I use this activity as the assessment at the end of the supernatural science topic I teach but it makes a good one off lesson too. Basically, using the pack of cards that are included the pupils can test each other to see if they are psychic (normally one person holds the cards and asks the other person to guess what the top card is and then marks down whether they are right or wrong) Pupils then have to decide what percentage of answers you would need to get correct to be considered psychic, it goes on to look at card counting and statistics so there is a heavy focus on analysing data

Comes with a slightly kinaesthetic building of a cube and a pyramid activity then measuring the cube or pyramid they've built and calculating areas and volumes.

Written this year, inlcudes some victim identification material and works on the crime scene having a coded message (like the zodiac killer), a muddy footprint and a severed arm and then later on another crime scene with a knife and some bones from another victim. I used coded messages to link the crime scenes and taunt the pupils as the killer but simple messages could be left instead, i tried to link in some victim support material as well to give a link to citizenship and the impact of crime, i will give more details by email through the TES if desired

level assessed tasks on the forces that act on a parachute, useful for KS3, based on the old levels but could be adapted for APP

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

These functional maths worksheets encourage pupils to use probability and work out gambling statistics using imaginary money. They can make and track real life bets and investments and see if they make money. Normally they don't and this can serve as a useful link to citizenship about the hazards of gambling Also included is a roulette sheet that links in some probability.

I find a really good way of embedding the 7 life processes with pupils is to show them examples that could be confusing or do some of the processes such as an interactive tigger or a candle and get them to decide how many of the life processes they do, this sheet goes with such a demonstration, it can be adapted for EAL pupils by adding a picture that demonstrates that life process underneath the word for it

I used this as an assessment for my pupils when they reached the end of the topic on maps for their GCSE course. I downloaded two model towns off the internet one from iceland and one from paraguay (the website was called bogus places, can be found by searching for free paper models) and got the pupils to construct a 3d town and then asked them to use their knowledge of maps scales and bearings to produce a map of the town describe how to get to one of the places and produce scale drawings, when the project is finished it makes a really nice display

A worksheet discussing the different stages of a rockets motion from take off to returning to ground, has forces labelled and stages and diagrams for pupils to sequence, once they have completed this you can remove some of the cards and ask the pupils to reproduce the information from memory to check learning.

A good opening to investigating science and CSI type projects, looks at the murders committed by burke and hare and has a sorting out worksheet for their story, once pupils have sorted the cards out you can remove some of them and get them to reproduce parts of the story to see what they have learnt there is also pictures of old medical instruments for them to guess how they were used and a section of pictures for them to make posters on the history of anatomy.

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

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

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

This is all the planning for the new biology core science GCSE planning.

This is all the physics planning for the new Edexcel core GCSE science

This is the planning for all of the core GCSE chemistry for the new edexcel core GCSE science.

looks at the science of phrenology once believed in and now dismissed use the first sheet as a starter, then introduce ideas of phrenology to pupils and get them to measure each other and see if they have any criminal characteristics has great links to citizenship as you can discuss whether it is fair to label people on looks alone.

can be printed onto sticky labels and issued to a department to aid marking, formatted to give a good marking sandwich where you provide a positive comment on the work, give it a grade/level and provide a suggestion for how to improve the piece of work.

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

simple sheet that gets pupils to undertake research and compare prices of different holidays, it extends it by getting them to find information for the bus and train as well, may need adapting for different areas as it is currently based on northern airports and flight providers