SCIENCE AND HUMAN MIGRATION
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 7 to Year 10) that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what is culture
6 x A3 printout information hunt detailing Pakistani, Bengali, British, Eastern European (with Poland), Nigerian and Indian cultures. This links culture to astronomy, traditional medicine, blood types and Japanese personality types and human migration.
Content & Presentation – Astronomy, human migration, blood types
Independent Practice: Questions include:
Timeline of human migration from East Africa
Keyword table from different cultures
How astronomy links to agriculture
Tickbox exercise for blood types
what traditional medicines are used to treat illness.
Markscheme included
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided in landscape - unblurred when bought
This lesson is 2 hours long, for LAP/SEN pupils on stopping distance, including thinking distance and calculations using distance = speed x time.
Created for Year 11 – KS4 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Content and presentation – stopping distance
Practical on reaction times using ruler (cm)
Conversion table – reaction time distance to seconds
Calculating thinking distance using distance = speed x time
Definitions of thinking and stopping distance
Forces acting on a moving car
Store transfers
Factors affecting thinking and braking distance
Independent tasks – gapfill, ordering, calculations, identify questions, with answers
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Created for Yr11s in an SEN school - 50 minute lesson
revamped - body as a castle, invaders as pathogens, soliders as immune system
Included:
Worksheets - print slides 1 to 2 single sided - unblurred when bought
Starter - four pathogens
NEW - your body as a castle
ACTIVITY - part of castle link to human physical defence e.g. skin, stomach acid
NEW - pathogens as invaders, immune system as soldiers and dragon with combat rules
What are white blood cells, antibodies, phagocytosis and antibodies
ACTIVITY - white blood cell labelling activity and function gapfill
NEW - phagocytosis link to dragon
Video of phagocytosis
ACTIVITY - Phagocytosis story board creationand gapfill completion
NEW - antibodies as weapons of the soliders
NEW - antigens as colour of invaders and protections making them unique
NEW - invader combat rules
UPDATED - lymphocyte immune response linked to soliders and invaders
NEW - picture gapfill activity of lymphocyte action linked to soliders and invaders, made simpler
Plenary - exit ticket
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel for students doing GCSE.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – percentage change in mass calculation, how to break this down and put this in a calculator teacher modelling, you try calculation, link to osmosis and what positive and negative answers mean
Independent learning activity – easy calculations with percentage change in mass (again to practice using calculators)
Plenary – identify the correct calculation
Editted on 13/11/20 to include activity on whether water moves into or out of cells, and gapfil on whether cells swell, burst, shrink or wilt. Percentage change in mass calculation editted throughout to say starting mass, rather than initial.
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils
Created for Year 7 or 8 – KS3 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Hook – Career link
Content and presentation – Types of joints, antagonistic muscles, bicep and tricep movement, hamstring and quadricep movement, what muscle contraction is, what tendons and ligaments are
Independent learning activity
Plenary – identify activity
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This is a Year 10 lesson created for SEN/LAP pupils
The focus is only on how to calculate actual size from image size and magnification. There is no triangle or rearranging equations.
Included:
Starter - scientific drawing of a white blood cell
Recap - how to calculate total magnification
Content and presentation - how to calculate actual size, examples given: an Ant and Leonardo DiCaprio
Independent task 1 - actual size table completion and a question
Independent task 2 - using rulers to calculate actual size from images of 8 cells
Plenary - calculation actual size question
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Answers included for independent task 1. Not for task 2 as this is dependent on how you print. The lines for where to place the ruler are included.
This is a 50 minute lesson created for SEN pupils in Yr11 in an autistic school
Included:
Starter - identify the white and red blood cells and platelets
What arteries, veins and capillaries are
ACTIVITY - identify whether the vessel is an artery, vein or capillary (table)
Left and right side of the heart - blood in blue and red / double circulatory system
Right side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
Left side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
ACTIVITY - add labels to the diagrams of left and right side of heart (lungs/body)
ACTIVITY - which are arteries/veins of the heart
Content - atrium and ventricles
ACTIVITY - identify the left and right sides of the heart - heart is numbered
Plenary - identify atrium, ventricles, arteries and veins
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This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Identify the organs of the human reproductive systems
Describe the function of the organs of the human reproductive system.
Explain the importance of reproduction.
Created for Year 7. Suitable all KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet; PRINT slides 1 to 2 - Instructions in the notes
Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Infographic on Alleles and Inheritance
TASK 1 - 10 x questions based on this
TASK 2 - Punnet square completion, starts easy then gets harder
Answers to task 1 included - teachere should model answers to task 2
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school - 50 minutes long.
***Edited to include all answers, an additionally final check activity [storyboard gapfill],better picture for current atmosphere, better questions for devonian period
Included:
What the atmosphere is
Geological periods of the earth - this will be beyond their understanding, briefly explain that the age of earth is given names same as humans e.g. baby, toddlers, teen etc
The Hadean Eon and atmosphere composition of Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
The Archaen Eon and changing atmosphere of the Earth [decreasing volcanic activity, earth cooling]
ACTIVITY - Gapfill activity
Devonian Period and changing atmosphere of the Earth [plant evolution]
Photosynthesis definition with picture
ACTIVITY - equation fill in the blank
ACTIVITY - questions on devonian period
Current atmosphere of the Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
FINAL ACTIVITY - Story board gapfill of the changing atmosphere over time
Questions are simple. Follows teacher instruction then studen task format
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This resource was created for students in an SEN school - Yr11/12
Included:
What crude oil is
What fractional distillation is
The properties of crude oil organised in a table
ACTIVITY - are these properties near the top or bottom of the fractionating column? they have the table on their worksheet
ACTIVITY - Gapfill of how a fractionating column works
ACTIVITY - cut and stick of uses of crude oil fractions
EXTENSION - gapfill of difference between bitumen and petrol, copy and complete in books
Plenary - exit ticket, students circle the correct answer or write the correct answer on a post it
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Colour coded knowledge organiser.
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Labelled heart diagram - colour coded pic and labelling
Right side function - colour coded
Left side function - colour coded
Artery, vein and capillary pictures, transport direction
How arteries branch into capillaries back into veins
Table of different between the three vessels
This was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
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Starter activity labelling an animal cell
Career link
Computers [binary code] and DNA link
What DNA is and why its important
DNA as a double helix - quick check, which is the correct shape
DNA base pairing
ACTIVITY - fill in the other DNA strand code
DNA has a strong backbone with bases held by weak hydrogen bonds
ACTIVITY - add the bonds to the previous activity, add bonding and backbone labels
Genome as the entire DNA of an organism
ACTIVItY gapfill bsaed on picture
Independent task - complete the missing information on the DNA strands and describe the structure of DNA using the picture to help you
All answers
Plenary - true/false
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the change in mass every 15 seconds for 3 minutes. It is based on chem guide UK’s video on how surface area affects rate of reaction.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
2 x worksheet. Print single sided. Unblurred when bought
Created for students in an SEN school
Included:
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Starter joke
DNA structure and pairing recap
Cell cycle and human life cycle link
what happens in interphase
mitosis importance
ACTIVITY - true/false on mitosis and cell cycle and interphase
ACTIVITY - fill in table of stages of mitosis [gapfill]
ACTIVITY - identify stages of mitosis, using previous pictures
ACTIVITY - identify real micrographs of stages of cells in mitosis
INDEPENDENT WORK - exam questions
Plenary activity - mitosis stages
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This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Recall what DNA is and why it is needed
Describe the structure of DNA
Explain the importance of genes in genetics
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
Post assembly form time reflection task - see other uploads for the free assembly
Reflection includes:
Domestic abuse definition
Crime stats
Turn and talk activity
Video - domestic abuse in the UK
Class discussion task about video
Signs of domestic abuse
Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
How to help others
Where to seek support
This is a year 10 lesson created for pupils in an SEN school
Included:
Content and presentation - demo ideas, how to use periodic table, reactivity of metals, where metals and non-metals are found and properties of metals vs non-metals
Activities - What are the symbols of certain elements, what groups/periods elements are found in, identify whether elements are metals and non-metals and complete a table of properties of metals vs non-metals
Print slide 2 and 3 single sided for the worksheets
A resource created for a 20 minute assembly on domestic violence.
Students will learn:
What domestic violence is
How to recognise signs of domestic violence
Who to contact if concerned that they, or someone they know, is a victim of domestic violence.
Includes statistics on males and females, signs of abuse, spotting abuser signs as well as embedded videos and support for those concerned about domestic abuse.