A google slides resource that is ready to be used out of the box.
Slides might need some alterations when opened with powerpoint.
By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:
State the units for energy
Compare the energy values of foods and fuels
Compare the energy in foods and fuels with energy needed for different activities
A practical lesson is also included for calorimetry. Risk assessment, hypothesis, results tables (+ class results) and evaluations are included.
A google slides resource that is ready to be used out of the box.
Slides might need some alterations when opened with powerpoint.
By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:
Recall what is meant by pressure.
Describe how liquid pressure changes with depth
Explain why some things float and some things sink.
A google slides resource that is ready to be used out of the box. Slides include guided walkthroughs for calculating KiloWattHours and the cost of using domestic appliances.
Slides might need some alterations when opened with powerpoint.
By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:
Recall the equation for power
Describe the link between power, fuel use and the cost of using domestic appliances
Explain the difference between energy and power
A google slides resource that is ready to be used out of the box.
Slides might need some alterations when opened with powerpoint.
By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:
Recall the equation for work done
Apply the conservation of energy to simple machines
Explain how a lever works
A beginner’s approach lesson to making bar and line graphs.
Following the lesson, learners will be able to determine whether bar graphs or line graphs are necessary to represent data and will be able to construct these graphs independently.
Learning objective: Evaluate the construction of graphs and tables…
Success criteria:
Identify bar and line graphs.
Describe how and when to plot bar and line graphs.
Explain why graphs are used.
7 Slides included.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about how to perform chi squared tests and t-tests for significance. Students will be able to practice their understanding and are given step by step walkthroughs of how to calculate.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
State what’s meant by significance.
Describe how to calculate Chi-Squared values.
Explain how T-tests show significance.
Number of slides = 40
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about the reactions of alkali metals and water (specifically group 1). Learners will be able to explain the reactivity with regards to shielding.
Learning objective: Explain the reactivity of group 1 metals with water and justify the reason for this reactivity.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
Identify the products produced when metal and water react.
Describe the order of reactivity in group 1 metals.
Explain the dangers of Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium.
Powerpoint contains 45 slides (some slide-by-slide animations)
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about how salts can be made by reacting a metal oxide and base. Students will be able to name salts or determine the reactants that form them, balance equations regarding salts and for a high ability stretch use moles in order to calculate the needed masses of reactants to react completely.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Justify how specific salts can be synthesised with reference to amounts.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
Identify the products / reactants of an acid-base reaction.
Describe how to balance equations.
Explain why equations must be balanced.
Powerpoint contains 21 slides.
Some prior information is needed for understanding chemical formulae in the later parts of the lesson.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about the noble gases and their chemical properties. There are links to KS4 included where students explain the reasoning for being non-reactive in relation to the electron shells.
Learning objective: To explore the trends seen in group 0 and explain their reactivity.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Identify Noble gases.
Describe the properties of Noble gases.
Explain why Noble gases are used for double glazing and Neon Lights.
Suitable for KS3 (yrs 11-14) and KS4 (yrs 14-16) Slides are marked.
10 slides are included in the powerpoint.
A simple to follow KS4 (Yrs 14-16) lesson describing the properties of Ionic compounds.
**By the end of the lesson learners should be able to: **
Recall ionic compounds.
Describe the properties of Ionic compounds.
Explain why Ionic compounds have these properties.
A comprehensive lesson that teaches students the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks take place after each success criteria to measure the progress of learners.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Success criteria:
Define renewable and non-renewable energy sources and list examples
Describe the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy resources
Explain how electricity is generated in a power station
Learning objective: Investigate the differences in types of energy resources and evaluate the importance of some over others.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about how IV graphs appear for fixed resistors, filament bulbs and diodes. The lesson also delves into the reasoning behind why these trends arise.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Use Ohm’s law to justify the trends seen in IV graphs for a fixed resistor, filament bulb and LED.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
-Identify generally what happens to current as voltage increases.
-Describe how to calculate resistance from a voltage-current graph.
-Compare how the resistance changes with load in: fixed resistors, filament bulbs and diodes.
Powerpoint contains 22 slides and a collection of past paper questions including the marking scheme.
A comprehension lesson that teaches students about: how factors contribute towards an objects density.
How to calculate density, and how irregular shape density can be calculated.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Devise methods in order to calculate density of objects.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
-State what is meant by mass.
-State what is meant by volume.
-Describe the term density.
-Explain how to calculate density of regular and irregular shapes.
Powerpoint contains 20 slides.
A comprehensive lesson that teaches students about electromagnets and how how magnetic fields are produced in a current carrying conductor. Solenoids as coils of wire that are able to behave as a bar magnets when a current is present in them.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Learning objective: Explain why current can generate electromagnets and how to change their properties.
Success criteria:
State what is created when current flows through a wire.
Describe how to increase the magnetic field strength.
Explain why solenoids are used in industry.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides.
Contains past paper questions and mark scheme answers to use as a plenary.
A comprehensive Powerpoint which will allows for students to learn about luminous and non-luminous objects, opaque, transparent and translucent objects and how thickness of a translucent object affects the amount of light traveling through.
I personally use this as an introductory lesson to the light topic.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks take place after each success criteria to measure the progress of learners.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: Develop an understanding of how objects interact with light.
Success criteria:
-Identify luminous and non-luminous materials.
-Describe how light interacts with a translucent material.
-Explain why the thickness of a translucent material affects the light.
This lesson contains 17 slides.
A resource containing a comprehensive powerpoint slideshow that will allow for learners to learn about the law of reflection, specular reflection and diffuse scattering and how objects appear in mirrors (virtual images)
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks take place after each success criteria to measure the progress of learners.
An animation is included to show how a virtual image is generated.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: Develop an understanding of how light reflects and the law of reflection.
Success criteria:
Identify types of reflection.
Describe the law of reflection.
Explain the appearance of virtual objects.
This lesson contains 40 slides
A resource containing 2 powerpoint slides for 2 lessons and a worksheet for applying Hooke’s law and analysing data.
I run the resource as an initial practical for investigating Hooke’s law and the second lesson to further solidify theory.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks take place after each success criteria to measure the progress of learners.
For the practical lesson:
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: Investigate the effects of forces on the extension of a spring.
Success criteria:
-Identify independent and dependent variables.
-Describe how to write a method concerning spring extension.
-Explain why repeatability and reliability are important factors within experiments.
This lesson contains 17 slides.
For the theory lesson:
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: To analyse the results and draw conclusions between the spring practical and Hooke’s law theory.
Success criteria:
Identify the forces needed to extend and compress a spring.
Describe Hooke’s law.
Explain why the pattern for Hooke’s law does not remain indefinitely.
This lesson contains 17 slides.
The worksheet contains 2 pages.
A comprehension lesson that teaches students about the carbon cycle, how carbon is found and moved throughout the ecosystem. Links here to the impact of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the forest fires experienced in Australia.
Support sheets are also included to guide students should it be needed.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks are present after each success criteria
Past paper questions from the exam boards: WJEC, Edexcel international and UK including marking schemes.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: Evaluate the stages of the carbon cycle and make links between different processes and the movement of Carbon.
Success criteria:
I can describe 4 ways in which living organisms relate to Carbon.
I can create a flow diagram to show the flow of Carbon.
I can evaluate how sections of the Carbon cycle will be impacted by external factors.
Powerpoint contains 20 slides and a lesson plan is also attached.
A resource containing a comprehensive powerpoint slideshow that will allow for learners to learn about drag forces friction and air resistance.
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Progress checks take place after each success criteria to measure the progress of learners.
By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Learning objective: Develop an understanding of how drag forces affect the movement of an object.
Success criteria:
Identify 2 drag forces.
Describe how drag forces affect objects.
Explain why air resistance and friction can be useful and a nuisance.
This lesson contains 22 slides
A comprehension lesson that teaches students about the colours of light and how the primary colours contribute towards how we perceive objects around us. How objects reflect or absorb light colours. How filters influence light.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Justify how filters can affect how we see an object.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria
Explain what happens when light passes through a prism
describe how primary colours add to make secondary colours
explain how filters and coloured materials subtract light.
Powerpoint contains 25 slides.