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.

This resource could be used for the second or third lesson in P12.2. The first activity focuses on the simple mechanics of the wave equation and then gives students an opportunity to complete relatively simple worded problems to build confidence. A quick multiple choice plenary is also provided for quick assessment of student’s progress at the end of the lesson. There is also a focus numeracy skills such as conversions and formula rearrangement to further support students.

These resources use a model of the digestive system to engage students in understanding the function of the various organs in the digestive system and further extends them to recall how the various tissue types (muscular glandular and epithelial) covered from the previous lesson in this unit are involved in digestion.

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.