Use rulers to demonstrate amplitude and pitch. My starter was me playing happy birthday with a 15cm ruler, and Jingle Bells (it was December when I planned this)

A worksheet for students to work on either as part of the lessons on reflection and refraction, or, as I used them as a topic recap.

Intro to Light topic, covers keywords and gets the students to think about light travelling in straight lines

Students are split into groups of 3. Each has a clue sheet and can only read their clues out loud. Between them they have to be able to put the facts into the correct order by using the clues Requires teamwork! Answers included

Include demo's such as: 1. One nail bursting a balloon, then bed of nails not bursting the balloon 2. Crushing can (youtube) 3. Inflateable marshmallowman (youtube)

This is a 100 minute lesson but is split into two 50 minute lessons. The first is about gravity, the second is on moments.

Modelling circuits that are parallel or series, goes after a modelling lesson on circuits (which is also on TES)

The students are shown some models for the flow of electricity in a circuit. They then have to create their own. Worksheet has levels 4-7.

Taking written data and putting it into a table, then a graph, then evaluating the data.

Practical taking rock salt and extracting Chlorine from it. Prac sheet includes evaluative questions

All guidance within PPT

Soil testing practical. Soil needs spiking with acid and alkali.

You will need 4 samples of 'rain water&' spiked with acid or alkali to represent the different areas you can get the rain from

A game based on selective breeding! This is a manic lesson and game, but really gets the point across and the students really like it!!

DNA Extraction lesson and practical. Lesson covers DNA and genetic materials with a thought provoking starter on the length of DNA in a cell. A simple variation of the lesson could be to extract DNA from one fruit, but this lesson looks at comparing different fruits and the challenges faced with that. Easy to follow worksheet

Students paint the underside of a leaf and look at the stomata Whilst the nail varnish is drying the students will complete the worksheet.

Market place version of an immunity lesson. The students create a poster which sums up all the market place stations with an end of lesson quiz.

This is for a 100 minute lesson, but there are two tasks which could be split over two 50 min lessons. The Timeline Poster is one activity and the Darwin text based activity is the second activity. The text may be too textual for low ability or low reading age students, my low reading age group had an LSA and they were ACE!

Complete KS3 and KS4 fully differentiated lesson on Adaptation Two versions of the lesson for the price of one. One version is suitable for KS3, one version is suitable for KS4. Starter KS3 KS4 - BoB’s big five. A recap over the last few lessons in 5 questions that they complete in the back of their books (Hence BoB). There are then the answers on the next slides for students to self or peer mark. This is to encourage memory retention over a series of lessons and has had a great impact in my classroom. Followed by a series of images showing animals that have adapted to their surroundings. Main KS3 & KS4 - Place the station cards from the PPT file around the room. Students then have copies of the station cards from the word file and have to move around the room completing the cards. There are helper sheets to support students if needed, or for your LSA’s. Helper sheets are for any LSA’s you may have Plenary KS3 & KS4 - Beach ball questioning. You need a beach ball. Throw to a student, ask a question, they then throw the ball to another student, who you then ask the next question to.

Lesson uses the worksheet attached