AQA GCSE Chemistry 8462 Complete Course | 97 Ready to Teach Lessons with Topic Tests

Everything a department needs to teach AQA GCSE Chemistry (8462), planned and ready to teach from the first lesson. Every lesson is ready to use, so your teachers get their planning time back and every class gets the same high-quality lesson.

What you get

• 97 editable PowerPoint lessons, one hour each, in teaching order
• Including all 8 required practicals, each written as a full lesson with the method broken into illustrated steps. Rates of reaction is two lessons, one for each AQA method, so there are 9 practical lessons
• 10 topic tests, one per topic, with a full mark scheme for every question. 510 marks in total.
• 10 medium-term plans, one per unit, with the lesson sequence, key ideas, common misconceptions and assessment points
• A curriculum map listing all 97 lessons with their objectives, specification points and tier, filterable, with your own teaching hours and terms to fill in
• A teacher guide explaining how the course is built and where to start
• A Personalised Learning Checklist covering the whole specification for pupils to rate red, amber or green before mocks

The same clear structure in every lesson

Every lesson follows the same order, so teachers and pupils always know what comes next. It opens with a Big Question and a Key words slide, then a Do Now that retrieves the lesson before. The teaching cycle runs I do, we do, you do for each idea: the explanation you talk through, whiteboard questioning and partner talk, then written practice pupils complete alone. A model answer follows every task. Every lesson ends with an AQA-style exam question, its mark scheme and an exit ticket.

Assessment for learning in every lesson

Mini whiteboard questions show you who has understood during the lesson. Pupils mark their own work and each other's against model answers. The exam question gives regular exam practice, and the exit ticket tells you where to start next lesson.

Clear, consistent slides

Every slide uses text of at least 20pt, so pupils can read it from the back of the room. Each idea has its own picture page, and a click in slide show opens the picture full screen.

Required practicals

Each practical covers the method, the variables, the results table, the graph work and the analysis. Pupils make a pure, dry salt, carry out a titration, electrolyse solutions and measure rates of reaction by both AQA methods.

Easy to adapt and to share across a department

The curriculum map and the medium-term plans set out the teaching order, with each required practical straight after the lesson that teaches it. Every slide uses the 8462 specification codes, so teachers can check any lesson against the scheme of work in seconds. The lessons are PowerPoint files and the topic tests are Word files, so you can change the examples, the Do Now slides and the pace to suit your classes.

Who it is for

Heads of Chemistry building a two or three-year separate science route. Non-specialists teaching Chemistry outside their subject. Trainees and early career teachers. Tutors and home educators working through the specification with one pupil.

Download the free sample before you buy.

Written by Mrs Hayles, an award-winning science educator, former deputy headteacher and science curriculum author.

Please note

This course covers AQA GCSE Chemistry (8462). Combined Science: Trilogy (8464), Biology 8461 and Physics 8463 have their own courses.

Every lesson in the course, in teaching order

All 97 lessons are listed below so you can check the course against your own scheme of work before you buy.

C1 Atomic structure and the periodic table

• Atoms, elements and compounds
• Mixtures and separating them
• How the model of the atom developed
• Charges of subatomic particles and atomic number
• The size, mass and relative atomic mass of atoms
• The electronic structure of atoms
• The periodic table
• The development of the periodic table
• Metals and non-metals
• Group 0 and Group 1
• Group 7: the halogens
• Transition metals compared with Group 1

C2 Bonding, structure and properties

• The three types of chemical bond
• Ionic bonding and the charges on ions
• Ionic lattices and covalent bonding
• Metallic bonding
• The three states of matter
• State symbols and the properties of ionic compounds
• Small molecules and polymers
• Giant covalent structures, metals and alloys
• Diamond and graphite
• Graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes
• The size of nanoparticles
• Using nanoparticles

C3 Quantitative chemistry

• Conservation of mass and relative formula mass
• Mass changes and chemical measurements
• Moles and molar mass (Higher tier)
• Calculating masses from balanced equations (Higher tier)
• Limiting reactants and concentration of solutions (Higher tier)
• Percentage yield
• Atom economy
• Volumes of gases

C4 Chemical changes

• Metal oxides, oxidation and reduction
• The reactivity series
• Extracting metals and redox (Higher tier)
• Reactions of acids: metals, salts and neutralisation
• Making salts and the pH scale
• Required practical: Making a Soluble Salt
• Titrations, and strong versus weak acids
• Required practical: Titration
• The process of electrolysis
• Extracting metals and electrolysing solutions
• Required practical: Electrolysis
• Half equations at the electrodes (Higher tier)

C5 Energy changes

• Exothermic and endothermic reactions
• Required practical: Temperature Changes
• Reaction profiles and activation energy
• Bond Energies and Energy Change (Higher tier)
• Cells and Batteries
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells

C6 Rate and extent of chemical change

• Calculating the Rate of a Reaction
• What Changes the Rate of a Reaction
• Required practical: Rates of Reaction 1
• Required practical: Rates of Reaction 2
• Catalysts
• Reversible reactions and equilibrium
• Le Chatelier's Principle and changing concentration (Higher tier)
• The effect of temperature on equilibrium (Higher tier)
• The effect of pressure on equilibrium (Higher tier)

C7 Organic chemistry

• Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes
• Fractional distillation and petrochemicals
• The properties and combustion of hydrocarbons
• Cracking hydrocarbons to make alkenes
• The structure and formulae of alkenes
• Reactions of the alkenes
• Alcohols and their reactions
• Carboxylic acids and their reactions
• Addition Polymerisation
• Condensation Polymerisation
• DNA and Natural Polymers

C8 Chemical analysis

• Pure substances and formulations
• Chromatography and Rf values
• Required practical: Chromatography
• Testing for hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide
• Testing for Chlorine
• Identifying Metal Ions: Flame Tests and Hydroxides
• Identifying Carbonates, Halides and Sulfates
• Required practical: Identifying Ions
• Instrumental methods and flame emission spectroscopy

C9 Chemistry of the atmosphere

• The gases in today's atmosphere
• The Earth's early atmosphere
• How oxygen rose and carbon dioxide fell
• Greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect
• Climate change and the carbon footprint
• Pollutants from burning fuels
• The problems pollutants cause

C10 Using resources

• Resources and sustainable development
• Potable water
• Required practical: Water Purification
• Waste water treatment and extracting copper from low-grade ores (Higher tier)
• Life cycle assessment
• Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
• Corrosion and Rusting
• Alloys as Useful Materials
• Ceramics, Polymers and Composites
• The Haber Process
• NPK Fertilisers

Licence

One purchase covers one teacher. You can use these lessons with your own classes for as long as you teach, edit them to suit your pupils, print them and share them with the children you teach and their parents.

If your whole department wants to use them, buy one copy per teacher or email info@advisoryscience.com and I will arrange a department price.

Please do not upload the files to a public website, share them outside your own school, or resell them.