I have been teaching Science, with a specialism in Chemistry for 18 years. I am currently Head of Chemistry and am heavily involved with producing new and innovative resources for both the new A-Level and GCSE Chemistry specifications. I fervently strive to make my resources high quality and engaging and as such all my resources have been trialled within my department at my school.
I have been teaching Science, with a specialism in Chemistry for 18 years. I am currently Head of Chemistry and am heavily involved with producing new and innovative resources for both the new A-Level and GCSE Chemistry specifications. I fervently strive to make my resources high quality and engaging and as such all my resources have been trialled within my department at my school.
I have found this part of the new specification to be lacking good resources, so I am slowly building mine up for this area of the course. So far this bundle comprises a PowerPoint on the structure of DNA and the action of the anticancer drug cisplatin; a set of 15 MCQs with answers; and a learning grid which makes a great revision resource on the topic.
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This homework resource contains a series of questions relating to AQA AS/Year 1 Chemistry 3.2.2 - Group 2 the alkaline earth metals.
Equally suitable as a revision task for this topic.
Full solutions are provided.
This resource is a worksheet looking at the evidence for intermolecular forces. Students have to plot boiling point data and interpret the trends they find. Solutions provided.
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2/3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
Suitable for current A2 CHEM4 and new A-Level 3.1.9 Rate Equations.
Designed as an AS/Year 1 A-Level Chemistry revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2 or 3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the Amines (3.3.11) topic of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a learning checklist for the topic
I have collated a range of different question types in this activity sheet based on Hess' Law thermochemical cycles. The focus is on using standard enthalpy of combustion and standard enthalpy of formation data to perform the required calculations.
Suitable for all major exam boards, solutions provided.
This resource has been produced as a collaborative revision activity. It matches the Polymers (3.3.12) topic of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. They must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the other members of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a learning checklist for the topic.
This resource is intended as a collaborative revision activity. It is suitable for the Properties of period 3 elements and their oxides (3.3.14) topic of the new AQA A-Level Chemistry course.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a learning checklist for the topic
This pack now contains 12 resources to help with revising types of bonding at GCSE, including clock revision, differentiated bonding tasks, 'A to Z', exam success summaries, Splat!, song lyrics, the Memory House and now updated with Taboo.
A range of different revision techniques are used. Full instructions and editable templates are included.
Suitable for current Additional Science C2.1 & C2.2 and new AQA GCSE Chemistry (4.2).
Revision lesson in competition form for . Students collaborate in groups on activities related to atomic structure to try and generate the largest score they can according to marks allocated for a variety of different task styles.
Suitable for 5.1 Atomic structure and the periodic table.
This presentation is a comprehensive tutorial for the shapes of molecules section of the Bonding topic (3.1.3.5).
The concepts of VSEPR theory are clearly laid out with step-by-step instructions and examples to highlight ideas involved. The tutorial ends with a range of molecules to encourage students to think through a range of examples found in previous exam questions.
All my individual organic chemistry learning grids for the full AQA Chemistry A-level in one place.
The pack includes Aldehydes and ketones (3.3.8), Carboxylic acids and derivatives (3.3.9), Aromatic Chemistry (3.3.10), Amines (3.3.11), Polymers (3.3.12), Amino acids/Proteins/DNA (3.3.13) and Organic synthesis/NMR/chromatography (3.3.14/15/16) - there is no grid for Optical isomerism.
The resources are intended as a collaborative revision activity.
Students work in small groups and take turns to roll 2 dice in order to determine a square on the grid. The student must then describe/explain the contents of the square to the rest of the group. This can be made more challenging by determining two separate squares and making links between them both.
There is a second grid containing ? squares, where students could be required to answer an exam-style question, or some other activity - this is entirely up to you!
Includes a separate learning checklist for each topic.
Suitable for AQA GCSE Chemistry 4.4.3 ‘Electrolysis’ topic.
Designed as a collaborative revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2/3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a ‘grid reference’ and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question.
Fully differentiated with Higher and Foundation versions included, as well as a learning checklist for the topic.
Every single learning grid to cover all topics for the new AQA GCSE Chemistry (9-1) specification - that’s 11 topic areas and over 30 different grid types.
The learning grids are ideal for end of topic revision and exam preparation.
Students work in small groups and roll 2 dice to determine a square on the grid. They then have to explain to the rest of the group what is contained in the square. An alternative to make this more challenging is to roll both dice 2 times and determine 2 squares. The student then has to make a link between the contents of both squares.
Each grid has a second grid containing 6 ? If students land on one of these squares they must answer an exam-style question on the topic.
Each learning grid is differentiated for H and F where appropriate and come with a revision checklist also.
Successive ionisation energies and first ionisation energy across a period are used to provide evidence for electronic structures. Students must plot graphs of the data provided and use them to interpret the ideas involved. Solutions provided.
This resource is designed to test students' abilities when calculating empirical formulas and is then extended to molecular formulas. Harder extension question are at the end and solutions are provided.
AS Chemistry/Year 1 A-Level Chemistry Kinetics revision task. The learning grid allows groups of 2 or 3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a 'grid reference' and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is also a second grid to allow opportunity to answer exam-style questions (given by ?). Checklist included.
This is an example of my chemistry learning grids, available for both GCSE and A-Level. They have been designed as collaborative revision tasks, allowing groups of 2/3 students to work together to review the topic. Each student rolls 2 dice to get a ‘grid reference’ and they then have to explain what is contained in that square. This can be made more challenging by rolling the dice twice and making links between the 2 squares identified. There is a second version attached which allows students to land on a ? square, where they answer an exam-style question. Includes a learning checklist for the topic.