a circular question sheet on romans and the keywords involved in the study of the romans

bath bombs are made with a 2:1 ration of sodium bicarobnate to Citric acid, recipes can be found easily on the internet, this lesson gets pupils to make bath bombs and then sequence the method and choose words for their advert

Inspired by someone else's angry bird physics display i developed the following lesson resources for an angry birds lesson, i used red and green playballs to represent the birds and pigs. And we made blocks using the net attached to the sheet. There is also a design an angry bird competition sheet. It helps pupils develop simple investigation skills.

a card sort of the size of objects, planet, solar system, universe etc, makes a nice starter

a set of cards that can be laminated and cut up to allow pupils to match the self portrait picture to the description of the artist

planning for a termly module on jack the ripper for KS3 pupils

a maths assessment sheet aimed at level 3/level 4 borderline based on xbox achievements pupil can unlock achievements by completing tasks dong this gets them the full colour version of the achievement allowing you to track their progress, my pupils really buy into assessments using this technique

A set of display strips fora british values display border

a simple powerpoint presentation on dark matter and questions science can and cant answer

A simple peer assessment label, that could be printed as a sticker or as a sheet and chopped up to help pupils give feedback in the 2 stars and a wish format. 3 on a page

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 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

This sheet gets pupils to use google earth to look at satellite images of various things around the earth, they can guess what they are and draw them. A nice starter for the use of satellites

a cyclical planning frame to help pupils construct a piece of writing on Holes

a worksheet comparing haribo with own brand sweets, tally data, produce pictograms and calculate best value, a good resource for BESD pupils

credit need to go to some other TES sharer for the diary acivity starter i added to this and changed it slighty but i borrowed heavily from them. I then made differing levels of infographics to go with the information pack for pupils to do some independant research, the infographic sheets could then make a nice display.

a video showing the reactions of the alkali metals

Planning and activity book for alchemy module, I use this with year 7/8. Pupils start by looking at the core alchemical idea of the great work which is broken into four stages that they can draw pictures to describe. Then they look at the developing theory of the elements (I do flame tests here too), transmutation (changing one thing to another; I let pupils decide their own experiment to carry out so long as it is safe and involves a change), immortality and cosmetics, nuclear transmutation can be covered but I haven't planned it in yet, the big booklet may take some finishing or adapting.

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

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