Demos and worksheets (differentiated)

Series of teaching and then questions

Circus of activities

Students move around a circus of activities

Practical activity looking at Speed

Work through a worksheet to look at refraction

6 questions, students have to use the information posters (which contain red herrings) to get the correct answers. First person back with a correct answer to a question gets 10 points, 9 for the next etc.

Practical task into amplitude and pitch using rulers. Students have to be able to describe any sound in terms of amplitude and pitch by the end of the lesson

Lesson looking at data. Drawing graphs, writing conclusions, comparing data

Three stations looking at how sound travels through various medium

Intro to waves, the two different types and superposition

Guide on drawing convex and concave ray diagrams, along with a worksheet to assess student understanding

Points to prove activity on Xrays. Rewards and sanctions built in to this

Posters of information about each stage should be spread around your room. Students then use the template to determine the order of the life cycle. They are then required to answer one or both of the 6 mark questions. This takes a double lesson with me.

Lesson looking at Nuclear Fission. My lesson is based on an iPad lesson and the students having access to the files and Keynote. However, you could print out the resources and do cut and stick. Sequencing tasks have the students order the steps for fission. 1 is easier, 3 more difficult

Starter to get students thinking about half life Then intro to the two definitions Then practical to create a half life graph to determine half life.

Lesson going over reactions with two worksheets to assess understanding

Points to prove activity for students. Self guided learning with rewards and sanctions built in

Demo of resistance followed by the use of two formulae with worksheets

This is an ad-hoc lesson I have after series and parallel circuits which gets the students to build several different circuits and read ammeters and voltmeters, completing the worksheet as they go