This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
2 x worksheet. Print single sided. Unblurred when bought
This is an hour long lesson created for SEN students in Yr10.
Included:
Starter
Content & Presentation - how to arrange an equation using baking a cake as an equation, word equations from sentences, what are chemical reactions
Teacher modeling how to write an equation using words in a sentence
You try - identifying reactants and products
You try - completing word equations (gap fill)
Activity - identify which reactions are chemical
PRACTICAL* conducting and writing down observations from three chemical reactions
Worksheet printed double sided, folded into an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
TRADITIONAL FOOD AND SCIENCE
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what are some traditional foods in your culture.
Career link - Food Anthropologist
7 x A3 printout information hunt detailing traditional food, origins and science link of the following:
British - stilton cheese
African - Plantain
Italian - Prosciutto
German - Sauerkraut
Polish - Kielbasa
Chinese - Century Egg
Japanese - Natto
Content & Presentation slides:
What is traditional food
Chemistry - atoms making up molecules inside of food
Molecules in food
Food chemistry - chemical reactions rearranging atoms
pH - acidity and alkaline FOOD LINK
Enzymes as workers of cells FOOD LINK
Osmosis definition and FOOD LINK
Fermentation definition and FOOD LINK
Anaerobic respiration definition and FOOD LINK
Worksheet on slide 2 and 3 - student exploration
Scientific keyword definitions
Tick box table of food in different cultures
When did these traditional foods originate in history
Table completion of the scientific process (e.g. fermentation, osmosis etc) and space to write down what it does.
Answers included - Opportunity for Self/Peer Assessment
**PRINT SLIDE 2 TO 3 FOR WORKSHEET
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