This is a year 10 theory lesson for SEN/LAP pupils. This was created after they had created an onion slide.
The focus - how to use a microscope, prepare a slide and calculating total magnification (there is no triangle or rearranging equations).
Included:
Starter - what can you see under a light microscope
Hook - career link
Content and presentation - parts of a light microscope, how to use a microscope correctly, how to prepare a specimen slide, how to calculate total magnification (you can put a picture of their slide up for this bit)
Main worksheet with quick check for understanding
Independent task 1 - why do we use light microscopes, true/false microscopes table, calculating total magnification from objective and eyepiece, additional two questions.
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel for students doing GCSE.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – percentage change in mass calculation, how to break this down and put this in a calculator teacher modelling, you try calculation, link to osmosis and what positive and negative answers mean
Independent learning activity – easy calculations with percentage change in mass (again to practice using calculators)
Plenary – identify the correct calculation
Editted on 13/11/20 to include activity on whether water moves into or out of cells, and gapfil on whether cells swell, burst, shrink or wilt. Percentage change in mass calculation editted throughout to say starting mass, rather than initial.
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for MAP pupils in an SEN school. Will more suit mainstream students.
Created for Year 9 – KS3 – AQA/EDEXCEL
Included:
Content and presentation – Anaerobic respiration, strenuous exercise, lactic acid, oxygen debt
Independent check for understanding tasks – worksheet 1
Comparing aerobic and anaerobic venn diagram
Strenuous vs steady exercise, with Usain Bolt and Mo Farah as examples.
Extension task - worksheet
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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]
Created for students in an SEN school
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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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This lesson is 50 minutes long, for LAP pupils on equations: Change in velocity, force mass and acceleration and weight (gravitational field strength).
Created for Year 10 – KS4 - LAP
Included:
Starter
Recap – how to rearrange equations
Mnemonic
Independent tasks with answers
Difference between acceleration and speed
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of middle ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
Recap of naming shapes [for hydrocarbon link]
The names of the first 10 hydrocarbons
Linking this to the naming shapes
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure
Plenary - exit ticket
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and can cover two 50 minute lessons.
Included: Part 1
Starter - fluoride
The Water Cycle picture - teacher explanation of key words
ACTIVITY - Keyword match
ACTIVITY - fill in the missing keywords on the water cycle picturE
ACTIVITY - number the points where the description is happening on the water cycle
Potable water information - nets on mountains and desalination
INDEPENDENT TASKS - Exam questions
Included Part 2 -
Potable water picture - sedimentation, filtration clorination
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - Making potable water from dirty water using alum and by making a filtration tower. Instructions and equipment.
Risk assessment for practical
Table for observations
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This resource was created for students in an SEN school - Yr11/12
Included:
What crude oil is
What fractional distillation is
The properties of crude oil organised in a table
ACTIVITY - are these properties near the top or bottom of the fractionating column? they have the table on their worksheet
ACTIVITY - Gapfill of how a fractionating column works
ACTIVITY - cut and stick of uses of crude oil fractions
EXTENSION - gapfill of difference between bitumen and petrol, copy and complete in books
Plenary - exit ticket, students circle the correct answer or write the correct answer on a post it
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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 different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the change in mass every 15 seconds for 3 minutes. It is based on chem guide UK’s video on how surface area affects rate of reaction.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
This resource was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes.
Included:
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Cells as the smallest units of life - linked to bricks
Animal cell structure
ACTIVITY - labelling an animal cell
Plant cells structure
ACTIVITY - Use the previous slide to label a different picture of a plant cell
Video on plant and animal cell structure function
ACTIVITY - table completion of organelle functions
Independent task - label the cell structures of picture, then apply this to labelling an animal and plant cell slides, tick where the organelles are found
Plenary
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Created for Yr10 students in an SEN school. Starter assume you’ve already taught fractional distillation.
Included:
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Starter activity
Combustion definition
Fire triangle and sources of each side
Burning fossil fuels pollutants and monoxide vs dioxide
ACTIVITY - complete the fire triangle and match the name of the chemical to the symbol
Complete and incomplete combustion equations
ACTIVITY - complete general equation for both types of combustion
ACTIVITY - apply this to written sentences with methane, ethane and propane
ACTIVITY - keyword check, are the descriptions incomplete or complete combustion
Plenary - table completion
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Created for students in an SEN school - LAP
What wastewater is
What a sewage treatment facility looks like
Steps outlined: Screening, Sedimentation, Aerobic Digestion, Anaerobic Digestion
ACTIVITY - Identify the process from the picture
Further water treatment - e.g. chemicals, membrane - to make potable
ACTIVITY - Cut and stick treatmment steps and put in the correct order
PLENARY - label the sewage treatment facility with keywords
You can add a video to extend the lesson,
Worksheets on slide 1 and 2 - printing single sided
Created for yr10 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
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Requisition list
Fire triangle starter and answers
Safety in the lab
ACTIVITY - students complete the risk assessment table by picking a hazard and precaution
PRACTICAL PART 1 - blue vs orange flame / which is complete vs incomplete using water in boiling tube. Students complete a table, answer questions and complete equations.
PRACTICAL PART 2 - heating up water using alcohols in spirit burners and paraffin in a spirit burner. Conclusion and evaluation write up.
Slide to help with write up
Plenary - exit ticket
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Independent work created for students in an SEN school.
Included:
information on 4 stages,
hormones LH, FSH, Oestrogen and Progesterone.
Graph displaying hormone levels and uterus lining thickness.
10 questions with answers at the end
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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 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
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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
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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
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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