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KS4 Chemistry

Getting Started

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What is Boardworks KS4 Chemistry?

Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is an educational package designed for whole-class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors.

This PowerPoint presentation is a guide for teachers getting started with the product, and covers common questions and technical advice.

If you haven’t used a Boardworks product before, it is recommended that you start here.

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Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is made up of three sections, each containing several PowerPoint presentations as listed below:

What is in the product?

For the full contents please view the contents document on the Boardworks CD-ROM, which lists the learning objectives and details the Flash activities in each presentation.

Changing MaterialsUseful Organic; Alkanes and Alkenes; Useful Rocks; Useful Metals; Useful Air; Quantitative Chemistry; Earth and Atmosphere

Classifying MaterialsAtomic Structure; Ionic Bonding; Covalent Bonding; Metallic Bonding; Comparing Bonding

Patterns of BehaviourPeriodic Table; Noble Gases; Alkali Metals; Halogens; Transition Metals; Chemical Reactions; Rates; Biotechnology; Reversible Reactions; Energy Transfer

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To begin using the product, open the folder that contains the presentation you wish to use and double-click on that file to open it.

Each presentation will open in “Slide Sorter” view.

To view the presentation as a slide show, select the “View” menu and click on “Slide Show”, or click on the slide show icon at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

How do I begin using the product?

Slide Show

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Are there any teachers’ notes?

This product does not contain hard-copy teachers’ notes.

Where a slide contains notes that are intended for teachers, an icon is shown in the top right-hand corner, as above. These notes typically include extra information or guidance on completing an activity.

You can view the notes during a slide show by right-clicking and choosing “Speaker Notes”.

When not in “Slide Show” view, select the “View” menu and click on “Normal”. You will see the notes relevant to that particular slide at the bottom of the screen.

Alternatively, click the “Normal View” icon at the bottom-left of your screen.

Normal View

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All slides containing Flash-based content have the Flash icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable but can be copied and pasted into other presentations, like other objects in PowerPoint. All Flash activities are designed to be easy-to-use and self-explanatory. In most activities the arrow button ( ) resets the activity, and the question mark button ( ) provides extra help.

When you open a PowerPoint presentation, you may receive a warning message saying that macros are present. These macros enable the Flash to run and are safe to enable when using our products.

This product contains interactive exercises designed in Flash, a multimedia technology. To view the Flash-based content, you will need to have the most recent version of Macromedia Flash player installed on your computer. To ensure that you have the correct version, double-click on the file ‘Install Flash Player 7 AX.exe’ included on the Boardworks CD-ROM, and follow the on-screen instructions.

What about Flash interactivity?

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How do I navigate through the presentations?

The majority of presentations are written in a linear manner for easy navigation.

Like any other PowerPoint presentation, click on an empty area of the screen to reveal the next object on that slide or to move forward to the next slide.

Click on the purple arrows at the bottom left and right of the screen to move forwards and backwards through the presentation.

The number of slides in the presentation is indicated in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.

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You can print all the slides in a presentation by clicking on the printer icon.

You can print an individual slide by navigating to that slide, selecting the “File” menu and clicking “Print”; in the “Print range” section of the popup window, select “Current slide” and click “OK”.

You can print a selection of slides by selecting the “File” menu and clicking “Print”; in the “Print range” section, select “Slides” and type in slide numbers you want to print, and click “OK”.

If you want to print the notes that accompany a slide, select the “File” menu and click “Print”; in the “Print what” section, select “Notes Pages” from the first drop-down menu.

Can I print from the presentations?

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Can I edit the presentations?

One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is that it has been created in PowerPoint, which means it is editable. You are free to use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the presentations, including reordering, adding or deleting slides, adding or removing text, or inserting your own activities or images. The only items that aren’t editable are the Flash activities, but these can still be copied and pasted between slides and presentations.

Many schools save the original version of the product on the network, with teachers saving their own versions locally.

You can use any media in your own presentations for educational use within the school that has bought the product, with the exception of images that have a copyright line or other acknowledgement next to them; we cannot grant copyright for these items as we have licensed from another party and they must not be copied or edited in any way. If you move to another school, you must remove any Boardworks media from your own presentations. The Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details and takes precedence over this document.

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Can I give you feedback?

At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products and all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment on any of the content in the product please contact us:

The Science Publisher

Boardworks Ltd

Oxford Centre for Innovation

Mill Street

Oxford

OX2 0JX

tel: 08703 50 55 60

fax: 08703 50 55 65

e-mail: editors@theboardworks.co.uk