I am a TES recommended author and a UK Science teacher with a Chemistry specialism.
You'll find various KS3 and KS4 Science resources here (Biology, Physics and Chemistry) as well as some A level Chemistry stuff. I try to make my lessons visually appealing, with clear diagrams and text and a variety of different tasks.
If you have any suggestions of resources you'd like to see uploaded, I'd be happy to hear from you.
I am a TES recommended author and a UK Science teacher with a Chemistry specialism.
You'll find various KS3 and KS4 Science resources here (Biology, Physics and Chemistry) as well as some A level Chemistry stuff. I try to make my lessons visually appealing, with clear diagrams and text and a variety of different tasks.
If you have any suggestions of resources you'd like to see uploaded, I'd be happy to hear from you.
LOs:
To make predictions about whether an object will sink or float.
To define density and relate it to the particle model.
To use the equation to calculate the densities of different objects.
Aimed at a lower set year 8 class. A higher ability class will probably require more.
Density of solids and liquids PowerPoint. Includes heavily scaffolded worksheet on density calculations and a cloze exercise. Mini-plenary using mini-whiteboards or similar. Demonstration of density using water and a range of different objects.
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Year 13 lesson on Transition Metal complexes (based on AQA syllabus).
PowerPoint and worksheet included.
Print out last 3 slides to hand out examples of TM complexes to students.
LOs:
To define key terms in relation to complex ion formation.
To describe how the size of ligands affects the shape of complex ions.
To explain how ligand charge determines the charge on a complex ion.
1. Do Now: Recap on transition metals
2. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - what does TM complex diagram show?
3. Student Activity: Students come to their own definitions of 'ligand' and 'coordination number'
4. Exposition: Monodentate, bidentate, tridentate terms introduced
5. Mini-plenary: Checkpoint activity asking for ligand, coordination number and shape for 3 new complexes
6. Student Activity: Students draw out bidentate ligand and answer questions
7. Exposition: Introduce and discuss various multi dentate ligands, perhaps introducing the term 'chelate'
8. Exposition: Explaining shapes of complexes with regard to the size of a ligand
9. Exposition: How to calculate total charges on complex ions
10. Independent Task: Students complete worksheet on TM complexes
11. Plenary: Recap of all new terms learnt, using 3 new TM complexes
12. Extension Task: Drawing TM complexes
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Year 7 or 8 lesson on Forces.
Includes PowerPoint and worksheets (print from back of PowerPoint).
LOs:
To state the different forces
To explain the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces
To analyse data from forces experiments
1. Do Now: Recall questions on balanced forces and weight
2. Exposition: Reminder that forces can be push, pull or twist
3. Student Activity: Naming common names for forces (eg. thrust, lift, air resistance, friction)
4. Exposition: Non-contact forces and force diagrams using arrows
5. Mini-plenary: Forces quiz (MCQs)
6. Student Activity: Correcting force diagrams (then check answers)
7. Exposition: Resolving forces using force diagrams and simple addition/subtraction
8. Independent Task: Forces exam style questions
9. Plenary: Learning triangle
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Year 8 lesson on chemosynthesis, including worksheets and activities (they are at the end of the PowerPoint slides).
LOs:
To describe how ocean vent communities survive
To compare and contrast chemosynthesis and photosynthesis
To analyse the adaptations of organisms in ocean vent communities
Activities:
1. Do Now: Opening question
2. Video/Discussion: Life in the deep - how does it survive?
3. Student Activity: Comprehension on chemosynthesis and photosynthesis
4. Mini-plenary: Correct the mistake
5. Student Activity: Double bubble comparing similarities and differences of chemosynthesis
6. Mini-plenary: True or false questions
7. Student Activity: Information hunt on deep sea organisms
8. Plenary: Students give presentations on what they have learnt
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Year 8 lesson on the human digestive system (name, sequence and function of organs).
Worksheets included (end of PowerPoint).
LOs:
To identify the different parts of the digestive system.
To explain the function of the different parts of the digestive system.
To explain how the structure of each organ is adapted to its function.
1. Do Now: Review previous lesson on food groups
2. Exposition: Introduce the different organs and the sequence in which food passes through
3. Student Activity: Digestion card sort (ordering the organs)
4. Independent Activity: Label the organs on the diagram (Stretch: What is the function of each?)
5. Mini-plenary: Point to an organ and write down the name on mini-WBs
6. Class Activity: Organ riddles - which organ am I?
7. Class Activity: Write a question for the answer
8. Independent Task: Why is each organ the shape it is?
9. Plenary: Write yourself a WWW and an EBI
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Key questions for year 12/year 13 on Mass Spectrometry. Answer key included.
The topic of the questions is molecular mass spectrometry and assumes some prior knowledge on atomic mass spectrometry and isotopes. There are 10 questions, which are designed to test knowledge and understanding. They could be used as a homework task pre-lesson as part of 'flip' learning, or as an independent or group task, using text books/online research to answer them.
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GCSE lesson or revision lesson on Fuels from Oils, including recap of alkanes and alkenes
LOs:
To compare alkanes and alkenes.
To explain how fractional distillation works.
To analyse the differences between cracking and polymerisation
1. Do Now: Compare and contrast alkanes and alkenes
2. Student Activity: Labelling and explaining distillation apparatus
3. Student Activity: Describing trends in properties of different fractions from the fractional distillation process
4. Mini-plenary: MCQ on hydrocarbons
5. Student Activity: Explaining cracking of alkanes and polymerisation of alkenes
6. Independent Task: Exam style6 mark question on fractional distillation
7. Peer Assessment: Marking peers' work and giving feedback
8. Plenary: Re-do of exam style question, taking of peer feedback
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GCSE lesson on the nervous system and immune system.
This lesson is mainly student led and assumes previous knowledge of the topics covered
LOs:
To define key parts of the nervous system.
To describe how a signal crosses a synapse.
To explain in detail how a reflex action occurs.
1. Do Now: List the 5 main sensory organs and the stimuli they respond to.
2. Student Activity: Label the nerve cell and explain its features
3. Independent Task: Label a diagram of a reflex arc and explain how a reflex action occurs (6 mark style question)
4. Student Activity: Explaining how nerve signals pass across a synapse
5. Mini-plenary: Quiz on the nerve system
6. Exposition: Pathogens, disease and the immune system
7. Student Activity: How do white blood cells protect us from disease (then correct answers)
8. Student Activity: Vaccination 6 mark exam-style question. What does it involve and how does it protect us from disease? (Then self assessment)
9. Student Activity: Antibiotic resistance using diagrams (Then peer assessment)
10. Plenary: Exam style question on the immune system
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2 x nuclear radiation and radioactivity Do Now keyword match up/comprehension activities.
The first tests the keywords 'stable', 'unstable', 'radioactive' and 'decay' and has a comprehension on alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
The second tests the keywords 'mutation', 'ionising radiation', 'fuel rods' etc. and has a brief comprehension on nuclear accidents.
Year 8 lesson on changes of state.
PowerPoint and worksheets included (at back of PowerPoint)
LOs:
To recognise changes of state as being reversible changes.
To use scientific terminology to describe changes of state.
To explain changes of state using the particle model and ideas about energy transfer.
1. Do Now: Which particle diagram shows a solid, a liquid and a gas?
2. Group Activity: Think, pair, share - what do the photos show?
3. Exposition: Changes of state and the particle model
4. Student Activity: Complete the diagram to show the changes of state and answer the questions
5. Mini-Plenary: Mini-whiteboard quiz on changes of state
6. Exposition: Different substances have different melting and boiling points
7. Exposition: Heating curves
8. Student Activity: Asking students to deduce what states different substances are at different temperatures, using their melting and boiling points
9. Plenary: Multiple choice questions exit ticket
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A selection of KS3/KS4 Science Do Nows (mostly Physics), including comprehensions and keyword definition match ups.
Topics include:
Physics:
Types of energy
Energy transfer processes (conduction, convection, radiation)
Nuclear radiation and radioactivity
Nuclear reactors and dangers of radiation
Electrical components
Types of circuit (series and parallel)
Plugs, fuses and circuit breakers
The history of magnets
Permanent and temporary magnets
Using electromagnets
Static electricity and charge
Chemistry:
Elements, compounds and the periodic table
Properties of metals and non-metals
Chemical tests
Collision theory / kinetic theory
Biology:
Animal and plant cells and organelles
The human reproductive system
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3 x Electricity Do Now activities.
Each asks students to link keyword to their definitions and then draw a relevant diagram (eg. circuit diagram) to review learning.
1. The first tests keywords such as 'light bulb', 'battery', 'series circuit' and 'parallel circuit' and asks students to explain series and parallel circuits using a diagram.
2. The second tests keywords such as 'current', 'ammeter', 'voltmeter' and 'series circuit' and asks students to draw circuit diagrams containing particular components.
3. The third tests keywords related to a plug, such as 'live wire', 'neutral wire', 'fuse' and asks students to draw a plug and explain its important parts
2 x Energy keyword match-up Do Nows.
Each activity involves students matching keywords to their definitions and then answering questions or correcting a paragraph.
1. The first tests students on types of energy, with keywords such as 'kinetic energy', 'thermal energy' and 'light energy' and then asks questions on useful and wasted energy transfers.
2. The second tests students on energy transfer process, with keywords such as 'conduction', 'convection', 'radiation' and 'vacuum' and asks students to correct spelling and grammar mistakes in a paragraph.
Collision theory / kinetic theory crossword Do Now
Students are required to 'fill in the gaps' to complete the crossword. The purpose is to check their understanding about the collision theory and how scientists can increase rates of reaction.
This resource tests students on 7 words which are present at the bottom of the worksheet in a 'word bank'. To differentiate this resource for more able students, you could remove the word bank.
The 7 solutions are:
activation, collide, energy, kinetic, orientation, speed, temperature
Year 7 or 8 Do Now on elements, compounds and the periodic table.
Students have to identify metals and non-metals using the periodic table, then have to determine the number of atoms in compounds, eg. 2 x hydrogen and 1 x oxygen in water.
