a simple worksheet to accompany a sense practical, requires resources such as 3 scent samples some food to taste, some short music clips etc, but the sheet is blank so you can choose these yourself

simple video clip files of a heart beating, strawberry decaying etc

simple selective breeding afl task, all resources contained within the booklet

a mixture of resources on code breaking including a codebreaking timeline and some worksheets on cracking the genetic code the lesson for the genetic code could start with a picture of the x-ray diffraction pattern for DNA this could be snatched off the worksheet and pupils to guess what it shows.

I use this activity as the assessment at the end of the supernatural science topic I teach but it makes a good one off lesson too. Basically, using the pack of cards that are included the pupils can test each other to see if they are psychic (normally one person holds the cards and asks the other person to guess what the top card is and then marks down whether they are right or wrong) Pupils then have to decide what percentage of answers you would need to get correct to be considered psychic, it goes on to look at card counting and statistics so there is a heavy focus on analysing data

Written this year, inlcudes some victim identification material and works on the crime scene having a coded message (like the zodiac killer), a muddy footprint and a severed arm and then later on another crime scene with a knife and some bones from another victim. I used coded messages to link the crime scenes and taunt the pupils as the killer but simple messages could be left instead, i tried to link in some victim support material as well to give a link to citizenship and the impact of crime, i will give more details by email through the TES if desired

this uses the open letter to the kansas school board found on the Venganza.org website (or search for the church of the flying spaghetti monster) and in the letter there is a graph that links global warming to the decreasing number of pirates in the world, it is a good lesson on valid data and you can include other strange correlations to prove that not all statistics are good

I find a really good way of embedding the 7 life processes with pupils is to show them examples that could be confusing or do some of the processes such as an interactive tigger or a candle and get them to decide how many of the life processes they do, this sheet goes with such a demonstration, it can be adapted for EAL pupils by adding a picture that demonstrates that life process underneath the word for it

A good opening to investigating science and CSI type projects, looks at the murders committed by burke and hare and has a sorting out worksheet for their story, once pupils have sorted the cards out you can remove some of them and get them to reproduce parts of the story to see what they have learnt there is also pictures of old medical instruments for them to guess how they were used and a section of pictures for them to make posters on the history of anatomy.

All the planning for the biology section of the new additional science GCSE for Edexcel.

This is all the planning for the new biology core science GCSE planning.

looks at the science of phrenology once believed in and now dismissed use the first sheet as a starter, then introduce ideas of phrenology to pupils and get them to measure each other and see if they have any criminal characteristics has great links to citizenship as you can discuss whether it is fair to label people on looks alone.

part of a module i'm developing on Alchemy, there is more of this activity to come i'm developing a questions sheet to go with this activity. The search for Immortality was key in alchemy and Henriettas cells are immortal she has an interesting story which raises several ethical questions. This is a sheet containing her story which could be turned into a card sort activity, more to follow

I designed this as a interview lesson but it works as part of the OCR twenty first century science module on life on earth as well. you start with the pictures of a real family tree and look for similarities before moving on to look at darwins finches and his work and the development of phylogenetic trees. It's a good springboard into a discussion about how DNA evidence supports the theory of evolution and can then extend into darwins work, my extension sheet included has an excerpt from the origin of the species describing the finches

an activity on the use of homeopathy and the way medicines are tested good for edexcel 360 science

I have used the level 3 - 5 science APP statements to make an Xbox achievment assessment for the pupils called science live. It works like the achievements on xbox pupils get the black and white sheet for their books then get the coloured stickers when they unlock the achievement it is an easy skill tracker and really hooks the pupils in small prizes can be given for every 200 points unlocked to link in to your schools reward policy.

Crime scene projects designed by me that can be easily adapted for any school. Could be used for additional science/BTEC forensics. There are background stories for them that i will happily share with anyone interested in them.