Hearing Flow Chart - a quick starter or plenary activity, where students complete the gaps to explain how the ear works. Can either be displayed on the board as a whole class activity, or printed out for individual or paired work. Answers are included.

Making Magnesium Oxide - worksheet to guide students through the classic chemistry practical.

Preparing salt. Presentation to guide students through the practical preparation of salt from hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.

Elements, compounds and mixtures literacy task. Students are presented with several pieces of text, which they need to analyse and rearrange into the most appropriate order. They could then interrogate the text to pick out key scientific vocabulary, nouns, verbs etc.

Students rearrange the cards to make the word equations of four different chemical reactions. They then add the correct description card with each element or compound.

Worksheet that guides students through the process of calculating the pressure underneath their feet. Having calculated their own pressure values, students then apply the concept of pressure to several practical examples.

Salt solubility data and graphs. The zipped file contains a spreadsheet and presentation containing solubility data and graphs for several different ionic salts (sodium acetate, sodium bromate, sodium formate, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate) and sucrose. Can be used alongside some questions as a quick starter or plenary activity to practice students’ data interpretation skills.

Human reproduction crossword, ideal for end of topic revision, as a knowledge retrieval exercise or as a homework activity.

Microbes around school. As part of a CREST Award some of my students swabbed different surfaces around the school, grew the microbes on agar and recorded their results. This presentation can be used as a starter or plenary activity. I usually print off pictures of the eight different surfaces and get students to work in pairs or small groups to try and order them in terms of number of microbes. We then discuss the results and relate them to the standard of cleaning around the school.

Viscosity Guided Investigation - presentation that guides students through the process of planning and carrying out an investigation into how temperature affects the viscosity of washing up liquid. Presentation includes structured planning questions, risk assessment template, method and diagrams, outline results table, outline graph and structured conclusion questions. I use this as an introductory practical for KS2 children getting into the science lab for the first time.

Balancing Forces Challenge - Card Sort Activity and Task/Answer Booklet - the zipped archive contains some forces objects and arrows for printing out and a booklet that challenges students to build different force arrow diagrams with their cards. The booklet contains model answers and explanation for students to check their ideas against.

Cholera in London Cartoon Strip and Interview - contains a cartoon writing/drawing frame, background information and quotes from key figures involved in the battle against cholera in London in the mid-Victorian era.

A combined comprehension task and crossword on the topic of animal reproduction. Three different versions of the crossword are provided, some with clues missing so that students need to work collaboratively to complete it.

Separating sea salt. A pairing and gap fill activity, ideal as a quick starter, plenary or knowledge retrieval exercise.

Molecular models and formulae. A simple little starter or settler activity, which can be shown to the whole class on the board or printed for individual students.

Scientific Investigation Template and Check Sheet - the zipped archive contains an investigation template and guidance notes, which can either be typed into directly or printed off. It also contains a check sheet, for students to confirm that their write-up includes all the important features.