a simple worksheet to get pupils thinking about gods thumb and what happens to stanley and zero when they are on it. good for lower ability pupils

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

a simple writing frame to get pupils thinking about the role of the character kissing kate barlow in holes. good for lower ability pupils

a keywords sheet for the old edexcel patterns in properties module still useful as a starter because it asks pupils to find definiotns of atom, element, etc

a task sheet to accompany some of the amazing resources already on here about Walter Tull one of the first black army officers during WW2

a simple worksheet where pupils have to order 10 scientifc projects in order of what they think they cost most to least expensive, i then moved on to looking at crowd funding science pojects and whether space travel is worthwhile

a range of activities that could be used as a round robin exercise on flooding in the uk, and flood defences, the pictures at the end could be used as a way of assessing progress each pupils has one on the board that they can move along at the completion of a task

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

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.

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

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

a powerpoint activity on the work of tim burton, includes plenary activities

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