This resource includes a Kagan Rally Robin to identify the planets in our solar system, a double bubble thinking map to compare Earth with another planet, an information gathering Solar System scavenger hunt and differentiated Thinker's keys puzzles/tasks to finish off with.

The lesson plan is in the form of a ppt presentation and includes the opportunity for using the question matrix and Kagan activities.

A PPt with work mat for pupils to complete. Includes Kagan.

Uses video clips, Kagan, Question matrix and thinking maps. LO linked to three storey intellect. I used this lesson for a Be Healthy be Safe day at school and I delivered it to year 8 pupils. Several of the slides have pictures with hyperlinks to appropriate video clips so I advise having a look for them first before delivering the lesson.

To hook the pupils I have linked this lesson on plant adaptations to what it would be like to live in Oymyakon - The coldest inhabited place on the Earth.

Suitable for lower ability Year 7 pupils.

A lesson and resources on using drugs in sport featuring my friend Eddy Ellwood (Worlds Strongest man three times) with his permission. Lesson includes Kagan, thinking maps(tree map for classifying) and Question matrix, and the LO are linked to the three storey intellect. The website will allow you to access a variety of other science debate lesson plans and resources, all of which are free to download.

Classifying duck billed platypuses.

The pictures on slide three hyperlink to Youtube video clips showing each of the six species displaying courtship behaviours. The pupils have to record information about each animal's courtship ritual is it movement, display, sound or scent? They should describe each. Double bubble to compare and contrast the courtship ritual of a swan and a bower bird. The bowerbird picture hyperlinks to another video vlip. Finally the speech bubble of OMG cat hyyperlinks to clip of flatworm penis fencing!!!

A resource to link in with Halloween. It looks at the life processes and links them with the relevant organ systems, environmental and inherited variations and phases of the moon. It includes use of double bubble thinking maps, tree maps and the question matrix.

Uses the question matrix to encourage deeper thinking and a Rally Robin Kagan activity.

Contains a Question matrix slide to encourage deeper thinking and to help pupils think of more interesting questions. Double bubble thinking map to compare and contrast plant and animal cells.