KS3 SCIENCE LAB ACTIVITIES

Everything you need to deliver 9 Science practical activities in Year 8. Three Biology practicals, three Chemistry practicals and 3 for Physics. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7 and 9. Some would also be suitable in GCSE. The slides for each activity include the apparatus needed, method and results. I have been using most of these activities in KS3 for several courses now and they work very well, they are one hour long approximately. They can also be performed as demonstrations.

1. Proper use of the microscope.
2. Growing bacteria. This is one of my favourite activities because they enjoy it a lot.
3. Virtual experiment on disease transmission. This simply follows a video in the Cambridge Hub where you can find many others that can be used for distance learning or if labs are not available.
4. Temperature and solubility. Investigation on how temperature affects the solubility of salt in water.
5. Investigating water. The students work out the amount of salt in two different water samples.
6. Chromatography of ink
7. Testing insulation. Investigation on which is the best material for insulating walls.
8. Conduction star. Investigation on which metal is the best heat conductor.
9. Cooling wax activity to study the freezing point of wax.
   Coincides with Exploring Science textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW.
   Technician notes and basic risk assessment are included for all practical activities in an excel document and two word docs.
   All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
   Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.