a 5Q starter on variation in twins using a picture of fred and george weasley, a good starting topic of discussion for a section of lessons on variation

a poster that gives pupils clues on how to write to explain

the first half of the new AQA entry level science planning including the first component of physics, chemistry and biology should cover year 1 of teaching the course - including a lesson i developed that could be useful for a TDA and the long term plan for entry level that can be adapted.

A simple babies revision lesson useful for entry level science all resources needed included in the powerpoint

covers what you can eat raw and cooked, styles of cooking and food poisoning with a simple graph interpretation question - all worksheets needed included in the powerpoint

a comparison sheet of the nervous and endocrine system made for homework

a one off lesson activity i made where pupils create their own pandemic it helps if you provide them with body outlines to map the symptoms and blank world maps to mark the origin and spread of their pandemic with

looks at a normal distribution curve for variation and asks questions about evolution in peppered moths

a worksheet on nuitrition with lots of pictures of people who have nuitrition problems pupils have to describe whats wrong with each one and then come up with their own definition of malnuitrition

I have used the level 3 - 5 science APP statements to make an Xbox achievment assessment for the pupils called science live. It works like the achievements on xbox pupils get the black and white sheet for their books then get the coloured stickers when they unlock the achievement it is an easy skill tracker and really hooks the pupils in small prizes can be given for every 200 points unlocked to link in to your schools reward policy.

this uses the open letter to the kansas school board found on the Venganza.org website (or search for the church of the flying spaghetti monster) and in the letter there is a graph that links global warming to the decreasing number of pirates in the world, it is a good lesson on valid data and you can include other strange correlations to prove that not all statistics are good

a lesson I made where pupils learn about DNA then use a given factsheet written by me to produce an infographic

a lesson plan developed on the digestive system - pupils modelled the digestive system with tights and mashed up biscuits and yoghurt however it could be models made by kids - the groupings suggested are 1 - high ability 2 - high medium 3 - low medium 4-low the lesson is differentiated and has a range of collaborative learning in to cover the digestion objectives it worked well with my classes who really enjoyed the practical part and all made progress in the lesson

a simple introduction to disease with collaborative learning strategies built in - the numbered groupings are as follows 1-high ability 2-high medium 3-low medium 4-low you can give the pupils a number in the lesson mine are seated on tables so there is that mixture of pupils always in a group

Skeleton diagrams of Mario, pikachu and batman for pupils to label the joints on

Some worksheets on cell division and specialised cells. The 'dead or alive' and 'rabbits' sheets are an activity on the seven life processess that is suited to pupils with English as an additional language.

a collection of SARS resources that could be used for an infectious diseases lesson

a sheet i made that contains a puzzle from the game perplex city about inheritance, a good challenge for pupils of a higher ability

a venn diagram starter where pupils have to sort a range of characteristics into a venn diagram of caused by genes the environment or both

2 keywords worksheets one for EAL pupils that allow pupils to find a definiotn of a keyword and draw a picture to help them remember the word