a set of data tables to help with a lesson on elcetron structure or the periodic table

a survival science module i wrote and developed, that covers classification, food chains, populations, it has animal cards to allow pupils to make food chains and food webs. also covers sundials (you can get a template for these online) and rocks as well as containing a level assessed task on distillation

a starter which has a picture of a scientist and an alchemist lets pupils come up with ideas of what they think the people are and what they do a fun starter to a scientific enquiry lesson

a selection of funny or interesting science qoutes that can be backed and used for display, they are from a range of people including isaac asimov and richard feynmann

a simple starter for lower ability students, where they use dictionaries to find definitions of solubility keywords

a simple level assessed task on simple chemical reactions based for pupils between level 4 and 7

a useful homework worksheet on the use of electricity including a literacy task

a simple heart jigsaw for pupils to cut out and rearrange helps them to learn the structure of the heart

a powerpoint on theatre design that could be used as part of a narnia scheme of work some nice plenary activities included

a simple cloze worksheet on blood cells, sums up the key features of the blood

Functional maths worksheet. A worksheet that asks pupils to use the wolfram alpha internet search engine to research and carry out some calculations

A structured outline i use to set pupils termly targets which can then be stuck on the front of their exercise book with the target grade highlighted my pupils find them quite motivating

a simple worksheet on group 1 including writing word equations probably more useful with lower ability sets

a blank atomic structure sheet for using with pupils to explain electron structure

Based on the game consequences which you may remember from when you were younger, I made these sheets when we had been working on lord of the flies so they have a bit of a lost theme. Each pupil fills in one part of the sheet folds it over and passes it to the person next to them they do a part fold it over and pass it on. when all parts have been completed you unfold it and get some really random and funny stories

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.

a simple worksheet getting pupils to measure angles using a protractor

a simple worksheet/writing frame for a basic candle burning experiment

I designed this as a interview lesson but it works as part of the OCR twenty first century science module on life on earth as well. you start with the pictures of a real family tree and look for similarities before moving on to look at darwins finches and his work and the development of phylogenetic trees. It's a good springboard into a discussion about how DNA evidence supports the theory of evolution and can then extend into darwins work, my extension sheet included has an excerpt from the origin of the species describing the finches

a full lesson plan and resources for an electromagnetic spectrum lesson, includes progress check, starter (stolen from TES), sheets for a circus of practical activities and levelled questions based on their learning.