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

a simple worksheet to get pupils thinking about gods thumb and what happens to stanley and zero when they are on it. good for lower ability pupils

a task sheet to accompany some of the amazing resources already on here about Walter Tull one of the first black army officers during WW2

A simpe little web design challenge i designed as an end of term assessment for the pupils, where they have to design and create 2 pages of their own website, create an advert and a dragons den style pitch for their website

Some sample science questionnaires for pupils and staff developed as part of a MA programme.

A very structured debate activity with questions to get students to think about whether space travel is worthwhile, I have tried to include a range of opinions

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

A range of plans.

a set of cards that will need laminating (time consuming but when done can be used for a every class) that allow the pupils to choose a football team with a budget, that involves them working with large numbers, they then have to look at statisitcs and pick a statistically good team and see if the prices differ, i did this as a short project but could be extended by enetering both teams into the schools fanatsy football league and seeing which team performs best, you could also look further into sabermetircs (made famous by the film moneyball) and it's use in other sports

A crossword puzzle worksheet, makes a nice starter for a lesson on circulation

a periodic table for printing and use with students

a simple but useful writing frame to help lower ability pupils with explanatory writing

Written this year, inlcudes some victim identification material and works on the crime scene having a coded message (like the zodiac killer), a muddy footprint and a severed arm and then later on another crime scene with a knife and some bones from another victim. I used coded messages to link the crime scenes and taunt the pupils as the killer but simple messages could be left instead, i tried to link in some victim support material as well to give a link to citizenship and the impact of crime, i will give more details by email through the TES if desired

I used this layout from a police murder book to get pupils to interpret simple sources, I gave them descriptions of the crimes of jack the ripper and got them to may the victims wounds onto the body diagram

a simmple blank wordsearch grid i made for children to hide their spellings in quite a useful little sheet to have

Some english resources mostly based around Shakespeare, there are some sheets about persuasive writing and the texts of dr jekyll and mr hyde and skellig. there is also a sequencing sheet about romeo and juliet and a useful writing frame that can be used with lower ability pupils to develop better answers

a circular question sheet on romans and the keywords involved in the study of the romans

bath bombs are made with a 2:1 ration of sodium bicarobnate to Citric acid, recipes can be found easily on the internet, this lesson gets pupils to make bath bombs and then sequence the method and choose words for their advert

Inspired by someone else's angry bird physics display i developed the following lesson resources for an angry birds lesson, i used red and green playballs to represent the birds and pigs. And we made blocks using the net attached to the sheet. There is also a design an angry bird competition sheet. It helps pupils develop simple investigation skills.

a maths assessment sheet aimed at level 3/level 4 borderline based on xbox achievements pupil can unlock achievements by completing tasks dong this gets them the full colour version of the achievement allowing you to track their progress, my pupils really buy into assessments using this technique