In this activity plan you will find the SOC codes to import my quiz to your Socrative room. this quiz is designed for introducing the software to KS3 or 4 groups or to colleagues to enable them to also take advantage of this great resource. This is a great resource that you can use with the whole class as starters, plenaries. ! If you are not familiar with Socrative, I explain the key steps of this great interactive teaching tool.

Four adapted articles covering; Antibiotic resistance, Ebola virus outbreak, Facebook's unethical research, and the destruction of the coral reef food chain. I use these as posters in my form room but they can be used for a variety of different uses. literacy, reading, news

Display sheets for a DIY Periodic table, organised by group to make it easier to print onto coloured paper.

Telescopes, orbital telescopes, naked eye, radio telescopes card sort made to give pupils advantages and disadvantages for the Btec assignment criteria.

Equipment is distributed around the room as per the equipment on each of the activities. Pupils are split into groups and given 5-10 minutes at each station to carry out the experiment as per the instructions and evaluate how good it is at testing the strength if magnet. Pupils will be able to talk about ( in their own words) judgement, reliability, accuracy and wether or not these are fair tests - all whilst reinforcing their experiences with magnets. I print and laminate the sheets and add my own diagrams with marker to suit the equipment available in the particular school/lesson.

Great little plenary chooser that your pupils will get used to fast. I recommend picking up a few D20 dice (10 for £3 on ebay) and giving one to each group. Then when you want to check understanding either at the end or part way through a lesson they roll the dice and do the corresponding activity. Pupils enjoy having a semblance of control but you still get the required plenary. If you want a more controlled experience have one pupil roll the dice and every pupil has to do that specific plenary. Digital dice rollers are also available online.

A great resource accessible directly from youtube or from this ppt. mammals of the UK are shown including extinct and invasive species, A great settler or plenary activity. Accompanying quiz is included in the pdf. Extinct, mammals, classification, invasive, predator,

Have a class set of these printed on stiff paper and laminated for a brilliant and fun assessment tool useful time and again when looking at different types of bonding and atomic structure. Either use both sides for a differentiated resource or use just the side you need and leave the other side blank to allow further closed questioning.

A quirky resource for pupils to peer assess, involves some numeracy as pupils have to work with percentages. Includes templates for 3,4,5,and 6 pupil groups. Suitable for a wide range of activities.

A nice starter or plenary where the pupils have to guess the word from the images and letters given. Pupils love this game.

A simple worksheet used with my year 7s to allow them to practice naming compounds. includes 6 common compounds that can be named with simple rules. All of these compounds are also known by another name so you can engage pupils by telling them about everyday substances. Simple worksheet, compounds, afl, starter, plenery

Pupils split into two groups ( a higher and lower ability group) each pupil in the lower ability group uses the information provided to write a letter to the CEO of a multinational oil company posing as a member of greenpeace. Pupils need to explain their concerns about the effects of using hydrocarbons on the environment. The other half of the class pose as CEOs of the company. Engagement, literacy, challenge, AQA C1 Chemistry, polymers, acid rain carbon dioxide, global warming, global dimming, sulfur dioxide, polymers, fractions of crude oil

End of topic test for alkanes, 50 minutes. Markscheme to follow. Useful for assessing your pupils at the end of a topic. Can also be set for homework or revision activity. Covers; Catalysts Cracking Alkanes/alkenes combustion

A card sort activity designed to allow pupils to decide which are advantages and negatives of the different methods of observing space. Used as a started before pupils evidence this themselves in a poster. Starter, challenge, engagement

A simple card sort for al the different stages in an investigation write up: Diagram , apparatus, hypothesis, method etc. Pupils have to identify what the definition is and an example of each.

Walkthrough of AS level Chemistry past paper; AQA CHEM1 June14 Question 1 - Atomic structure Past paper, tutorial, revision, video, homework, as

Simple stickers for my year 7s, placed in books when pupils are able to explain how to use equipment safely or accurately. Nice skinner technique.

Written for myself, but my fellow NQTs liked it so I thought Id post it up here.\n\nNO excel skills required.\n\nAutomatically colour codes your registers by gender, SEN status and target level/grade.\n\nAutomatically ranks pupils targets.\n\nIncludes separate sheets for KS3 and KS$ classes.\n\nKeeps pupils' names visible whilst you scroll through your records.\n\nEasy to use!

Activities related to light and colour. Includes literacy exercise as well as white board exercises related to remembering the colours of the rainbow. Also includes stroop test.\n\nRainbow, prism, stroop, colour, light, diffraction, dispersion, literacy\n\n*Updated with new files to fix broken links

Used to allow pupils to check that they have included all the segments of their write up. peer assessment, self assessment, homework