Full lesson introducing KS3 students to waves, relating it to sound and giving a practical application. Lots of different learning activities and plenty to do without use of practical equipment (see notes on practical slide) Full lesson breakdown: Title slide with date and settler q. Engage - to get students hooked Practical task - equipment free alternative given in ‘notes’ section Review Exam practice Literacy task Learning Check Peer assessment opportunity Plenary Worksheets all included Keywords on every slide

A booklet which breaks down assignment brief B to help students organise themselves as they go through the experiment in class. Included is also some PowerPoint slides with useful youtube links and a checklist of everything that I felt needed to be included in the assignment brief.

Easy science project for students to complete on dissolving sugar in a cup of tea. This is at 3 clearly differentiated levels (Easy, Medium, Difficult), so you can pick the one that is most appropriate to each student. Students can then peer assess one another, or self assess themselves using the checklist. The checklist will need adapting depending on what levels you are using for assessment! This would be fantastic to use at home too, as it is an easy scientific experiment for children to do. You just need a glass, water and sugar. They could expand on this by counting how many teaspoons of sugar dissolve in hot and cold water. They could find out what happens to the speed at which particles move in hot and cold water, and therefore why there is a difference. It is also a good opportunity to practice drawing particle diagrams.

Translated some of my lesson into Farsi / Persian and created a teaching resource to help an EAL student. Thought it might be useful. Videos were from BBC education.

Probably not the best translation of all of these words, there were so many ways to say pure!!

Tried to help a Farsi student out during a lesson on hydrocarbons, now I’m helping you too :)

Teaching resource to help translate between Farsi and English for an EAL student, thought it might be helpful to someone else!

Booklet that can be used to work from for the BTEC applied science unit 3 investigation into Diffusion. Booklet in total took about 5 sessions to complete (tasks cover planning, carrying out investigation, processing data and write up!). Answers for the analysis are included as these questions have been adapted from past paper questions.

A poster showing how to reference an assignment/poster/leaflet Entertaining presentation style, thorough referencing include figures, subheadings etc.

A set of 5 potential lessons using Vitamin C tablets to launch film canister rockets. Excellent experiment, fully differentiated planning sheets to accompany it, and a mark scheme for the method. Really useful for planning all parts of an investigation for key stage 3 students. Could easily be used to practice skills with older year groups too.

A powerpoint and sheet with a project homework, would be great to compliment a KS3 topic on forces/weight and then use for formative assessment as a level ladder is given too! Just changed whats on your level ladder. I have had some really great work back from this in the past! The ppt is to set the scene and generate enthusiasm mainly! This would be very suitable for an extended project for children to do from home as there are clear success criteria for them to follow!

Fairly Challenging Christmas Quiz - science themed

Blank post, perfect for a quick plenary in the place of tweeting about experiences

One off investigation to land an egg safely, with success criteria! Perfect for science club, designed for a primary school science taster session This could easily be done at home! You just need an egg and some recycling materials such as plastic cups, polystyrene, newspaper, string, cardboard, paper, old carrier bags!

Booklet that can be used to work from for the BTEC applied science unit 3 investigation into Calorimetry. Booklet in total took about 5 sessions to complete (tasks cover planning, carrying out investigation, processing data and write up!). Answer booklet provided with suggested student responses :) Lots of guidance for students on use of equations. You will have to help them create a results table (don’t forget units!). I put the headings for my results table as: Fuel Start Mass (g) Final Mass (g) Change in Mass (g) Molar Mass (mol) Heat of Combustion (kJ/mol)

Booklet that can be used to work from for the BTEC applied science unit 3 investigation into current, voltage and resistance. Booklet in total took about 5 sessions to complete (tasks cover planning, carrying out investigation, processing data and write up!) PPT included recapping basic ideas from KS3 and 4 on circuits. I did this in 2 sessions and including the card sort on circuit symbols, as they may be asked to interpret a circuit from a diagram in their exam.