Starter - Thinking tasks getting the students to think about half lives but without actually talking about them
Main - Introduce a half life, then get the students to do a practical to get half life data which they plot, then calculate the half life.
Plenary - Graph interpretation and exam questions
This lesson students would have had an assessment feedback which highlights their strong and weak command words. This lesson uses HIV content to allow them to address this
Pre reading completed before the lesson.
Students have a RNA sheet to fill in as they enter to check their knowledge.
Students then play Splat to check keyword knowledge
Students then work in groups to achieve 100% on the 6 exam questions (approx 40 marks)
Finish off with a Kahoot online quiz.
Starter - Cut and stick on what you already know (worksheet is at the back of the powerpoint)
Main - Go through all the organs, and what they do. Start to compare the functions of the nervous system and the endocrine system
Plenary - 5 mark compare question
All answers are included in the powerpoint
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
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.
Lesson starts with a couple of questions on previous topics to check embedded understanding.
Students are then taught about matter and antimatter, with worked examples of pair production and annihilation. Students are then to complete a worksheet which includes exam questions. All the answers are on a worked sheet.
This lesson is designed as a flipped lesson (flipped pre read sheet is included)
This is mainly a practical skills lesson as the content for acceleration is covered in the pre reading. There is a practical sheet available, although there is the option for students to plan and carry out the practical themselves
Resources include:
GCSE recap starter to highlight students who may need extra help, with answers
Practical sheet for those that need it
Instructions on how to use ticker tape
Plenary exam question, with answers
Starter - thinking about images and the microscopes used to visualise them
Main1 - Label a microscope
Main2 - Look at cells down a microscope
Main3 - Magnification images
Plenary - Overview
Differentiated worksheet and lesson plan to guide students through drawing electronic structures.
For high ability students it starts them looking for patterns which links nicely to the second chapter - The Periodic Table (Which I also have to download)
Part of a whole scheme for the C1 - Atomic Structure topic. Download the whole scheme in one to save money
There are multiple choices in this resource.
1 - Guide students through the process using the Reflection powerpoint. They then create their own ray diagrams. There is an easy worksheet (Worksheet A3) and then a more difficult worksheet (Practical-Worksheet).
2 - Students aim to find the law of reflection themselves using very little guidance.