Students get an introduction into culturing bacteria in the lab before their first required practical. However this could also be used if lab facilities are unavailable.

The resource is an excellent lesson firstly introducing keywords critical to this lesson and how antibiotics work and lastly covers the benefits and challenges around the use of antibiotics in today’s setting. An exam question also accompanies this lesson as homework for exam practice.

This lesson introduces the idea of how the temperature of systems (e.g. the earth and its atmosphere) could be controlled. It then focuses on skills such as graph interpretation to understand how factors such as green house gas emissions from human activity can enhance the green house effect and therefore cause global warming. Lastly, students get to use their creative skills, all their knowledge and understanding covered in the lesson to create a poster to describe and explain the process of global warming.

Students explore the discovering of the atom by completing a literacy activity and extend themselves further by making comparisons of the Plum Pudding Models and the Atomic Model of the atom.