A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at living in space. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the considerations and accommodations needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Propulsion • Food • Drink • Waste Removal • On-board Power • Oxygen • Communication with Ground Control • Radiation Protection • Living Accommodation

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at space travel equipment. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate some of the equipment needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 28 slides covering: • Space Travel • Temperature • Solar Radiation • Oxygen and Pressure • Mercury Space Suit • Gemini Space Suit • Apollo Space Suit • Future Space Suits • NASA Technology

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at strong and weak acids and bases. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the difference between strong and weak acids and bases. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, tables and chemical equations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 12 slides covering: • Strong Acids and Bases • Strong Bases • Weak Acids and Bases • Acids and Bases Strengths

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the natural history of disease. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify stages of the natural history of disease and levels of prevention. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Disease • Stage of Susceptibility • Stage of Pre-Symptomatic Disease • Incubation Period • Stage of Clinical Disease • Stage of Recovery, Disability or Death • Natural History of Disease • Disease Prevention • Primary Prevention • Secondary Prevention • Tertiary Prevention • Disease Stages and Prevention Levels

A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at photosynthesis. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the biochemistry of photosynthesis. Investigate the factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams, understand chemical formulas. Duration: Approximately 60 mins 57 slides covering: • Plants as Energy Converters • The Photosynthesis Equation • Where Does Photosynthesis Occur? • Structure of a Chloroplast • Photosynthesis as Two Groups of Reactions • How the Energy is Used • Light Harvesting • The Chloroplast Pigments • How the Pigments Work Together • The Photosystems • The Two Stages of Photosynthesis • The Hill Reaction • The Calvin Cycle • The Light Dependent Reaction • Photophosphorylation • Thylakoids and ATP Synthase • Cyclic Photophosphorylation • Non-cyclic Photophosphorylation • The Products of Water Splitting • The Light Independent Stage • The Most Abundant Enzyme in the World! • Using ATP and NADPH • The Fate of Triose Phosphate • Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis • Light as a Limiting Factor • Carbon Dioxide as a Limiting Factor • Temperature as a Limiting Factor

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at Thompson and the properties of the electron. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore Thompson’s contribution to the concept of atomic structure. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 14 slides covering: • Cathode Rays • Investigation of Cathode Rays • What Could the Cathode Rays be? • J J Thompson’s Experiment • J J Thompson’s Conclusions

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at clouds. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the importance of water in the atmosphere. Explore how clouds are formed. Explore how clouds affect the weather. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 28 slides covering: • Clouds • What are Clouds? • How are Clouds Formed? • Types of Cloud • Cirrus Clouds • Stratus Clouds • Cumulus Clouds • Clouds and Weather Patterns • Clouds and Weather Fronts • Precipitation • Cloud Cover

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at natural catastrophes. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how natural events and human activities create catastrophic events. Identify the impact of catastrophic events on ecosystems. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Natural Hazards • Floods • Tsunami • Earthquake • Hurricane • Where Do Natural Hazards Happen? • Effects of Natural Hazards • Natural Disasters • Why Study and Monitor Hazards? • Human Activity

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the Doppler effect. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the Doppler effect. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams, and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 22 slides covering: • Doppler Effect • Example Calculation • Relative Velocity • Red Shift

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at Earth’s early history. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the formation and early history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, tables, and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • The Formation of Our Solar System • Dating the Formation of Our Solar System • Radiometric Dating • The Early Earth • Life

This group of resources contains all you need for a lesson or set of lessons on food webs; presentation, activities sheet with multiple activities, information fact file and assessment. The presentation is suitable for KS3 looking at food webs. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Presentation Learning Objective(s): Identify how matter flows through food webs. Identify how energy flows through food webs. Main Skills: Extract information, interpret diagrams, demonstrate understanding and apply knowledge. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 18 slides covering: • Interconnected Food Chains • Food Webs • Interrelationships • Food Chain and Food Web Stability • Energy Flow and Food Webs • The Recycling of Energy • The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming ****************************** Activity Learning Objective(s): Describe producer/consumer, predator/prey and parasite/host relationships in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Main Skills: Research, extract information, interpret written text, apply knowledge and present information. Duration: Approximately 45 mins The Activities Sheet provides a range of activities for students to enhance their knowledge of food webs by putting it into practice. The activities cover: • Terrestrial Ecosystem Food Web • Marine Ecosystem Food Web • Fresh Water Ecosystem Food Web • Food Web Research ****************************** Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation. The Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to the activities and questions in the assessment.

A presentation suitable for KS3/KS4 looking at ‘Using a Multimeter’. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify how to use a digital multimeter to measure DC voltage and resistance, and to test for continuity Main Skills: Apply knowledge, extract information and interpret written text. Duration: 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Digital Multimeter Features • Range Selector • Test Leads • Measuring DC Voltage • Testing for Continuity • Testing the Continuity of a Wire • Testing the Continuity of a Switch • Testing the Continuity of a Fuse • Measuring Resistance • Measuring the Resistance of a Lamp Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation. The Assessment Sheet Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to questions in the assessment.

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the microstructure of metals. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how the microstructure of metals affects their properties. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 22 slides covering: • Elastic Deformation • Plastic Deformation • Slip • Imperfections • Dislocations • Work Hardening • Dislocation and Grains • Annealing • Alloying

A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at osmosis. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the process of osmosis. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 60 mins 45 slides covering: • Diffusion • Osmosis Defined • Visking Tubing • Water Potential in Plants • Water Potential and Kinetic Energy • The Net Movement of Water Molecules • The Symbol and Units of Water Potential • Osmosis Defined in Terms of Water Potential • The Water Potential Gradient • The Effects of Solutes on Water Potential • Solute Potential Defined • Pressure Potential • Pressure Potential in Plants • Osmosis and Plant Cells • Plasmolysis • Incipient Plasmolysis • Water, Solute and Pressure Potential • Reversing Plasmolysis • Turgidity • Full Turgidity • Alternative Terminology • Osmosis in Animal Cells • Osmoregulation

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at astronomy. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore modern astronomy. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 32 slides covering: • Starlight • Telescopes • Ground Based Telescopes • Combining Telescopes • Optical Telescopes • Temperature • Spectrum • Looking at a Spectrum • The Spectrum of a Star • Looking at Spectra • Distance to Stars • Light • Electromagnetic Radiation • Atmosphere • Space Based Telescopes • Infrared • The Helix Nebula • X-Rays

A presentation most suitable for KS4 looking at algorithms and problem solving. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore program design methods used to solve problems. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Problem Solving • Specification Requirements • Analysis and Design • Algorithms • Algorithms and Flowcharts • Pseudocode

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at scientific theories. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the difference between hypotheses and theories. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • From Hypothesis to Theory • Development of Scientific Theories • Example 1: Cold Fusion • Example 2: The Expanding Universe

This is a printable Wall Planner for the 2010/2011 Academic Year (September to September). Please note, the 2011/2012 wall planner is also available... http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/2011-2012-Academic-Year-Wall-Planner-6107367/

This poster represents a mixed collection of images of different life forms. It can be used for a large number of different classroom activities. e.g. Find the names of the living things in the poster. Connect the pictures to form food webs. Select all the creatures that live in fresh water. Select all the animals that are native to Africa. Find all the predators on the poster.

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