this has a suggested organisation cards using four teams, i have made a worksheet with suspects and the victim, the attacker is always the cinema mangaer, i make blood splatter by drawing the splatter with a uv pen and then getting people to scan for it with uv you need slime made from fybogel (if you put highlighter ink fluid in the water it glows with uv) and pva slime (recipes from about.com chemistry) and i used four weapons (a book, a glass ashtray, a broom handle and a wooden rolling pin) there are also deduction cards so teams can find out who did it at the end

a starter which has a picture of a scientist and an alchemist lets pupils come up with ideas of what they think the people are and what they do a fun starter to a scientific enquiry lesson

a nice elements and symbols card sort that could be used as a starter to a lesson or as part of a main activity

a video showing the famous feather drop on the moon experiment

starter activity on do they give birth by laying eggs or live young

a selection of funny or interesting science qoutes that can be backed and used for display, they are from a range of people including isaac asimov and richard feynmann

a simple starter for lower ability students, where they use dictionaries to find definitions of solubility keywords

a medium term plan i wrote to develop literacy and numeracy skills, through pupils interest in computer games, i have a booklet of resources to go with this also uploaded onto the TES

a scinetific enquiry sheet i made to accompany a demonstartion of a buddhist/tibetan prayer bowl

a simple card sort of definitions of ego,id and superego as well as a revision mind map of some psychological ideas and an information sheet on freud

a card sort activity on questions science can and cannot answer

a card sort about all the different spin offs from the space programme. makes a good talking point for a lesson about the value of space travel

an outline for a postcard home from another planet, could be used to get pupils thinking about what it would be like on other planets

a simple food and digestion concept map could be used as a revision/end of topic assessment activity

a sheet from the old edexcel GCSE centre assessed task activity could still be useful as a homework/science lesson on radiation

A 5-question starter with a picture of the fossil ADA currently held in Norway believed to be the missing link between apes and humans. A good starter to a lesson on evolution as it gets pupils thinking.

Simple worksheet on mineral needs of plants. Might be useful for lower ability classes

A little worksheet activity that lets you match animal footprints to the name of the animal that made them.

simple video clip files of a heart beating, strawberry decaying etc

a useful powerpoint about human rights and the rights of the child including activities