Aimed at the NEW OCR Controlled Assessment but useful for all. A guide in planning an investigation using the old bouncing balls experiment to illustrate all the key points. An example piece of work is used throughout to illustrate each point and link to the marks scheme. Click the monkey on each slide for marking tips! Use with the students or just to prepare your own teaching.

L01 Types of Energy Physics ENERGY AND MATTER Lesson 1 of 18 Objectives: Recall the eight types of energy Identify different types of energy in various examples Describe the energy changes in different situations Activities: Eight Forms of Energy, Match the type of energy with its description, Energy Transfer, Energy Transfer Questions, Energy Quiz Eight Forms of Energy worksheet New Curriculum NB This is the first lesson of 18, the rest to follow over the coming weeks, including full SoW, homeworks, practicals and worksheets.

Science Quiz 1 End of term is coming. This quiz comprises eight rounds of ten questions. Fully menu driven so you can do it in any order, the whole thing or just a couple of rounds. The slides in each round are timed so you can start it and leave it, with the ability to go back, mark after each round or at the end. Includes two sound rounds which students love. Challenging from year 7’s to staff!

It's Christmas! It's a quiz. Simple and automatic. Easy but should test everyone. Merry Christmas. Round 1 The night sky Round 2 Elemental fun Round 3 Festive flora & fauna

Make a balance from a single sheet of A4 paper that will weight things up to about 3g (more with simple modifications) accurate to 0.01g. YES REALLY! A class can each make one of these in a few minutes and actually use it in experiments, then they can put them in the back of their books for next lesson. This is an indispensable piece of scientific equipment that cost less than ½p!

Snooker/Horror Graphs: fully differentiated lesson; 6 levels of worksheets, results tables and graphs; automated quiz at the start selects worksheet level for each student with hand-drawn tables and graphs to complete. They use their graphs to mark Mr Ferguson's effort. Assessment, differentiation and progress in spades! Done for a lesson observation, triple outstanding with bottom set Year 10s

Students and graph drawing need I say more. I’ve finally written this set of simple rules to help with the new OCR Gateway Coursework but this should be useful with KS3, KS4 and VI Form for Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths. Use the PowerPoint with the class as a reminder before they draw a graph and print and laminate the summary to put on the desks while they draw the graph. I've included a video by Semaj Nosugref the robot to explain things..