gets pupils thinking about breaking and stopping distances and the causes for car accidents through the medium of a CSI investigation

a worksheet on compass points and bearings good for lower ability pupils

a selection of worksheets to guide pupils through a heart dissection

A simple christmas enterprise lesson where the pupils have a budget to design Santa a new workshop. If they finish early they can design a boy and a girls new toy line. all sheets needed are included.

a worksheet about memory and parts of the brain

An investigation lesson into what happens to your favourite sweets after you eat them, it gets pupils thinking about how science works and to think about what goes into some of the foods they eat, all resources included in the powerpoint including teachers notes for the experiment

For a more in depth range of resources see our 3d Printing resource for a range of subjects - this includes a basic powerpoint that allows pupils to get to grips with 3d printing and learn all the vocabulary associated with it - also included is a card sort to assess understanding of the keywords- the powerpoint has some progress checks included

A lesson on car safety, using a Kagan structure to look at car safety features and getting pupils to evaluate which one is best, all resources included within the powerpoint, i photocopy the first slide as a lesson starter

A simple analysis of business data worksheet, has data from our school christmas fair but this can be changed or used as generic data, the other part is a planning for a product alongside writing a persuasive pitch to make sure their product is chosen

A basic risk assessment for making melt and pour soap, an activity where pupils find the cost for soap ingrediants and then estimate the cost for a bar of soap, they can use this to decide the cost of their products. A label designing worksheet with simple peer assessment activity

A lesson including resources - I made for OCR entry level science - the cooking and cleaning module - although it can be adapted it looks at the effectiveness of washing powders- i intend a practical where they put prestained swatches of white cotton into beakers of warm water - stir it for a set amount of time and then rinse and dry the cloth - they mkae predictions about which brand of washing powder will be best and then see if they are correct - Data is a simple observation

A simple lesson on the difference between asteroids comets and meteors, looks at missions to visit comets and asteroids and describing the orbit of a comet, all resources needed for the lesson are included in the powerpoint

the first half of the new AQA entry level science planning including the first component of physics, chemistry and biology should cover year 1 of teaching the course - including a lesson i developed that could be useful for a TDA and the long term plan for entry level that can be adapted.

an end of term activity based on the science of lighthouses - pupils need to build a circuit to light the lighthouses, and then complete some other challenges - all resources needed are included in the powerpoint - i built the lighthouses from lego - build instructions included, and got pupils to choose where they would put them as well - you could build the lighthouses with other resources though

covers what you can eat raw and cooked, styles of cooking and food poisoning with a simple graph interpretation question - all worksheets needed included in the powerpoint

Planning for pupils with severe learning disabilities based around the functional living skills criteria this would cover a block of 6 weeks, I have removed photos from the worksheet because I made them of relevant places the pupils visited and thought you would want to do the same for group 1 pupils I turn the same photos into cards they can point to. Also included are some assessment sheets that can be filled in every lesson for pupil tracking (format borrowed from another teacher but assessment critiera my own) and the scheme of work for a half term

A simple worksheet for first aid for pupils working at P scales and AFELS

A whole lesson structure around hookes law good for low ability or entry level, starts with a video and then gets students to design a bungee rope for a toy using elastic bands, the toy must bungee off a table hit a bowl of water and then bounce back up, they can test it first. Also included is the results table and some plenary questions to help with conclusions, and a way of scoring the jumps

a KS3 lesson where pupils play a guess who style game to identify each others symptoms and work out what disease they are suffering from. It then encourages pupils to think about what would happen if doctors made a misdiagnosis. it encourages pupils to think about different types of medical testing and allows for really good debate. This fits in well with the disease topic and worked brilliantly with my pupils.