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This guide will help teachers plan for and teach formulae, equations and amount of substance by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach atomic structure by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach bonding and structure by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach the topic of energy and matter by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach the topic of analytical techniques by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach energetics by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach kinetics by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach the topic of redox and electrochemistry by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide will help teachers plan for and teach the topic of equilibria by giving guidance on key concepts and suggesting classroom activities.
This guide contains suggested timings for teaching the specification topics, links to relevant delivery guides, and other useful guidance to support scheme of work planning.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'chemical industry'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'colour by design'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'developing fuels'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'developing metals'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'elements from the sea'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'elements of life'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'oceans'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'polymers and life'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'the ozone story'.
This activity contains 10 multiple choice questions on topics covered in the teaching module 'what's in a medicine?'
This activity focuses on the topic of atomic structure.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the atomic structure crossword activity.
This activity focuses on the topic of elements.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the element battleships activity.
This document gives teachers instructions for the nitrogen chemistry tarsia puzzle activity.
This activity focuses on the topic of elements of life.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the elements of life periodicity crossword activity.
This activity focuses on the topic of S-Block elements
This document gives teachers additional background information for the S-Block elements crossword activity.
In this activity students are asked to explain rates of reaction of halogenoalkanes.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the explaining observations activity.
Students follow a worksheet to set up a mixture of ethanoic acid and ethanol to form an ester (the strong acid catalyst is omitted for simplicity).
This document gives teachers additional background information for the activity on finding an equilibrium constant for esterification.
Students consider seven industrial reactions, derive their equilibrium constants and consider the factors which will affect the yield and Kc.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the activity on industrial chemistry.
This activity focuses on the topic of halogens and their properties and reactions.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the halogens periodicity crossword activity.
This worksheet looks at the history of ideas about acids from natural acids, through the erroneous ideas of Lavoisier to Arrhenius and Brønsted–Lowry theory.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the teaching activity on ideas about acids.
This practical activity involves making and diluting solutions of acids and alkalis. Students calculating the theoretical pH then measure the pH with a meter.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the activity on measuring the pH of solutions.
This resource contains a text describing pH and buffer solution applications with questions.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the activity on pH and buffers in action.
This is a series of 10 questions on pH covering all the areas in the specification in increasing depth.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the activity on pH calculations.
This lesson element, or classroom activity, focuses on the topic of intermolecular bonding.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the intermolecular bonding activity.
The purpose of this exemplar investigation is to illustrate the use of the language of measurement terms in the context.
This pack provides teacher guidance about a range of potential approaches for delivery of this topic.
This activity supports the topic exploration pack on Carbon-13 NMR.
This activity should be used with the topic exploration pack on catalysis, collision theory and activation enthalpy.
This presentation should be used with the topic exploration pack on catalysis, collision theory and activation enthalpy.
This resource is focused on the enthalpy changes associated with the process of dissolving with a close look at the dissolving of ionic substances in water.
This pack provides teacher guidance about a range of potential approaches for delivery of the topic of equilibrium constants.
This spreadsheet should be used in conjunction with the associated topic exploration pack.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to amount of substance.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to equilibria.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to making salts.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to titrations.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to organic synthesis.
Guidance and activities to support teachers preparing students for indirect assessment of practical skills relating to rates of reaction.
This pack provides teacher guidance about a range of potential approaches for delivery of the gas volumes topic.
This presentation should be used with the topic exploration pack on salts and tests.
This pack provides teacher guidance about a range of potential approaches for delivery of the topic on rate equations and the Arrhenius equation.
This pack provides teacher guidance and a set of tasks allowing learners to explore the patterns and trends in group 2.
The focus of this pack is the solubility product and the techniques by which we could find its value.
A guide detailing specification content additional to the AS and A Level common subject criteria for chemistry.
This guide gives advice on co-teaching AS and A Level and includes a suggested planner.
This guide considers in detail the chemical literacy skills that students need to develop and outlines strategies that teachers can use to help them develop these skills.
Mapping the new specification to the legacy specification.
This guide focuses on the transition from key stage 4 to key stage 5.
This checkpoint task should be used with the transition guide on amount of substance.
This document gives teachers additional background information for the atomic structure checkpoint task.
Focusing on the topic of atomic structure this guide looks at the transition from KS4 to KS5 curriculum.
Designed to help teachers assess students' current knowledge level.
Focusing on the topic of bonding and structure this guide looks at the transition from KS4 to KS5 curriculum.
Developed to help teachers assess students' current knowledge level, this is designed to be used with the KS4-KS5 transition guide.
This student resource should be used in conjunction with the bonding and structure KS4-KS5 transition guide.
Focusing on the topic of bonding this guide looks at the transition from KS5 to HE curriculum.
Focusing on the topic of enthalpy changes this guide looks at the transition from KS4 to KS5 curriculum.
This student resource should be used in conjunction with the enthalpy changes KS4-KS5 transition guide.
Guidance on the skills required for both assessments, arrangements for the practical endorsement, and suggestions for planning a practical scheme of work.
This fact sheet can be used at open/options evenings to give students and parents an insight to the qualification.
Find guidance on key concepts and creative approaches to delivery with activities in our delivery guides.
Create and export your own schemes of work based on specification statements and our new teaching and learning resources.
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