Created for students in a SEN (Autism) school.
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Starter activity - why is pollution in a river concerning
Career link - Ecologist - Hook
Intro - what ecologists use to measure organism numbers
Relevance - why do we need to record organism numbers
Calculating the area of a field using a measuring wheel
What a quadrat is and how we use this
ACTIVTY - An example of how to calculate estimated population size from a mean, using a 0.25m2 quadrat. 3 steps.
ACTIVITY - Students collect data of daisies and buttercups in a field using a quadrat
Plenary - Students see that this works by working out the estimated number of daisies from a picture on the board using 5 random numbers that correspond to the quadrat number
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Created for students in an SEN (Autism) School. You will need a light metre, Lux app will do on your phone, quadrats and transects
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Starter - why do mature trees need to die before new trees can grow in forests
Career link - Ecotoxicologist
What animals and plants compete for
Abiotic and biotic factors
Photosynthesis recap
What a transect is and why we use this
ACTIVITY - Students collect data on how daisy growth is affected by light. You need to pick an area that goes from shade to light. This could be a building or tree.
ACTIVITY - Graph creation and conclusion
Answers included
Plenary - graph analysis, students select the correct answer that correctly describes the graph trend.
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Created for an hr long mainstream yr8 school.
Included:
Print slide 1 and 2 double sided to fold, slide 3 single
Starter link to earthquakes
Everyday uses of waves
Types of waves - transverse and longitudinal
Definition of wave and gif example of leaf on water
ACTIVITY - Labelling of transverse wave - whole class
movement of particles in transverse wave
ACTIVITY - identifying number of waves, calculating wavelength - whole class
Particle movement in a longitudinal wave & oscilloscope picture
ACTIVITY - Venn diagram task
RELEVANCE - Seismic waves, seismometer
ACTIVITY - Which wave is more concerning, link to frequency
ACTIVITY - Frequency calculation
ACTIVITY - Amplitude link to more energy
ACTIVITY - Check for understanding
Independent task
Answers to everything
Plenary - keyword table completion
An introduction to forces lesson created for students in an SEN school. Can also be used for yr7 mainstream.
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Starter question
Info - Isaac Newton
Forces as push or pulls and changing an objects speed, shape or direction
ACTIVITY - unit of force, what forces are, how they effect objects, examples of force action on objects with pics - GAPFILL
Whole class check for understanding - are these forces pushes or pulls x 3
Use of arrows with forces
Types of forces - tension, normal, friction, thrust, upthrust, weight, magnetic, electrostatic air resistance. Arrows showing direction
Whole class check for understanding - which arrows are correct for direction of force x 3
Drag forces
ACTIVITY - Identify the force and add arrows to show direction
Whole class check for understanding - what type of force is this - x 5
Contact vs non-contact forces
ACTIVITY - table completion of contact vs non-contact forces and a gapfill definition completion
Whole class check for understanding - ontact vs non-contact forces thumbs up & down
ACTIVITY - Independent worksheet & answers
Plenary - what force is the picture and what way is it acting
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Created for students in an SEN school
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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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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 Yr10 students in an SEN school. Starter assume you’ve already taught fractional distillation.
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Starter activity
Combustion definition
Fire triangle and sources of each side
Burning fossil fuels pollutants and monoxide vs dioxide
ACTIVITY - complete the fire triangle and match the name of the chemical to the symbol
Complete and incomplete combustion equations
ACTIVITY - complete general equation for both types of combustion
ACTIVITY - apply this to written sentences with methane, ethane and propane
ACTIVITY - keyword check, are the descriptions incomplete or complete combustion
Plenary - table completion
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Created for yr10 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
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2 x worksheets, print slide 1 and 2 single sided
Requisition list
Fire triangle starter and answers
Safety in the lab
ACTIVITY - students complete the risk assessment table by picking a hazard and precaution
PRACTICAL PART 1 - blue vs orange flame / which is complete vs incomplete using water in boiling tube. Students complete a table, answer questions and complete equations.
PRACTICAL PART 2 - heating up water using alcohols in spirit burners and paraffin in a spirit burner. Conclusion and evaluation write up.
Slide to help with write up
Plenary - exit ticket
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This resource was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes.
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Cells as the smallest units of life - linked to bricks
Animal cell structure
ACTIVITY - labelling an animal cell
Plant cells structure
ACTIVITY - Use the previous slide to label a different picture of a plant cell
Video on plant and animal cell structure function
ACTIVITY - table completion of organelle functions
Independent task - label the cell structures of picture, then apply this to labelling an animal and plant cell slides, tick where the organelles are found
Plenary
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This was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
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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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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and can cover two 50 minute lessons.
Included: Part 1
Starter - fluoride
The Water Cycle picture - teacher explanation of key words
ACTIVITY - Keyword match
ACTIVITY - fill in the missing keywords on the water cycle picturE
ACTIVITY - number the points where the description is happening on the water cycle
Potable water information - nets on mountains and desalination
INDEPENDENT TASKS - Exam questions
Included Part 2 -
Potable water picture - sedimentation, filtration clorination
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - Making potable water from dirty water using alum and by making a filtration tower. Instructions and equipment.
Risk assessment for practical
Table for observations
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This resource was created for students in an SEN school - Yr11/12
Included:
What crude oil is
What fractional distillation is
The properties of crude oil organised in a table
ACTIVITY - are these properties near the top or bottom of the fractionating column? they have the table on their worksheet
ACTIVITY - Gapfill of how a fractionating column works
ACTIVITY - cut and stick of uses of crude oil fractions
EXTENSION - gapfill of difference between bitumen and petrol, copy and complete in books
Plenary - exit ticket, students circle the correct answer or write the correct answer on a post it
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and is 50 minutes long
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What Carbon is
Aerobic respiration - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Photosynthesis - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from picture
Combustion - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Decomposition - what this means
ACTIVITY - identify the keyword from the description
The carbon cycle - picture
Whole class check - what is the process in the picture
ACTIVITY - identify the process by numbers in the picture
Independent questions - very simple
Plenary - identify, describe, explain the parts of the carbon cycle. Can be done as an exit ticket where students pick one to answer
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Created for students in an SEN school - LAP
What wastewater is
What a sewage treatment facility looks like
Steps outlined: Screening, Sedimentation, Aerobic Digestion, Anaerobic Digestion
ACTIVITY - Identify the process from the picture
Further water treatment - e.g. chemicals, membrane - to make potable
ACTIVITY - Cut and stick treatmment steps and put in the correct order
PLENARY - label the sewage treatment facility with keywords
You can add a video to extend the lesson,
Worksheets on slide 1 and 2 - printing single sided
This lesson was created for students in an SEN school - 50 minutes long.
***Edited to include all answers, an additionally final check activity [storyboard gapfill],better picture for current atmosphere, better questions for devonian period
Included:
What the atmosphere is
Geological periods of the earth - this will be beyond their understanding, briefly explain that the age of earth is given names same as humans e.g. baby, toddlers, teen etc
The Hadean Eon and atmosphere composition of Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
The Archaen Eon and changing atmosphere of the Earth [decreasing volcanic activity, earth cooling]
ACTIVITY - Gapfill activity
Devonian Period and changing atmosphere of the Earth [plant evolution]
Photosynthesis definition with picture
ACTIVITY - equation fill in the blank
ACTIVITY - questions on devonian period
Current atmosphere of the Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
FINAL ACTIVITY - Story board gapfill of the changing atmosphere over time
Questions are simple. Follows teacher instruction then studen task format
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of middle ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
Recap of naming shapes [for hydrocarbon link]
The names of the first 10 hydrocarbons
Linking this to the naming shapes
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure
Plenary - exit ticket
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of lower ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
The names of the first 4 hydrocarbons
Mnemonic for remembering these
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure - first four only
Moly mod activity
Plenary - exit ticket
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for Yr11 pupils in an SEN school.
Included:
where blood cells are made
Components of blood
colouring in activity of blood in a vessel
function of the blood parts
matching structure to function
2 x worksheets - print slides 1 and 2 single sided
This is a 50 minute lesson created for SEN pupils in Yr11 in an autistic school
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Starter - identify the white and red blood cells and platelets
What arteries, veins and capillaries are
ACTIVITY - identify whether the vessel is an artery, vein or capillary (table)
Left and right side of the heart - blood in blue and red / double circulatory system
Right side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
Left side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
ACTIVITY - add labels to the diagrams of left and right side of heart (lungs/body)
ACTIVITY - which are arteries/veins of the heart
Content - atrium and ventricles
ACTIVITY - identify the left and right sides of the heart - heart is numbered
Plenary - identify atrium, ventricles, arteries and veins
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This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
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