Aimed at mixed ability year 7 class Starter: work out magnification Main: Complete practical looking at onion epidermis and cheek cells practical sheet to fill in Plenary: Peer assess their practical work

Aimed at a mixed ability year 7 class 5 mins Differentiated questions to see what students know already about the microscope   Main History of the microscope task – HA/LA version HA comprehension task about history, LA cut and stick to put in order Show students parts on real microscope then cut and stick activity to label microscope parts – HA/LA version available as well as support sheets  - go through answers Extension: magnification calculations Plenary 5 mins Tweet something you have learnt today

Aimed at mixed ability year 7 class - some resources from other areas of TES Starter: memory task, draw and label a plant cell with all they can remember Main: draw and label root hair cell and palasaide cell, write the function and adaptations use information around the room to fill in diagram of cells in a leaf and how they help photosynthesis extension questions at each station Plenary: exam questions

Aimed at a mixed ability year 7 class Starter: What does specialised mean? Main: research task move around the room to find out about specialised animal cells differentiated worksheet answer questions about the cells differentiated task to compare different cells Plenary: Exam questions

Aimed at mixed ability year 7 class Starter: how many cells make up the human body Main: key definitions uni/multi cellular task to move around the room and find out about different unicellular organisms Comparison task to compare organelles in unicelllular organisms Plenary: summary questions based on the lesson

Aimed at a mixed ability year 7 class 10 mins Spider diagram of anything students already know about cells Discuss this with students Give students an empty diagram of a plant and animal cell, one per table. Work together to try and label all of the organelles. Explain the term organelle Green pen mark, then given students their own copy for their books that they need to fill in. Print match up grid for students, cut up the function of organelles and place around the room. Students move around the room to find the function of each organelle Green pen organelle worksheet Students draw venn diagram, identify what a plant/ animal cell has and which organelles they share Plenary  5 mins Students identify whether the statements are true or false

Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class Starter: summaries what separation techniques students have learnt about so far Main: Define and explain chromatography Show students a chromatogram and discuss what we can learn from it Practical: carry out an investigation to see who wrote the note, work sheet to complete whilst chromatogram is developing Extension: What effect does each mistake make Plenary: Exam question

Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class Starter: work out the link between the pictures Main: Explain what crude oil is and what fractional distillation is Watch video, answer questions, green pen mark questions Complete level 1/2/3 worksheets explaining fractional distillation Extension: research task linking SMSC and crude oil Plenary: What problems would we encounter if we banned all crude oil now

Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class Starter: would you drink dirty water, how do you think you could clean it? Main: SMSC link to how many people dont have clean water, fill in SMSC grid based on video Explain simple distillaation and equiptment, label diagram of equiptment Watch distillation demo Bronze/ Gold task to explain distillation Extension task available on powerpoint Plenary: Exam question

Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class Starter: which chocolate do you think is the most pure? Main: explain what is meant by pure carry out a practical to melt different chocolates to work out which is most pure and how we know that plenary: questions to evaluate the practical

Aimed at mixed ability year 8 - Some resources from TES L1 - Starter: thinking about what sea water contains Main: Think pair, share how to separate sea water introduce key words write a method/risk assessment for practical Plenary: particle diagram of what happens during filtering L2 - Main label equiptment in the diagrams and mark Main: complete rock salt practical Differntiated bronze/gold worksheets for students to work their way through Plenary: one thing students learnt today Marking sticker provided for the practical, if you wish to level the students work

Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class Starter: Write a hypothesis for what students think will happen to the amount of a solute that can dissolve as temperature increases Main: Practical, have different water baths, see how much sodium bicarbonate dissolves at each temperature Record results on worksheet Differentiated worksheet higher or lower ability. Once completed practical evaluation and conclusion on each practical. Different tasks for higher and lower ability students

Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class Starter: Add key terms to diagram, using key words for the lesson Main: Define key words and explain solubility Practical: see if different compounds are soluble or not Then draw particle pictures of what happens when a substance is dissolving Plenary: Tweet one thing students learnt today

Elements, compounds and mixtures- Some resources are from other areas on TES Targeted at year 8 mixed ability class. Starter: 5 minutes timed activity, challenege to see how many words students can make from the periodic table Main: Go over definitons of elements/compounds/mixtures. Then use these definitons to identify which particle pictures are elements/compounds Go over rules of particle diagrams, then a choice of higher or lower ability sheet. Higher ability sheet: students need to draw particle diagrams lower ability sheet: students need to identify the correct particle picture Extension: Worksheet, including tasks such as identifying elements, a fill in the gaps activity, 6 mark practicce question to explain the difference between elements/compounds/mictures Plenary: Break the code using the periodic tab;e

Biology Aqa trilogy, B4.3 Aimed at a mixed ability class Starter: exam question based on previous lesson on blood vessels Main: 2 minute video to introduce heart double circulatory task Then differentiated task on the heart to label Plenary : exam question on labelling the heart

P13.2 Following the AQA kerboodle scheme of work Aimed at a low ability class with targets of level 4 Starter: differentiated bronze/silver/gold starter questions, with answers to green pen Main: diagram of right hand rule to explain and label. Then a think pair share about different scenarios that could happen. Sentence starters to help put their think pair share ideas together Work on a solenoid - reduce task to reduce the information into one sentence Plenary - differentiated pick the task

P13.1 accordin to AQA Kerboodle Aimed at a low ability foundation class (targets level 4) Stater: pictures to guess the title Main: practical element to find out what poles of magnets do. Then to use iron fillins/compasses to show field lines. can be demoed Work sheet to consolidate knowledge with an extension on induced/permanent magnets Plenary: true/false questions based on content from the lesson

Complete paper one Chemistry revision following the AQA trilogy specification. Parts for higher only are highlighted. work booklets to accompany powerpoint, which can be used in lessons or revision sessions. Questions embedded in the powerpoint with answers for students to practice and focus on key concepts My year 11s have found these benefical.

Complete paper one Physics revision following the AQA trilogy specification. Parts for higher only are highlighted. work booklets to accompany powerpoint, which can be used in lessons or revision sessions. Questions embedded in the powerpoint with answers for students to practice and focus on key concepts My year 11s have found these benefical.