A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at the Earth’s Atmosphere. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. Explore how atmospheric conditions influence the weather. Explore how natural processes and human activities cause changes in the atmosphere. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 39 slides covering: • Composition of the Atmosphere • Air Pressure • Layers of the Atmosphere • The Troposphere • The Stratosphere • The Meosphere • The Thermosphere • Weather • Wind • The Water Cycle • Local Weather • Changes in the Atmosphere • Human Activities • Pollution and Health • Protecting Air Quality

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the respiratory system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases that affect the respiratory system. Explore scientific, medical and technological advances that help prevent and treat diseases of the respiratory system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • The Role of the Respiratory System • Asthma • Asthma Inhalers • Bronchitis • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) • Emphysema • Pneumonia • Lung Cancer • Medical Advances to Fight Lung Cancer • Prevention of Respiratory System Diseases • Treatments of Respiratory System Diseases • Surgery to Treat Respiratory System Diseases

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the voluntary muscles. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the function and structure of voluntary muscles. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Muscles, Tendons and Joints • Antagonistic Pairs • Controlling Muscles • Skeletal Muscle Tissue Structure • Histology of Striated Muscle • Voluntary Muscle Appearance • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: Z-lines • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: I-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: H-zone • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: A-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: M-line • Voluntary Muscle Contraction

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at heat transfer. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concepts of thermal energy transfer, including conduction, convection and radiation. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 19 slides covering: • Transfer of Heat • Conduction • Convection • Radiation

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at seismic waves. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the characteristics and applications of seismic waves. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Tectonic Plates • Earthquakes • Seismic Waves • Measuring Seismic Waves • P Wave • S Wave • Surface Waves • Seismic Wave Behaviour • Looking Inside the Earth • Structure of the Earth

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at protein in food. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the structure and properties of protein. Investigate a test for protein. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 40 slides covering: • What is Protein? • Amino Acids • Peptide Bonds • Polypeptides and Proteins • Protein Structure • Protein Properties • Protein Classification • Importance of Protein in Food • Sources of Protein • Testing Foods: Biuret Test • Positive and Negative Results • What can go Wrong • Regulating Foods • Allergy Information

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth’s early history. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the formation and early history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, tables and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • The Formation of Our Solar System • Dating the Formation of Our Solar System • Radiometric Dating • The Early Earth • Life

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at geological time. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how evidence from rock strata can tell us about the history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Time • Rock Records • Dating Rocks • Relative Dating • The Principle of Uniformitarianism • The Principle of Original Horizontality • The Principle of Superposition • Principle of Cross Cutting • The Principle of Inclusion • Principal of Faunal Succession • Fossils • Relative Dating • Absolute Dating • Geological Time • Precambrian • Cretaceous Period • The End of the Cretaceous Period • Quaternary Period

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at working with graphs in spreadsheets. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify how to create a line graph from data in a spreadsheet. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 18 slides covering: • Axes • Data • Titles and Units • Creating a Line Graph • Formatting a Line Graph • Printing a Line Graph

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at temperature and heat. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concepts of thermal energy, temperature and heat. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: 30 mins 30 slides covering: • Energy • Solids and Liquids • Gases • Thermal Energy (U) • Temperature (T) • Temperature Scales • Kelvin and Absolute Zero • Temperature and Energy • Heat (Q) • Specific Heat • Methods of Heating • Hot Plates • Burners

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at humans and ecosystems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how increases in human population and consumption of natural resources have an impact on Earth’s systems. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • World Population • Population and Resources • Energy Consumption • Population and Energy Use • Water Consumption • Ways to Reduce Water Consumption • Change of Land Use • Waste • What Can We Do? • Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the rock cycle. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how the Earth’s materials are cycled in the rock cycle. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Time • Igneous Rocks • Sedimentary Rocks • Metamorphic Rocks • Processes of the Rock Cycle • Magma • Cooling • Mid Atlantic Ridge • Weathering • Erosion and Transport • Deposition • Burial/Compression/Cementation • Heat and Pressure • Melting Again • The Rock Cycle

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the microstructures of steel. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the microstructures of steel and how they are affected by composition and heat treatment. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 24 slides covering: • Microstructure • Phases of Iron - Ferrite • Phases of Iron - Cementite • Pearlite • Phases of Iron - Austenite • Graphite • Iron-Carbon Phase Diagrams • Austenite and Martensite • Quenching • Tempering • Annealing • Case Hardening

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at polymers. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the structure, characteristics and application of polymers. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 26 slides covering: • Polymers • Molecular Structure of Polymers • Addition Polymer • Condensation Polymers • Polymer Structure • Classification of Polymers • Thermoplastic Polymers • Thermosetting Polymers • Elastomers • Additives

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at how to calculate the total resistance of resistors placed in parallel. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Calculate the total resistance for circuits with resistors connected in parallel. Main Skills: Interpret written text, interpret diagrams and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 16 slides covering: • Worked Examples • Reciprocal Calculations • Product Over Sum Method • Break Up Calculation

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at living in space. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the considerations and accommodations needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Propulsion • Food • Drink • Waste Removal • On-board Power • Oxygen • Communication with Ground Control • Radiation Protection • Living Accommodation

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at space travel equipment. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate some of the equipment needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 28 slides covering: • Space Travel • Temperature • Solar Radiation • Oxygen and Pressure • Mercury Space Suit • Gemini Space Suit • Apollo Space Suit • Future Space Suits • NASA Technology

This is a printable Wall Planner for the 2010/2011 Academic Year (September to September). Please note, the 2011/2012 wall planner is also available... http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/2011-2012-Academic-Year-Wall-Planner-6107367/

This poster represents a mixed collection of images of different life forms. It can be used for a large number of different classroom activities. e.g. Find the names of the living things in the poster. Connect the pictures to form food webs. Select all the creatures that live in fresh water. Select all the animals that are native to Africa. Find all the predators on the poster.

This new publication is designed to share experiences of delivering the Engineering Diploma together with some examples of best practice. The content of the magazine has been written by practitioners for practitioners. We hope you will find the articles of interest and perhaps, might be moved to contribute something to our Autumn edition. If you would like a free printed copy of the Engineering Diploma magazine, have any comments, or would like to submit an article for the next edition, please contact Kerry Woods, the Engineering Diploma magazine editor: editor@engineeringdiploma.net