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 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 lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils
Created for Year 7 or 8 – KS3 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Hook – Career link
Content and presentation – Types of joints, antagonistic muscles, bicep and tricep movement, hamstring and quadricep movement, what muscle contraction is, what tendons and ligaments are
Independent learning activity
Plenary – identify activity
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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.
2 x worksheets unblurred when bought
All answers included
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.
This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils.
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel
This is a part two lesson so does not cover the definitions. Please see my other upload.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – digestive system, active transport to blood via the small intestine cells,
Task 1 – active transport in humans [labelling, tick correct, add arrows to show glucose movement, select correct word]
Content and presentation – parts of a plant, importance of roots, links to photosynthesis and the root hair cell picture with minerals
Task 2 – active transport in plants [plant labelling, photosynthesis equation, select correct word, gapfill]
Plenary – sort statements [osmosis, diffusion, active transport]
1 x worksheets –unblurred when bought [print 2 pages per sheet, single sided to be folded and stuck into books]
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 50 minutes long, created for MAP pupils in an SEN school. Will more suit mainstream students.
Created for Year 9 – KS3 – AQA/EDEXCEL
Included:
Content and presentation – Anaerobic respiration, strenuous exercise, lactic acid, oxygen debt
Independent check for understanding tasks – worksheet 1
Comparing aerobic and anaerobic venn diagram
Strenuous vs steady exercise, with Usain Bolt and Mo Farah as examples.
Extension task - worksheet
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – what active transport is (linked to carrying something heavy and going up a slide), animations to show movement of glucose, the cell membrane and carrier proteins, quick check tasks and links to osmosis and diffusion using water and oxygen
Independent learning activity – gapfill, tick correct, add an arrow, select the correct answer
Plenary – circle correct for active transport
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This lesson is 2 x 50 minute lessons, for SEN/LAP pupils. Split into two lessons.
Created for Year 10 – KS4.
First Lesson -
Starter
Recap – plant cells
Risk assessment
Practical explanation
Equipment labelling activity
Independent, dependent and control variables
Second lesson -
Percentage change in mass
Experiment conclusions (after 24 hours)
Worksheets – print slide 1 to 2 for first lesson
- print slide 3 for the second lesson
This lesson is a key stage 4 lesson (Year 10) that is 60 minutes long.
Can be used for higher ability year 9 pupils or Year 10
Success criteria:
State what an allele is
Describe the difference between genotype and phenotype.
Explain homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
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
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Print 2 pages per sheet, double sided
This lesson is 50 minutes long, for SEN/LAP pupils on the definition of Osmosis.
This has been completely revamped and links to Goldilocks and the three bears building toward the definition of osmosis.
Created for Year 10 – KS4 / Yr12 students completing GCSE biology. 24 slides.
Included:
Starter
Goldilocks and the three bears story link
Solute definition
What a solution is / activity on which is higher the water or salt
Cytoplasm as a solution
Water movement linked to drinking water (lots of water to less water in cells) and waterfalls (moving from a higher place to lower place)
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - water movement activity
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - using sugar concentration - water movement activity
Plenary:circle the correct words for Osmosis definition
Tried and tested - kids understood it
Worksheets – printed double sided – unblurred when bought
Created for Yr11s in an SEN school - 50 minute lesson
revamped - body as a castle, invaders as pathogens, soliders as immune system
Included:
Worksheets - print slides 1 to 2 single sided - unblurred when bought
Starter - four pathogens
NEW - your body as a castle
ACTIVITY - part of castle link to human physical defence e.g. skin, stomach acid
NEW - pathogens as invaders, immune system as soldiers and dragon with combat rules
What are white blood cells, antibodies, phagocytosis and antibodies
ACTIVITY - white blood cell labelling activity and function gapfill
NEW - phagocytosis link to dragon
Video of phagocytosis
ACTIVITY - Phagocytosis story board creationand gapfill completion
NEW - antibodies as weapons of the soliders
NEW - antigens as colour of invaders and protections making them unique
NEW - invader combat rules
UPDATED - lymphocyte immune response linked to soliders and invaders
NEW - picture gapfill activity of lymphocyte action linked to soliders and invaders, made simpler
Plenary - exit ticket
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This lesson is 2 hours long, for LAP/SEN pupils on stopping distance, including thinking distance and calculations using distance = speed x time.
Created for Year 11 – KS4 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Content and presentation – stopping distance
Practical on reaction times using ruler (cm)
Conversion table – reaction time distance to seconds
Calculating thinking distance using distance = speed x time
Definitions of thinking and stopping distance
Forces acting on a moving car
Store transfers
Factors affecting thinking and braking distance
Independent tasks – gapfill, ordering, calculations, identify questions, with answers
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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 a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Recall what DNA is and why it is needed
Describe the structure of DNA
Explain the importance of genes in genetics
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]
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]
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
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 9 or Year 10) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the term genetic drift
Describe some examples of genetic drift
Explain the impact of genetic drift on population diversity
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]
This lesson is key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the terms discontinuous & continuous.
Describe difference between discontinuous & continuous variation.
Represent discontinuous & continuous data using graphs.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - Students collect height and tongue rolling data to display on a graph
Independent Practice - Extension task - [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided [unblurred when bought]