A selection of question about using a light microscope and scale and magnification questions.

Useful for gaining understanding of the structure of atoms and the basic properties of subatomic particles. YOU WILL NEED SOME SWEETS (SKITTLES OR SMARTIES) TO DO THIS ACTIVITY.

This is suitable for Entry Level Certificate or very basic GCSE students as an initial introduction (Note: I have simplified this a lot for my ELC students so some scientists may feel parts are wrong)

3 activities to introduce Equations.

Resource to get pupils to think about/revise why people live near volcanos coupled with using persuasive writing.

Worksheet on Symmetry on a Halloween pumpkin theme. Draw identical shapes, patterns or designs either side of the mirror line to create a symmetrical pattern.

Illustrated history of tanks. Can be used to cut and match information to pictures as a reading activity or for note taking or for information capture depending on how you set up your lesson.

Step by step method and one worked example of each. 4 Worksheets in total.

A design activity based around tanks including drawing annotated diagrams and evaluating your design.

Information about tanks of the future with illustration that I used for a reading/research activity where my student summarised each section into one or two sentences. you could also make comprehension questions to use with this.

Illustrated time line and labelling/matching activity.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks. There is then a guided self and peer assessment activities followed by redrafting and final write up. I used this over a sequence of 3 lessons but mainstream learners would progress more quickly. Following on from my free resource The Captain.

Reading comprehension activity based on the history of Ninja. Includes short text and questions.

Writing activity based on reading the blurb. One with questions to answer the other asking students to write what the blurb tells them and to explain why they think this.

Picture of the front cover with boxes in which to write your analysis. Differentiated to four different levels from blank to prompts and sentence starters.

A worksheet to support designing a pirate character to use in story writing.

An introduction to coordinates through a buried treasure game. Once the island is drawn and the treasure buried students can play a battleships style coordinates game to find each others treasure or could design questions about their island for peers to answer.

A sequence of lessons to get pupils to use adjectives, persuasive writing and to evaluate themed around a creative project building pirate forts as part of a topic following the book Treasure Island. I used it in English lessons but could be adapted for DT.

Reward tokens or tokens to conduct a pirate treasure hunt.

Explanation and one step by step example.