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Pollination to Germination The Lifecycle of the Flowering Plant Explained KS3
Pollination, fertilization, seed dispersal and germination explained in a fully resourced lesson complete with animated PowerPoint and 15 printables, answer/mark scheme PowerPoint and suggested one-page flow-chart lesson plan which indicates where choices between printables enable the lesson to be totally tailored to suit the needs of your particular students. This lesson promotes the development of literacy and oracy and the separate answer/mark scheme PowerPoint enables easy self and peer-assessment.
What’s Covered
Pollination, self-pollination and cross-pollination explained.
How some plants prevent self-pollination and why.
Comparing the features of flowers pollinated by insects and wind.
Fertilization - how it happens.
What is a fruit with examples.
Why seed dispersal is essential for reducing competition.
Seed dispersal by wind, exploding pods, animal and water.
Germination explained.
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint.
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides(combined starter and plenary)
Foldable (students use to make their own notes)
Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x2)
Fact sheet
Homework (x2)
Fact share worksheet
12 Taboo cards
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
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Food, Nutrition and Food Tests Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Smart Board Bingo KS3
A comprehensive, fully resourced lesson on food, nutrition and food tests plus an innovative, enjoyable and challenging smart board bingo game. Students have to work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school tool store in which the school handyman has been accidentally locked
What’s Covered
Carbohydrates provide energy
Proteins needed for growth and repair
Lipids (fats) provide energy and insulation
Minerals needed for a healthy body – examples iron for red blood cells and calcium for teeth and bones
Vitamins – enable body to use other nutrients more efficiently – examples Vit A for eyesight, Vit C prevents scurvy, Vit K for blood clotting
Roughage (fiber) moves food through the gut.
Why roughage helps prevent bowel cancer explained.
Importance of water in the diet.
Examples of foods containing the five nutrients and roughage.
Excess carbohydrates and fats are laid down under the skin.
A balanced diet explained.
Energy in food and energy needed for activity are measured in kilojoules (kj).
Working out the energy in a meal.
What’s Included
Lesson
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut and stick activity.
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
Smart Board Bingo
Random question generator for smart board (interactive white board) – 50 questions
Answer PowerPoint plus answer sheet
48 bingo cards
Answers PowerPoint
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Food Groups, Nutrition and Food Tests Wildcard and Snap Card Games KS3
A great way to consolidate food groups, nutrition and food tests with this pack of cards which can be used to play three different card games. So much fun, students don’t even realise they are learning!
All games can be played with cards relating to food groups only if so wished.
Prior Knowledge Required
Carbohydrates provide energy
Proteins needed for growth and repair
Lipids (fats) provide energy and insulation
Minerals needed for a healthy body – examples iron for red blood cells and calcium for teeth and bones
Vitamins – enable body to use other nutrients more efficiently – examples Vit A for eyesight, Vit C prevents scurvy, Vit K for blood clotting
Roughage (fiber) moves food through the gut.
Why roughage helps prevent bowel cancer explained.
Importance of water in the diet.
Examples of foods containing the five nutrients and roughage.
Excess carbohydrates and fats are laid down under the skin.
A balanced diet explained.
Energy in food and energy needed for activity are measured in kilojoules (kj).
Working out the energy in a meal.
What You Get
78 playing cards
Animated PowerPoint with instructions for playing wildcard and snap
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Breathing - Respiratory System Explained - KS3
A comprehensive and enjoyable, fully resourced lesson on respiration including an explanation of the difference between respiration and breathing.
What’s Covered
Breathing is movement of air in and out of the lungs.
Respiration is the release of energy from glucose.
Breathing provides the oxygen for aerobic respiration and gets rid of waste carbon dioxide.
Label the trachea, right bronchus, bronchiole, alveolus, intercostal muscle, rib, diaphragm.
Label a diagram of an alveolus and show the direction of diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Experiment using limewater to compare the amount of carbon dioxide in inhaled and exhaled air.
Compare the percentage of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in inhaled and exhaled air.
Mechanism of breathing.
Changes in volume and pressure inside the chest during inhalation and exhalation.
Evaluate a model of the mechanism of breathing.
Design an investigation into how breathing rate varies with exercise.
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What’s Included**
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut and stick activity.
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains thirteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made.
Current Electricity - Conductors and Insulators KS3
This fully resourced and differentiated lesson explains conductors and insulators in terms of high and low resistance as caused by collisions between electrons and metal ions. It then takes students through designing a circuit to teas a range of materials and a results table.
Objective
To know that conductors conduct electricity and non-metals do not.
To know that metals are conductors and non-metals are insulators.
To be able to design a test circuit and results table.
To explain why some materials are conductors.
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Resources
Animated 11 slide PowerPoint- includes exit ticket /plenary quiz
Cut and stick
Anticipation guide(starter and plenary)
Flip It
Taboo Cards
Worksheet for practical
Fact sheet
Foldable
Fact Share Worksheet
Exit ticket template
ABC card template
4 Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets
Flow chart lesson plan
PowerPoint - answers/mark scheme.
With 13 original, enjoyable and engaging pupil resources and two PowerPoints, this pack is designed to be totally bespoked by the teacher to perfectly match pupil ability, time allowed for the topic and departmental focus. Depending on the resources chosen teaching time can take between 50 minutes and 2 hours. Resources not used in the lesson can be utilized for homework and pre-exam revision/review.
There are 9 differentiated learning outcomes – please see preview.
A one-page flow-chart suggested lesson plan is included showing the logical places where choices between resources can be made. Instructions for use are clearly stated on each resource.
Resources include elements of literacy, oracy, self-assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment which are clearly identified on the flow-chart.
The animated PowerPoint is the backbone of the lesson. The other is the answer/mark scheme for all assessment material so that self-assessment and peer assessment is extremely easy. Facility is also made for pupils to reflect on their performance.
This pack is suitable for schools using interactive notebooks.
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Current Electricity - Everything You Need
Current Electricity - Games Compendium
Chemistry- Balancing Equations - Fully Resourced Lesson KS3
Using cake making to explain conservation of mass, the animated PowerPoint then demonstrates balancing equations using particle models and leads seamlessly into balancing equations with chemical formulae. The PowerPoint, which is accompanied by a worksheet, provides hints and tips on balancing equations, many animated worked examples and exercises. A further worksheet can be use as classwork or homework and this is supported by a second PowerPoint providing answers to enable easy self and peer assessment.
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint
Answer PowerPoint
Pupils progress checklist
Anticipation guide for starter and plenary
Worksheet
Worksheet/homework
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Elements and Compounds Revision Lesson with Quiz KS3
Including atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, chemical symbols and formulae and naming compounds, this is a unique diagnostic tool to check understanding and produce a personal review sheet.
It can be used after the module has been taught or as a review lesson prior to testing.
What is Included
54 Question PowerPoint
Answers PowerPoint
Student answer sheet
Fact Sheet
Suggested Lesson Plan
Students have some time to review the fact sheet either independently or with teacher.
Students use the answer sheet to write down the answers to the questions on the Question PowerPoint
Students check their answers against the answer PowerPoint
On the fact sheets, students circle the numbers of the questions they got wrong on the answer sheet. This gives them a review list of facts to take away with them.
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Elements, Compounds, Formulae and Naming Compounds Explained KS3
A comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, the periodic table, chemical symbols, formulae and naming compounds.
What’s Covered
All atoms of one element are the same but are different from the atoms of other elements.
Atoms combine to form molecules.
If combining atoms are from the same element, a molecule of an element is formed.
If combining atoms are from different element, a molecule of a compound is formed.
An element contains only one type of atom
A compound contains two or more different types of atom.
Elements are listed in the periodic table.
Each element has its own symbol.
Symbols can be the first letter of the name (capital), two letters from the name (capital then lowercase) or taken from the Latin name of the element.
The formula of a compound tells you how many atoms of each element are in it.
Working out the number of atoms of each element in a compound from its formula.
Naming compounds with the groups CO3, SO4, NO3.
Compounds containing only two atoms end in ide.
Mono = 1, di = 2, tri = 3.
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut and stick activity.
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers (x2)
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Periodic table
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains thirteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.
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Forces - Air Resistance KS3
This fully resourced lesson included an animated PowerPoint which:
makes understanding air resistance as collisions between the front of an object and air particles very easy to understand;
demonstrates why streamlined bodies reduce air resistance to travel faster;
provides a visual explanation of the relationship between acceleration due to gravity, sir resistance, steady speed and why parachutes work.
Understanding is reinforce by two simple but exciting practicals investigating :
The relationship between surface area of a parachute and air resistance
Do streamlined objects travel faster in water?
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Answers PowerPoint
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (X3)
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers (x3)
Fact share worksheet
12 Taboo cards
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains 16 resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.
All resources shown in these bundle are also available individually
Forces Module 1 - Force, Weight & Mass, Friction, Balanced & Unba
Forces Module 2 - Moments, Speed, Pressure & Hooke’s Law
The Complete Forces Module ( Module 2 + Module 2)
7 Game Compendium for Module 1
6 Game Compendium for Module 2
Forces - 13 Game Compendium
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Forces Revision Lesson for KS3
This is a diagnostic tool to check understanding of a forces module of work which includes:
definition, units and measurement of forces;
mass and weight;
friction;
air resistance;
balanced and unbalanced forces.
It can be used after the module has been taught or as a review lesson prior to testing.
This lesson is an extremely useful tool to check for understanding which can be used as a final lesson for a module of work on forces or as a revision lesson.
What is Included
54 Question PowerPoint
Answers PowerPoint
Student answer sheet
Fact Sheet
Suggested Lesson Plan
Students have some time to review the fact sheet either independently or with teacher.
Students use the answer sheet to write down the answers to the questions on the Question PowerPoint
Students check their answers against the answer PowerPoint
On the fact sheets, students circle the numbers of the questions they got wrong on the answer sheet. This gives them a review list of facts to take away with them.
All resources shown in these bundle are also available individually
Forces Module 1 - Force, Weight & Mass, Friction, Balanced & Unba
Forces Module 2 - Moments, Speed, Pressure & Hooke’s Law
The Complete Forces Module ( Module 2 + Module 2)
7 Game Compendium for Module 1
6 Game Compendium for Module 2
Forces - 13 Game Compendium
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Current Electricity-Current, Voltage and Resistance-What are They? KS3
This action-packed lesson introduces current as a flow of electrons and explains the relationship between current, voltage and resistance using the analogy of a diver using up energy obtained from food and giving off heat as they swim through pipes filled either with water (low resistance) or water and rocks (high resistance). The food as a source of energy is then replaced by the battery, the diver by the electron and the rocks by metal ions. Both scenarios are animated in the PowerPoint. This explanation is then extended to compare the resistance of long, short, thick and thin wires. The practical explores the conditions needed for current to flow in a circuit.
Objective
To know that current is a flow of electrons through a conductor when they are given energy or pushed by a voltage from the battery.
To know and explain how metal ions cause resistance.
To know and explain the comparative resistance of wires according to length and thickness.
To explain why electrons lose more heat passing through a high resistance conductor.
To know the conditions needed for current to flow in a circuit.
Resources
Animated 17 slide PowerPoint with exit ticket quiz
Cut and stick
Anticipation guide(starter and plenary)
Flip It
Taboo Cards
Worksheet for practical
Fact sheet
Foldable
Fact Share Worksheet
Exit ticket template
ABC card template
4 Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets
One-page Flow chart lesson plan
PowerPoint with answers /mark scheme
With 14 original, enjoyable and engaging pupil resources and two PowerPoints, this pack is designed to be totally bespoked by the teacher to perfectly match pupil ability, time allowed for the topic and departmental focus. Depending on the resources chosen teaching time can take between 50 minutes and two hours. Resources not used in the lesson can be utilized for homework and pre-exam revision/review.
There are 14 differentiated learning outcomes – please see preview.
A clear and concise one-page flow-chart lesson suggested lesson plan is included showing the logical places where choices between resources can be made. Instructions for use are clearly explained on each resource.
Resources include elements of literacy, oracy, self-assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment which are clearly identified on the flow-chart.
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Current Electricity - The Whole Module
Current Electricity - Dominoes
Current Electricity - Games Compendium
Mixtures-Pure Substances, Solutions, Dissolving and Solubility KS3
This fully resourced lesson on mixtures for middle school includes an animated PowerPoint which:
explains why elements and compounds are pure substance and mixtures are not;
explains the terms solute, solvent, solution, soluble and insoluble;
uses particle theory to explain why stirring, temperature and particle size affect the rate of dissolving;
provides the opportunity to plan an investigation into the effect of temperature on the rate of dissolving;
uses particle theory to explain dissolving, suspensions and saturated saturated solutions;
demonstrates extracting information from solubility curves;
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz and all answers to classwork and homework)
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable (students use to make their own notes)
Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x3)
Fact sheet
Homework (x3) plus answers
Fact share worksheet
12 Taboo cards
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains 18 printable resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made.
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Forces Escape Room - Save the Caretaker KS3
Finish and reinforce a forces module or revisit it prior to exams with this innovative, enjoyable and challenging escape room lesson which includes:
Forces – definition, units, measurement
Weight and mass
Friction
Air resistance
Balanced and unbalanced forces
Pupils have to work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school tool shed in which the school caretaker has been accidentally locked.
The pack contains:
PowerPoint – scene setting and instructions (sound effects and built-in timer);
crossword;
word search;
dominoes activity;
worksheet;
code breaker sheet;
answer keys;
lesson plan.
If time is limited just the crossword, word search and domino can be used. The worksheet is the most challenging clue to solve and this can be omitted completely for less able classes.
Both 3 and 4 number combination locks can be purchased very cheaply online or the teacher can pretend to phone the school office for the secretary to try the combination to free the caretaker.
All resources shown in these bundle are also available individually
Forces Module 1 - Force, Weight & Mass, Friction, Balanced & Unba
Forces Module 2 - Moments, Speed, Pressure & Hooke’s Law
The Complete Forces Module ( Module 2 + Module 2)
7 Game Compendium for Module 1
6 Game Compendium for Module 2
Forces - 13 Game Compendium
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Current Electricity - Ohms Law KS3
This action-packed lesson on Ohms Law is fully resourced and differentiated with 11 activities and 9 learning outcomes
Easy to follow instructions are given on the PowerPoint and worksheets so that the lesson practically runs itself.
The activities include literacy, group work, peer assessment, self-assessment, pupil response to assessment and feedback to teacher on pupil learning via the exit ticket quiz
This pack contains material for two hours lesson time in total to enable the teacher to select resources in order to totally bespoke the lesson according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy. Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision.
An easy to follow one-page flow chart lesson plan indicates where logical choices between resources can be made and indicates whether each activity includes literacy, oracy or AFL .
Objective
• To know that metal ions cause resistance.
• To be able to explain why some materials have a high resistance and others a low resistance.
• To understand why resistance reduces current.
• To understand that collisions between metal ions and electrons releases energy.
• To understand that appliances are made using materials with different resistances to produce different effects.
• To use Ohms Law to find resistance.
Resources
Animated 14 slide PowerPoint- includes exit ticket /plenary quiz
Cut and stick
Anticipation guide(starter and plenary)
Flip It
Taboo Cards
Worksheet for practical
Fact sheet
Foldable
Fact Share Worksheet
Exit ticket template
ABC card template
Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets
Flow chart lesson plan
PowerPoint with answers /detailed mark schemes for homework/classwork sheets-pupils of all abilities can self-assess or peer assess.
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Current, Voltage and Resistance - What Are They?
Conductors and Insulators
Circuits and Symbols
Intro to Current Electricity 1
Intro to Current Electricity 2
Intro to Current Electricity 3
Current Electricity - Everything You Need
Current Electricity KS3 - 39 Worksheets/Homeworks
39 original, differentiated and challenging homework/worksheets covering current electricity at KS3 in its entirety. The topics included are:
Current, Voltage and Resistance
Conductors and Insulators
Circuits and Symbols
Lamps in Series and Parallel
Current in Series and Parallel
Voltage in Series and Parallel
Does the Number of Batteries Affect Current? Why.
Does the Number of Batteries Affect Voltage? Why.
Does Resistance Affect Current? Why?
Switches in series and parallel
Ohms Law
Each topic comes with a detailed answer/mark scheme PowerPoint to make self-assessment and peer assessment easier.
Also Available
Fully resourced lessons on each of the above topics are available. In addition to the worksheets/homeworks and mark schemes shown here, each topic comes with an animated PowerPoint and at least nine other resources. Resources place an emphasis on literacy, oracy and assessment for learning. The format of each PowerPoint is to explain the concept, guide the pupil through planning/conducting the practical and conclude. Each animated PowerPoint includes an exit ticket class quiz for instant feedback to the teacher on learning.
The module is available as money-saving bundles or individual topics.
Intro to Current Electricity 1
Intro to Current Electricity 2
Intro to Current Electricity 3
Intro to Current Electricity 4
Current Electricity KS3 – The Complete Module
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Forces - Hooke's Law KS3
This fully resourced lesson includes an animated PowerPoint which:
demonstrates a material changing its shape when acted on buy a force – deformation;
demonstrates stretching and compression;
demonstrates an elastic material regaining its shape after deformation;
demonstrates an elastic material failing to regain its shape after the elastic material is exceeded;
guides students through planning an investigation of Hooke’s Law;
demonstrates that, for elastic materials within their elastic limit a graph of extension against force is a straight line and confirms Hooke’s Law.
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Answers PowerPoint for easy self and peer assessment
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers (2)
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains 13 resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.
All resources shown in these bundle are also available individually
Forces Module 1 - Force, Weight & Mass, Friction, Balanced & Unba
Forces Module 2 - Moments, Speed, Pressure & Hooke’s Law
The Complete Forces Module ( Module 2 + Module 2)
7 Game Compendium for Module 1
6 Game Compendium for Module 2
Forces - 13 Game Compendium
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Plant and Animal Cells-Structure and Differences KS3
This action-packed, differentiated, lesson on the structure of plant and animal cells is fully resourced with 12 activities and 14 learning outcomes. Pupils learn to label and know the functions of the nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondria, cell wall, chloroplasts and vacuole. It explains that differences between plant and animal cells stem from the lack of a skeleton in plant so that the cells must provide support and that plants, anchored into the ground and unable to move to hunt, must make their own food.
Easy to follow instructions are given on PowerPoint and worksheets so that the lesson practically runs itself.
Activities include literacy, group work, peer assessment, self-assessment, pupil response to assessment and feedback to teacher on pupil learning via an exit ticket quiz.
This pack contains material for two hours lesson time in total to enable the teacher to select resources to totally bespoke their lesson according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy. Any unused resources can be utilized as additional homework or pre-examination revision.
An easy to follow one-page flow chart lesson plan indicates where logical choices between resources can be made and indicates whether each activity includes literacy, oracy or AFL .
Objective
To know why plant and animal cells are different.
To be able to label the parts of plant and animal cells
To know the function of the parts of plant and animal cells.
To be able to discuss whether unicellular organisms such as chlamydomonas is a plant or an animal.
Resources
Animated 28 slide PowerPoint-includes 10 question exit ticket quiz
Anticipation guide (starter and plenary)
Flip It
12 Taboo Cards
Fact sheet
Foldable
Fact Share Worksheet
Exit ticket
ABC cards
2 differentiated worksheets
2 differentiated homework
Flow chart lesson plan
PowerPoint with answers /detailed mark schemes for homework/classwork sheets-pupils of all abilities can self-assess or peer assess.
Cell Specialisation KS3
Plant and Animal Cells- Structure, Differences and Specialisation Boardgame KS3
Specialised Cells KS3 - Fully Resourced Revision Lesson
Plant and Animal Cells KS3 - 42 Question Card Sort Team Game
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Light - The Complete Module for KS3
Five comprehensive and fully resourced lessons on refraction, reflection, lenses, dispersion and shadows and eclipses for middle school.
Each topic comes with an engaging, animated PowerPoint and eleven printables which make even the more difficult concepts easy to understand.
Emphasis is placed on assessment for learning and detailed answers to questions are provided throughout, which makes self-assessment and peer assessment easy. Each topic comes with a checklist for pupils to assess their progress on completion of the topic.
Each topic comes with a one-page flow-chart lesson plan showing where logical choices between resources can be made enabling the teacher to totally bespoke lessons according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision. Many activities place an emphasis on literacy and oracy. These are identified on the flow-charts.
What’s Covered
Reflection
Transparent, translucent and opaque materials
Luminous and non-luminous objects
Labelling the incident and reflected rays, the angles of incidence and reflection, the normal and the point of incidence
Virtual experiment to prove i = r
Ray diagram showing how the eye sees an image in a plane mirror
The image formed in a plane mirror is upright, virtual (appears to be formed behind the mirror) laterally inverted, the same size as the object and as far behind the mirror as the object is in front.
Ray diagram showing how the eye sees an image in a periscope
Specular and diffuse images
Refraction
The more dense the medium the slower the speed of light.
When light travels from a less dense medium to a more dense medium it is bent towards the normal.
When light travels from a more dense medium to a less dense medium it is bent away from the normal.
Light hitting a boundary at 900 is not refracted.
Light is not refracted at a curved boundary.
Complete ray diagrams showing refraction.
Design an experiment and results table to investigate refraction through a semi - circular glass block
Why lightning is seen before thunder is heard when a cloud discharges.
Real and apparent depth
Lenses
Ray diagrams showing refraction in a concave and convex lens.
Convex lenses are used in magnifying glasses, telescopes and spectacles to correct long sight.
Concave lenses are used in lasers, flashlights, peepholes and spectacles to correct short sight.
Label the following structures on a diagram of the eye; retina; ciliary muscle; iris; pupil; lens; suspensory ligament; optic nerve.
Draw ray diagrams and explain how the eye sees distant and close objects.
Draw ray diagrams and explain how lenses are used to correct long and short sight.
Draw diagrams and explain how the iris controls the size of the pupil and therefore the amount of light which enters the eye.
Draw a ray diagram of the pinhole camera, know that the image is inverted sand diminished, moving the object closer enlarges the image and multiple pinholes produce multiple images
Label a diagram of the camera and explain how a picture is taken.
Explain the differences and similarities between the eye and the camera
Dispersion
The order of the seven colours of the spectrum
Dispersion is the separation of white light into the seven different colors of the spectrum.
During dispersion, red light is refracted the least and violet light the most.
Dispersion is caused by the fact that each colour of light travels at a different speed in glass.
Red, green and blue are primary light colors.
Magenta, cyan and yellow are secondary light colors.
Mixing two primary light colours gives a secondary light color.
Mixing the three primary light colors gives white light.
An object only reflects light the same color as itself and absorbs all the others
Work out the color an object appears in different light color
Shadows and Eclipses
The shadow of a point source only has an umbra but the shadow of a large point source has an umbra and a penumbra.
If the light source moves closer to the object, the shadow gets bigger.
If the object moves closer to the screen, the shadow gets smaller .
A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth stops all, or some, of the Sun’s light from reaching the Moon.
The Moon orbits the Earth once every 29.5 days.
When the entire moon passes through the Earths penumbra it appears slightly darker (penumbral eclipse).
If only part of the moon passes through the Earth’s umbra it is a partial eclipse.
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon stops all, or some, of the Sun’s light from reaching the Earth
A person on Earth, standing in the Moon’s umbra will see a total solar eclipse.
A person on Earth, standing in the Moon’s penumbra will see a partial solar eclipse.
When the Moon is at its furthest point from Earth, it no longer covers the whole surface of the Sun and an annular eclipse is seen from the umbra.
The Moon’s orbit is angled relative to the Earth so the Sun, Earth and Moon are not often in the alignment needed for a lunar Eclipse to occur.
When the entire moon passes through the Earths umbra it appears red due to refracted red light (total or umbral eclipse).
What’s Included for Each Lesson
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut and stick activity.
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers
Fact share worksheet
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
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Forces - What is a Force? KS3
A comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to forces.
What’s Covered
Force is a pull or a push with examples.
Arrows indicate the direction of force.
Contact and non-contact forces explained and examples
Forces can change an objects speed, direction or shape
The Newton and newtonmeter.
Real-life examples of forces.
Practical
The first simple practical gives pupils experience in reading scales as they find the weight of their pencil case and other items provided by the teacher. (selection of different objects and different size newtonmeters needed)
The second practical introduces an element of fun and competition by using a bathroom scales calibrated in Newtons (an ordinary bathroom scales can be used but multiply the reading in kilograms by 10) to find the person with the strongest grip in the class (photograph of how to do this shown on the PowerPoint)
What’s Included
Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
Foldable
Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
Fact sheet
Homework plus answers (x3)
Fact share worksheet
12 Taboo cards
Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
Exit Ticket
Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources
This pack contains fifteen resources so that the teacher can use them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.
All resources shown in these bundle are also available individually
Forces Module 1 - Force, Weight & Mass, Friction, Balanced & Unba
Forces Module 2 - Moments, Speed, Pressure & Hooke’s Law
The Complete Forces Module ( Module 2 + Module 2)
7 Game Compendium for Module 1
6 Game Compendium for Module 2
Forces - 13 Game Compendium
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Elf Off the Shelf Resources
Plant and Animal Cells Structure and Differences Worksheet KS3
Can be used for classwork or homework.
This is also available as part of a fully resourced one hour lesson with animated PowerPoint.
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Fully resourced and differentiated lessons on cells and cell specialisation for KS3 are available.
Plant and Animal Cells - Structure and Differences KS3
Cell Specialisation KS3
Plant and Animal Cells- Structure, Differences and Specialisation Boardgame KS3
Plant and Animal Cells, Structure and Differences KS3 - Fully Resourced Revision Lesson or Plenary
Specialised Cells KS3 - Fully Resourced Revision Lesson or Plenary
Plant and Animal Cells KS3 - 42 Question Card Sort Team Game
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