Lesson looking at the difficulties associated with space travel, how they can be overcome and NASA’s project to launch a manned mission to mars. This 18 slide lesson contains: theory, questions, answers, paired work, gap fill, carefully selected video, and high quality images throughout. Good 18 slide lesson and great value for money for only £2. Objectives: To understand some of the problems with putting people into space. Explain how these problems can be overcome. Form your own opinion on whether it is worth sending people to mars. PLEASE NOTE: The preview images are poor (this is an issue with the tes preview creator software) but the PowerPoint images themselves are all good. Best wishes, Jack Wiseman

Complete lesson guiding the children in your class to work in teams to design, build, test and improve their own rocket in the classroom (no need to go outside). Fun and engaging lesson can be used at any time during the year but would also be great fun at the end of term, or end of half term, or the end of year, or even at Christmas. Suitable for a wide age range from 6 to 16 years. Complete, ready to use. Great lesson and fantastic value at this price ! Have fun and learn... :-) PLEASE NOTE: As usual the tes preview images are a mess - this is something to do with the preview maker they use, the real PowerPoint is perfect. Thanks for reading. KEY SEARCH WORDS Rockets, model rocket, build a rocket, make a rocket, straw rocket, balloon rocket, Christmas, Xmas, Easter, holiday, holiday fun, half term, half term, fun lesson, FUN lesson, Fun lesson, NASA, space, moon, going to the moon, space shuttle, Christmas activities, Noel, Santa, Santa Clause, Navidad, father Christmas, Physics, forces, motion, energy.

Excellent 20 slide PPT on food chains and food webs for KS3. It covers food chains and energy flow, why energy is required by living things and moves learners on to food webs. Covers all the key language such as carnivore, producer, consumer etc. Well organised with clearly made key points and well chosen images and good video. Includes a nice activity sheet. This lesson explains the material in an easy to understand way. Provides an excellent ready to use lesson on this topic. UK KS3 and USA grades 6 to 9. Where ever you live in the world, this lesson is for ages 10 to 14. Search words. Food chain, food chains, food web, food webs, garden food chains, ocean food chains, energy, producer, consumer, secondary, primary, predator, prey, carnivore, growth, repair, movement, reproduction, feeding relationships, ecology.

Excellent 26 slide PPT on pyramids of numbers and pyramids of biomass for KS3. It reviews food chains and webs and leads students into constructing pyramids of numbers and calculating biomass and drawing pyramids of biomass. Also covers all the key language, and has a very good activity sheet (the answers are built into the PPT). Well organised with clearly made key points and well chosen images. This lesson explains the material in an easy to understand way. Provides an excellent ready to use lesson on this topic. UK KS3 and USA grades 6 to 9. Where ever you live in the world, this lesson is for ages 11 to 14. Search words Pyramid of numbers, pyramids of numbers, Pyramid of biomass, pyramids of biomass, calculating biomass, calculate biomass, food chains, food webs, consumer, producer, tropic levels, construct, draw,