a fact and theory card sort i made for the space and its mysteries topic of edexcel. pupils sort the statements into things that are a fact and things that are a theory, could engender a good discussion of the difference between fact and theory

a range of plans for the entry level OCR modules

a scheme of work i developed on heros and villains, display material and an assessed task on balanced forces (these two things uploaded seperately). Most worksheets are attached in the booklet, the blank sheets at the end are for pupils to make their own designs. The balanced forces is blank because i use my balanced/unbalanced forces batman activity there, and i left acids and chemical reactions blank becuase most schools would have already well developed resources here, all materials can be adapted to suit your particular school

a set of display material on famous scientists and their qoutes, some are heros and some are villains and some occupy that grey area in between, makes a nice display to go with the unit i developed on heros and villains which i'll try to upload soon

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

a starter worksheet with pictures of scientific equipment for pupils to name

a worksheet on compass points and bearings good for lower ability pupils

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

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

a simple card sort of definitions of ego,id and superego as well as a revision mind map of some psychological ideas and an information sheet on freud

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

made to go with the OCR twenty first century pre release materials a revision lesson on global warming including question sheets, keywords and a card sort of complete/incomplete combustion

a worksheet about the blue lagoon geothermal energy plant in Iceland. Gets pupils thinking about renewable energy resources

a starter presentation i made about murphys law to go with my slidey toast experiment where pupils see which toast topping is slippiest

a worksheet made for the old edexcel centre assessed task, uses information on stopping distances from the highway code to get pupils to produce graphs and come up with conclusions

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

this is a worksheet designed to go with the use of science museum unpredictaballs that are weighted on one side, however it is a nice simple science investigation that could be adapted to suit other resources

another sheet from the old edexcel coursework activities, could still make a nice class investigation/homework activity

a sheet from the old edexcel GCSE centre assessed task activity could still be useful as a homework/science lesson on radiation

sheets of mini stroop test cards, can be a fun starter for a lesson on light