I am a TES recommended author and a UK Science teacher with a Chemistry specialism.
You'll find various KS3 and KS4 Science resources here (Biology, Physics and Chemistry) as well as some A level Chemistry stuff. I try to make my lessons visually appealing, with clear diagrams and text and a variety of different tasks.
If you have any suggestions of resources you'd like to see uploaded, I'd be happy to hear from you.
I am a TES recommended author and a UK Science teacher with a Chemistry specialism.
You'll find various KS3 and KS4 Science resources here (Biology, Physics and Chemistry) as well as some A level Chemistry stuff. I try to make my lessons visually appealing, with clear diagrams and text and a variety of different tasks.
If you have any suggestions of resources you'd like to see uploaded, I'd be happy to hear from you.
Year 8 lesson/ revision lesson on metals vs. non-metals, metal properties, corrosion.
PowerPoint and worksheets (see back of PowerPoint).
LOs:
To separate metals from non-metals
To describe the properties of metals
To explain what corrosion is
1. Do Now: Circle the pure metals
2. Student Activity: Metal or non-metal (Stretch: How do you know?)
3. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - What are the properties of metals?
4. Mini-plenary: Worksheet on metals and non-metals
5. Exposition: Rusting (requires iron, oxygen and water - must have all 3 to rust)
6. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - Why are religious objects made from gold?
7. Independent Task: Exam style question on metals and their properties
8. Plenary: Learning triangle
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KS3 Assessment on Particles.
This test is designed to be a formative assessment, with students able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the particle theory of matter both in short answer and extended open answer questions. The test does not include a mark scheme, but the teacher should be able to form a judgment on the current level of students from their responses.
This test covers the following topics:
Solids, liquids, gases
Particle diagrams
Changes of state
Properties of solids, liquids and gases
Brownian motion
Melting and boiling points
Heating and cooling curves
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Year 8 lesson (could be extended to two lessons), including various activities and worksheets.
LOs:
To describe the adaptations of leaves
To explain the functions of different parts of a leaf
To evaluate the structure of a leaf as regards to the function of each part
Activities:
1. Do Now: MCQs on photosynthesis
2. Exposition: Photosynthesis equation recap
3. Group activity: Think, pair, share on adaptations of leaves
4. Mini-plenary: Adaptations of leaves check for understanding (join up activity)
5. Mini-plenary: If this is the answer, what is the question?
6. Independent Task: Cloze exercise on leaves and photosynthesis
7: Exposition: Structure of a leaf
8. Independent Task: Structure of leaves worksheet
9. Extension: Planning an investigation into the factors that affect photosynthesis. (Practical activity could follow next lesson.)
10. Plenary: Learning triangle
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GCSE lesson on conduction, convection and radiation (the 3 heat transfer processes).
LOs:
Describe the processes of heat transfer in solids, fluids and vacuums.
Explain convection currents in detail.
Compare and contrast the three types of heat transfer.
1. Do Now: What is happening in the picture? Explain this process in terms of the energy of the particles
2. Exposition/Demonstration: Modelling the 3 types of heat transfer using a ball (students could write down their understanding of the 3 processes)
3. Mini-plenary: 'Back to back' activity, where students split into pairs, with one facing the front. This student has to describe what they see without using the 3 key words (conduction, convection or radiation)
4. Student Activity: Venn diagram for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation, using words, diagrams etc. (helper sheet if needed)
5. Plenary: Exam style question about keeping a house warm
Option extension/extra activities included:
1. Table for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation
2. Video questions (video on YouTube) for students to complete on conduction, convection and radiation
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Year 7 or 8 lesson on understanding how sound travels through materials.
LOs:
To recognise how the speed of sound changes in different substances.
To use the particle model to explain why sound cannot travel through a vacuum.
To use the particle model to explain why there are differences when sound travels through solids, liquids and gases.
Activities:
1. Do Now: Keyword match-up with definition
2. Student Activity: Fill in the gap sheet on how sound travels through different materials
3. Student Activity: Drawing a bar chart of the speed of sound through different materials
4. Mini-plenary: Drawing conclusions from the bar chart
5. Student Activity: Discussing the film poster tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" and adding scientific information
6. Independent Task: Drawing particle diagrams for solid, liquid and gas and using them to explain why sounds travels fastest through solids and slowest through gases
7. Plenary: 3,2,1
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A worksheet on specialised cells, suitable for KS3 (year 7 or 8) or above.
Students are asked to match diagrams of specialised cells with their names, separate specialised plant cells from animal cells and match specialised cells with their adaptations. Specialised cells covered include root hair cells, palisade cells, sperm cells, red blood cells, ciliated epithelial cells and nerve cells.
Worksheet and answers included in .pdf and .docx (same worksheet).
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Year 8 lesson on DC (direct current) motors and the motor effect.
PowerPoint and worksheet included (at back of PowerPoint). The lesson involves students making a DC motor.
LOs:
To describe some uses of D.C. motors.
To explain the effect of a magnetic field on a wire carrying an electric current.
To explain how D.C. motors of different strengths are made.
1. Do Now: List objects with motors in them
2. Exposition: What is a motor and what is the energy transfer happening in them?
3. Student Activity: The motor effect reading comprehension
4. Mini-plenary: True or false quiz on the motor effect
5. Student Activity: Making a motor using wire, magnets, etc.
6. Exposition: How can you make the motor faster?
7. Plenary: Learning triangle
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Year 13 lesson on Transition Metal complexes (based on AQA syllabus).
PowerPoint and worksheet included.
Print out last 3 slides to hand out examples of TM complexes to students.
LOs:
To define key terms in relation to complex ion formation.
To describe how the size of ligands affects the shape of complex ions.
To explain how ligand charge determines the charge on a complex ion.
1. Do Now: Recap on transition metals
2. Student Activity: Think, pair, share - what does TM complex diagram show?
3. Student Activity: Students come to their own definitions of 'ligand' and 'coordination number'
4. Exposition: Monodentate, bidentate, tridentate terms introduced
5. Mini-plenary: Checkpoint activity asking for ligand, coordination number and shape for 3 new complexes
6. Student Activity: Students draw out bidentate ligand and answer questions
7. Exposition: Introduce and discuss various multi dentate ligands, perhaps introducing the term 'chelate'
8. Exposition: Explaining shapes of complexes with regard to the size of a ligand
9. Exposition: How to calculate total charges on complex ions
10. Independent Task: Students complete worksheet on TM complexes
11. Plenary: Recap of all new terms learnt, using 3 new TM complexes
12. Extension Task: Drawing TM complexes
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Year 8 lesson on evaporation and a comparison with boiling.
PowerPoint and worksheets included (at back of PowerPoint).
LOs:
To describe the process of evaporation.
To explain the differences between boiling and evaporation using the particle model.
To investigate factors affecting evaporation.
1. Do Now: Underline Mr. Wrong’s mistakes
2. Group Activity: Think, pair, share - what is happening in the pictures?
3. Exposition: Explaining evaporation using the particle model
4. Exposition/Group Activity: Comparing evaporation to boiling
5. Student Activity: Students complete table comparing evaporation to boiling (highly scaffolded and less scaffolded versions available)
6. Mini-plenary: True or false quiz
7. Demonstration: Factors affecting evaporation (eg. wind speed, temperature, surface area, liquid being evaporated). Worksheet for students to complete.
8. Plenary/Reflection: What quality did I demonstrate today?
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For a lower set year 8 class.
A highly scaffolded worksheet teaching students how to use the density formula to calculate densities of various solids.
A cloze exercise testing understanding of key concepts about density.
Year 8 lesson on Investigating Static Charge.
PowerPoint and worksheets included (back of PowerPoint).
LOs:
To recognise the effects of static charge.
To explain how static charge can be generated.
To use evidence to develop ideas about static charge.
1. Do Now: What is happening in the photos?
2. Exposition: Difference between current and static charge
3. Group Activity: Static experiments (you will need some balloons, pieces of paper, water from a tap, a comb etc.)
4. Mini-Plenary: Attraction or repulsion?
5. Student Activity: Video (on YouTube) and accompanying worksheet
6. Independent Task: Levelled questions and self assessment
8. Plenary: Learning triangle
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2 x nuclear radiation and radioactivity Do Now keyword match up/comprehension activities.
The first tests the keywords 'stable', 'unstable', 'radioactive' and 'decay' and has a comprehension on alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
The second tests the keywords 'mutation', 'ionising radiation', 'fuel rods' etc. and has a brief comprehension on nuclear accidents.
2 x worksheets on fuses
The first is a Do Now reading comprehension on fuses and circuit breakers and how fuses work.
The second is a worksheet asking students to decided which fuse is appropriate for different applications. Students are then required to calculate current from voltage and power data, using the equation P=IV (rearranged to I=P/V) and hence decide which fuse is appropriate.
Year 8 lesson on changes of state.
PowerPoint and worksheets included (at back of PowerPoint)
LOs:
To recognise changes of state as being reversible changes.
To use scientific terminology to describe changes of state.
To explain changes of state using the particle model and ideas about energy transfer.
1. Do Now: Which particle diagram shows a solid, a liquid and a gas?
2. Group Activity: Think, pair, share - what do the photos show?
3. Exposition: Changes of state and the particle model
4. Student Activity: Complete the diagram to show the changes of state and answer the questions
5. Mini-Plenary: Mini-whiteboard quiz on changes of state
6. Exposition: Different substances have different melting and boiling points
7. Exposition: Heating curves
8. Student Activity: Asking students to deduce what states different substances are at different temperatures, using their melting and boiling points
9. Plenary: Multiple choice questions exit ticket
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2 x Energy keyword match-up Do Nows.
Each activity involves students matching keywords to their definitions and then answering questions or correcting a paragraph.
1. The first tests students on types of energy, with keywords such as 'kinetic energy', 'thermal energy' and 'light energy' and then asks questions on useful and wasted energy transfers.
2. The second tests students on energy transfer process, with keywords such as 'conduction', 'convection', 'radiation' and 'vacuum' and asks students to correct spelling and grammar mistakes in a paragraph.
A colourful worksheet for year 7 or 8 pupils on drawing particle diagrams.
Includes tips on how to draw particle diagrams, avoiding some common misconceptions (eg. particles not touching in a liquid) and a 7 question worksheet to check understanding.
The worksheet is uploaded both as PowerPoint (editable) and PDF files (same worksheet).
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LOs:
To make predictions about whether an object will sink or float.
To define density and relate it to the particle model.
To use the equation to calculate the densities of different objects.
Aimed at a lower set year 8 class. A higher ability class will probably require more.
Density of solids and liquids PowerPoint. Includes heavily scaffolded worksheet on density calculations and a cloze exercise. Mini-plenary using mini-whiteboards or similar. Demonstration of density using water and a range of different objects.
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