I am a secondary school & A-level Science teacher, specialising in Biology. I am also an experienced AQA GCSE Biology Examiner. My resources contain a mix of Biology, Chemistry and Physics lessons aimed at meeting specification points for the new AQA Trilogy GCSE course and KS3 Activate course.
All of my lessons include at least one opportunity for self-assessment, a range of activities to suit students of all abilities, a set of differentiated starter questions and a plenary.
I am a secondary school & A-level Science teacher, specialising in Biology. I am also an experienced AQA GCSE Biology Examiner. My resources contain a mix of Biology, Chemistry and Physics lessons aimed at meeting specification points for the new AQA Trilogy GCSE course and KS3 Activate course.
All of my lessons include at least one opportunity for self-assessment, a range of activities to suit students of all abilities, a set of differentiated starter questions and a plenary.
This bundle of resources contains 7 whole lessons, along with all additional resources, which meet all learning outcomes within the Year 8 C2 1.4 'The Earth’ Unit.
Lessons include:
Earth & It’s Atmosphere
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
The Carbon Cycle
Climate Change
Recycling
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, videos & animations, progress checks and more than two opportunities, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment of tasks.
This bundle of resources contains 6 lessons which meet all learning outcomes within the 'Rates of Reaction’ unit for the NEW AQA Chemistry Specification.
Lessons include:
Rates of reaction
Reversible reactions
Rate of reaction: The effect of catalysts
Rate of reaction: The effect of concentration & pressure
Dynamic equilibrium & altering conditions
Collision Theory: The effect of temperature & surface area.
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, progress checks, extra challenge questions and exam questions plus more than one opportunity, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment of tasks.
This bundle of resources contains 12 lessons which meet all learning outcomes within the ‘Organic Chemistry’ unit for the NEW AQA Chemistry Specification.
Lessons include:
Alcohols, carboxylic acids and esters.
Complete & incomplete combustion
Cracking hydrocarbons
Fractional distillation
Hydrocarbons
Natural polymers & DNA
Polymerisation
Reactions of alkenes
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, progress checks, extra challenge questions and exam questions plus more than one opportunity, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment of tasks.
This bundle of resources contains 11 whole lessons, along with all additional resources, which meet all learning outcomes within the ‘Electricity’ unit for the NEW AQA Physics Specification.
Lessons include:
Electrical circuits
Electrical charges & fields
Current & charge
Electrical current & energy transfers
Electrical power & potential difference
6 Resistance & potential difference
7 Series & parallel circuits
8 Cables & plugs
9 Alternating current
Appliances & efficiency
Current-Potential difference Graphs
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, progress checks, practical investigations, exam questions and more than two opportunities, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment of tasks.
This bundle of resources contains 12 lessons which meet all learning outcomes within the 'Inheritance, Variation & Evolution’ unit for the NEW AQA Biology Specification.
Lessons include:
The properties of polymers
Useful alloys
Making fertilisers
Making ammonia: The Haber process
Glass, ceramics, composites
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, progress checks, extra challenge questions and exam questions plus more than one opportunity, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment of tasks.
This lesson is designed for the NEW AQA Trilogy Chemistry GCSE, particularly the ‘Chemical changes and electrolysis’ SoW.
The first task is for pupils to research, either using their phones or using laptops, the dates at which different metals were discovered. Once they have found the dates and filled in their table, they should consider the link between the reactivity of the metal and when it was discovered. After a class discussion of their ideas, students are introduced the idea of a metal ore.
The next task is for pupils to watch a video and answer questions on metal extraction, the answers to which are included in the PowerPoint presentation. An additional link to the video can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zv7f3k7/video
Next, pupils are shown how carbon is able to reduce a metal oxide in order to extract the pure metal. A general formula is shown to students, using which they are asked to write the word and balanced symbol equation for the reaction between copper oxide/iron oxide/lead oxide and carbon. Once completed students can assess their work against the answers provided.
The next part of the lesson focuses on the problems of metal extraction, particularly to the environment. Students will firstly brainstorm their ideas of how metal extraction can cause problems, then some examples are revealed using the PowerPoint presentation and the need for recycling is also explained.
Students will then need to complete a progress check, a set of questions to assess their knowledge of what they have learned this lesson. The answers to which are included in the PowerPoint presentations so students can self-assess or peer-assess work.
All resources are included at the end of the presentation. Thanks for looking, if you have any questions please let me know in the comments section and any feedback would be appreciated :)
