A simple exploring space lesson - that focusses on space rovers- you can model one (we used a big track) or avoid it - it also includes a diamond 9 activity based on space rovers and a design your own rover activity all resources included in powerpoint

A selection of robot challenge sheets to help you run your own stem project ranging from easy to very hard and with suggestions for how to increase the difficulty, great for STEM clubs and projects or an end of term project can work with any robotics kits

A set of sheets that can be used by class to plan a robot design has help information and suggested types of robots to aid pupils with their design, great for STEM clubs and projects

A lesson i wrote for higher ability KS3 but can be KS4 about waves and wave speed calculations. Includes all lesson resources and a progress check sheet so can be used in observations as well.

A planning sheet I made for the film canister rocket experiment, which is a fun end of term activity, but this is an experiment planning sheet that can be edited and used for any experiment, I have made an easier and harder version. I intend to print it A3 and give it to the pupils, thereby making a ready made display.

A crash testing experiment lesson we did using jelly babies as the crash test dummies, we built lego cars using the instructions added (these were built from a pick and mix selection at the lego store which cost £6 and built 6 cars), then added seatbelts (elastic bands), crumple zones (paper) and airbags (marshamllows large ones are best). All worksheets are included

A lesson on car safety, using a Kagan structure to look at car safety features and getting pupils to evaluate which one is best, all resources included within the powerpoint, i photocopy the first slide as a lesson starter

gets pupils thinking about breaking and stopping distances and the causes for car accidents through the medium of a CSI investigation

A gcse lesson on refractive index including completing the calculation using snells law, all resources needed included in the powerpoint

Schemes of work for the whole year of AQA planning for the new entry level science course, second year of planning - for all component 2’s

A whole lesson structure around hookes law good for low ability or entry level, starts with a video and then gets students to design a bungee rope for a toy using elastic bands, the toy must bungee off a table hit a bowl of water and then bounce back up, they can test it first. Also included is the results table and some plenary questions to help with conclusions, and a way of scoring the jumps

A set of resources where pupils build a lego sleigh and reindeer and have to strap santa and his presents to it (santa is a christmas jelly baby) i will use paper and some blocks to be presents and offer elastic bands and string for harnesses. All lego instructions are included i bought all the lego at the lego store but it could be done with christmas decorations as easily. They will then harness the reindeer (the harness must pull 1kg) and test their fully loaded sled in a wind tunnel (basically a cardboard box and a hair dryer) to ensure that santa can survive. A north pole U certificate is included for pupils who successfully complete the challenges

A simple CSI lesson - I set up a crime scene with fake blood(made out of jelly and red food colouring and warm water or buy fake blood from the pound store) (i made a hand print, blood drops and a drag mark) a head, some weapons (cricket bat, rolling pin, toy gun) and a sealed packet of drugs (flour taped up in a plastic wallet) - the first lesson had pupils collecting evidence and the second had them analysing the blood splatter from the scene all resources needed are included in the powerpoint

A simple lesson on the difference between asteroids comets and meteors, looks at missions to visit comets and asteroids and describing the orbit of a comet, all resources needed for the lesson are included in the powerpoint

a simple lesson on diffraction and interference, all resources needed included in the powerpoint

a lesson that uses arduinos as data loggers for the light gate speed experiment a fun g and t activity or science club, all resources needed included, including text version of the code needed for the arduino, technicians notes for how to calibrate and lesson with worksheets. Arduinos plus LDR's are significantly cheaper than data loggers and more fun.