A table asking pupils to sequence the stages of electricity generation. Once they have sequenced it you can remove some or all of the cards (allowing for differentiation) and get the pupils to reproduce what they have learnt.

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

Cover sheet, simple starters and unit assignments for the BTEC money and finance skills course, there is also some excellent resources at Nationwide educations website

a 5Q starter on variation in twins using a picture of fred and george weasley, a good starting topic of discussion for a section of lessons on variation

a lesson plan developed on the digestive system - pupils modelled the digestive system with tights and mashed up biscuits and yoghurt however it could be models made by kids - the groupings suggested are 1 - high ability 2 - high medium 3 - low medium 4-low the lesson is differentiated and has a range of collaborative learning in to cover the digestion objectives it worked well with my classes who really enjoyed the practical part and all made progress in the lesson

a sketchbook template for a scheme of work on narnia includes sections for the pupils to complete

a module and evaluation sheet/assessment i made to introduce pupils to the country of japan allows them to learn a little japanese, discover manga and try some japanese foods

a nice powerpoint describing the turner prize and some of the artists who have won it, provides an interesting discussion point

To get the pupils to learn atomic structure we made models of atoms using sweets if they make them on paper with clean hands they can eat them afterwards. We used white and milk chocolate buttons as the protons and neutrons and martians as the electrons with strawberry bootlaces to show the outer elcetron shells, the pupils understood the concept so well we went on to building atoms of oxygen and berylium as well to discuss how the shells fill up, a picture of their models is included and then we evaluated their models and the effectiveness of the model using the sheet attached

a myths module i developed, lets pupils draw grendel from a description, learn some runic writing and try some viking food. also contains an evaluation/assessment sheet

a powerpoint i made for a lecture on the science of special effects this explains how to make a number of cheap movie effects good for STEM clubs etc

a fitness mind map revision activity i made for a pupil about to take a mock exam on sports and fitness for their BTEC

a rollercoaster project where pupils design a rollercoaster and carry out some investigations and use calculations such as work done

a very structured debate activity with questions to get pupils to think about whether space travel is worthwhile, i have tried to include a range of opinions

A lesson starter introducing a new artist with a plenary triangle to help sum up the lesson

a range of activities that could be used as a round robin exercise on flooding in the uk, and flood defences, the pictures at the end could be used as a way of assessing progress each pupils has one on the board that they can move along at the completion of a task

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

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.

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

2 keywords worksheets one for EAL pupils that allow pupils to find a definiotn of a keyword and draw a picture to help them remember the word