Year 9 Physics lesson, could be adapted. Students to work in small groups to put the order of events in a power station into the correct sequence. Discussion of fission and fusion. Students given source cards and to decide how they would invest the government energy budget, using evidence to support their answers. Exam question practice - could peer assess using markscheme. Plenary: nuclear energy loop game

Practical lesson designed for my year 7 class. Putting knowledge of forces into action to design a paper aeroplane. Competition for team to create aeroplane which will travel the fastest!

Activity designed for my year 8 form but could be used with any age group. Pupils are asked to write themselves a letter which they will revisit at the end of the year. Prompt questions are listed, in this case looking at the transition from year 7 to year 8 (many in my form have already struggled in this step up). Personal reflection time to consider how they have developed so far and what they hope to achieve in the year + steps to make such goals achievable. Pupils really enjoyed doing this and took the activity very seriously! Looking forward to them reading over their letters at the end of the year. Have also adapted the resource for my subject area (Science) - v easy to do. e.g. what was science like in year x? What are you looking forward to in science this year? What is making you feel apprehensive? etc.

Series of lessons to include: - monohybrid inheritance - dihybrid inheritance - codominance - multiple alleles - linked genes - epistasis

Resources created for new GCSE course. Used with very mixed ability year 9 group.

Carousel activity: pictures, equation and general info to be spread around the classroom, depending on level of ability. Demo: Yeast and glucose solution, with layer of oil on top. Delivery tube to limewater.

Resource I made to cover a couple of tutorial sessions, as we rejoin after the Christmas break. We discussed the number of famous people who died in 2016, and how they were influential. I went through two examples of inspirational people (this could be adapted) - Carrie Fisher for her work with mental health issues, and George Michael regarding his charity work and LGBT campaigns. Pupils then asked to consider who inspires them and to prepare a presentation on this, to deliver to the class/table to convince them of why their icon is the most inspirational (and the effect they have had on them). Class then votes. Good way to get them to consider what makes someone inspirational. Nice mix of celebrities, characters from novels, campaigners, and family members.

Used with a high ability GCSE class. Years 9,10, 11

Year 9 iGCSE - human impact on the environment.

Year 9 iGCSE chemistry.

Year 9 - iGCSE Biology, higher ability. Lesson on human populations and limiting factors which affect population growth. Cover bacterial sigmoid curve (to be printed for students). I used an old sheet of exam questions (not uploaded) to test their understanding of growth curves. Next lesson: to look at population pyramids.

Article relating to a modern recreation of Priestley's photosynthesis experiment, with comprehension questions. Used for higher ability student in my Biology class.

Used with high ability year 12 class, alongside the questions from Kerboodle.

Used to refresh pupils minds to Chemistry prior to starting unit on bonding.

Used as a 'Christmas' fun lesson with year 10, who had previosuly been studying the nervous system.

Lesson to a mixed ability year 7 group, 100 minute session but could be adjusted. Market place activity, using differentiated booklets. AfL Dice game. Followed by more ethics based activities, looking at how doctors can make the decision of who receives a donor organ. Developing higher order thinking skills (Bloom's) by ranking and justifying ideas. Donor cards to be printed, and used as exit pass for 3-2-1 plenary.

Powerpoint used with able year 12 class, cover monosaccharides, disacchardies and polysaccharides.

Presentation to introduce learning in Science. Gets pupils to reflect on science in Primary schools and discuss their anxieties/excitement for secondary school science. In small groups, use A3 paper for pupils to draw their mental image of a scientist. 99% will go with the mad scientist stereotype. Look at each other's drawings, and then go through some images of 'real-life' scientist, to get pupils to reconsider their initial stereotype - making the point that we can all be scientists as we make hypotheses, analyse, and consider solutions. Skills sort (I laminated these) - Which skills are most important to a scientist. Pupils work in small groups, and generate excellent discussion, with teacher playing devil's advocate. Gets pupils to think about how scientists actually work. Finally pupils can redraw their scientists, annotating diagrams with the key skills which a scientist may showcase! Really fun lesson.

Resource used as a talking point with my form group, to discuss thoughts on the death penalty. Worked really well - they really responded to the different videos used within the presentation, and caused much mature discussion amongst the group. They were particularly interested in the law's history within the UK.