Lesson used with a high ability year 7 class.
Purpose to get them focus on the skills required to be an astronaut and to consider how they are developing these skills in their own learning.
Followed with a letter of application to join the Mars One project. Could be used as a reflective activity at the end of a space topic
Designed for use with high ability year 9 class to cover the new GCSE scheme, mark scheme included.
Have not included a question on cancer, as members of this class have recently lost family members.
Used with high ability year 9 class:
- Scavenger hunt Q sheet
- I printed and laminated answers, and spread these around the room. Pupils used this information to answer the questions.
- Correct the mistakes passage on aerobic and anaerobic respiration - including scientific and SPaG errors, for pupils to correct. Answer sheet inc.
Used with high ability year 10 group - an activity to test comprehension and understanding from previous lesson on Insulin and diabetes.
Could support less able pupils through accompanied use of a textbook.
Series of resources I have used with my form this year during our weekly 30 min tutorial session. Some of these can be carried over several sessions if they generate excellent discussion.
Used with a high ability year 12 class over the course of several lessons, as part of the Mass Transport topic.
PPT includes:
- structure of the heart
- cardiac cycle
- valves
- blood vessels
- tissue fluid
Used with a high ability year 9 class.
Practical - skittles in a petri dish, measuring time taken for pigment to reach the centre. Done with tap water, and hot water to investigate factors affecting diffusion.
Summary sheet bought from another Tes author - a gap fill on factors affecting diffusion.
Used this powerpoint with my high ability year 12 class, alongside a number of worksheets (adapted from other TES authors, or using past exam questions).
- Species and Taxonomy
- Calculating diversity
- Molecular techniques to investigate diversity
- For the slides on courtship rituals I added a sound effect (Puppy Love, by Donny Osmond). For this to work on your computer you would need to save this song as an mp3 (using a youtube converter) and add it to the slide.
Used with a high ability year 9 class, following lessons on diffusion and osmosis.
You may need to save gif of man rolling down hill (link to diffusion) and have used the font grilled cheese (may need reformatting if you don't have the font installed)
Resource used for a cover lesson on Space with my high ability year 7 class - could be adapted for different age groups or used as part of an extended project.
Used with a high ability year 9 class to introduce osmosis.
- I use the font grilled cheese, which I have downloaded onto my computer. You may need to reformat the font if you have not got this downloaded yourself.
Year 7 Science lesson, could be adapted to use with other year groups
Students work in groups, each group is researching a different type of plate boundary (conservative, constructive, destructive, collision). They then move around the room and teach other groups about what they have learnt. Focus if the Nepal Earthquake, and students use their learning from the lesson to explain what plate boundary there is in Nepal and why the Earthquake occurred.