Presentation for your first lesson with a class group.
Covering starter, teacher introduction, objectives, discipline setting example, list of basic rules, description of how to work, and final summary. Editable so you can adapt it to your own situation, but with lots of ideas to take into account! Neutral style format.
Review for any level in Science on using formulas and converting units.
Make sure everyone in the lesson knows how to use formulas! Lots of students still getting mixed up with from converting units of time, to confusing metres cube or metres square, to using litre versus decimetre cube? Cross-curricular maths brush-up simple single lesson with exercises and answers, done exclusively for practical purposes in Science.
Exam analysis and strategies for secondary science. In pdf and editable pptx.
Focused for GCSE, always a good revision for Alevel. Includes tips on diagrams, timing, organisation, question identification, and exam organisation and method (4 slides).
These are four projects my students have used from year 7 to year 10 for five consecutive years. It helps them develop independent learning, makes them take pride in their work, gives opportunity for assessment of another style of careful slow-paced work, and when returned provides them something they can keep as a nice souvenir of something they made while learning in Science. They include detailed instructions and visual examples for students to follow. They are ordered in level from the first (year 7) to the last (year 10).
A Science AQA whole lesson presentation (pptx+pdf) for KS3, minimum resources needed, self-contained, bloom-graded, Ofsted-oriented, designed for 50min lessons, mixed ability. Featuring starter, titlepage, input content page, exercises with answers, objectives, hinge-point questions, extra work page, experiment fill-in sheet (most lessons include a low-effort mini-experiment), vocabulary list.
This lesson is a revision, concentrating on samples of exam-style questions.
A Science AQA whole lesson presentation (pptx+pdf) for KS3, minimum resources needed, self-contained, bloom-graded, Ofsted-oriented, designed for 50min lessons, mixed ability. Usually featuring starter, titlepage, input content page, exercises with answers, objectives, hinge-point questions, extra work page, experiment fill-in sheet (most lessons include a low-effort mini-experiment), vocabulary list.
This lesson in particular is shorter since it is a practical (described in the slides, with markscheme).
Two complete lessons for integrating an exam review of your own. pdf and editable pptx. After an exam you can use either of these lessons, or both for different exams. Includes starter, self-assessment, assessment (needs markscheme), self-grading, survey, self-correction. and exam tips. Lesson 1 gives tips on multiple choice questions, lesson 2 gives tips on long multiple-point paragraph questions.
List of 640 words (40 per topic) for Year 7 and Year 8 (8 topics in each year). I used this to ask my students to research and write down their meaning as the unit progressed, and at the end of the unit they would have this included in their notebooks. Word lists are targeted to include the central ideas and scientific vocabulary they will be acquiring in each unit.
YEAR 7
THE UNIVERSE
EXPERIMENTS
MEASURING AND STATES OF MATTER
CELLS
MICROBES AND FUNGI AND PLANTS
ANIMALS AND SAMPLING
ATMOSPHERE AND HYDROSPHERE
GEOSPHERE
YEAR 8
CELL AND ORGANISM REPRODUCTION
NUTRITION VS EXCRETION
COORDINATION
ECOLOGY
ENERGY AND WAVES
ENERGY GENERATION
ATMOSPHERE AND METEREOLOGY
TECTONICS AND LANDSCAPE