This PowerPoint (with suggested practical demonstrations) will allow you to teach a range of abilities about Rates of Reaction and how to plot them graphically. Contrary to the suggested teaching order, this lesson is best delivered after teaching about collision theory and factors affecting reaction rate. The lesson consolidates factors affecting reaction rate, demonstrates the techniques used in the subsequent core practical, and provides much needed practice at drawing, interpreting and annotating reaction rate curves. The resource meets all required specification points for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Chemistry course. It is accessible for students, easy to follow for teachers and is appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and Higher tiers.

This full lesson PowerPoint (plus suggested practical demo) will allow to teach a broad range of abilities about gestation, the amnion and the placenta. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This double lesson PowerPoint will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about how we detect and use sound. The first lesson focuses on our ears, the limits of human hearing and the various uses of infrasound and ultrasound. The second lesson is ICT-based and focuses on safe use of sound and the impact that human noise pollution has on wildlife. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with independent and practical learning activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about the many energy stores and transfers that exist. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

Full lesson PowerPoint (with independent learning activities) sufficient to teach a broad range of abilities about fossil fuels, how they form, and what the issues are with them. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

This full lesson PowerPoint (including worksheet) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about the seven life processes and how they are evident in a range of organisms. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.

To go with my lesson 8Cd "Comparing Gas Exchange Systems".

This worksheet can be used in a lesson to first teach students about the parts and flames of a Bunsen burner, then to test their ability to safely light and use one. There is a full lesson PowerPoint that can be used with this sheet; it is available to buy from my shop - OnSpecScience.

To go with my lesson "Factors affecting reaction rate". Use page 1 for lower ability (has prompts) or page 2 for higher students (blank slate).

To go with my Year 7 lesson on "Antagonistic Muscles and Moving".

To go with my Year 8 lesson on "Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks".

Worksheets and mark-schemes providing practice at calculating Relative Atomic Mass. This goes with my full lesson PowerPoint GCSE Chemistry Isotopes and Relative Atomic Mass (SC3c CC3c).

To go with my lesson 8Cb "Gas Exchange in the Lungs".

Practical method and worksheet to go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson on “Properties of Ionic Compounds”. Full details and equipment list for students to test solubility and conductivity of substances, to determine whether or not they are ionic.

My shop - OnSpecScience - offers a range of free and paid resources covering KS3 Science and KS4 Chemistry. This document tells you which Year 8 lessons I have available for you to try for free. If you like them, please leave a review and consider buying some of my other lessons. I guarantee they will reduce workload and help to give you your life back :-)

To go with my GCSE Chemistry lesson on “Distillation and Methods of Separation”. See that resource for further instruction and context.

Worksheet to go with my lesson on Plant Cells and Animal Cells.

This PowerPoint will allow you to deliver the GCSE 9-1 Chemistry Core Practical in which copper sulphate salt is prepared from copper oxide and sulphuric acid. It includes an easy-to-follow method to share with students, plus a brief look at how this method could be applied to a six-mark question. The resources are easy to follow for teachers, readily accessible for students and are appropriate for Combined and Triple Science classes, Foundation and High-tier. Other GCSE lessons (including other lessons on Acids and Alkalis) are available from my shop. They can be purchased individually or, alongside this lesson, as part of a whole-topic bundle.

This full lesson PowerPoint (with suggested practical tasks) will allow you to teach a broad range of abilities about displacement reactions involving metals and metal compounds. This is an important topic at GCSE level so it’s a good idea to provide an early introduction during Key Stage 3. The lesson is in keeping with the current KS3 UK National Curriculum, is easily accessible for students and simple to follow for teachers.