I am a science teacher, specialising in biology and psychology
and I have recently retrained in physics. I also teach STEAM- through literacy and art in science. Science, biology and psychology tutor in Oxfordshire and online.
I am a science teacher, specialising in biology and psychology
and I have recently retrained in physics. I also teach STEAM- through literacy and art in science. Science, biology and psychology tutor in Oxfordshire and online.
A lesson/ set of resources for scientific investigation skills- how to plan an experiment, draw a results table, draw a graph/ identify anomalies and conclude/ evaluate.
Slides can be adapted to suit any practical.
I have some investigation Powerpoints ready made if you would like them check out my page (indigestion, slime, pendulum etc)
Full lessons for waves scheme for year 8, covering light and sound.
All worksheets are included on slides and practical activities and materials have links and videos connected to them.
Complete set of lessons for a year 7 unit food and digestion
Nutrients and a balanced diet
Food tests- sugar and starch
Food tests- fat and protein
Digestive system- model gut demo
Bacteria- the good and the bad
ACE- journey of a cheese sandwich (2 lessons)
Diet deficiencies- case studies in groups (2 lessons)
Scurvy- DCPIP tests- what should we feed pirates?
A lesson on the regulation of transcription and translation, also has some revision materials on the process of transcription and translation. Links and resources are within the powerpoint.
A powerpoint with a full set of lessons for a pre-GCSE unit preparing year 9 students for GCSE. Recapping content from KS3 and overlapping with GCSE content. Contains all the tasks and worksheets as slides at the end of each lesson slide sequence. Links to experiments and videos etc within the PPT.
Lesson order:
What do we mean by health and disease- communicable and non-communicable disease- how are diseases spread (agar, UV, body defences) How do our bodies defend against disease and how can we protect against the spread of disease?
3-5 Communicable diseases-project work (HIV, ebola, malaria etc) 1 lesson into plus 2 lessons project
6-8 Non-communicable diseases- project work 1 lesson into plus 2 lessons project
9. Impacts of lifestyle on non-communicable diseases (e.g. alcohol on liver disease, diet and heart disease and smoking on lung cancer/ diseases
10. Diet, nutrition and exercise – BMI
11. Obesity and malnutrition
12. Nervous system and Nervous system diseases
13. Endocrine system and Endocrine disease
14. Intro to genetics and Genetic diseases
A task aimed at developing extended writing in science. Based on 6 mark GCSE style questions. Activities, links, writing frames and markscheme are within the powerpoint.
"Using ideas about electricity and magnetism, describe and explain how this circuit causes the bell to ring."
A series of lessons on the control of water potential, the structure of the kidney and the structure/ function of the nephron. Also included are some homework tasks to help develop students essay writing in the exam.
A task aimed at developing extended writing in science, based on the old "displacement disco" style assessment task, but turned into a 6 mark style GCSE question.
Activities, markscheme and writing frames are within the powerpoint.
"Describe what would you would observe when zinc reacts with each of the following solutions. Use the reactivity series to justify your decisions."
A task aimed at developing extended writing in science. Based on old GCSE 6 mark questions. Activities, links, writing frames and markschemes are within the Powerpoint.
A series of lessons for the attachment unit for year 1 psychology alevel. Activities, videos and resources are within the powerpoint
Lesson order:
Intro to attachment
Caregiver-infant interaction
Schaffer
Animal studies
Learning theory
Bowlby
Strange situation
Cultural variations in attachment
Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation
Romanian orphanage studies
Influence of early attachments on later relationships
A full set of lessons on earth and space
Lesson order
Gravity
Lunar phases
Geocentric and heliocentric
Tycho brahe
Telescopes and lightyears
Seasons
Day and night
Research
Presentations
Scale of the universe
11. Weighty Qs
12. Eclipses (bonus lesson)
An extended writing task linking pressure, boyles law and mechanism of breathing. It has short exam questions and activities to work through the extended writing task.
A series of lessons aimed to develop scientific investigation skills in KS3 students, would be good for year 7/8 or lower ability year 9 or for revision for higher ability year 9.
Lesson scheme as follows:
1-3. intro investigation skills and compression strength of biscuits-planning, doing and analysing (3 lessons)
4.which biscuit has the most energy
and/or
4.dunkability of biscuits (which biscuit can be left in the longest without breaking/ absorbing the most liquid without breaking
5. density of chocolate bars floating and sinking
6. making tea method writing
7. tea investigations-shape, stirring or temperature of water.