AS Chemical Ideas

Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Appendicies

Chemical Idea	Related Storyline	Contributor	Type of resource	Description
Chapter 1: Measuring amounts of substance
1.1	EL1	Paul Luton Richmond upon Thames College	PPoint	This PowerPoint is concerned with the development of ideas about atomic structure. The first part of this 2005 presentation would be useful for reviewing the How Science Works criteria in the 3rd edition.
1.1	EL3	Michael Tomlinson John Ruskin College South Croydon	Promethean Flipchart	A 'flipchart' file for use with a Promethean interactive whiteboard, covering relative formula mass, % composition, Avogadro constant and empirical formulae. (Note: not compatible with 'SmartBoard')
1.1	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	A structured PowerPoint introducing notetaking, guiding the way through what are we made of in the storyline and introducing mole calculations as well as activity EL3
1.1	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	An introduction to the theory and practice needed for activity EL3
1.1	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	Lots of clear examples and instructions on balancing equations and mole calculations
1.1	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	A Powerpoint introducing the concept of the mole using sweets
1.1	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	A comprehensive guide to balancing equations and an introduction to mole calculations
1.2	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	A presentation on balancing equations. Links directly to activity EL3.2
1.2	EL4	Daniel Dean Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College	PPoint	Balancing equations is a short but useful slide show. It is relevant for the 3rd edition. ‌
1.2	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	A presentation on classification of elements leading to group 2 and linking to activity EL4.1
1.2	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	An introduction to the theory and practice needed for activity EL3
1.2	EL3	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	Lots of clear examples and instructions on balancing equations and mole calculations.
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1.5	ES1	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	New for 3rd edition. Needs to be on card and cut up. Students construct a rectangle in which questions and their answers touch. This activity reviews work on titrations.
Chapter 2: Atomic Structure Back to Top
2.1	EL1 EL3	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	This covers the build-up of sub-atomic particles in atoms and isotopes. The last few slides on mass spectrometry are no longer relevant for the 3rd edition.
2.1	EL1 EL3	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	PPoint	This "true-false" presentation covers GCSE work onatomic structure and is structured in a timer-loop system. It is a suitable resource for the start of a lesson on CI 2.1. This is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
2.2	EL1 EL3	Phil Pearson Calder High Technology College	PPoint	Nuclear reactions is a useful slideshow. It is still relevant for the 3rd edition although it goes with the health warning that the mass and atomic numbers should be on the left of the symbol for the element.
2.2	EL1 EL3	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	A copy of Radiation Taboo needs to be provided on card for each group of three students. One student is the "guesser", a second gives clues and the third is the judge to make sure none of the "taboo" words are used. The winning group of students being the one with the most correct guesses in the five minutes. This is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
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2.4	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar school	Word	New for 3rd edition. Students move around to find answers to the Human Bingo questions. This generates conversations about what has been learnt so far.
2.4	ES2	Paul Luton Richmond upon Thames College	PPoint	A high quality presentation dealing with electron configuration.
2.4	ES2	Chris Otter (then) Bede College, Billingham	PPoint	A very useful animated PowerPoint to illustrate the build up of electron configuration using shells and sub-shells. This is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
2.4	ES2	Nicola Weatherill Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	Nicola has contributed a suggested approach for teaching electron configuration and a template for student use in recording electron build-up. This is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
2.5	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	PPt	New for the 3rd edition. Use this as a plenary slide for CI 2.5. Allow students a few minutes to discuss in pairs before asking for ideas about ionisation enthalpy.
Chapter 3: Bonding, shapes and sizes Back to Top
3.1	EL2	Carol Crowley Franklin College Grimsby	PPoint	A presentation providing a good summary of ionic bonding. The references in the slides would need updating for the 3rd edition.

3.1	EL2	Carol Crowley Franklin College Grimsby	PPoint	A presentation providing a good summary of covalent bonding which is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
3.1	EL2	Eddie Grimble Queen Mary College	Word	An exercise on the effect of structure on properties, similar to the one above. The references to other Chemical Ideas may need alteration for the 3rd edition.
3.1	EL2	Eddie Grimble Queen Mary College	Word	An exercise on bonding, based on text boxes in Word documents and designed to reinforce students' understanding. The references to other Chemical Ideas may need alteration for the 3rd edition.
3.1	EL2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	PPoint	This loopy PowerPoint is concerned with types of bonding. Once started it runs until esc is pressed. Run the slideshow through a couple of times as a starter or plenary. It is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
3.1	EL2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	New for 3rd edition. Have this A3 size to review structure, properties and bonding. Students fill in as much as they can, discussing what they know in pairs. After 5 minutes, ask students to swap partners and work with another student. It will generate dialogue between students and with you.
3.1	ES4	Charles Ullermayer previously Northfields Dunstable	Word	Electronegativity tables, bond polarity and calculating electronegativity.
3.2	EL2	Katy Fullilove Langley Park Boys School	PPoint	A simple PowerPoint summarising the main points needed to understand the shapes of simple molecules.
3.2	EL2	Peter Tryon, Uplands, Malaysia	PPoint	A comprehensive presentation looking at molecular shapes.
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3.4	PR5	Melanie Tyrell Small Heath School Birmingham	PPoint	This presentation deals with geometric isomerism. Will need some tweaking for the 3rd edition due to the introduction of E/Z isomerism.
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Chapter 4: Energy changes and chemical reactions Back to Top
4.1	DF2	Katy Fullilove Langley Park Boys School	Word	A blank glossary of key terms for the students to complete.
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4.3	DF5	Louise Sibley King James’s School Knaresborough	PPoint	New for 3rd edition. Useful as a plenary. Based on Q1 of the problems on entropy.
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Chapter 5: Structure and propertiesBack to Top
5.1	ES2	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	This contribution covers ions in solution and in solids, and the formation of ionic precipitates. Most of it is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
5.1	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar school	PPoint	New for the 3rd edition. Students write questions on whether a compound is soluble in this game based on an idea from ALPs.
5.1	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar school	PPoint	New for 3rd edition. Use this to check that students can identify ionic equations for precipitation reactions.
5.2	A9	Anne Unseld Newstead Wood School	PPoint	An attractive and effective presentation on Molecules and Networks, based on Group 4 element oxides. Still relevant for the 3rd edition although may need tweaking.
5.3	PR2	Charlie Butler Mid-Kent College	PPoint	A neat and effective presentation on dipoles andintermolecular forces. May need some tweaking for the 3rd edition.
5.3	PR2	Katy Fullilove Langley Park Boys School	PPoint	A presentation on dipoles and intermolecular forces. Most of this is Katy's own work but she acknowledges the contribution made by Charlie Butler in the previous presentation. May need some tweaking for the 3rd edition.
5.3+4	PR4	Jolene Gardner	PPoint	Slides 1-9: Summary of intermolecular forces, includinghydrogen bonding, permanent dipole forces andinstantaneous dipole forces. This goes beyond the syllabus in 3rd edition but is still useful.
5.4	PR4	John Hudson Green School for Girls Isleworth	PPoint	John's contribution is an impressive and effective animated presentation on hydrogen bonding. Slides 1 to 16 make up the presentation, slides 17 to 26 are intended to be printed as a handout, and slides 4 and 14 are designed as short discussion activities for small groups. May need some tweaking for the 3rd edition.
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Chapter 6: Radiation and matter Back to Top
6.1	EL1	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	This PowerPoint explores Radiation and Matter. The last two slides covering the calculation of ionization energy are no longer needed for the 3rd edition.
6.1	EL1	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	This is a mapping from memory exercise on light and electrons. Students work in groups of three and have a black-and-white copy of the template (1). The teacher has the completed coloured form (2). One of the students looks at the coloured copy for 15 seconds and then returns to the template to discuss/transfer the information for 45 seconds. This is repeated seven more times. It could be followed up with past questions. Still relevant for the 3rd edition.
6.2	A2	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	A presentation clarifying the troublesome ideas in theeffects of radiation on matter. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
6.2	A2	Margaret Walters Paston College	Word	A simple but effective missing-word document for reinforcing the key points in the effects of radiation on matter. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
6.3	A3	Sarah Baines Tadcaster Grammar school	Word	Useful to check students can spot if a step in a radical reaction is initiation, propagation or termination. New for 3rd edition.
6.3	A3	Natasha Callaghan Farrington School	Word	Summary sheet for the new specification 3rd edition.
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6.5	EL4	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	PPoint	New for 3rd edition. An updated PowerPoint which includes time of flight mass spectrometry.
6.5	EL4	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar School	Word	New for 3rd edition. Could be used as a plenary after teaching CI 6.5 on time of flight mass spectrometry.
6.5	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	Ppoint	Interpreting results from activity EL4.1, introduction to mass spectrometry, the method and interpretation of simple elemental spectra.
6.5	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	Summary of group 2 chemistry and an in introduction to mass spectrometry.
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Chapter 7: Equilibrium in chemistry Back to Top
7.1	A9	Chris Hall Hele's School Plympton	PPoint	This presentation deals with Le Chatelier's Principle and the equilibrium between water and carbon dioxide.Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking. ‌
7.1	A9	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	This is concerned with chemical equilibrium. Joanna provides copies for students to highlight and annotate. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
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Chapter 8: Acids and bases
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Chapter 9: Redox Back to Top
9.1	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar school	Word	New for 3rd edition. Students join up words and write the relationship as a sentence on the lines for a concept map plenary which reviews redox reactions.
9.1	ES2	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	A presentation on Redox Reactions interspersed with experiments. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but check the references.
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Chapter 10: Rates of reactions Back to Top
10.1	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	This document is concerned with collision theory. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
10.2	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	A resource on the effect on temperature on reaction rate. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
10.2	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	A document on collision theory in reactions and the removal of ozone. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
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10.5	DF7	Anne Unseld Newstead Wood School	PPoint	An impressive presentation, What is a catalyst? covering the nature of catalysts and how they work. Still relevant for the 3rd edition although CI 10.4 has become CI 10.5.
10.6	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	This document is concerned with how catalysts work.Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking, was CI 10.5 but now CI 10.6.
10.6	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	A document on collision theory in reactions and the removal of ozone. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
Chapter 11: The Periodic Table Back to Top
11.1	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	Ppoint	An eyecatching introduction to trends and periodicity.
11.1	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	An introduction to the Periodic Table and periodicity.
11.1	EL4	Katy Fullilove Langley Park Boys School	Excel	Periodicity a spreadsheet providing data for the first three periods. This would be useful for students to demonstrate their ICT skills and links to activity EL4.3
11.2	EL4	Daniel Dean Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College	PPoint	This presentation deals with The s block: Groups 1 and 2. It is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
11.2	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	An innovative introduction to classification leading introduction to group 2 and activity EL4.1
11.2	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	Ppoint	Interpreting results from activity EL4.1, introduction to mass spectrometry, the method and interpretation of simple elemental spectra.
11.2	EL4	Ulupi Barnett Cramlington Village	PPoint	Summary of group 2 chemistry and an in introduction to mass spectrometry.
11.2	EL4	Charles Ullermayer previously Northfields Dunstable	Word	Importance of Group 2 Elements for Life questions and answers.
11.4	ES2	Lesley Johnston Tadcaster Grammar school	Word	New for 3rd edition. In halogens taboo, students work in 3s and need a set of cards cut out and on card. Student A gives clues so student B can guess the word/phrase. Student C checks that student A does not use the taboo words. Rotate roles. Winning group is the first to finish.
11.4	ES2	Carol Crowley Franklin College Grimsby	PPoint	An attractive presentation summarising the physical properties and electron configurations of the halogens . This is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
11.4	ES4	Charles Ullermayer previously Northfields Dunstable	Word	Importance of group 7 elements for life questions and answers. ‌
Chapter 12: Organic chemistry: frameworks Back to Top
12.1	DF3	Daniel Dean Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College	PPoint	This presentation deals with The alkanes. It is still useful for the 3rd edition.
12.2	PR2	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	A presentation illustrating the electrophilic addition of bromine to ethene. It is intended for self-study rather than teacher-led demonstration. Still relevant for the 3rd edition.
12.2	PR2	Lesley Johnston King James's School Knaresborough	PPoint	A timed loop presentation with sound commentary and questions on the electrophilic addition of bromine to ethene. This, therefore, runs like a film without the use of the mouse or keyboard. Still relevant for the 3rd edition.
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Chapter 13: Organic chemistry: modifiers Back to Top
13.1	ES6	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	Halogenoalkanes is the subject of this document. It is still relevant for the 3rd edition.
13.1	A3	Joanna Bowman Our Lady's Convent HS Hackney	Word	A document on collision theory in reactions and the removal of ozone. Still relevant for the 3rd edition but may need tweaking.
13.2	DF4	John Hudson Green School for Girls Isleworth	PPoint	John has contributed an attractive animated presentation on alcohols and ethers. Still useful for the 3rd edition.
13.2	PR4	Louise Herbert King James’s school Knaresborough	PPoint	This presentation is quite challenging and a bit of fun. New for the 3rd edition.
13.2	PR4	Bridget Sutton	PPoint	A useful starter/plenary covering oxidation of alcohols.
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Chapter 14: Organic synthesis Back to Top
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Chapter 15: Greener industry Back to Top
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Appendices: Experimental techniques Back to Top
App A
App B
App C		Brigette Sutton		This formative task, sent in by Brigette Sutton, has been used during the lead up to the AS assessed practicals and supports students taking of burette readings.

AS Chemical Ideas

Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Appendicies

Chapter 1: Measuring amounts of substance

Chapter 2: Atomic Structure Back to Top

Chapter 3: Bonding, shapes and sizes Back to Top

Chapter 4: Energy changes and chemical reactions Back to Top

Chapter 5: Structure and propertiesBack to Top

Chapter 6: Radiation and matter Back to Top

Chapter 7: Equilibrium in chemistry Back to Top

Chapter 8: Acids and bases

Chapter 9: Redox Back to Top

Chapter 10: Rates of reactions Back to Top

Chapter 11: The Periodic Table Back to Top

Chapter 12: Organic chemistry: frameworks Back to Top

Chapter 13: Organic chemistry: modifiers Back to Top

Chapter 14: Organic synthesis Back to Top

Chapter 15: Greener industry Back to Top

Appendices: Experimental techniques Back to Top

Chapter 4: Energy changes and chemical reactions
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