Introducing 3 types of microbe with fact sheets and a wanted poster. Groups of pupils develop a poster with good and bad aspects of their microbe to answer the question: hero or villain. The printable resources are just loads of slides gathered together, but for lower ability groups could be used to cut out and stick.

parasitic wasps in a caterpillar. The symbiosis song with the hippo.

Year 6 enjoy making the convection spiral snakes. Add in the powerpoint slides as laminated pictures to demonstrate the natural beauty of snakes. The worksheet was doable by year 6 with help and crib sheets, and by years 7 and 8 without crib sheets. Ideas also based on playing with convection ideas for year 9 - particularly the water filled balloon to get them thinking. I keep reusing bits and pieces from this set. All together they also made up a year 6 taster day.

Low ability group. How would you use plant hormones as a plot for a bad horror movie in which plants take over the planet? We can do amazing things to plants in real life, but what about in fiction?

Playing with ideas around air pressure to get pupils thinking about how it works. A circus of activities I have used on year 8. May also be suitable beyond that. Popper animals available from amazon and ebay and fun to play with!

Lots of bits and pieces, but the lesson plan explains how to put it together. Starting with the animal sounds (identify them and then draw a donkey bray!) Then a sound circus with a worksheet. Questions and plenary questions.

A lesson introducing social, economic and environmental impacts of copper mining.

transistors - history of and uses of in relation to the OCR physics gateway syllabus

How would you adapt an elephant to live in the cold? Why do penguins feet not freeze? What are eyelashes useful for?