questions to support coursework skills when reading benjamin button. this supports pages 5 -12 of the story

All the planning for the biology section of the new additional science GCSE for Edexcel.

a brief i designed for unit 32 of the workskills BTEC

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 is a worksheet i used to support the to kill a spy activity on upd8, about alexander litvinenko, it gives pupils a structure to find out more about him, he was killed using an alpha source which provides an interesting yet gruesome way for the pupils to learn about radiation

A simple Shakespeare lesson plan powerpoint good for planning Romeo & Juliet coursework with pupils for GCSE (KS4) The Powerpoint introduces the themes of tragedy across the play.

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 powerpoint starter with a map of australia also includes traffic lighting and plenary triangle for use at the end of the lesson

if you drop raisins in lemonade they sink to the bottom, then float and then sink again. this sheet contains six theories that can be photocopied and then stuck around the room, i demonstrated the experiment and then got pupils to move to the theory they thought best described what happened and told them to be prepared to defend their ideas

a worksheet i made for pupils to plan an investigation into what companies coffee cups are best, most big coffee companies will donate some of their takeout cups to schools we finished the investigation by writing to the companies with the results of our investigation

a whole lesson booklet on what the best packaging for smarties is, including starter sheet and level ladder. Also has lots of premade nets for pupils to make into different 3d shapes and try them out by putting a trial size amount of smarties in each one, pupils could calculate volume and area of the packets and as an extension activity they could work out which packaging would allow the most smarties to be transported in a packaging box

fits with the new GCSE science a short timeline of the key ideas about the universe, needs photocopying and cutting out and you will need to produce your own sheets with a line on for the pupils to stick the ideas in time order onto

a presentation aimed at getting pupils to work together to make a totem pole. Includes oppurtunities for peer assessment

A co-operative learning starter activity where the pupils decide definitions for the keywords from a multiple choice list move to the area of the room corresponding to the answer, then they have to copy down the definition and when they have finished sit down with a partner and decide a memorable hook to remember the word by

a complete lesson reviewing atomic structure, reactivity and word equations for KS3 or low ability KS4. includes a progress check sheet that can be revisited throughout the lesson and the lesson plan I wrote to go with it

a powerpont and supporting storyboard sheet to follow up a lesson about the dangers of alcohol, pupils look at a range of drink driving print adverts and then watch some adverts from around the world before creating their own print advert and storyboarding a television advert

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

A lesson based on kurt vonneguts story graphs - pupils sequence a simple fairy tale then produce their own stoy graph of the key events like the ones shown in the infographic and on the powerpoint - they then learn a little about kurt vonnegut the author before comparing their story graphs with the persons next to them and looking for similarities and differences in the stories as a plenary. they can also identify the main story type