This Key Stage 3 resource is part of the JACOSA scheme. It covers the structure of the Earth and the formation of different types of rock. This story based learning project provides students with a compelling learning experience that is designed to put learning into context. The posters are often used at the beginning of lessons to excite learning. Teachers can plan lessons around the story. This is a team based and self managing learning project and is appropriate for a top set key stage 3 class who are learning about rocks. Divide your class into groups of 5 and assign each group member to a job. The skills required to do each job are outlined in the PowerPoint presentation. You can either encourage each group to assign roles themselves or assign the roles yourself, this will obviously depend on the class. The pupils in each team then work together to create 4 textbook pages on rocks. It is really up to you what resources you provide each group with and how long to give them (the time frame can easily be changed on the PP). A laptop computer, various textbooks and encyclopaedias, posters on rocks, labelled diagrams are usually given to each group, but some teachers also provide a teacher session, this being a part of the classroom that the pupils can go to gain information from their teacher at certain agreed times. This project obviously is designed to help pupils find things out for themselves and then apply what they have learned. In the second task, the teams have to plan a three part lesson, which incorporates the use of the textbook that they created in the first task. There is an alternative version of this project that covers a unit on Earth and space. These projects are often used at the end of term:o)

This Key Stage 3/4 resource is part of the JACOSA scheme. This story based learning project provides students with a compelling learning experience that is designed to put learning into context. The posters are often used at the beginning of lessons to excite learning. Teachers can plan lessons around the story. In this project, the Manning brothers are identical twins and own a conservation site in Africa. They have set up a project to try and protect endangered animals that live in Africa. This project covers all aspects of the genetics and inheritance part of the new science curriculum (2018).

This Key Stage 3 resource is part of the JACOSA scheme. This story based learning project provides students with a compelling learning experience that is designed to put learning into context. The posters are often used at the beginning of lessons to excite learning. Teachers can plan lessons around the story. In this project, professor Charles Hobbles has been found dead in his science laboratory and a lot of money has been stolen from out of his safe. Pupils train to be forensic scientists and then investigate what and who killed the professor. This project has an exploratory and practical nature to it and provides pupils with the opportunity to experiment. Is often used to introduce pupils to a science laboratory.

This Key Stage 3/4 resource is part of the JACOSA scheme. This story based learning project provides students with a compelling learning experience that is designed to put learning into context. The posters are often used at the beginning of lessons to excite learning. Teachers can plan lessons around the story. In this project, students solve scientific puzzles to open doors and chests that will eventually lead to some buried treasure. This unit of work is usually used in upper KS3 The project includes learning on resultant/net forces, density, mass and weight, moments, pressure and speed.