Science Skills Foundation GCSE: Laboratory Skills

NEW for 2025: Science skills programme for key stage 4.
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A series of fifteen short activities (with self-assessment slides) designed to give students the opportunity to refresh and practice their general science skills using examples from the GCSE required practicals. These can be delivered in lessons or as homework and are a great way to demonstrate that you are actively working to develop their fluency and scientific literacy.

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• Hazards, risks and safety precautions
• Laboratory equipment
• Measuring equipment
• Independent variables and dependent variables
• Control variables
• Hypothesis
• Method Writing
• Recording, processing and displaying data
• Conclusions
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• All aspects of the sheets are fully editable
• Can be printed in gray scale
• Answer slides are included to allow students to self-assess
• Can be completed before the practical (with the exception of the method writing section)
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  More from our science skills programme:
• Key Stage 3
• Higher GCSE