I am a secondary science teacher from Plymouth, United Kingdom. I have a passion for designing interactive, engaging and well scaffolded resources that are inclusive for all pupils. I teach all years, from years 7-13. I teach KS3 Activate (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy (Biology and Chemistry), AQA GCSE Biology, AQA GCSE Chemistry, and A Level Biology (OCR A).
I am a secondary science teacher from Plymouth, United Kingdom. I have a passion for designing interactive, engaging and well scaffolded resources that are inclusive for all pupils. I teach all years, from years 7-13. I teach KS3 Activate (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy (Biology and Chemistry), AQA GCSE Biology, AQA GCSE Chemistry, and A Level Biology (OCR A).
From topic 2.1.4 Enzymes, spec point:
c) The mechanism of enzyme action.
To include the tertiary structure, specificity, active site, lock and key hypothesis, induced-fit hypothesis, enzyme-substrate complex, enzymeproduct complex, product formation and lowering of activation energy.
My lesson resources always contain:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
From topic 2.1.4 Enzymes, spec point:
(f) the effects of inhibitors on the rate of enzyme-controlled reactions, “the role of end-product inhibition.”
My lesson resources always contain:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
From topic 2.1.4 Enzymes, spec points:
(e) the need for coenzymes and cofactors in some enzyme-controlled reactions
(f) the effects of inhibitors on the rate of enzyme-controlled reactions.
My lesson resources always contain:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
Tes paid licence
A full 1-hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Chemistry topic ‘Electrolysis’. This lesson introduces the topic ‘electrolysis’ and focuses on the process of electrolysis.
This PowerPoint resource includes:
A ‘5-in-5’ retrieval-style starter
A recap of ionic bonding, featuring a ‘choose the word’ written task
Guided class discussions
Multiple choice hand signal quizzes to check for understanding, with answers
Teacher models, including animations
Mnemonic devices to help students remember the names of the ions and electrodes
A printed diagram for students to label of an electrolysis cell
A “fill in the blanks” style task for students to complete
Answer slides
A written plenary task, matching up key definitions from the lesson
This is a 1 hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 11 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic ‘Homeostasis’.
This lesson focuses on thermoregulation, and the mechanisms of controlling body temperature by homeostasis.
My lesson resources always contain:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
This is a 1 hour lesson resource designed for a mid-ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science curriculum. They were studying the topic on the digestive system and enzymes.
This lesson focuses on the function of the liver.
In this lesson, students will practice:
Labelling the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, bile duct
Describing the functions of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, bile duct
Describing the role of the bile in terms of neutralising stomach acid and emulsifying lipids
My lesson resources always contain:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mid-ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science curriculum.
This resource focuses on the human digestive system, specifically labelling the organs in the digestive system and describing the function of each organ in the digestive system.
This resource contains:
A ‘5 in 5’ retrieval-style starter
A lesson hook
A retrieval practice - can students draw the organs in the correct place on the human body outline?
Teacher input slides - location of organs in digestive system
Check for understanding slides - cold call
Deliberate practice slide on labeling digestive system (worksheet include), with answer slide
Teacher input slides - function of organs
Multiple choice hand signals quizzes
Deliberate Practice slide - students match the function to the organ, with answer slides
Written plenary
A full 1-hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Chemistry topic “Electrolysis”.
This lesson focuses on the electrolysis of molten ionic compounds, with a specific focus on predicting the products at each electrode. OIL RIG (oxidation and reduction) is discussed in regards to the reactions at each electrode.
This lesson contains:
A ‘5-in-5’ retrieval-style starter
A retrieval practice (class discussion on ion formation)
A brief recap on the process of electrolysis
Guided teacher model practising naming the products at each electrode
Hand signal quizzes with answers to check for student understanding
A table for students to copy and complete, predicting products at each electrode
Answer slide
Slides explaining OIL RIG
Flow chart for students to complete, with answer slide
Printable exam questions from ExamPro for students to practise, with answer slides
Written plenary
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mid-ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science curriculum.
This resource focuses on introducing enzymes, specifically on the action of enzymes and lock and key theory.
This resource contains:
A ‘5 in 5’ retrieval-style starter
A lesson hook
An introduction task on what an enzyme is
Teacher input slides on enzyme action (active site, substrate, product)
Multiple choice hand signal quizzes
Student independent task, drawing and labelling enzyme-substrate complex (with answer slide)
Teacher model slides, naming the enzyme, substrate and product
Student independent task naming enzyme, substrates and products (with answer slide)
Guided class discussion about locks and keys, how they work
Teacher input slides on the lock and key theory, with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Guided class discussion, applying lock and key theory as to why protease can’t be used to break down starch
Student independent practice on lock and key theory (with optional scaffold, and answer slide)
Written plenary
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mid-ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science curriculum.
This is a practical lesson on conducting food tests.
This resource contains:
A ‘5 in 5’ retrieval-style starter
A lesson hook - linking to real word applications
A health and safety / risk assessment slide
A results table
Practical instruction slides to print, for carousel practical
Model answer slide
Checkpoint - short exam questions to go through as a class, with answers
Multiple choice hand signal quizzes
Deliberate Practice - extended response exam question, with answer slide
Written plenary with answer slide
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mid-ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science curriculum.
This is a theory lesson that focuses on the effects of temperature and pH on enzyme activity.
This resource contains:
A ‘5 in 5’ retrieval-style starter
A retrieval practice hand signals quiz, focusing on identifying enzymes, the active site, substrate and product
Teacher input slides - story tellling “Goldlilocks and the three enzymes” to introduce the effect of temperature on enzymes
A guided class discussion
Student deliberate practice slides - explaining the graph on temperature and enzyme action, with optional scaffold slide, and answer slide
Teacher input slides on pH and enzymes (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
Written multiple choice quiz
Student independent task, three levels of challenge
Answer slide
Written plenary (exam question, with key word bank), and answer slide
This is a 1 hour lesson resource designed for a lower ability year 11 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science Biology topic ‘Homeostasis’.
This lesson focuses on the structure of the nervous system:
Nerves vs. neurones
The function of a neurone
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
Labelling a neurone
Stimulus, receptor, effector, response
My lesson resources are always designed to contain the following:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
Teacher models
Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
A plenary task
A full 1-hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 9 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic “Ecosystems”.
This lesson covers interdependence in communities, stable communities and competition.
This full 1-hour lesson resource contains:
A 5-in-5 retrieval style starter
An embedded YouTube video as a lesson hook
Introduction slides on interdependence (reduced cognitive load, dual coding)
Teacher model slides on interdependence in food webs
A ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ hand signals quiz, with answers
An exam question for students to practice, with answer slides
Introduction slides on competition, with pictures
An embedded YouTube video on competition in plants
A written recall task with answer slides on competition
A guided ‘turn and talk’
A written exam question on competition, with answer slides
Introduction slides on stable communities
Exam question with answer slides on stable communities
Plenary - written exam question
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 9 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic “Ecology”.
This lesson focuses on the different types of adaptation (structural, physiological, behavioural), specifically in animals.
This lesson resource includes:
5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
Lesson hook - spot the camouflaged animal
Introduction slides on the different types of adaptation, with examples (reduced cognitive load, dual coding)
Written checkpoint - students match the types of adaptation to their definitions (answer slide included)
Hand signals multiple choice quiz
Embedded YouTube video with written task
Reading task on adaptations of polar bears
Comprehension task - students identify structural, physiological and behavioural adaptations in polar bears from the text
Guided 6-mark exam question
Written plenary with answer slide
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 9 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic “Ecosystems”.
This lesson focuses on levels of organisation in an ecosystem.
This resource contains:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
A turn and talk task, with answer slide
Introduction slides on levels of organisation (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
Checkpoints - Short written tasks in book to maintain engagement
Hand signal quizzes to check understanding (with answer slides)
Written task - matching key vocab to definitions (with answer slides)
Class discussion - link to levels of organisation in an organism
Embedded YouTube video from Amoeba sisters
Whiteboard quiz, with answer slides
Written plenary task
A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Chemistry topic on “electrolysis”.
This lesson focuses on the extraction of aluminium from its ore using molten cryolite.
This resource contains:
A ‘5-in-5’ retrieval-style starter
A lesson hook - how many ways have you used aluminium this week?
Introduction slides (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
Embedded YouTube video
Written multiple choice quiz based on the video, with answers
‘Speed exam questions’ - short answer questions from ExamPro with answers
Written exam questions for students to practise, with scaffolding if necessary
Answer slides
Game of splat as plenary task - practising key words
This is a full 1 hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 11 class studying the AQA Biology syllabus. It comes with a full PowerPoint presentation and printouts.
The PowerPoint contains the following:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
Lesson hook
Embedded videos
Guided class discussions
Guided teacher model slides
Direct instruction slides (using dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
‘Check for understanding’ slides using hand signals, quizzes etc.
Independent tasks (exam questions), with answer slides
Challenge questions
A written plenary task based on an exam question
This is a full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 10 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology syllabus.
This lesson covers the definition of a species, and the theory of speciation.
This lesson PowerPoint contains:
A “5-in-5” retrieval-style starter
A lesson hook
Direct instruction slides (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
An embedded youtube video on speciation
Guided class discussions
Regular checks for understanding (hand signals, true/false quizzes etc.)
A guided teacher model of the theory of speciation
An independent task for students (cut and stick flow chart / story board on speciation)
An exam question with mark scheme included
Worksheets included for the flow chart and exam question.
This lesson was designed for a higher ability year 11 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science syllabus.
This lesson is an overview of the three types of cell transport, and uses movement of substances across a root hair cell as a specific example.
This resource includes:
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
Direct instruction slides (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
Regular checks for understanding (quizzes)
Guided ‘turn and talk’
Independent practice tasks, with answer slides
Exam questions with scaffolds provided and answer slides
A written plenary task
This lesson was designed for a higher ability year 11 class studying the AQA GCSE Combined Science syllabus.
This lesson covers the three main factors affecting the rate of diffusion (temperature, surface area and concentration gradient). It includes a practical investigating temperature on the rate of diffusion in potassium permanganate crystals. Equipment list and method included on the slides.
A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
Direct instruction slides (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
Regular checks for understanding (quizzes)
Guided ‘turn and talk’
A class practical
Independent practice tasks, with answer slides
A written plenary task