A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at planning investigations. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore investigative procedures to enable you to plan your own investigations. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and predict outcomes. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 34 slides covering: • Asking Questions • Preparing for Investigations • Variables • Preparing Equipment • Equipment - Scientific Glassware • Equipment - Electronic Balances • Equipment - Consumable Chemicals • Equipment - Technological (Calculators, Probes and Computers)

This resource can be use in conjunction with the scientific methods booklet or as a stand alone lesson. In this lesson students look at method writing and ultimately have the chance to produce a method for their investigation.

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at planning descriptive investigations. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Find out how to plan descriptive investigations. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and predict outcomes. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Investigations • Descriptive Investigations • Planning • Habitat Investigation • Equipment • Using a Journal • Collecting Data • Writing a Report

These worksheets are used to support the observation of objects sinking or floating. Simply have a bowl of water and some objects handy and then see if they sink or float. These worksheets promote scientific thinking, including prediction, observation and comparative testing! All in one lesson! This was extremely popular with my class!

Mid year exam (13-14) for photosynthesis, cells, interpreting graphs, analysing data, identifying variables drawing a graph. Multiple choice included

Set of 88 flashcards covering practical skills & experimental design. Suitable for all exam boards. Covers topics such as: Different types of variable Accuracy / precision / repeatability etc Uncertainty Range / standard deviation Choice of statistical test Choice of graph Basic practical skills such as scientific drawing rules, eye piece graticule calibration etc There is some ambiguity when it comes to mark schemes on questions such as accuracy/precision - with different exam boards sometimes having slightly different answers. I have tried to include the most appropriate answer on the flashcards, but if anyone disagrees with any of the answers - please do leave a review and I will alter the answers accordingly! This download is the same as the Module 1 OCR A-level Biology flashcards.

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at scientific theories. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the difference between hypotheses and theories. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • From Hypothesis to Theory • Development of Scientific Theories • Example 1: Cold Fusion • Example 2: The Expanding Universe

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at evaluation of scientific explanations. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how to evaluate scientific explanations. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, charts and graphs, make decisions and predict outcomes. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 40 slides covering: • Evaluation Methods • Using Empirical Evidence • Using Logical Reasoning • Using Experimental Testing • Observational Testing • Examining All Sides of Evidence

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the analysis of scientific explanations. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how to analyse scientific explanations to identify the key factors. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and predict outcomes. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 41 slides covering: • Scientific Explanations • Analysis • Analytical Methods • Empirical Evidence • Logical Reasoning • Experimental Testing • Observational Testing • Examining All Sides of Evidence

This five part resource explores social science methodologies and their application in social science research: 1. What is social science research? 2. What makes good research? 3. Case study. The family: Continuity and change 4. Doing research ethically 5. Questions, references and further reading

I have made this resource for my school’s alternative curriculum facility at the request of our Deputy Headteacher. They wanted a unit of work for students who had been sent out of lessons for a longer period of time which was separate from work being covered in class, as managing the former system was getting tricky. I decided to make a Working Scientifically resources which could be completed independently, but that would also double as a revision resources for students or a teaching resource for lesson time. The workbook covers: Introduction (which incorporates a skills checklist and the list of the AQA Required Practical Activities) Key Words Identifying Variables Hypotheses and Predictions Apparatus and Techniques Methods Risk Assessments Tables of Results Types of Data, Graphs and Charts Presenting Data Evaluation Peer Review Referencing Conclusions I hope that you will find this resources useful. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving the workbook! :)

This resource can be used in conjunction with the scientific methods booklet or as a stand alone lesson. In this lesson student will develop their skills of concluding and evaluating experiments through analyzing data they have collected from experiment and suggesting possible improvements and sources of error.

Series of 7 lessons designed for a high ability year 8 group (but useable at GSCE) Students go through the whole process of an investigation. Includes 1) Definition of Variables 2)Designing Tables 3) drawing graphs 4) risk assessment 5) writing a Hypothesis 6) writing a method 7) Analysis of results and conclusions 8) evaluating results 9) definition of HSW keywords.

This Scientific Method Colour by Number activity is a fun activity to start the school year in your Middle School Science classes. It also makes for a great sub-plan! Includes: Student Color Sheet 20 questions on the Scientific Method Answer Key This product is part of my Color by Number Science Bundle as well as my Back to School Color by Number Bundle.

This fully EDITABLE resource is for teachers as a teaching tool, but also as a self-assessment support type tool for students, when teaching science. In the Word form it can be used to print out cards for the students, in particular the second page which can be blown up to A3 for groups of students to plan their ideas, or as the PowerPoint it can run on the whiteboard to aid teaching. You can also download this resource as a PDF document from the TES website (cheaper!). SO WHAT DOES IT DO? When teaching science, it is the skills and the thinking scientifically that make a scientist, not the knowledge or facts that are gained. This resources (part of a set on ‘Being Scientific’) helps to not only identify the skills, but to support progression within each individual skill area, helping create more confident and competent scientists in the classroom. Although it fits well with the NC for England, because it is based on thinking skills, child development and Bloom's taxonomy, it simply good practice and can be used in a variety of contexts and countries. WHAT’S IN IT? The first slide in each section of the resource has the Being Scientific Cycle included: what could be called the 'Enquiry Cycle' of asking questions, deciding on an approach to answer the question, presenting what was discovered and then asking further questions. This is in essence what science is all about: asking questions and finding answers, then asking more questions! What follows is a ‘child friendly’ progressive set of support cards with initially simple cloze procedures, through to some key questions to consider for the skill being focussed on, helping students progress from the beginning of primary school through to early secondary years. This skill in this set is focussed on: Analysing Data and being able to draw Conclusions from this, with the knock on benefit of supporting Literacy skills. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? When planning lessons, focussing on an individual skill, in order to develop it further allows students to have more time to consider the WAGOLLs (What A Good One Looks Like) and how to refine this, without having to write everything for the whole investigation. This means that the students should only be writing up the skill being assessed. The rest of the process can be recorded in other ways such as photographs, listening to discussions, using floor books, etc. Obviously this also means more focussed marking (and less of it!) This resource is also available as a PDF document (from the TES website), which is priced cheaper. Contact me if you have any questions or to find out about other resources: tara@makingitpractical.com

In order to promote pedagogically informed use of technology, educators need to develop an active, inquisitive, design-oriented mindset. Design Patterns have been demonstrated as powerful mediators of theory-praxis conversations yet widespread adoption by the practitioner community remains a challenge. Over several years, the authors and their colleagues have facilitated many workshops in which participants shared experiences, captured these as design narratives, extracting design patterns, and applied them to novel teaching challenges represented as design scenarios.