The toughest task on any GCSE Science paper is the dreaded Six Mark Question. This presentation breaks down one of these fiendish beasts and gives you some tips and tricks to help your students get as many marks as humanly possible. By which I mean six marks, obviously. Target Audience: GCSE Science Teachers working at either KS4 or Level 2.

A set of worksheets that will help KS3 and KS4 students understand and be able to use independent, dependent and control variables in planning an investigation, as well as various other things in and around the planning area. The questions use examples based on characters from The Simpsons and an experiment testing Hooke's Law.

A step-by-step guide (with photos!) showing, taking your students through the method for drawing a results table that will ensure they get all the marks available for drawing the table. Not only that, but it will allow them to keep the results from their practical organised, reliable and repeatable. Mostly designed for use with GCSE ISAs, but it can be used at any stage where a results table needs to be drawn.

Welcome to the Gibbon’s Guides to Science! As an experienced teacher of GCSE, A-Level and BTEC Levels 2 and 3, I’ve got a lot of resources I’ve developed over the years. This is one of them. It’s a workbook designed to contain all the information and work needed to get your students to the Pass level at BTEC Level 1/2 in Applied Science. Since these worksheets only cover the Pass tasks, obviously the learners will have to do the Merit and Distinction work themselves, but this resource will help them get there more quickly. It’s also laid out in order of tasks, so it makes it easy for you to mark (which is more than half the battle).

This is one for classes with students who struggle to balance equations. As such, it's aimed more at those entered for the Higher paper at GCSE (be that Science or Chemistry). Since it's one of the essentials of Chemistry, it's on AQA, Edexcel and OCR at least. It's suitable for either whole class or smaller groups, as long as you have access to either a projector or an interactive whiteboard.

Another in the series of Gibbon's Guides, this time looking at analysing data from a practical. The resource pack (which is made up of a PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet that can be customised) is aimed at both Key Stages 3 and 4 and could easily be used as part of a preparation for ISA-style investigations.

Based on the AQA GCSE Science Chemistry section on Useful Products from Oil. It also applies to Unit 5 of the BTEC L1/2 Applied Science Unit 5 (for those of you teaching the Certificate or Extended Certificate). This is a presentation that covers how to produce polymers from monomers and the uses of those polymers, aimed at students working at the higher level. There’s even a worksheet to go along with it. Basically, you’ve got pretty much an entire lesson covered with this one.

Welcome to the Gibbon’s Guides to Science! As an experienced teacher of KS3, GCSE, A-Level and BTEC Levels 2 and 3, I’ve got a lot of resources I’ve developed over the years. This is one of them. It’s a worksheet to help your learners get the idea of how to write down what happens in a chemical reaction. It also, at the end, hints at the idea of balancing equations and conservation of matter (so that’s the gifted and talented kids sorted!).

Simply enough, completing this workbook will provide enough evidence to get the students through BTEC Level 2 Applied Science, Unit 2 (Chemistry) at “Pass” level.