The pupils have been abandoned on a desert island. They are all well but their phones are all dead-too many selfies on instagram! they must work in teams to come up with a solution to change thier mobile phone using resources off the island-I let them use parts they found on the plane too.
There is a proforma to fill in for the research-some of mine were really inventive!
*I have not included the research as mine used pages off bitesize but could easily be done on computer if available.
One they have fedback they vote on the best. To review all of the information their are exam questions taken from the new AQA spec included.
After that they feedback and
worksheet to guide through perhaps a demo of the different factors that affect the rate of diffusion. with demonstrations i found this took me most of the lesson as we made a table to summarise and explain along side these.
eg/ we put permanagnate in hot and cold water to see the difference,
Lesson powerpoints to cover human reproduction. These were used for very low ability year seven pupils so could easily be adapted for primary school use.
based around OCR gateway spec but good practise for all the main specifications making sure pupils practise methods for writing the answers without babbling!
A 30 minute lesson I used in an interview. you need quite a good pace to get through it in 30 minutes-I admit I did the plenary just as groups so could be spread over a longer time easily.
I used a sheet that was already on TES which i got from here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/rates-of-reaction-6070772
TEEP lesson plan included. The lesson is a quick introduction to rates with an experts task included and exam question plenary.
The file labelled concentration is the information sheets. pupils start in groups of 4, then number off 1-4 and become experts on one of the areas.
a fully differentaited project to use over 3/4 lessons for science week/ stem week/science club. includes different level lessons and a full list of resources for technicians as well as lesson plan. I did this with year seven and eight pupils who thoroughly enjoyed the week
Full unit. this is related to the microbes unit of year 8 but could be used for revision too. Have been observed on food poisoning lesson to good with outstanding features.
Simplified flashcards for less able learners.
These provide a starting point for revision and can also be used to help shape answers when looking at exam questions.
I have kept these very simple and they do not include calculations or all of the higher tier content
Presented in powerpoint, I would recommend printing 2 to a page and consider laminating if using as a class resource.
Simplified flashcards made with foundation students in mind.
these can be used to encourage broken down revision as well as to aid students when structuring exam style answers.
These are made on powerpoint but I find they print well 2 to a page to make flashcard size revision aids.