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 a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any class about the periodic table. Suitable for GCSE, IGCSE and pre-IB/AS - Level stduents, this crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
1. The meaning of 'group number' and how this relates to reactivity trends
2. How 'group number' relates to outer shell electrons
3. Names of groups in the periodic table
4. Names of elements found in particular groups
5. Real-life scenarios of elements (e.g. iron in red blood cells, silicon in computer chips)
6. Metals and non-metals
7. Alkali metals, noble gases, halogens and transition metals
8. Metalloids
This is a lot of fun and your kids will love it. If your students have never learnt anything about the periodic table 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).
A fun, clear, comprehensive and varied worksheet that works well as starter, plenary or as a chunk of the main body of lesson.
Suitable for GCSE or IGCSE Chemistry, Science (Double Award) or Science (Single Award), this resource covers:
1.The meaning of 'group number' and how this relates to reactivity trends
2. How 'group number' relates to outer shell electrons
3. Names of groups in the periodic table
4. Similarities in reactivity between elements
5. Differences between elements and compounds
Comes complete with answers. Great for peer or self-assessment.
Included in this pack are both the word doc (which you can edit) and pdf versions.
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any class about elements, compounds and isotopes. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
1. The differences between elements and compounds in terms of physical structure, ease of separation and reactivity
2. Groups and periods in the periodic table, and how they relate to valence electron and shell number
3. The atomic definition of isotopes
This is a lot of fun and your kids will love it. If your students have never learnt anything about elements, compounds 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).
A brilliant, well-illustrated, clear and varied worksheet that works well as starter, plenary or as a chunk of the main body of lesson.
Suitable for GCSE or IGCSE Chemistry, Science (Double Award) or Science (Single Award), this resource covers:
1. The differences between elements and compounds in terms of physical structure (represented by diagrams), ease of separation and reactivity
2. Groups and periods in the periodic table, and how they relate to valence electron and shell number
Comes complete with answers. Great for peer or self-assessment.
Included in this pack are both the word doc (which you can edit) and pdf versions.
Suitable for Key Stage 3 onwards, these questions allow practice in the addition of fractions. Denominators are different, and answers can be given in mixed or classical form!
Brilliant as a starter or 'chunking' activity. Will keep students busy for a while.
This incredibly clear PowerPoint goes through the key calculations involved in working out the mol/dm cubed for solutions. Suitable for 'A' - Level and IBDP students, this PowerPoint even includes some great questions at the end that the students can try for themselves.
This PowerPoint presentation offers the perfect introduction to the alkanes unit of organic chemistry for advanced learners (e.g. 'A' - Level and IB students).
Beautifully illustrated and clear, this resource will enhance your delivery of this topic immensely.
This well-formatted worksheet is perfect for high-ability GCSE students and post-16 learners. It covers:
The definition of isotopes (in terms of neutrons, protons and electrons)
The uses of radioisotopes (along with examples for each use)
Symbols for radioisotopes
This sheet should keep your students busy for some time as they will need to do some research to find out the answers for each question. It also comes as a Word document, so is fully editable and easy to re-format if needs be.
This fun and dynamic resource is perfect for IGCSE, GCSE and MYP Chemistry students. It covers all of the essential vocabulary of electrolysis including:
Anode
Cathode
Anion
Cation
Electrode
Electrolyte
REDCAT (Reduction at the cathode)
OILRIG (Oxidation is loss, reduction is gain)
PANCake (Positive Anode, Negative Cathode)
You can use this fun activity as a starter, plenary or 'breaker' within the lesson.
In this pack you get a pptx, pdf and a png file of the puzzle itself.
This quick activity can be used as a starter, plenary or mid-lesson worksheet. Students have to fill in the boxes to show the stages in photosynthesis (and how they all link together). Students should be familiar with the following vocabulary:
Chloroplast
Chlorophyll
Grana
Stoma
This is a fun (and moderately challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any class about DNA structure. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
The location of DNA in the cell
The nucleotide as the basic building block of DNA
Complimentary base pairing
This is a lot of fun and your kids will love it. If your students have never learnt anything about DNA 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 is a fun (and challenging) crossword puzzle that would serve as an excellent starter, plenary or in-lesson activity for any products from crude oil class. This crossword tests students’ knowledge of:
Fractional Distillation
What oil is and how it is formed
The different fractions obtained from crude oil
Alkanes and cracking
This is a lot of fun and my students loved it. If your kids have never learnt anything about the products of crude oil 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 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 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 really fun crossword puzzle and is the perfect quick starter or plenary to any GCSE level atomic structure lesson.
The puzzle includes answers and covers the following key words:
Ion
Isotopes
Neutron
Negatively
Mass number
Atomic number
Electron
Proton
Nucleus
The file is a PowerPoint, so the puzzle can be easily printed or even projected on your interactive whiteboard for students to fill in. Since it is out of ten marks, you can quickly determine a percentage score for each student too.
This is a great worksheet for GCSE students and covers the basics of cell structure and function. I've included a pdf and a word doc version. It includes True/False questions, filling in the blanks, box matching and word choosing activities.
Use this sheet as a quick starter, plenary or homework.
Make sure you ask your kids to think of reasons behind the answers (especially the True/False questions). Get groups to write explanations for each answer to question 1 as a follow up activity (or as a good extension activity for students who finish early).
This quick test/worksheet covers the pharmaceutical products testing section of IBDP Chemistry Option D (FE 2016).
Questions include:
1. Testing drugs on animals and cell cultures tells us three things. What are they?
2. What does LD50 mean?
There's also a flow chart to fill in (the docx file has the answers (just remove the boxes).
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
The resource is ideal for GCSE or IGCSE students, and is designed to act as a fun way for the students to do the following:
1. Learn how to describe each part of their timetable (e.g. "On Monday lesson 1 I have Science")
2. Learn how to ask which lesson their partner has. For example, learning how to say “which lessons do you have on a Thursday?”
Both students in the role play are given a timetable, with some blank spaces missing. Each student must describe their timetable to their partner, and fill in the blank spaces.
Syllabus references:
CIE IGCSE German: Area A2 (School routine).
Edexcel GCSE German:
Section One (High Frequency Language): Numbers, Time experessions, Times of the day; Days of the week
Section Two (Topic Specific Language): Daily life. What school is like.
Other IGCSE and GCSE exam boards also require knowledge and understanding of this topic.
This worksheet provides ten questions that help the students to practice their skills in balancing redox equations by adjusting coefficients and by adding OH-, H20, and H+ where necessary.
This worksheet is suitable for 'AS' - Level and IB Diploma Chemistry students. Syllabus reference: "Write ionic half-equations and use them to construct full ionic equations." (Edexcel 'AS' - Level Chemistry Specification, First Examinations 2014).
Full answers are provided in this package.
This is a perfect resource to use as a quick starter, plenary or homework. I have included both the pdf and docx files in this package.
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