This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid using a gas syringe.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the volume of gas that is collected every 15 seconds for 3 minutes.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr10 and Yr11 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on human impacts on environment
Students highlight key information
15 Questions based on paragraph
Answers to tasks included
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This is an hour long lesson created for SEN students in Yr10.
Included:
Starter
Content & Presentation - how to arrange an equation using baking a cake as an equation, word equations from sentences, what are chemical reactions
Teacher modeling how to write an equation using words in a sentence
You try - identifying reactants and products
You try - completing word equations (gap fill)
Activity - identify which reactions are chemical
PRACTICAL* conducting and writing down observations from three chemical reactions
Worksheet printed double sided, folded into an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This is a year 10 theory lesson for SEN/LAP pupils. This was created after they had created an onion slide.
The focus - how to use a microscope, prepare a slide and calculating total magnification (there is no triangle or rearranging equations).
Included:
Starter - what can you see under a light microscope
Hook - career link
Content and presentation - parts of a light microscope, how to use a microscope correctly, how to prepare a specimen slide, how to calculate total magnification (you can put a picture of their slide up for this bit)
Main worksheet with quick check for understanding
Independent task 1 - why do we use light microscopes, true/false microscopes table, calculating total magnification from objective and eyepiece, additional two questions.
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All answers included
Created for students in Yr8, 9 and 10 in an SEN school
Included:
Starter
Neutralisation equation
Neutralisation in everyday life [bees, wasps, heartburn, tooth decay]
The metal salts formed from using hydrochloric, sulphuric and nitric acids
Activities -
Complete everyday neutralisation tables
Whole class check for understanding - what is the salt formed
Complete salt names from word equations [gapfill]
Complete a mind map for neutralisation
All answers included
Worksheets - print slide 1 to 2 double sided, slide 3 separate
This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel for students doing GCSE.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – percentage change in mass calculation, how to break this down and put this in a calculator teacher modelling, you try calculation, link to osmosis and what positive and negative answers mean
Independent learning activity – easy calculations with percentage change in mass (again to practice using calculators)
Plenary – identify the correct calculation
Editted on 13/11/20 to include activity on whether water moves into or out of cells, and gapfil on whether cells swell, burst, shrink or wilt. Percentage change in mass calculation editted throughout to say starting mass, rather than initial.
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This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Identify the placenta and umbilical cord
Describe how a woman becomes pregnant after fertilisation
Describe how the developing foetus is protected inside the mother.
Included:
Starter & Accessing Prior Knowledge Questions
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks] & Markscheme
Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet [print slide 1 to 2 double sided]
Instructions in the notes
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the term adaptation
Describe how adaptations can affect the survival of organisms
Explain how organisms become endangered or extinct
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Adaptation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define what a tissue is
Describe cell organisation
Explain the functions of different tissues in an organ
Created for Year 7 - KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, silver and gold task] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet – print two pages per sheet, double sided – unblurred when bought
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define Aerobic Respiration
State the word equation for Aerobic Respiration
Describe how cells get the reactants it needs for aerobic respiration.
Compare combustion & respiration.
Included:
Starter & Accessing Prior Knowledge Questions
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks] & Markscheme
Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Instructions in the notes
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Identify the organs of the human reproductive systems
Describe the function of the organs of the human reproductive system.
Explain the importance of reproduction.
Created for Year 7. Suitable all KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet; PRINT slides 1 to 2 - Instructions in the notes
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
State what DNA is
Describe the structure of DNA
Describe how DNA is organised in cells.
Created for Year 7. Suitable all KS3 or for foundation level GCSE students [LAP].
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet, slides 1 to 2 Instructions in the notes
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Identify and give examples of inherited and environmental variation
Describe how inherited and environmental variation is caused
Explain why environmental variation can confuse the idea of a species
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Variation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
State the importance of photograph 51
Describe what the x-ray diffraction experiment revealed about the structure of DNA
Explain the role of scientists in the discovery of DNA
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Infographic on Alleles and Inheritance
TASK 1 - 10 x questions based on this
TASK 2 - Punnet square completion, starts easy then gets harder
Answers to task 1 included - teachere should model answers to task 2
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This was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
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Starter activity labelling an animal cell
Career link
Computers [binary code] and DNA link
What DNA is and why its important
DNA as a double helix - quick check, which is the correct shape
DNA base pairing
ACTIVITY - fill in the other DNA strand code
DNA has a strong backbone with bases held by weak hydrogen bonds
ACTIVITY - add the bonds to the previous activity, add bonding and backbone labels
Genome as the entire DNA of an organism
ACTIVItY gapfill bsaed on picture
Independent task - complete the missing information on the DNA strands and describe the structure of DNA using the picture to help you
All answers
Plenary - true/false
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Short lesson on mutations
Included:
Keyword recap - phenotype, variation, alleles, genotype, DNA
RECAP - DNA, chromosomes, genome, genes
Mutations linked to mistakes in recipe
Definition of mutations and link to phenotype
Importance of DNA in making proteins
Genetic variants - substitution, deletion, insertion, duplication and nonsense
Whole class check for understanding of examples of mutations in DNA
Independent worksheet and answers
Plenary - exit ticket
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Created for students in an SEN school
Included:
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Starter joke
DNA structure and pairing recap
Cell cycle and human life cycle link
what happens in interphase
mitosis importance
ACTIVITY - true/false on mitosis and cell cycle and interphase
ACTIVITY - fill in table of stages of mitosis [gapfill]
ACTIVITY - identify stages of mitosis, using previous pictures
ACTIVITY - identify real micrographs of stages of cells in mitosis
INDEPENDENT WORK - exam questions
Plenary activity - mitosis stages
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This is a Year 10 lesson created for SEN/LAP pupils
The focus is only on how to calculate actual size from image size and magnification. There is no triangle or rearranging equations.
Included:
Starter - scientific drawing of a white blood cell
Recap - how to calculate total magnification
Content and presentation - how to calculate actual size, examples given: an Ant and Leonardo DiCaprio
Independent task 1 - actual size table completion and a question
Independent task 2 - using rulers to calculate actual size from images of 8 cells
Plenary - calculation actual size question
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Answers included for independent task 1. Not for task 2 as this is dependent on how you print. The lines for where to place the ruler are included.
Post assembly form time reflection task - see other uploads for the free assembly
Reflection includes:
Domestic abuse definition
Crime stats
Turn and talk activity
Video - domestic abuse in the UK
Class discussion task about video
Signs of domestic abuse
Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
How to help others
Where to seek support