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Over the last five years I have found the best way to stimulate learning is through engaging lessons. Lessons which apply scientific content to unusual, topical or popular scenarios. I currently have a range of premium and free resources to look through. I will continue to upload these resources as and when I can. Feel free to review, tweet or contact me regarding these resources or for ideas on current topics you are struggling to make engaging.

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Over the last five years I have found the best way to stimulate learning is through engaging lessons. Lessons which apply scientific content to unusual, topical or popular scenarios. I currently have a range of premium and free resources to look through. I will continue to upload these resources as and when I can. Feel free to review, tweet or contact me regarding these resources or for ideas on current topics you are struggling to make engaging.
Natural indicators: Can red cabbage be used as an indicator?
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Natural indicators: Can red cabbage be used as an indicator?

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Students are introduced to Robert Boyle's observations of Roses changing colour in different chemicals. Students test the idea of preparing a natural substance to test acids and alkalis by planning an experiment that prepares red cabbage as an indicator. Student complete a risk assessment and design a procedure for their experiment. Higher level students have the chance to evaluate their indicator in terms of effectiveness.
Acid Bath Murderer: Concentration and Strength (higher ability)
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Acid Bath Murderer: Concentration and Strength (higher ability)

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Students are introduced to the gruesome actions of John Haigh the 'Acid Bath Murder of Crawley' through video clips and photographs. Students use their previous knowledge to discuss the dangers of certain types of acid. Students challenge their misconceptions of strength and concentration by completing a series of simple experiments dissolving magnesium in different concentrations of the same acid. Students consolidate their understanding through a series of levelled questions. Although designed as a final lesson to a higher level KS3 class, this could also be used as a stand alone Gifted and Talented lesson at any point in the year.
Rock Cycle: Where has the Sphinixs nose gone?
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Rock Cycle: Where has the Sphinixs nose gone?

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Student creatively theorise possible reasons to explain the Sphinix's damaged nose. After which students are introduced to weathering and erosion. Using this knowledge, as well as content from the rock types lessons, students can model James Hutton's rock cycle using a simple class practical experiment. Students observe, crush, heat and melt sugar cubes to represent different parts of the rock cycle.
Social influence Scheme of Work (AQA-A Psychology New Spec)
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Social influence Scheme of Work (AQA-A Psychology New Spec)

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A whole AS/Year 1 AQA A Scheme of Work related to Topic 1: social Influence. PowerPoints, Class tasks, Work sheets and end of topic test is included. The SOW is based around the AS/1 Complete companion Cardwell & Flanagan, L1: What is Conformity: Students re-enact Asch's famous study with an unknowing student from another class.. L2: Evaluation of Asch's study L3: Explaining conformity: Students complete a group cheat sheet on 1 of 4 different explanations of conformity and share. Emphasis of the duel processing model is made. L4: Stanford Prison experiment: students use articles and real footage to introduce the role of social roles. L5: Obedience: Independent work and real footage is used to gain insight into the procedure and findings of Milgram's study. L6: Essay: Students are introduced to writing extended essays using PEEL. Students re-assemble an essay that unfortunately been cut up into pieces... L7: variations of Milgram's study: Students are introduced to the effects of other situational factors and evaluate. L8: Explanations of Obedience: Agentic state and Legitimate Authority L9: Authoritarian Personality: Students complete the F-scale and are introduced to dispositional factors of obedience. L10: Resisting social influence L11: Locus of control L12 and 13: Students watch a copy of 12 angry men to illustrate concepts so far and introduce minority influence L14: Students complete a end of topic test. Model answers for self reflection are provided.
Issues and Debates: Evaluating Gender Bias (Psychology AQA A new spec)
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Issues and Debates: Evaluating Gender Bias (Psychology AQA A new spec)

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Students are asked a quick quiz in relation to andro-centrism, alpha and beta bias, and examples to support those ideas. Students attempt two exam questions related to gender bias focusing on the different expectation within a 2 mark explanation and a 3 mark explanation Students are introduced to the evaluative points related to gender bias. Students complete the A3 essay sheet which has a basic structure (AO1 points already written) students evaluate to demonstrate their understanding.
Fire triangle: Putting out a fire
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Fire triangle: Putting out a fire

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Students are introduced to a Chief fireman who is struggling to put out a burning building. Students discuss their ideas while they watch the video and share their ideas to the class. Students are introduced to the fire triangle and the word equation for combustion. Students complete a practical in which they build three types of fire extinguishers (sand, water and carbon dioxide foam) to put out a controlled fire made from splints. Students decide on which extinguisher is the most effective and how it relates to the fire triangle. Students finish the lesson through the introduction of a chip pan fire to demonstrate how certain fires have specific requirements to extinguish them safely.
Psychology Christmas Quiz
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Psychology Christmas Quiz

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students organise themselves into teams and write two questions using the three topics they have learnt so far (gender, eating behaviour and aggression) to use in the peer question round. Each team takes it in turns to choose a round. 1_ Peer question 2) Christmas knowledge 3) Ding dong slurp slurp (remembering studies to names) 4) Give us some figgy pudding (Christmas related eating behaviour questions) 5) Christmas music round 6) Christmas food and drink 7) 12.00 days of christmas (12 days of christmas and research method questions) 8) Santa and his elves (Psychology explanations round) 9) TV and movies 10) Bearded psychologists (Psychologists disguised with festive beards) Merry christmas!
Moles: A practical demonstration: Edexcel new specification SC9
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Moles: A practical demonstration: Edexcel new specification SC9

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Students are introduced to the idea that moles are an amount of things similar to pairs and dozen. Using the PowerPoint student are introduced to Avogadro's constant and that a relative atomic mass in grams equals one mole of an atom. Students complete a experiment in which the rotate around the room to weigh different amounts of substances in beakers to calculate how many moles are present. Students use the mass of the beaker and the symbol formula (written on the side) to calculate the mass/mmr. Students practice rearranging the calculation.
Empirical Formula GCSE Edexcel New Spec SC9
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Empirical Formula GCSE Edexcel New Spec SC9

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Students are introduced for the need of ratios in chemical reactions before running through a worked example on the PowerPoint. Students complete the famous magnesium oxide crucible experiment before completing a range of calculations.
Accuracy of Eye witness testimony EWT revision
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Accuracy of Eye witness testimony EWT revision

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Two PowerPoint slideshows that can be used to run through the theory and evaluative points of two popular concepts from the memory unit The effects of Anxiety on EWT the effects of misleading information on EWT Each PowerPoint has a practice research methods equation and a student activity.
Christmas Chemistry: Choosing a new fuel for Santa's Sleigh
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Christmas Chemistry: Choosing a new fuel for Santa's Sleigh

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Santa is fed-up of crashing his sleigh due to the yearly decreases of christmas-spirit. He needs a new fuel, The lesson is focussed around alkanes and their use as a fuel. Students are demoed a methane bottle rocket (instructions attached) and evalaute it’s effective as a fuel Students use fuel burner to assess energy release and how clean they burn. Students write a letter to Santa explaining what they have found out (and whether they have been naughty or nice).
Christmas Science lessons
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Christmas Science lessons

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Deciding which alkane would best fuel Santa’s sleigh? Calculating how many carrots reindeers would need to eat to fuel their journey? How to use electrolysis to make christmas decorations? christmas quiz? That’s you sorted for the last week of term…
What is Psychology GCSE Introductin
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What is Psychology GCSE Introductin

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This is an introductory lesson to psychology for GCSE. -Students are given Progress sheets and DIRT templates for their exercise books. -Students complete a THINK-PAIR-SHARE after looking at a series of psychology themed GIFs. -Students complete a discussion task designed to help introduce areas in which psychology investigate using the scientific method. Students use a verbal framework to share their ideas to the class. -Student finish the lesson constructing a diamond nine in their book. This is the first lesson of five of a GCSE introduction unit to psychology.
Describing a Psychological Study: The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Describing a Psychological Study: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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This is a GCSE introduction (AQA) to Psyhcology. However, the tasks could be adapted to A-level depending on ability. The lesson is centred around introducing skills linked to the A01 skills from the specification. The lesson is centred around the GCSE framework attached. -Students are introduced to an image in which they nave to annotate with questions. -Students complete a reading/comprehension task to extract and synthesis the most important aspects regarding the procedure and results. -Students watch a video clip to aid with a discussion regarding the results of the study. -students construct a conclusion and discuss how the findings relate to real life.
KS3 science revision: Using metacognition to improve exam skills
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KS3 science revision: Using metacognition to improve exam skills

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The slides contain a series of thought processes and frameworks so teachers can model out load their approach for students to use during comprehension and reading of scientific ideas. The lesson could be adapted for other topics. This lesson focuses on an end of Year test including: Acids and alkalis, homeostasis, energy stores and transfers, the particle model and reflection/refraction. Lesson content -Students complete a recap quiz. -Students complete a reading task in which they synthesis the data to title paragraphs and write one question. -Students get into groups and circulate around the room reading an exam question, completing an answer, and folding it over so the next group cannot see their answer. Once back at their stations they draft a final answer to share to the class based on the class responses. -Meta cognition slides and exam style practice.
Chromatography: Is your teacher an alien? (KS3)
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Chromatography: Is your teacher an alien? (KS3)

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Students read through the accounts of two cartoon characters to introduce the idea regarding the difference between science and opinion. Students are then introduced to a scenario involving the head teacher receiving the disturbing news that one of the teachers at school are in fact an alien! Students read through the letter he received and decide on whether this accusation is based on science or opinion. Students learn about chromatography as separation test. Students use a simple modification of the experiment to separate "blood samples" of each of the suspected teachers. The Alien teacher's blood sample will also contain green and blue food colouring. Students complete a wanted poster explaining their findings. This resource pack includes EAL differentiated worksheets, detailed lesson plans, and worksheets.
heating and cooling consolidation lesson
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heating and cooling consolidation lesson

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Student consolidate their understanding of the heating and cooling unit by completed a circus of timed Level 7 questions in groups. Keywords: convection, conduction, insulation, emitting radiation.
Improving Galileo's thermometer
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Improving Galileo's thermometer

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Using a range of simple equipment to plan a simple but precise thermometer based on Galileo's ideas. The final pieces of equipment can then be used in a competition to find a mystery temperature and then evaluated.