Y7 Drawing line graphs - Introduction to science

A full hour lesson designed for year 7 as part of an ‘introduction to science’ unit, teaching key science skills to new students in KS3.
This full hour lesson resource contains:

• A ‘5 in 5’ style retrieval starter recapping key concepts from primary school, lab safety, scientific apparatus, measuring, Bunsen burners, writing methods, drawing tables
• A lesson hook - funny graphs showing that correlation does not equal causation
• A guided student discussion - name the different types of graph and chart
• Direct instruction on categoric vs. discrete data
• A checkpoint task on categoric vs. discrete data - which is which?
• A fill in the blanks task, with answers
• direct instruction - rules for drawing a graph
• Spot the mistakes task in various graphs
• Guided teacher model (visualiser required) - students draw graph along with teacher
• Independent task - students draw their own line graph from a results table
• A written plenary task