This is the reaction time conversion sheet for the dropping the ruler practical. it is in mm and cm (depending on your groups ability or the rulers you use). If you would like to look at the resource this comes from click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reaction-time-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-model-answers-12220202 I have various resources on required practicals free as well as paid. Please search “required” at my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please Comment if you have found this useful. Thank you.

This resources consists of photographs and exam style questions with a completed graphic organiser helpsheet. This is aimed at AQA students to encourage them to practice exam style questions on required practicals anytime during the lesson. The questions are specifically generic so they can be asked about almost any of the practicals and consequently they do not need to go next to any particular one, producing over 400 combinations of questions with images. The questions are colour coded for different levels with Red-Hard, Orange-Medium and Green-Easier (one could say differentiated, but one would be stretching the truth). Also included is the required practical placemat (worth a whole £1!) to help your students answer the questions on the display. Suggestions for Activities: I generally sit my students round the display and then ask them to chose a question and I (or another student) choose a practical or vice versa. Then we discuss the answer as a class or nominate another student or practical or question, (or stick them round my board and let the display soak into their minds through osmosis / diffusion or ask a question as a plenary) The set of images and questions can be printed smaller and students and given to groups of students who turn them face down and turn two over, an image and a question, which they then answer. This game works well and makes the question and required practical more random (like the exam). Font size is set at 80 pt so that it can be seen at about 10 feet away (Approx 72 pt per 10 ft of distance is the rule) I hope you find this resource useful Thank you for reading this far. Please comment. My shop with free and paid resources is at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193

Updated to include a Chemistry version on Thiosulfate and a Physics based on IV Characteristics This organiser is designed to help students before, during or after the required practical activites. It is designed to be used with KS4, but may be used with higher ability KS3. It covers all of AQA’s glossary of key terms and working scientifically that links with the required practcials. It cover approx 40 of the keywords associated with the Required Practical part of the course. Terms covered: Accuracy, calibration, data, error, measurement error, anomalies, random error, systematic error, zero error, evidence, fair test, hypothesis, interval, precision, prediction, range, repeatable, reproducible, resolution, resolution, sketch graph, true value, uncertainty, validity, valid conclusion, variables, categoric, continuous, control, dependent, independent, risk, hazard and control. Included are an Animated Power Point where each box appears in order. A colour coded Power Point (for editing) and PDF version and black and white versions. There are three versions, one based around Osmosis to be used during Biology required practicals and one based around Thiosulfate to be used during Chemistry Required Practicals and one based around IV Characteristsics. To see a basic version of this (but with no examples) click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-required-practical-graphic-organiser-placemat-aqa-12449119 To see how they are used check out the free Osmosis Required Practical (but with this resource taken out): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/osmosis-required-practical-lesson-with-instructions-for-home-use-12181019 Please also check out the free IV Characteristics Required Practical (but with this resource taken out): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/i-v-characteristics-required-practical-lesson-12199364 Designed to help students understanding of key words and as a help sheet to answer questions on the Required Practicals/How Science Works part of the exam. It can be given to students as a helpsheet/placemat when planning/analysing required practicals or as a homework aid/help sheet or placed on the wall as a large Poster(s). It is also numbered so that students follow the correct order when planning the practicals. More required free and paid required practical resources can be downloaded from my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment. I hope you find it useful.

This updated Biology resource now has individual 9-1 graded exam style questions to assess students levels. It is used with KS4 and is designed to ask questions on Working Scientifically and the Maths calculations that are involved. These exam style questions with model answers are adapted from AQA past papers. They are normally used post practical as assessment / revision / homework, but can be used during as well or a cover lesson. This contains all the Required Practicals in Biology in one place: Osmosis, Decay, Enzymes, Field Investigations, Food Tests, Microbiology, Photosynthesis, Plant Response and Reaction Times. It also includes the Required Practical Graphic Orgainser helpsheet (worth £1) that will help the students answer the questions in these resources. Each required practical resource comes as a 5 Power Point slide to project in lessons and a PDF version for printing. It has two sheets of questions and two sheets of answers allowing for students to self or peer assess. On the top right hand corner of the sheet the students can identify areas where they need to improve so that teachers can easily see which section they are having trouble with. Each sheet assesses students skills including interpreting the data, calculations, remembering the Health and Safety and suggesting ways of improving the experiment. Key concepts covered are types of error and rarer ones such as validity, reproducibility and repeatability. Each question slide has Blooms Style Learning Objectives for whole class focused learning. If you wish to check out a free sample (Osmosis) to see if this resource is useful to you, before you buy, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/osmosis-required-practical-worksheet-12181019 For a Bundle with the Physics and Chemistry versions. Click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-chemistry-and-biology-required-practical-revision-9-1-graded-questions-and-answer-12227276 Thank you for reading. Please comment. Hope you find this resource useful!

I have now added a sheet explaining how this can be done at home by students themselves. This KS4 Biology resource is a two lesson resource containing a ppt to take students all the way through the Osmosis Required Practical. It includes a student worksheet (blank one and one with model answers) and 9-1 graded exam style questions with model answers adapted from AQA past papers to test their learning. It is the complete package for the osmosis required practical. This resource comes with: 32 ppt slide to project in lessons Word and pdf versions of the students sheet and question sheets. Answer sheets to allow the students to self or peer assess. Each sheet assesses student’s skills in interpreting the data, remembering the Health and Safety and suggesting ways of improving the experiment. Key concepts covered are variables, types of errors, risk assessment etc Questions have been adapted from AQA past paper questions to help the students become familiar with the type and style of questions asked. Each question slide has Blooms Style Learning Objectives for whole class focused learning. On the top right hand corner of the sheet the students can identify areas where they need to improve so that teachers can easily see which section they are having trouble with. There are 8 other “home use” required practicals here available in a bundle here (or separately) : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nine-required-practicals-for-home-use-12461001 All other biology required practical sheets are available as a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-biology-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answer-12220999 Or individually if you click on the above bundle link above and then on the resource. All the Chemistry required practical sheets are available as a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-chemistry-required-practical-lessons-aqa-12446174 Or individually if you click on the above bundle link above and then on the resource. All the Physics required practical sheets are available as a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081 Or individually if you click on the above bundle link above and then on the resource. Other science resources, both free and paid can be found in my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/stephenkemp193 Please comment. Hope you find this resource useful!

This KS3 biology resource can be used as a homework, end of topic revision sheet or cover lesson that has questions related to animal and plant cells and reproduction, microscopes, fitness and diet. It has over 40 questions linked to Bloom’s taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences. Teacher’s can choose activities or homeworks for the class linked to ability and/or learning style, or let students choose themselves!

This is a reward questionnaire to ask students the best way to reward them in the classroom. The second sheet can be used generically so that students delete from their sheet the rewards that they don’t need or like.