A simple cloze procedure worksheet about enzymes.

a simple worksheet on food webs, good for lower ability pupils

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

simple labelling and cloze activity on the heart good for lower ability pupils

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

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

a worksheet on nuitrition with lots of pictures of people who have nuitrition problems pupils have to describe whats wrong with each one and then come up with their own definition of malnuitrition

Biology curriculum guide; can be used as a model.

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.

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

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.

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.

a poster with some of the key how science works keywords on it

It's a good springboard into a discussion about how DNA evidence supports the theory of evolution and can then extend into darwins work.

A powerpoint that could be used for environmental and land based science or for use with the living eggs project at Secondary school, it starts simply with the lifecyle of a chick and then goes on to look a little at ethics, so the differences between battery and free range and whether it's ok to kill and eat chickens, it will need some tweaking to make suitable for different classes it is pitched at quite a high level

Funny presentation on an extreme case of stomach ache

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.

a simple worksheet on enzymes and their role in food and digestion

A simple worksheet activity that asks the pupils to get creative in designing a creature to survive in different types of conditions.

a useful handout for teaching the gram staining technique