Student cut out and create a pendulum bob on cardboard, then fill in the definitions to help them remember everything they need to know about pendulums!

Print these on A3 paper. Place them round the room. Students can visit each one, read what people have written, and write their own ideas and opinions down. They make a great display when they're finished.

Differentiated worksheet on damping and resonance in pendulums. Questions are presented in a grid, with difficulty in columns and topics in rows. Students have to choose one question from each column, but can choose their own level of difficulty.

Classic Guess who game but with subatomic particles. Students can practise using key terms like baryon, meson, hadron, lepton, anti-matter, charge, quark etc

Students pick two characters, pair them up, and draw 4 punnett squares to find out what their children will look like. This is an opportunity to practise punnett squares.

I used these information cards on different dinosaurs to start a project with my year 7s. I told my students that we were designing a fish tank, but for dinosaurs! They had to choose their favourite for their tank. They had to think about other dinosaurs they’d have to include to create a food chain for their pet, as well as the habitat. More able students also thoughts about other things they might want to include based no the adaptations of their chosen dinosaur. Alternatively, students could use these to make a food chain, or food web, and the extension task could be to write about their adaptations or habitats.

This is a true/false activity to introduce atoms. It includes 10 questions to get your students thinking about the size of atoms, and their structure. I’ve used this in KS3 to introduce the atom, and right through to year 11 as a recap of previous knowledge.