my medium term plan for a forensics/CSI unit

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 sheet that can be used in a lesson then stuck into the pupils books to evidence that all important self assessment

a wordsearch on microscope keywords that could be used as a starter, pupils culd write definitions of each keyword

a simple worksheet to accompany a sense practical, requires resources such as 3 scent samples some food to taste, some short music clips etc, but the sheet is blank so you can choose these yourself

a nice powerpoint on the themes of violence in the novel of mice and men useful for coursework preparation

a powerpoint looking at the horror genre and getting pupils to plan their own vampire story

some instructions on how to produce a good piece of rate of reaction coursework

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

a worksheet with some activities i designed to support a viewing of bowling for columbine

a poster with some of the key how science works keywords on it

another simple worksheet on camp green lake from holes good for use with lower ability pupils

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 look at the theories of Ekman, Dawkins and Chomsky to do with biological psychology - has some simple videos and discussion then a marketplace style activity - really useful for teaching Unit 9 of the OCR technicals

A simple exploring space lesson - that focusses on space rovers- you can model one (we used a big track) or avoid it - it also includes a diamond 9 activity based on space rovers and a design your own rover activity all resources included in powerpoint

A selection of robot challenge sheets to help you run your own stem project ranging from easy to very hard and with suggestions for how to increase the difficulty, great for STEM clubs and projects or an end of term project can work with any robotics kits

A set of sheets that can be used by class to plan a robot design has help information and suggested types of robots to aid pupils with their design, great for STEM clubs and projects

A simple lesson i built to get the pupils to work up to writing their coursework piece on power and control. we started with 10 pictures of different people to put in order of most to least powerful , then we moved onto the riddle posed by varys to tyrion in game of thrones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7f9G-Em0g we watched the video then the pupils had to write their answer to the riddle

an introductory powerpoint aimed at getting pupils using sources