Experienced science teacher - 15 years of teaching. Commissioned resource author. Copy editor.
Prefer active student-led activities and so tend to design accordingly.
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Experienced science teacher - 15 years of teaching. Commissioned resource author. Copy editor.
Prefer active student-led activities and so tend to design accordingly.
Save yourself heaps of planning time, for as little as £1.00. Funds generated from the sales of resource helps pay for the software and apps used to create my resources.
I found this document after a long search on the internet. It dates back to early 2000 and has the complete breakdown of topics, learning objectives, outcomes, possible activities and teaching notes.
Published by the QCA.
GCSE Physics, Big Bang, Red Shift, Expanding Universe, Cosmic Background radiation, microwaves, evidence, theory
This activity is designed to get all abilities creating their own learning through comic strips and a newspaper type activity.
Activity one students complete tasks in a newspaper style.
Activity two, students can create comic strips.
Brief information on the Big Bang, Red Shift and Cosmic Background radiation is included in the form of a comic strip (good for reluctant readers). Students then have to produce their own image that depicts the content of each scene, forcing them to engage with the text and personalise their learning. As an further activity or homework, students are given the template for the comic strips and instructed to produce their own more detailed version.
Students do not need to be artistically gifted and can use a variety of material to create the images, ie a collage from old magazines, plasticine or even pieces of shaped pasta. The idea is that they think about the information and how they would like depict it, no matter how abstract.
Based on the AQA key words produced by them, this is designed to get students to interact with the words and definitions. Suitable for C grade and above or in mixed ability groups. Activity should take about 20 minutes.
Objectives: To understand how evaporation is linked to thermal energy transfer
To understand how to change the rate of evaporation/condensation
I have found this works best in small groups where students can discuss ideas. The activity should take about 40 minutes and then another 20 minutes for peer assessment.
Activity overview:
Give higher achievers a text book and lower achievers the accompaning text. I usually allow students to answer whichever questions they wish but generally find that they attempt most.
Students have found themselves stranded on a deserted island with no food, shelter, water or fuel. They have discovered that the island’s inhabitants are only too happy to supply them with the essentials, providing that they share their knowledge of science with them.
Each question asked has point values. At the end of the journey students count up how many points they have accumulated to see how well they were able to survive!
Who is it for?
This is an assessment based upon the new national curriculum on energy suitable for KS3 but could also be used at KS4 for a pre-topic assessment.
What is included?
This resource is a carefully designed, 25 question multiple choice quiz, that assesses depth and breadth of knowledge.
There are two ways to use the resource.
Firstly, it can be manually marked within a couple of minutes, by students.
Secondly, it can be marked using the free Quick Key App for android and IOS. Data is collected within seconds using the teacher's mobile phone or tablet, and results visible immediately as well as consolidated in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data in this form is exceptionally useful, teachers are able to assess progress in a matter of minutes, and address misconceptions immediately. I've been using this app for a very long time and can't recommend it highly enough.
Feedback tasks can be generated in either little report forms or as a whole class spread sheet that can be RAG rated by outcome.
See the video tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0XcUHc09Qc
Info on the app can be found here: https://get.quickkeyapp.com/teachers/
Feedback Tasks related to this assessment will be available by 14 November and can be found at my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/heelis
Worksheet to help those struggling with this topic to gain merit. Helps them to describe how lenses can affect rays of light. A similar one for mirrors can be found here http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Concave-and-amp-Convex-Mirrors-BTEC-low-abiltiy-6-3-6427471/requestAction/add/ - answers to be uploaded shortly.
Students find themselves stranded on a tropical island and have to answer questions relating to Sound Waves and the Doppler Effect in order to get food, water, shelter and fuel from the local tribe. Designed to stretch and challenge but accessible to all abilities, fully differentiated. Suitable for GCSE Physics course.
Doppler Effect, Frequency, Sound Waves, pitch, amplitude,
This activity reinforces some of the key terminology and parts and functions of the National Grid that students will have encountered during this lesson. I have designed this so that it can be accessible to those with literacy difficulties by putting in plain student speak where possible.
I have also included the answers so that students can peer or self assess.
Some of the terminology includes:
step-up transformer, current, substation, pylon
A Bundle of 5 Resources designed to help teach the new AQA "X-rays and Ultrasound in medicine" lessons. Included are a tarsia puzzle activity, revision resources, jeopardy challenge, web quest, learning clock activity etc.
NEW SPECIFICATION FOR EXAMINATION IN 2018
Objective:
To understand the function of the different wires in a plug, how a mains cable works, the importance of the earth wire, the difference between a three and two core cable.
Included:
Text, 2 Tarsia Puzzles of different sizes, answers to the Tarsia
Suitable for both high and low achievers.
Approximately a 40 minute activity.
Lesson Ideas:
Give students the text document and allow them time to read and highlight any words they do not understand.
Put the students in groups of 2 or 3 and issue each group with 2 post-it notes.
Students then cut and assemble the tarsia puzzle, matching the question and answer. If students are really struggling, they are allowed to write a single question on each of the post-it notes and then wait for the teacher to circulate and answer the questions.
After the time is up, issue each group with the answers and have them complete their puzzles.
This is a good starter activity for the following lesson, to re-inforce the ideas.
Lesson 1
Lesson and simple practical Heat and Temperature
Aim: To see whether boiling water will cool faster if a cold metal cube is placed inside the beaker.
Objectives
Recognise what we mean by ‘temperature’.
Describe how differences in temperature can cause heat energy to transfer.
Explain the difference between heat and temperature
Lesson 2
Lesson and simple practical conservation of Energy GPE, KE
Aim To see if the height at which we drop an object will affect the size of the crater it makes.
To describe energy transfer between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.
Explain how energy is conserved when objects fall.
Additional free resources when purchased as part of a bundle.
Objective : to understand and consolidate ideas related to specific heat capacity.
Differentiated set of questions that can be shaped into a foldable.
This resource is suitable for GCSE or high achieving KS3.
I use it either on A3 paper As a groupwork activity for revision or consolidation, or, as an individual homework task.
This resources contains 2 activities, one a set of 26 flash cards ideal for revision and a second file with the same 26 terms and definitions in the form of a card sort. This is an ideal activity for GCSE revision or a starter for the new year 10 physics curriculum.
This resource is ideal for both the new and legacy AQA course. It consists of 2 identical crosswords, excepting that the one for foundation students has some of the letters already inserted. A very good resource to consolidate learning or for revision.
This resource consists of a set of approximately 20 revision flash cards - 1 question and answer per card - and a card sort based upon the cards.
Suited to middle to lower achievers.
Objectives:
Understand the difference between alternating and direct current.
Describe the role of the live wire and neutral wire in the mains electrical supply.
How to read oscilloscope traces.
How to use an oscilloscope.
Suitable for higher or foundation.
This is a complete lesson and includes:
-Starter (on presentation)
Complete presentation that clear explains and links to the objectives
Plenary (on presentation)
A worksheet that focuses on the objectives
A feedback sheet that includes WWW and EBI as well as text to help them answer the feedback questions.
I use this in conjunction with a demonstration of the oscilloscope and signal generator, although it is not essential as the presentation is very detailed.
A complete lesson and extra activities.
Objectives:
Describe how the ear works
Recall the parts of the ear and their functions.
Evaluate Models
Your pack includes a presentation, tarsia puzzle, cut and paste jigsaw, worksheet.
Students build the model in groups of two or three. It helps to show how the moon orbits the EArth and the Sun and that the Earth orbits the Sun. It can also be used to show eclipses and the different phases of the moon.
There are host of differentiated set of resources for you choose from. Including peer assessment activity, cloze task, key term match, help sheet and a spot the spelling mistake activity.