Complete lesson on Refraction, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. Includes various tasks, a practical and discussion. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. There are differentiated tasks and questions. There is a practical requiring light ray boxes, glass blocks and protractors for students to investigate how refraction works. Included in this lesson pack is an instruction sheet for students to use as a checklist during the practical to encourage students to follow all instructions in a method. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

Complete lesson on Light, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. It is a great introduction to light. Includes various tasks, calculations and discussions. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. There are differentiated tasks and questions. There is a practical requiring a light source, light sensor and different materials. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

Complete lesson on the Eye and Vision, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. Includes various tasks and discussions around how the eye works and what causes vision to be blurry and how to correct. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. It starts with a word serahc on keywords linked to the eye and light to familiarise students with some of the spellings. There is a differentiated worksheet on the structure of the eye and what each structure does. There is a set of information sheets that can be printed on A3 and placed around the room for the students to use to fill in their worksheet. The lower ability information sheets are best printed in colour and have basic information on them needed to complete the diagram label and part and function match up. In contrast, the higher ability worksheet requires students to read a more detailed information sheet and extract the key information to include themselves when annotating the diagram. There is then a gap fill activity on the worksheet that can be completed while discussing short-sighted and long-sighted vision and how to correct. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

Great to be used for a cover lesson, this worksheet is designed to go with the Activate 1 book and provides questions on all the main information that needs to be known on the topic.

KS3 lesson on Colour with differentiated starter and questions to suit students off all abilities. Includes a couple of practical activities involving prisms, white light source and coloured filters. The practical is best done in a darkened room. There is opportunities for discussion, linking of the physics of light to everyday objects and deeper thinking all included within this lesson. The plenary is a challenge grid with 9 questions, students have 10 minutes to complete as many questions as they can. The questions get progressively more challenging. Answers are included on the final slide for students to self assess. The starter activity is to unscramble tiles, I have put a printable version at the front of the powerpoint (2 versions). If you like this resource, please check out my other resources and leave a review.

KS3 Electromagnets Revision Pyramid Activity. Answers are also included to allow for self/peer assessment. Students have to answer as many questions as they can to reach 100 points in a certain time. This is a great activity for revision purposes and allows students to differentiate the level of questioning they answer as different questions are worth different amounts of points with harder questions being worth more.

Attached is a complete lesson on Energy dissipation for KS3 Energy Transfers topic. It covers energy dissipation, energy transfers and efficiency calculations. For high ability students you could get them to have a go at creating Sankey diagrams on wasted and useful energy. I have created a step by step narrative on Efficiency calculations that can be used as an activity with the students. You may find that the high ability students do not need this extra support. Hope you find this complete lesson with resources helpful. Please leave a review.

Attached are 5 lessons and worksheets for a very low ability Year 7 class on Electricity. Lessons are designed to go along with the worksheets. Practical activities need to be run alongside the lessons to support the learning. I can’t take credit for the worksheets as they were made by someone else. They were given to me by another teacher so I don’t know who made them to give them the credit. If you like the lessons, then please leave a review and view my other lessons and resources.

Here is a lesson I used with a top set year 8 class over a period of two lessons. the first lesson focused on what are moments, levers, pivots and turning forces with a practical to help students understand how the forces work. There are two different practicals, one for lower ability and one for higher ability. Following this, pupils can self assess on how they feel about moments and calculating them and then complete the releveant worksheet, self assess using the markscheme and then move onto the next level. This independent differentiated task allows for focus on helping those who are struggling more. The presentation is sectioned off so sections that aren’t needed in the lesson (e.g. LA in HA group) can be hidden by highlighting slides, right clicking and select Hide Slides. Hope this differentiated lesson and resources is helpful when teaching turning moments. Any feedback would be great and also check out any other resources. Thanks.

Complete lesson on the Ear and Hearing, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. Includes various tasks and discussions around how hearing can be damaged. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. This lesson includes link to a videos to support learning. There is a differentiated worksheet on the structure of the ear and what each structure does. There is a low ability and high ability set of information sheets that can be printed on A3 and placed around the room for the students to use to fill in their worksheet. The lower ability information sheets are best printed in colour and have basic information on them needed to complete the diagram label and part and function match up. In contrast, the higher ability worksheet requires students to read a more detailed information sheet and extract the key information to include themselves when annotating the diagram. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.