This PowerPoint provides a useful visual aid for a lesson on series and parallel circuits. Before the lesson starts, I set up four electrical circuits in the classroom (these are shown on slide 3). Students begin by recapping how they draw electrical diagrams before being introduced to the idea of series and parallel circuits. Students then perform a series of very simple experiments to help them compare current and voltage in series and parallel. After completing the experiments and feeding back their findings to the class, the students complete two fun and easy assessment for learning activities. One is a back-to-back diagram drawing activity and the final activity uses dice and encourages students to reflect on what they have learned.

This resource introduces circuit symbols and scientific diagrams of electrical circuits. It includes a series of short activities to test student knowledge and understanding of the topic.

This resource introduces reactions between metals and water and the reactivity series.

This resource introduces reactions between metal and acids, word and symbol equations, as well as the squeeky pop test.

This PowerPoint resource provides is fun and easy-to-use. It includes a series of show and simple activities that introduce students to food chains, what they are and what they represent. It covers several key terms for the topic, including: producer, consumer, herbivore, omnivore and carnivore. This resource also covers disruptions to food chains and why food webs provide a more accurate representation of a natural ecosystem than food chains do.

This creative and easy-to-use resource introduces leaf structure and function. It begins with a discussion about adaptions and the structures that make leaves specially adapted for their function. It includes cross-sectional diagrams through the leaf for students to label, before inviting students to design an experiment to investigate whether plants lose more water from the upper or lower leaf surface. It includes a writing frame to help support students as they design, carry out and evaluate their experiments, as well as a true or false quiz to finish.

This resource introduces the phrases of the moon and how solar and lunar eclipses form. It is an incredibly useful visual aid and includes a series of questions about eclipses for students to respond to.

This resource provides an incredibly useful visual aid for the topic of ‘colours of light’. It covers everything from refraction and dispersion, to colour filters and explanations for why objects appear differently in different colours of light.

This resource provides an easy-to-use visual aid and activities on the structure of the eye and structure of the camera. It explains how the eye works and how the pinhole camera works, before challenging students to answer the 6 mark question “Compare the eye and the camera”. The resource includes a mark scheme for this question as well as additional questions that could be answered through investigations with a pinhole camera.

This PowerPoint provides an easy-to-use visual aid for introducing echoes, ultrasounds and echolocations. The resource includes short activities and links to useful websites relating to the topic.

This easy-to-use PowerPoint resource introduces sound and how it travels. It links well to the particle model, solids, liquids and gases, and also includes a 6 mark question that requires students to use the speed, distance, time equation.

This PowerPoint provides a fun and easy-to-use introduction to forces, interactional pairs, contact and non-contact forces, and how forces are measured and represented.

This PowerPoint provides a useful and easy-to-use visual aid for discussing the similarities and differences between molecules and compounds. It follows on from my ‘Atoms and Elements’ lesson (available on TES) and introduces the idea that compounds have different properties to the elements that make them up.

This PowerPoint provides a creative and easy to use resource for introducing atoms, elements, and the differences between them. It includes a few shorter activities that engage students as well as a longer writing task.

This easy-to-use resource provides a fun and creative introduction to the Periodic Table. It includes a series of activities that build knowledge and understanding about the chemical elements.

This resource provides an easy-to-use introduction to the three states of matter and the particle model. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to confidently compare the properties of solids, liquids and gases, using the particle model.

This resource provides an easy to use visual aid for a lesson introducing muscles, joints and antagonistic muscles.

This engaging and easy to use resource provides a useful visual aid for introducing the changes that occur in lungs during during inhalation and exhalation, how lung volume can be measured and the factors that effect it. If you have a bell jar model of the lungs available to you, then the lesson is supported well with a demonstration.

This creative resource introduces the structure and function of the lungs. It includes useful activities that are engaging for students and helps them master the topic.

This easy to use resource provides a useful visual aid and series of activities to help students understand the levels of organisation in multicellular organisms.