In this lesson students will learn how to describe how atoms of one element combine with atoms of another to form a compound; and be able to explain how atoms combine by sharing electrons or by giving and taking electrons. Ionic and Covalent bonding both covered.

In this lesson students will look at: How equations describe what happens in a chemical reaction; How chemical formulae can be used to write equations; and what is meant by a ‘balanced equation’.

In this lesson students will learn how to: identify metals and non-metals on the periodic table; explain trends in the reactivity of groups 1 and groups 7 in the periodic tables; and learn why the noble gasses are unreactive. You will need to download a video from YouTube, showing the reactivity of the stronger alkali metals.

Presentation, practical description, video and worksheets for a lesson that suits the topic of medicines to treat disease from B1a Core Science AQA.

The activity used in the lesson was from another user on TES. This should be a full lesson for you to use straight away!

Full lesson with all resources and a lesson plan. The lesson is fully differentiated and with adaptations for your own classes could easily be used for an observation. This lesson has previously been graded as OUTSTANDING. Please note that you will require a copy of THE SELFISH GENE (Richard Dawkins) to use all activities, but there is enough content for an hour without this.

Full lesson, with a lesson plan. Fully differentiated with lots of different activities. Very interactive and student-led lesson. This could be used for an observation with modification for your own classes and has previously been graded as OUTSTANDING.

A full lesson including KE, GPE and car safety. Could easily be split into two lessons or used for a 2 hour lesson.

This is a full lesson with differentiated activities to teach terminal velocity. There are a couple of video links in the word document and for the starter I suggest filling empty 1 or 2 litre bottles with water and adding a ketchup sachet. The sachet will float but the challenge is to ask students to make it sink. By pressing on the sides of the bottle it will sink.

This is a full lesson involving a practical looking at the numbers of stomata on the different surfaces of the leaf and a starter involving a flower dissection (I suggest that you use lilies).

A complete lesson with practical activities and a full lesson plan. Use a real coconut shy and balls of different mass to help illustrate the details of the photoelectric effect.

Full lesson, with a lesson plan on synapses. This lesson could be used for an observation with some adaptation for your own classes and has previously been graded as OUTSTANDING.

This is a full lesson that could be used for an observation with your own adaptations. This lesson has previously been graded as OUTSTANDING. There is a lesson plan and differentiated activities.

Full lesson with a plan and all resources required. Fully differentiated. This lesson would be suitable for a lesson observation and has been graded as OUTSTANDING. Of course this would need to be adapted for your own classes, but hopefully it is a good starting point.

Full lesson with a practical and differentiation to teach proteins.