This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
State the meaning of inherit and give examples of genetic traits
Describe how traits are passed down from generation to generation, using gummy bears
Explain why organisms are unique to their parents
Included:
Starter
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet, slides 2 to 3
Instructions in the notes
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
State what is meant by puberty
Describe what happens to parts of the body during puberty and adolescence.
Explain the role of sex hormones in puberty
Created for Year 7 - KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet, slides 1 to 2 Instructions in the notes
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Recall what DNA is and why it is needed
Describe the structure of DNA
Explain the importance of genes in genetics
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the term adaptation
Describe how adaptations can affect the survival of organisms
Explain how organisms become endangered or extinct
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Adaptation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson that is 60 minutes long.
Topic 6 – Edexcel – Plant Structures
Success criteria:
Recall how to use a microscope
Describe the role of stomata in gas exchange
Prepare a specimen for viewing under a microscope
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Practical activity – preparing stomata imprint to view under microscope
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task] as extension [unblurred when bought]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 9 or Year 10) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the term genetic drift
Describe some examples of genetic drift
Explain the impact of genetic drift on population diversity
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is 2 hours long, for LAP/SEN pupils on stopping distance, including thinking distance and calculations using distance = speed x time.
Created for Year 11 – KS4 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Content and presentation – stopping distance
Practical on reaction times using ruler (cm)
Conversion table – reaction time distance to seconds
Calculating thinking distance using distance = speed x time
Definitions of thinking and stopping distance
Forces acting on a moving car
Store transfers
Factors affecting thinking and braking distance
Independent tasks – gapfill, ordering, calculations, identify questions, with answers
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This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define what a tissue is
Describe cell organisation
Explain the functions of different tissues in an organ
Created for Year 7 - KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, silver and gold task] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet – print two pages per sheet, double sided – unblurred when bought
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define Aerobic Respiration
State the word equation for Aerobic Respiration
Describe how cells get the reactants it needs for aerobic respiration.
Compare combustion & respiration.
Included:
Starter & Accessing Prior Knowledge Questions
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks] & Markscheme
Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Instructions in the notes
This lesson is key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the terms discontinuous & continuous.
Describe difference between discontinuous & continuous variation.
Represent discontinuous & continuous data using graphs.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - Students collect height and tongue rolling data to display on a graph
Independent Practice - Extension task - [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Identify the organs of the human reproductive systems
Describe the function of the organs of the human reproductive system.
Explain the importance of reproduction.
Created for Year 7. Suitable all KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet; PRINT slides 1 to 2 - Instructions in the notes
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
State what DNA is
Describe the structure of DNA
Describe how DNA is organised in cells.
Created for Year 7. Suitable all KS3 or for foundation level GCSE students [LAP].
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet, slides 1 to 2 Instructions in the notes
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Identify and give examples of inherited and environmental variation
Describe how inherited and environmental variation is caused
Explain why environmental variation can confuse the idea of a species
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Variation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
State the importance of photograph 51
Describe what the x-ray diffraction experiment revealed about the structure of DNA
Explain the role of scientists in the discovery of DNA
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Information and picture on the water cycle
TASK 1 - 8 x questions based on this
Information and picture on the carbon cycle
TASK 2 - 8 questions based on this
Information and picture on the nitrogen cycle
TASK 3 - 8 questions based on this
EXTENSION - students summarise water, carbon and nitrogen cycles and identify the key processes
Answers to tasks 1, 2, 3 included
No answers for extension
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
You will need calcium carbonate strips to assess water hardness, universal indicator strips, and 4 x water samples e.g. seawater, rainwater, river water, tapwater.
Information of residue and pH level requirements for drinking water.
Worksheet includes:
Practical picture that students label for equipment list
Prediction
Gapfill activity method completion
Risk assessment precaution table completion
What did students change, measure, keep the same
Results table to record the pH, calcium carbonate level and mass of residue
Conclusions - which water sample is potable
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate, could they repeat their experiment
You can have students complete a bar graph as well
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating the reactions of metals magnesium, zinc, iron and calcium with hydrochloric acid. They use a thermometer to record the temperature change.
Worksheet includes:
Practical picture
Prediction
Gapfill activity method completion
What did students change, measure, keep the same
Results table to record final temperature and order of reactivity
Graph completion
Conclusions - which most reactive and why / evidence of this [graph]
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Infographic on Alleles and Inheritance
TASK 1 - 10 x questions based on this
TASK 2 - Punnet square completion, starts easy then gets harder
Answers to task 1 included - teachere should model answers to task 2
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This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
2 x worksheet. Print single sided. Unblurred when bought
Created for students in an SEN school
Included:
3 x worksheets - unblurred when bought
Starter joke
DNA structure and pairing recap
Cell cycle and human life cycle link
what happens in interphase
mitosis importance
ACTIVITY - true/false on mitosis and cell cycle and interphase
ACTIVITY - fill in table of stages of mitosis [gapfill]
ACTIVITY - identify stages of mitosis, using previous pictures
ACTIVITY - identify real micrographs of stages of cells in mitosis
INDEPENDENT WORK - exam questions
Plenary activity - mitosis stages
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