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 simple lesson on the periodic table, isotopes and electron configuration to cover a large amount of learning aim c as revision for the BTEC single or double award - geared at lower ability pupils with worksheets included

a module that allows pupils to discover a little about turkey it includes and evaluation/assessment sheet, gets them to learn a little turkish, try some turkish foods dance like a whirling dervish etc

a scheme of work i wrote on mulitmodal literature it relies on 2 texts tintin the crab with the golden claws and ultimate spiderman who is miles morales

Simple worksheet on why certain people wear the clothes they do, so fireman wear fireproof clothes etc

A powerpoint that makes a nice lesson starter getting pupils to match the title of a picture to the famous picture

lesson where pupils compare energy efficiencies of different cars, using clips from top gear and data on efficiency of cars over the years, they have to produce an article describing which cars they would choose. it also involves calculating efficiency

a reading scheme or a possible series of cover lessons and homeworks that i made for my work, . Included in this section is the overview with the authors of the books used for each excerpt, each seperate worksheet links to the bingo sheet in part 1, i then developed worksheets with extracts from all different novels and Genre's each sheet has 6-7 comprehension questions and one longer answer question. some books link to the curriculum e.g the recruit (still to come) some are classics and some link to current movies such as the wolf on wall street

a research worksheet i made for pupils to find out information about different kinds of intelligent packaging, quite simple so may be good with a lower ability group

a video of the kennedy assasination

a booklet i made for low ability students to think about the earth and the universe, it gets them planning a space mission, diamond ranking the equipment they would take with them, thinking about the conditions on other planets amongst other things

Two powerpoints, one on sources of electricity (including renewable sources) with a picture of the blue lagoon in Iceland, which is geothermal, and another about showing tectonic plates pulling apart in Pingvellir national park, a volcanic crater and geyser along with the beautiful Gulfloss waterfall and the blue lagoon

a set of worksheets to go with a simple mystery powders investigation, where you give pupils a set of five white powders, one of which is unidentified (use simple safe powders, such as calcium carbonate etc) and get them to carry out a range of tests to work out what the mystery powder is

simple hydrocarbon element cards that can be used with pupils to make simple hydrocarbons, good kinaesthetic activity for low ability pupils

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

starter activity on do they give birth by laying eggs or live young

a 5 questions starter for a lesson on the tudors

2 simple maths puzzle type activities, the zoo activity is a logic puzzle and the presents can be turned into a kinaesthetic type maths investigation

some simple RE resources including one worksheet that goes with the simpsons episode homer the heretic, the other resources include some questions about spirituality and a simple sheet i made on egyptian gods to get pupils to think about how the gods were revered in history

a good summer activity that gets pupils looking at the cost of different types of accomodation at music festivals and drawing graphs of the data