A worksheet & gap fill activity guiding pupils how to get salt from rock salt. There is a calculation where pupils calculate the % salt obtained from the rock salt.
Lesson on polymerisation and accompanying worksheet.
Pupils can do human modelling of polymerisation by having 4 pairs hold both of each others hands representing ethene (monomer). The pairs then 'open- up' but letting go of 1 hand and create a long chain of pupils - polythene (polymer).
A worksheet with pictures of series and parallel circuits pupils must build. Different components are added or removed and pupils observe any changes in the brightness of bulbs.
Shows that in a series circuit as more bulbs are added bulbs become dimmer and that there is no effect in parallel circuits.
Starter: Find the 7 life processes in the worksheet.
Emphasise that today we will be looking at sensitivity.
Additional information is provided about auxins due to this new topic not being in the old AQA textbooks.
Pupils draw how they think shoots will look like after being placed in a varitey of scenarios.
To recap the main features of bacteria, viruses and fungi. Pupils colour in a key and then colour in the picture and text relating to that type of microbe. For lower ability groups.
A simple food test practical using the London 2012 olympic games as a theme. I decorated my lab with the olympic symbols and wore a tracksuit top and had a whistle for this lesson. You could have a medal for the best group.
Lesson about extremophiles who live in extreme enviroment. Includes: <br>
Starter: List the extreme habitats humans can survive in. <br>
Introduce new info: A link to a video explaining what extremophiles are.<br>
Main activity : pupils make a poster on extremophiles OR complete a table on extremophiles using the internet as a source.<br>
Plenary: Design your own extremophile (e.g. one that can survive smelly shoes!) OR card sort of extremophiles.
Contains card sorting activity (print A4 copies of the '5 kingdoms' doc and the cards within the word doc'. Cards to be placed on the 5 kingdom picture to show what features belong to each kingdom. PDF file - can't remember the source... Pics from starter were cut out to make a card sort but pupils could just jot the names of the animals down.
A powerpoint for part of the WJEC spec on sustainability and the recycling of metals.
Pupils work in teams of 4 with each pupil having a different role. Pupils create a poster to encourage the public to recycle metals.
I did not make the information sheets myself but found most on tes!