A comprehension activity to introduce students to the idea of alchemy and turning one element into another. A great side activity for when studying the periodic table.

This activity has students creating atoms with red and green sticky dots (find them at any stationers!) and deciphering the numbers found in the periodic table.

A sheet designed to quickly recap the properties of solids, liquids and gases and to remind students how to draw representations of them using the particle model.

A comprehensive set of 5 lessons for teaching atoms and elements. A large variety of activities and detailed lesson plans explaining how to use each resource. This scheme has been made for above average students in yr 6 but the material is more than suitable for KS3 science.

A really fun introduction to some common elements and their properties. Mr. Sodium has exploded and three other guests have gone missing at the Periodic Manor House. Can your students match chemical properties to clues in this super sleuth extravaganza! Variable group size with variable difficulty. Min group size: 13 Max group size: 30

Forces Keywords Cloze Word Search

Students investigate how far a wind up car will go with different numbers of turns.

Collaboration and rewording of the Story of Archimedes. This is not my own work. I have edited a few words to make it easier for students to digest. Please find references in the worksheet.

Plasticine Boat Challenge - How many pennies can their boat hold. Also in addition is a cloze passage on upthrust and buoyancy.

Students use force meters to determine how much objects weigh in air, water and salt water

Students add force arrows to two diagrams to show the different in forces between floating objects and sinking objects.

Students find out how the Knock Nevis (largest and heaviest boat in the world) can float when it is made from metal. Ideal homework to lead into buoyancy and upthrust.

Students investigate the factors that can the speed of decent for a parachute. The Factors are - surface area, mass and string length.

Ideal homework for students to research and draw a diagram to represent aerodynamics

Full investigation into the effect of surface area on the air resistance for paper and card

Questions on how the Voyager Space Probes have managed to get so far on relatively little fuel.

Full investigation into the effect of mass and surface on the friction between two objects.

Students decide whether or not situations should require lots of friction or no friction and arrange them on a Venn diagram.

Internet research questions on rockets and action/reaction forces

A full investigation into balloon rockets and the factors that can affect them.