3 x Electricity Do Now activities. Each asks students to link keyword to their definitions and then draw a relevant diagram (eg. circuit diagram) to review learning. 1. The first tests keywords such as 'light bulb', 'battery', 'series circuit' and 'parallel circuit' and asks students to explain series and parallel circuits using a diagram. 2. The second tests keywords such as 'current', 'ammeter', 'voltmeter' and 'series circuit' and asks students to draw circuit diagrams containing particular components. 3. The third tests keywords related to a plug, such as 'live wire', 'neutral wire', 'fuse' and asks students to draw a plug and explain its important parts

2 x worksheets on fuses The first is a Do Now reading comprehension on fuses and circuit breakers and how fuses work. The second is a worksheet asking students to decided which fuse is appropriate for different applications. Students are then required to calculate current from voltage and power data, using the equation P=IV (rearranged to I=P/V) and hence decide which fuse is appropriate.

2 x nuclear radiation and radioactivity Do Now keyword match up/comprehension activities. The first tests the keywords 'stable', 'unstable', 'radioactive' and 'decay' and has a comprehension on alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The second tests the keywords 'mutation', 'ionising radiation', 'fuel rods' etc. and has a brief comprehension on nuclear accidents.

Year 8 lesson on DC (direct current) motors and the motor effect. PowerPoint and worksheet included (at back of PowerPoint). The lesson involves students making a DC motor. LOs: To describe some uses of D.C. motors. To explain the effect of a magnetic field on a wire carrying an electric current. To explain how D.C. motors of different strengths are made. 1. Do Now: List objects with motors in them 2. Exposition: What is a motor and what is the energy transfer happening in them? 3. Student Activity: The motor effect reading comprehension 4. Mini-plenary: True or false quiz on the motor effect 5. Student Activity: Making a motor using wire, magnets, etc. 6. Exposition: How can you make the motor faster? 7. Plenary: Learning triangle For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 8 lesson on evaporation and a comparison with boiling. PowerPoint and worksheets included (at back of PowerPoint). LOs: To describe the process of evaporation. To explain the differences between boiling and evaporation using the particle model. To investigate factors affecting evaporation. 1. Do Now: Underline Mr. Wrong’s mistakes 2. Group Activity: Think, pair, share - what is happening in the pictures? 3. Exposition: Explaining evaporation using the particle model 4. Exposition/Group Activity: Comparing evaporation to boiling 5. Student Activity: Students complete table comparing evaporation to boiling (highly scaffolded and less scaffolded versions available) 6. Mini-plenary: True or false quiz 7. Demonstration: Factors affecting evaporation (eg. wind speed, temperature, surface area, liquid being evaporated). Worksheet for students to complete. 8. Plenary/Reflection: What quality did I demonstrate today? For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 8 lesson on changes of state. PowerPoint and worksheets included (at back of PowerPoint) LOs: To recognise changes of state as being reversible changes. To use scientific terminology to describe changes of state. To explain changes of state using the particle model and ideas about energy transfer. 1. Do Now: Which particle diagram shows a solid, a liquid and a gas? 2. Group Activity: Think, pair, share - what do the photos show? 3. Exposition: Changes of state and the particle model 4. Student Activity: Complete the diagram to show the changes of state and answer the questions 5. Mini-Plenary: Mini-whiteboard quiz on changes of state 6. Exposition: Different substances have different melting and boiling points 7. Exposition: Heating curves 8. Student Activity: Asking students to deduce what states different substances are at different temperatures, using their melting and boiling points 9. Plenary: Multiple choice questions exit ticket For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

GCSE lesson on conduction, convection and radiation (the 3 heat transfer processes). LOs: Describe the processes of heat transfer in solids, fluids and vacuums. Explain convection currents in detail. Compare and contrast the three types of heat transfer. 1. Do Now: What is happening in the picture? Explain this process in terms of the energy of the particles 2. Exposition/Demonstration: Modelling the 3 types of heat transfer using a ball (students could write down their understanding of the 3 processes) 3. Mini-plenary: 'Back to back' activity, where students split into pairs, with one facing the front. This student has to describe what they see without using the 3 key words (conduction, convection or radiation) 4. Student Activity: Venn diagram for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation, using words, diagrams etc. (helper sheet if needed) 5. Plenary: Exam style question about keeping a house warm Option extension/extra activities included: 1. Table for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation 2. Video questions (video on YouTube) for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 7 or 8 comprehension on static electricity

Year 7 Do Now on reproduction key words (fertilisation, testes, ovaries, etc)

GCSE level Do Now on cells (organelles, plant and animal cells, diffusion)

GCSE lesson on the nervous system and immune system. This lesson is mainly student led and assumes previous knowledge of the topics covered LOs: To define key parts of the nervous system. To describe how a signal crosses a synapse. To explain in detail how a reflex action occurs. 1. Do Now: List the 5 main sensory organs and the stimuli they respond to. 2. Student Activity: Label the nerve cell and explain its features 3. Independent Task: Label a diagram of a reflex arc and explain how a reflex action occurs (6 mark style question) 4. Student Activity: Explaining how nerve signals pass across a synapse 5. Mini-plenary: Quiz on the nerve system 6. Exposition: Pathogens, disease and the immune system 7. Student Activity: How do white blood cells protect us from disease (then correct answers) 8. Student Activity: Vaccination 6 mark exam-style question. What does it involve and how does it protect us from disease? (Then self assessment) 9. Student Activity: Antibiotic resistance using diagrams (Then peer assessment) 10. Plenary: Exam style question on the immune system For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 8 lesson/ revision lesson on metals vs. non-metals, metal properties, corrosion. PowerPoint and worksheets (see back of PowerPoint). LOs: To separate metals from non-metals To describe the properties of metals To explain what corrosion is 1. Do Now: Circle the pure metals 2. Student Activity: Metal or non-metal (Stretch: How do you know?) 3. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - What are the properties of metals? 4. Mini-plenary: Worksheet on metals and non-metals 5. Exposition: Rusting (requires iron, oxygen and water - must have all 3 to rust) 6. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - Why are religious objects made from gold? 7. Independent Task: Exam style question on metals and their properties 8. Plenary: Learning triangle For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

History of Magnets comprehension and quiz (for year 7 or 8)

GCSE lesson or revision lesson on Fuels from Oils, including recap of alkanes and alkenes LOs: To compare alkanes and alkenes. To explain how fractional distillation works. To analyse the differences between cracking and polymerisation 1. Do Now: Compare and contrast alkanes and alkenes 2. Student Activity: Labelling and explaining distillation apparatus 3. Student Activity: Describing trends in properties of different fractions from the fractional distillation process 4. Mini-plenary: MCQ on hydrocarbons 5. Student Activity: Explaining cracking of alkanes and polymerisation of alkenes 6. Independent Task: Exam style6 mark question on fractional distillation 7. Peer Assessment: Marking peers' work and giving feedback 8. Plenary: Re-do of exam style question, taking of peer feedback For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 7 or 8 lesson on Forces. Includes PowerPoint and worksheets (print from back of PowerPoint). LOs: To state the different forces To explain the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces To analyse data from forces experiments 1. Do Now: Recall questions on balanced forces and weight 2. Exposition: Reminder that forces can be push, pull or twist 3. Student Activity: Naming common names for forces (eg. thrust, lift, air resistance, friction) 4. Exposition: Non-contact forces and force diagrams using arrows 5. Mini-plenary: Forces quiz (MCQs) 6. Student Activity: Correcting force diagrams (then check answers) 7. Exposition: Resolving forces using force diagrams and simple addition/subtraction 8. Independent Task: Forces exam style questions 9. Plenary: Learning triangle For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Key questions for year 12/year 13 on Mass Spectrometry. Answer key included. The topic of the questions is molecular mass spectrometry and assumes some prior knowledge on atomic mass spectrometry and isotopes. There are 10 questions, which are designed to test knowledge and understanding. They could be used as a homework task pre-lesson as part of 'flip' learning, or as an independent or group task, using text books/online research to answer them. For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 13 lesson on Transition Metal complexes (based on AQA syllabus). PowerPoint and worksheet included. Print out last 3 slides to hand out examples of TM complexes to students. LOs: To define key terms in relation to complex ion formation. To describe how the size of ligands affects the shape of complex ions. To explain how ligand charge determines the charge on a complex ion. 1. Do Now: Recap on transition metals 2. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - what does TM complex diagram show? 3. Student Activity: Students come to their own definitions of 'ligand' and 'coordination number' 4. Exposition: Monodentate, bidentate, tridentate terms introduced 5. Mini-plenary: Checkpoint activity asking for ligand, coordination number and shape for 3 new complexes 6. Student Activity: Students draw out bidentate ligand and answer questions 7. Exposition: Introduce and discuss various multi dentate ligands, perhaps introducing the term 'chelate' 8. Exposition: Explaining shapes of complexes with regard to the size of a ligand 9. Exposition: How to calculate total charges on complex ions 10. Independent Task: Students complete worksheet on TM complexes 11. Plenary: Recap of all new terms learnt, using 3 new TM complexes 12. Extension Task: Drawing TM complexes For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 8 lesson on Investigating Static Charge. PowerPoint and worksheets included (back of PowerPoint). LOs: To recognise the effects of static charge. To explain how static charge can be generated. To use evidence to develop ideas about static charge. 1. Do Now: What is happening in the photos? 2. Exposition: Difference between current and static charge 3. Group Activity: Static experiments (you will need some balloons, pieces of paper, water from a tap, a comb etc.) 4. Mini-Plenary: Attraction or repulsion? 5. Student Activity: Video (on YouTube) and accompanying worksheet 6. Independent Task: Levelled questions and self assessment 8. Plenary: Learning triangle For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 8 lesson on the human digestive system (name, sequence and function of organs). Worksheets included (end of PowerPoint). LOs: To identify the different parts of the digestive system. To explain the function of the different parts of the digestive system. To explain how the structure of each organ is adapted to its function. 1. Do Now: Review previous lesson on food groups 2. Exposition: Introduce the different organs and the sequence in which food passes through 3. Student Activity: Digestion card sort (ordering the organs) 4. Independent Activity: Label the organs on the diagram (Stretch: What is the function of each?) 5. Mini-plenary: Point to an organ and write down the name on mini-WBs 6. Class Activity: Organ riddles - which organ am I? 7. Class Activity: Write a question for the answer 8. Independent Task: Why is each organ the shape it is? 9. Plenary: Write yourself a WWW and an EBI For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)

Year 7 or 8 lesson on diffusion LOs: Describe the process of diffusion and its relation to the cell. Explain how different factors affect the speed of diffusion. Analyse results into an experiment of the factors which affect diffusion. Activities: 1. Do Now: Starter question on liquids and gases 2. Student Activity: Demonstration of diffusion using potassium permanganate, iodine or perfume 3. Exposition: Introduce the particle model of diffusion 4. Mini-plenary: Whiteboard quiz 5. Exposition: Diffusion in cells and the factors affecting the rate of diffusion 6. Independent Task: Diffusion worksheet 7: Plenary: Check for understanding question For more resources check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/alexpce If you liked this resource, please write a review! :)