet
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Name simple compounds ending in –ide, -hydroxide and –ate
Name simple compounds using the mono-, di-, tri- naming system
Be able to identify the elements present in a compound from its name
Be able to name a compound from its formula
This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
This lesson contains AFL tasks which require mini-whiteboards but can be adapted if these are not available.