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.
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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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
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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Shapes of ions and molecules lesson for year 12 or year 13 (AS level or A level).
LOs:
To state the basic features of a molecule that determine its shape.
To describe different molecular structures.
To predict the shapes of simple molecules and ions with up to six electron pairs surrounding the central atom.
1. Do Now: Draw the Lewis structures for water, methane and ammonia. How many pairs of electrons surround the central atom in each case?
2. Exposition: VSEPR theory and structures with 4 areas of electron density
3. Mini-pleanry: Determine the shape of molecules that have 4 areas of electron density
4. Exposition: Shapes from 2 or 3 areas of electron density
5. Mini-plenary: Determine the shape of molecules that have 2, 3 or 4 areas of electron density
6. Exposition: Shapes with 5 or 6 areas of electron density
7. Exposition: How lone pairs affect bond angles
8. Independent Task: Practise determining shapes and bond angles of various different ions and molecules
7. Independent Task: Exam style questions on bond angles and molecular shape
8. Plenary: Wrapping it up
3 complete lessons on the particle theory of matter:
1) Solids, Liquids and Gases
2) Changes of State
3) Evaporation and Boiling
Also includes a colourful worksheet on how to draw particle diagrams whilst avoiding common misconceptions and an open response assessment (no mark scheme).
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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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