a simple results table that could be used for a lower ability class to test a range of household solutions for their pH

a good summer activity that gets pupils looking at the cost of different types of accomodation at music festivals and drawing graphs of the data

a simple review test i made could be used at the end of a topic to check pupil knowledge or as a starting point with ks3 students

a mixture of resources on code breaking including a codebreaking timeline and some worksheets on cracking the genetic code the lesson for the genetic code could start with a picture of the x-ray diffraction pattern for DNA this could be snatched off the worksheet and pupils to guess what it shows.

a table with pictures of specialised cells and their adaptations could easily be turned into a card sort activity

this has a suggested organisation cards using four teams, i have made a worksheet with suspects and the victim, the attacker is always the cinema mangaer, i make blood splatter by drawing the splatter with a uv pen and then getting people to scan for it with uv you need slime made from fybogel (if you put highlighter ink fluid in the water it glows with uv) and pva slime (recipes from about.com chemistry) and i used four weapons (a book, a glass ashtray, a broom handle and a wooden rolling pin) there are also deduction cards so teams can find out who did it at the end

a starter which has a picture of a scientist and an alchemist lets pupils come up with ideas of what they think the people are and what they do a fun starter to a scientific enquiry lesson

a nice elements and symbols card sort that could be used as a starter to a lesson or as part of a main activity

a video showing the famous feather drop on the moon experiment

starter activity on do they give birth by laying eggs or live young

a selection of funny or interesting science qoutes that can be backed and used for display, they are from a range of people including isaac asimov and richard feynmann

a simple starter for lower ability students, where they use dictionaries to find definitions of solubility keywords

a medium term plan i wrote to develop literacy and numeracy skills, through pupils interest in computer games, i have a booklet of resources to go with this also uploaded onto the TES

a scinetific enquiry sheet i made to accompany a demonstartion of a buddhist/tibetan prayer bowl

a simple card sort of definitions of ego,id and superego as well as a revision mind map of some psychological ideas and an information sheet on freud

a card sort activity on questions science can and cannot answer

a card sort about all the different spin offs from the space programme. makes a good talking point for a lesson about the value of space travel

an outline for a postcard home from another planet, could be used to get pupils thinking about what it would be like on other planets

nice little digestion of a ham sandwich worksheet

a simple worksheet to accompany a sense practical, requires resources such as 3 scent samples some food to taste, some short music clips etc, but the sheet is blank so you can choose these yourself