A comprehensive and enjoyable explanation of the causes and effects of air resistance and friction with animated PowerPoints which: demonstrate air resistance as resulting from collisions between the front of an object and air particles; demonstrate how friction is caused by collisions between “bumps” in sliding surfaces and slows them down and produces heat; demonstrate why streamlined bodies reduce air resistance to travel faster; provide a visual explanation of the relationship between acceleration due to gravity, sir resistance, steady speed and why parachutes work. The three practicals investigate: the relationship between the force needed to move a shoe over different types of surface. the relationship between surface area of a parachute and air resistance do streamlined objects travel faster in water? What’s Covered Friction is a force which opposes motion and is measured in newtons (N). Friction increases with the roughness of the surface. Friction is caused by collisions between “bumps”, sometimes microscopic, as surfaces slide over each other. Collisions slow things down and produce heat. How lubricants reduce friction Air resistance results from collisions between the front of an object and air particles. Steady speed. Air resistance wastes energy and slows moving objects What’s Included Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz (x2) Answer PowerPoints to make self and peer assessment easy Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) (x2) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable (x2) Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes) (x2) Worksheet to support the PowerPoints (x2) Fact sheet (x2) Homework plus answers (x6) Fact share worksheet (x2) 24 Taboo cards Pupil progress self-assessment checklist (x2) Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources This pack contains thirty-one resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. Other fully resourced forces lessons for KS3 Weight and Mass What is a Force What is Friction Air Resistance Balanced and Unbalanced Forced Forces Understanding Diagnostic Forces Module Games to reinforce learning Friction and Air Resistance Dominoes KS3 Force, Weight and Mass Dominoes KS3 Force, Weight and Mass Find the Pair KS3 Friction and Air Resistance Find the Pair KS3 Forces - 48 Question Board Game KS3 Forces Smart Board Bingo KS3 Forces Escape Room - Save the Caretaker Why not have a look at my shop? Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on lenses including the eye, the pinhole camera and the camera for middle school plus three enjoyable yet challenging games – dominoes, find the pairs and a pack of cards for playing wildcard or snap. The games are closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning. It is enjoyable and suitable for all abilities The teaching pack contains thirteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired. What’s Covered Ray diagrams showing refraction in a concave and convex lens. Convex lenses are used in magnifying glasses, telescopes and spectacles to correct long sight. Concave lenses are used in lasers, flashlights, peepholes and spectacles to correct short sight. Label the following structures on a diagram of the eye; retina; ciliary muscle; iris; pupil; lens; suspensory ligament; optic nerve. Draw ray diagrams and explain how the eye sees distant and close objects. Draw ray diagrams and explain how lenses are used to correct long and short sight. Draw diagrams and explain how the iris controls the size of the pupil and therefore the amount of light which enters the eye. Draw a ray diagram of the pinhole camera, know that the image is inverted sand diminished, moving the object closer enlarges the image and multiple pinholes produce multiple images Label a diagram of the camera and explain how a picture is taken. Explain the differences and similarities between the eye and the camera What’s Included Lesson Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable Cut and stick activity (x2) Pinhole camera template Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x3) Fact sheet (x3) Homework plus answers Fact share worksheet Pupil progress self-assessment checklist Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources Games 80 dominos Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play. 66 playing cards Animated PowerPoint with instructions for playing wildcard and snap 42 question and answer cards Teacher’s answer sheet. Instruction sheet For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A comprehensive, fully resourced lesson on permanent magnets and electromagnets plus an enjoyable and challenging board game for up to six players a set. What’s Covered Magnetic materials can be made into magnets. Iron, cobalt and nickel and their alloys are magnetic materials. Unlike poles attract and like pole repel. There is an invisible magnetic field around a magnet made up of field lines. Draw the field lines around a bar magnet. The closer together the field lines the stronger the magnetic field. Draw the field lines around two bar magnets with like and unlike poles facing. There are more field lines around the poles where the magnetic field is strongest. The magnetic field strength gets less as distance from the magnet increases. Field lines point away from the south pole and towards the north pole of a magnet. When a magnetic material is made into a magnet, the randomly facing domains all line up to point in the same direction. The Earth acts as though there as a south-type pole at magnetic north and a north-type pole at magnetic south. Explain how an electric bell, a circuit breaker and a relay work What’s Included Lesson Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable Cut and stick activity. Worksheet to support the PowerPoint Fact sheet Homework plus answers Fact share worksheet Pupil progress self-assessment checklist Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources Board Game Game board 42 Question cards with questions of varying difficulty Teacher answer sheet Instruction sheet. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

The two packs in this resource allow the same lesson to be taught to students whether they are in a classroom or distance learning at home. It facilitates hybrid learning and provides equality of opportunity for students who are unable to attend school. The classroom resource consists of an animated 27- slide PowerPoint and 15 varied and exciting printables including a foldable, cut-and-stick and progress check. The one-page flowchart lesson plan shows where choices can be made between the printables so that the teacher can select the activities to suit the exact needs of their class. The distance learning pack consists of a 65 - slide animated PowerPoint which, not only teaches the science but also how to gain maximum benefit from distance learning. The PowerPoint has been designed to replace the teacher by providing structure, sequence, knowledge and answers. Additional worksheets, cut-outs, foldable and progress check provide a familiar medium for students to develop and test their knowledge, continue to develop their literacy skills and use their creativity to organise their learning and assess their progress. These can be printed off by the student or provided by school. There is also a short digital test/homework which can be returned to the teacher. A shortened photocopiable PDF of the PowerPoint is provided to circulate to those pupils without computers. What’s Covered Each fully resourced lesson includes an animated PowerPoint which: demonstrates deformation as a material changing its shape when acted on buy a force; demonstrates stretching and compression; demonstrates an elastic material regaining its shape after deformation; demonstrates an elastic material failing to regain its shape after the elastic limit is exceeded; guides students through planning a virtual investigation of Hooke’s Law, designing a results table and drawing a conclusion; demonstrates that, for elastic materials within their elastic limit a graph of extension against force is a straight line and confirms Hooke’s Law. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

The two packs in this resource allow the same lesson to be taught to students whether they are in a classroom or distance learning at home. It facilitates blended learning and provides equality of opportunity for students who are unable to attend school. The classroom resource consists of an animated 21- slide PowerPoint and 15 varied and exciting printables including a foldable, cut-and-stick and progress check. The one-page flowchart lesson plan shows where choices can be made between the printables so that the teacher can select the activities to suit the exact needs of their class. The distance learning pack consists of a 65 - slide animated PowerPoint which, not only teaches the science but also how to gain maximum benefit from distance learning. The PowerPoint has been designed to replace the teacher by providing structure, sequence, knowledge and answers. Additional worksheets, cut-outs, foldable and progress check provide a familiar medium for students to develop and test their knowledge, continue to develop their literacy skills and use their creativity to organise their learning and assess their progress. These can be printed off by the student or provided by school. There is also a short digital test/homework which can be returned to the teacher. A shortened photocopiable PDF of the PowerPoint is provided to circulate to those pupils without computers. What’s Covered This fully resourced lesson includes an animated PowerPoint which: demonstrates use of the equation pressure = force/area; explains and gives examples of the relationship between pressure, force and area; specifies units for pressure as N/m2 and Pascals; explains the relationship between upthrust and floating and sinking; explains why number air particles decrease with altitude explains why atmospheric pressure increases with altitude. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on magnets and electromagnets plus an enjoyable yet challenging dominoes game. What’s Covered Magnetic materials can be made into magnets. Iron, cobalt and nickel and their alloys are magnetic materials. Unlike poles attract and like pole repel. There is an invisible magnetic field around a magnet made up of field lines. Draw the field lines around a bar magnet. The closer together the field lines the stronger the magnetic field. Draw the field lines around two bar magnets with like and unlike poles facing. There are more field lines around the poles where the magnetic field is strongest. The magnetic field strength gets less as distance from the magnet increases. Field lines point away from the south pole and towards the north pole of a magnet. When a magnetic material is made into a magnet, the randomly facing domains all line up to point in the same direction. The Earth acts as though there as a south-type pole at magnetic north and a north-type pole at magnetic south. Explain how an electric bell, a circuit breaker and a relay work What’s Included Lesson Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable Cut and stick activity. Worksheet to support the PowerPoint Fact sheet Homework plus answers Fact share worksheet Pupil progress self-assessment checklist Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources Game 90 dominos Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on, white light, dispersion and colour filters for middle school plus an enjoyable yet challenging dominoes game with questions and statements on white light, dispersion and colour filters instead of numbers. The teaching pack contains thirteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built into the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. The game is closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning. It is enjoyable and suitable for all abilities in that it can be played by simply matching the pictures but presents a challenge for those who are able to match a picture with another which means the same. What’s Covered The order of the seven colours of the spectrum Dispersion is the separation of white light into the seven different colors of the spectrum. During dispersion, red light is refracted the least and violet light the most. Dispersion is caused by the fact that each colour of light travels at a different speed in glass. Red, green and blue are primary light colors. Magenta, cyan and yellow are secondary light colors. Mixing two primary light colours gives a secondary light color. Mixing the three primary light colors gives white light. An object only reflects light the same color as itself and absorbs all the others Work out the color an object appears in different light color Lesson Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable Cut and stick activity (x2) Pinhole camera template Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x3) Fact sheet (x3) Homework plus answers Fact share worksheet Pupil progress self-assessment checklist Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources Game 80 dominos Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A compendium of three different, enjoyable and challenging games on the kinetic theory of matter including change of state, gas pressure and diffusion, suitable for all abilities in middle school. Each game is fully resourced, comes with full instructions and is easy to run. Games Included: Dominoes Find the Pair Wildcard and Snap This versatile pack can be used to reinforce each section of the refraction module as it is taught or for revision. Many of the games could be used for cover lessons, even when taken by a non-specialist as they come with a hard-copy or PowerPoint of the answers. It is also the ideal end of term/year pack. Prior Knowledge Required Three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas. Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases. Properties of solids, liquids and gases in terms of the arrangement of their particles. Change of state including sublimation. Pressure in gases and the effect of increasing the number of particles and temperature and decreasing volume. Diffusion For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

Five comprehensive and fully resourced lessons on refraction, reflection, lenses, dispersion and shadows and eclipses for middle school. Each topic comes with an engaging, animated PowerPoint and eleven printables which make even the more difficult concepts easy to understand. Emphasis is placed on assessment for learning and detailed answers to questions are provided throughout, which makes self-assessment and peer assessment easy. Each topic comes with a checklist for pupils to assess their progress on completion of the topic. Each topic comes with a one-page flow-chart lesson plan showing where logical choices between resources can be made enabling the teacher to totally bespoke lessons according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision. Many activities place an emphasis on literacy and oracy. These are identified on the flow-charts. What’s Covered Reflection Transparent, translucent and opaque materials Luminous and non-luminous objects Labelling the incident and reflected rays, the angles of incidence and reflection, the normal and the point of incidence Virtual experiment to prove i = r Ray diagram showing how the eye sees an image in a plane mirror The image formed in a plane mirror is upright, virtual (appears to be formed behind the mirror) laterally inverted, the same size as the object and as far behind the mirror as the object is in front. Ray diagram showing how the eye sees an image in a periscope Specular and diffuse images Refraction The more dense the medium the slower the speed of light. When light travels from a less dense medium to a more dense medium it is bent towards the normal. When light travels from a more dense medium to a less dense medium it is bent away from the normal. Light hitting a boundary at 900 is not refracted. Light is not refracted at a curved boundary. Complete ray diagrams showing refraction. Design an experiment and results table to investigate refraction through a semi - circular glass block Why lightning is seen before thunder is heard when a cloud discharges. Real and apparent depth Lenses Ray diagrams showing refraction in a concave and convex lens. Convex lenses are used in magnifying glasses, telescopes and spectacles to correct long sight. Concave lenses are used in lasers, flashlights, peepholes and spectacles to correct short sight. Label the following structures on a diagram of the eye; retina; ciliary muscle; iris; pupil; lens; suspensory ligament; optic nerve. Draw ray diagrams and explain how the eye sees distant and close objects. Draw ray diagrams and explain how lenses are used to correct long and short sight. Draw diagrams and explain how the iris controls the size of the pupil and therefore the amount of light which enters the eye. Draw a ray diagram of the pinhole camera, know that the image is inverted sand diminished, moving the object closer enlarges the image and multiple pinholes produce multiple images Label a diagram of the camera and explain how a picture is taken. Explain the differences and similarities between the eye and the camera Dispersion The order of the seven colours of the spectrum Dispersion is the separation of white light into the seven different colors of the spectrum. During dispersion, red light is refracted the least and violet light the most. Dispersion is caused by the fact that each colour of light travels at a different speed in glass. Red, green and blue are primary light colors. Magenta, cyan and yellow are secondary light colors. Mixing two primary light colours gives a secondary light color. Mixing the three primary light colors gives white light. An object only reflects light the same color as itself and absorbs all the others Work out the color an object appears in different light color Shadows and Eclipses The shadow of a point source only has an umbra but the shadow of a large point source has an umbra and a penumbra. If the light source moves closer to the object, the shadow gets bigger. If the object moves closer to the screen, the shadow gets smaller . A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth stops all, or some, of the Sun’s light from reaching the Moon. The Moon orbits the Earth once every 29.5 days. When the entire moon passes through the Earths penumbra it appears slightly darker (penumbral eclipse). If only part of the moon passes through the Earth’s umbra it is a partial eclipse. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon stops all, or some, of the Sun’s light from reaching the Earth A person on Earth, standing in the Moon’s umbra will see a total solar eclipse. A person on Earth, standing in the Moon’s penumbra will see a partial solar eclipse. When the Moon is at its furthest point from Earth, it no longer covers the whole surface of the Sun and an annular eclipse is seen from the umbra. The Moon’s orbit is angled relative to the Earth so the Sun, Earth and Moon are not often in the alignment needed for a lunar Eclipse to occur. When the entire moon passes through the Earths umbra it appears red due to refracted red light (total or umbral eclipse). What’s Included for Each Lesson Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers) Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary) Foldable Cut and stick activity. Worksheet to support the PowerPoint Fact sheet Homework plus answers Fact share worksheet Pupil progress self-assessment checklist Exit Ticket Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources

A compendium of twelve, enjoyable and challenging games on kinetic theory of matter (particle theory), mixtures and solutions and separating mixtures. Each game is fully resourced, suitable for all abilities, comes with full instructions and is easy to run. Games Include: Matter Find the Pair Dominoes Wildcard & Snap Mixtures Find the Pair Dominoes Wildcard & Snap Separating Mixtures Find the Pair Dominoes Wildcard & Snap Matter, Mixtures and Separating Mixtures Smart Board Bingo Board Game Save the School Guinea Pig Escape Room What’s Covered Three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas. Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases. Properties of solids, liquids and gases in terms of the arrangement of their particles. Change of state including sublimation. Pressure in gases and the effect of increasing the number of particles and temperature and decreasing volume. Diffusion. Elements and compounds are pure substance and mixtures are not. Meaning of the terms solute, solvent, solution, soluble and insoluble. Particle theory to explain why stirring, temperature and particle size affect the rate of dissolving. Particle theory to explain dissolving, suspensions and saturated solutions. Extracting information from solubility curves. The composition and physical properties of mixtures Evaporation to dryness and crystallisation Distillation Fractional distillation Filtration Chromatography This versatile pack can be used to reinforce knowledge at the end of the topic or for revision. Many of the games could be used for cover lessons, even when taken by a non-specialist as they come with a hard-copy or PowerPoint of the answers. It is also the ideal end of term/year pack. For more high quality resources visit: Elf Off the Shelf Resources