some cell structure worksheets of different levels of demand these make a good starter

a survival science module i wrote and developed, that covers classification, food chains, populations, it has animal cards to allow pupils to make food chains and food webs. also covers sundials (you can get a template for these online) and rocks as well as containing a level assessed task on distillation

a simple heart jigsaw for pupils to cut out and rearrange helps them to learn the structure of the heart

a simple cloze worksheet on blood cells, sums up the key features of the blood

looks at the science of phrenology once believed in and now dismissed use the first sheet as a starter, then introduce ideas of phrenology to pupils and get them to measure each other and see if they have any criminal characteristics has great links to citizenship as you can discuss whether it is fair to label people on looks alone.

I designed this as a interview lesson but it works as part of the OCR twenty first century science module on life on earth as well. you start with the pictures of a real family tree and look for similarities before moving on to look at darwins finches and his work and the development of phylogenetic trees. It's a good springboard into a discussion about how DNA evidence supports the theory of evolution and can then extend into darwins work, my extension sheet included has an excerpt from the origin of the species describing the finches

funny presentation on an extreme case of stomach ache

simple selective breeding afl task, all resources contained within the booklet

I find a really good way of embedding the 7 life processes with pupils is to show them examples that could be confusing or do some of the processes such as an interactive tigger or a candle and get them to decide how many of the life processes they do, this sheet goes with such a demonstration, it can be adapted for EAL pupils by adding a picture that demonstrates that life process underneath the word for it

a simple test i designed on microbes and disease could be a nice end of topic review

an activity on the use of homeopathy and the way medicines are tested good for edexcel 360 science

part of a module i'm developing on Alchemy, there is more of this activity to come i'm developing a questions sheet to go with this activity. The search for Immortality was key in alchemy and Henriettas cells are immortal she has an interesting story which raises several ethical questions. This is a sheet containing her story which could be turned into a card sort activity, more to follow

I use this activity as the assessment at the end of the supernatural science topic I teach but it makes a good one off lesson too. Basically, using the pack of cards that are included the pupils can test each other to see if they are psychic (normally one person holds the cards and asks the other person to guess what the top card is and then marks down whether they are right or wrong) Pupils then have to decide what percentage of answers you would need to get correct to be considered psychic, it goes on to look at card counting and statistics so there is a heavy focus on analysing data

credit need to go to some other TES sharer for the diary acivity starter i added to this and changed it slighty but i borrowed heavily from them. I then made differing levels of infographics to go with the information pack for pupils to do some independant research, the infographic sheets could then make a nice display.

a worksheet i made about disease in queen victorias family, shows he family pedigree diagram and has some questions linked to it

a wordsearch on microscope keywords that could be used as a starter, pupils culd write definitions of each keyword

a simple worksheet to accompany a sense practical, requires resources such as 3 scent samples some food to taste, some short music clips etc, but the sheet is blank so you can choose these yourself

Written this year, inlcudes some victim identification material and works on the crime scene having a coded message (like the zodiac killer), a muddy footprint and a severed arm and then later on another crime scene with a knife and some bones from another victim. I used coded messages to link the crime scenes and taunt the pupils as the killer but simple messages could be left instead, i tried to link in some victim support material as well to give a link to citizenship and the impact of crime, i will give more details by email through the TES if desired

a poster with some of the key how science works keywords on it

A look at the theories of Ekman, Dawkins and Chomsky to do with biological psychology - has some simple videos and discussion then a marketplace style activity - really useful for teaching Unit 9 of the OCR technicals