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 sample educational visit assessment and letter to help with planning school trips

A simple, printable writing frame handout, good for SEN, EAL, and lower ability pupils to start thinking about constructing a coursework or controlled assessment essay on Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

fits with the new GCSE science a short timeline of the key ideas about the universe, needs photocopying and cutting out and you will need to produce your own sheets with a line on for the pupils to stick the ideas in time order onto

I use this activity as the assessment at the end of the supernatural science topic I teach but it makes a good one off lesson too. Basically; using the pack of cards that are included the students can test each other to see if they are psychic (normally o

a worksheet i made about disease in queen victorias family, shows he family pedigree diagram and has some questions linked to it

a thought provoking and slightly gory powerpoint on types of capital punishment

my medium term plan for a forensics/CSI unit

Planning and activity book for alchemy module, I use this with year 7/8. Pupils start by looking at the core alchemical idea of the great work which is broken into four stages that they can draw pictures to describe. Then they look at the developing theory of the elements (I do flame tests here too), transmutation (changing one thing to another; I let pupils decide their own experiment to carry out so long as it is safe and involves a change), immortality and cosmetics, nuclear transmutation can be covered but I haven't planned it in yet, the big booklet may take some finishing or adapting.

a sheet that can be used in a lesson then stuck into the pupils books to evidence that all important self assessment

A simple handout to accompany a sense practical, requires resources such as 3 scent samples some food to taste, some short music clips etc, but the sheet is blank so you can choose these yourself

a wordsearch on microscope keywords that could be used as a starter, pupils culd write definitions of each keyword

a nice powerpoint on the themes of violence in the novel of mice and men useful for coursework preparation

a powerpoint looking at the horror genre and getting pupils to plan their own vampire story

some instructions on how to produce a good piece of rate of reaction coursework

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

a worksheet with some activities i designed to support a viewing of bowling for columbine

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

another simple worksheet on camp green lake from holes good for use with lower ability pupils