Spark Science provides high quality science educational resources for secondary school teachers.
From dual-coding, literacy and reading tasks, dyslexic friendly backgrounds, and continual Assessment for Learning (AfL) tasks embedded into all our lessons, Spark lessons will increase engagement, participation and understanding for your students.
Spark Science provides high quality science educational resources for secondary school teachers.
From dual-coding, literacy and reading tasks, dyslexic friendly backgrounds, and continual Assessment for Learning (AfL) tasks embedded into all our lessons, Spark lessons will increase engagement, participation and understanding for your students.
This lesson is lesson 6 in the Year 8 “Working as a Scientist 2” topic.
This lesson focuses on how we communicate science to different audiences, and how we can tailor our writing and presentation of information to suit them.
This lesson is designed to be a “click and teach” lesson with minimal planning needed from the teacher, which is great for non-specialist teachers.
Lesson resources contain:
Lesson powerpoint containing class activities and instructions, teacher delivery notes in “notes” section, discussion slides and full answers.
PDF copies of different types of scientific communication (A childrens science book, newspaper article and scientific journal article) all about melting ice caps.
PDF copy of a simple scientific journal article for students to adapt about the effects of temperature on seed germination (Students should have already looked at germination in Year 7)
NOTE: All example pieces of scientific writing are all tailor made for this lesson and are of the correct reading age for Year 8 students.
Lesson Outcomes:
Describe the key features of effective scientific communication
Describe how to adapt communication for different audiences
This bundle is the complete lesson resources needed to teach core “Working Scientifically” skills to KS3 students, following the UK national curriculum.
These lessons are interactive, engaging, student-led and focused. This topic contains careers links, reading opportunities and AFL strategies throughout (including mini-whiteboards and finger voting) to help you know how your students are doing.
All questions, worksheets and tasks come with complete answers.
Lessons included:
Accuracy, Precision and Hypotheses
Writing risk assessments
Choosing graphs and Drawing Pie Charts
Calculating Means, Medians and Modes
Reading and Analysing Graphs
Communicating Scientific Information
Bias, Evidence and Peer-reviewing
This lesson is the fourth lesson in the “Space” topic and covers why we get different length days and different temperatures at different times of year. The lesson contains a mini-student practical, animated gifs to illustrate concepts clearly, AFL miniwhiteboard tasks to assess understanding, and a link to an online modelling software that really helps students understand the changing angles and position of the sun at different times of year.
This lesson is designed to be easy to teach, student led and is ideal for non-specialist teachers.
This Lesson Contains:
Lesson powerpoint, including activity delivery instructions and tips for teachers, full answers, gif illustrations, simulation link, plenary task, AFL whiteboard tasks and discussion activities
Lesson Objectives:
Explain the apparent motion of objects in the sky
Explain why hours of daylight and temperature change during the year
Describe seasonal changes in different places on Earth
This lesson is the fifth lesson in the “Space” topic and covers why the moon appears to change shape in our sky and the names of the phases of the moon. The lesson contains a mini-student practical, AFL mini-whiteboard tasks to assess understanding, challenge tasks for higher ability students, and a link to an online modelling software that really helps students understand the changing phases of the moon.
This lesson is designed to be easy to teach, student led and is ideal for non-specialist teachers.
This Lesson Contains:
Lesson powerpoint, including activity delivery instructions and tips for teachers, full answers, simulation link, mini-class practical (and optional alternatives), plenary task, AFL whiteboard tasks and discussion activities
Student phases of the moon worksheet (PDF) and answer sheet (PDF)
Lesson Objectives:
Name/Sketch/Describe the phases of the Moon
Explain why you see phases of the Moon
