Science has been and always will be a passion of mine.
As a successful science teacher and faculty leader it is my duty to make science accessible and fun for all, increasing prosperity and success within the science industry at a time where we need it most.
These resources are aimed at changing the standard pedagogical approach to teaching and put a new modern touch to delivering science lessons through eye catching yet relevant imagery and questioning to allow independent exploration.
Science has been and always will be a passion of mine.
As a successful science teacher and faculty leader it is my duty to make science accessible and fun for all, increasing prosperity and success within the science industry at a time where we need it most.
These resources are aimed at changing the standard pedagogical approach to teaching and put a new modern touch to delivering science lessons through eye catching yet relevant imagery and questioning to allow independent exploration.
This bundle is aimed at introducing the new year 7 students into KS3 Science at the start of the academic year. I have broken this induction down into 3 lessons:
Lesson 1 - Introductions
Lesson 2 - Health & Safety
Lesson 3 - Equipment
Lesson 1 introduces the students to their new class teacher before showing them what topics they will be studying in Biology, Chemistry and Physics within the Exploring Science curriculum. The lessons then explores some simple classroom/lab rules before guiding students through how to set up their exercise book.
Lesson 2 explores the idea of health and safety in the lab. The Do’s and Don’ts of learning in a science lab followed but a fun and engaging game of ‘Who Wants to Be A Millionaire’ - Science Lab Edition. Students are then introduced into hazard symbols before engaging in a Minion based lab safety poster task.
Lesson 3 gets students learning the names of, handling and drawing a range of scientific lab equipment they will be using during their KS3 experience.
These lessons are accompanied with booklet for students to complete during lesson 2 and 3.
Enjoy.
Welcome to the KS3 science stretch and challenge activity booklet.
I have created this to challenge students knowledge and to develop a deeper, more critical understanding of the world around them.
The activities inside will get students looking at content (based around Exploring Science but applicable to most curriculum) from a range of different perspectives, force them to think outside of the box as well as getting them to explore new, more difficult KS3 and GCSE content.
Contents include:
• Scenarios
• Word Scramble
• Retrieval Roulette
• Scientific Literature
• Odd One Out
• Key Word Scrabble
• Thunks
• Six Degrees of Separation
• What’s the question?
• Science & Engineering Challenges
• Be Inquisitive
• Guess Who?
• Dingbats
• Code Breaking
• Spot the Mistake
• What Happens Next?
• A-Z Key Words
• Code Breaking
• Its Not Rocket Science
I use this booklet to stretch and challenge the top 50 KS3 students in a project called ‘Science Academy’ which has been hugely successful in preparing students for KS4 as well as improving their academic achievement in KS3 Science.
Enjoy.
Used across the entire science department of OSA and across various exam specifications, this is an outstanding set of literacy/topic mats which are visually engaging with informative content.
The literacy/topic mats include the following:
- Biology
- Physics
- Laboratory Safety
- Experimental Write Up.
The biology literacy/topic mat consists informative content and visuals on the following sub-topics:
- Life Processes - Animal Sexual Reproduction
- Organs - Reproductive Organs
- Tissues - Becoming Pregnant
- Cells - Gestation and Birth
- Organ Systems - Growing Up
- Skeleton - Muscles and Moving
- Drugs - Variation
- Adaptations - Food Chains
The physics literacy/topic mat consists informative content and visuals on the following sub-topics:
- Energy from Food - Forces
- Energy Transfers and Stores - Springs
- Fuels - Friction
- Other Energy Resources - Pressure
- Current - Moving Sounds
- Series and Parallel Circuits
- Voltage -Detecting Sounds
- Electricity - Using Sounds
- Comparing Waves
The laboratory safety literacy/topic mat consists informative content and visuals on the following sub-topics:
- Hazard Symbols
-Rules of the Lab
- Correct protection
The experimental write up literacy/topic mat consists informative content and visuals on the following sub-topics:
- Prediction
- Equipment List
- Risk Assessment
- Method
- Results Table
- Graph
- Results Analysis
- Evaluation
- Conclusion
This bundle includes all the lessons you need for the AQA Biology Chapter 4 - Transport across cell membranes, including:
4.1 - Structure of the cell-surface membrane
4.2 - Diffusion
4.3 - Osmosis
4.4 - Active Transport
4.5 - Co-transport & absorption of glucose in the ileum
This bundle contains all 4 lessons for the 9th Chapter of the AQA Biology A-Level Spec.
The lessons within are well planned and easy to use. Slides contain visual illustrations, animations, videos and much more. There are differentiated questions throughout all of my resources so allow students to connect the dots and think out side of the box throughout every lesson
Thsi resource contains all 4 lessons for the topic of Nucleic Acids under the AQA Biology spec.
Including:
2.1 Structure of RNA and DNA
2.2 DNA Replication
2.3 Energy and ATP
2.4 Water and its Functions
This bundle does not only give you value for money but it also gives you a starter activity for every single year 7 biology lesson.
These word searches are fun and interactive, providing visual aids with the word searches will allow pupils to engage with the key terminology of every single lesson, strengthening and deepening their understanding of biology.
Enjoy :)
This bundle contains all 5 lessons for the 8th Chapter of the AQA Biology A-Level Spec.
The lessons within are well planned and easy to use. Slides contain visual illustrations, animations, videos and much more. There are differentiated questions throughout all of my resources so allow students to connect the dots and think out side of the box throughout every lesson
This bundle includes all the lessons you need for the AQA Biology chapter 21 - reocmbinant DNA technology, including:
21.1 - Producing DNA Fragments
21.2 - In vivo Gene Cloning
21.3 - In vitro Gene Cloning
21.4 Locating Genes, Genetic Screening & Counselling
21.5 - Genetic Fingerprinting.
This bundle contains all 5 lessons for the 10th Chapter in the AQA Biology A-Level Spec.
The lessons within are well planned and easy to use. Slides contain visual illustrations, animations, videos and much more. There are differentiated questions throughout all of my resources so allow students to connect the dots and think out side of the box throughout every lesson
Thsi resource contains all 4 lessons for the topic of response to stimuli under the AQA Biology spec.
Including:
14.1 Survival and Response
14.2 Plant Growth Factors
14.3 Reflex Arc
14.4 Receptors
14.5 Control of Heart Rate
This bundle contains all 4 lessons for the 16th Chapter of the AQA Biology A-Level Spec.
The lessons within are well planned and easy to use. Slides contain visual illustrations, animations, videos and much more. There are differentiated questions throughout all of my resources so allow students to connect the dots and think out side of the box throughout every lesson
This bundle includes all the lessons you need for the AQA Biology Chapter 3 - Cell structure, including:
3.1 - Methods of studying cells
3.2 - The electron microscope
3.3 - Microscope measurements and calculations
3.4 - Eukaryotic cell structure
3.5 - Cell specialisation and organisation
3.6 - Prokaryotic cells and viruses
3.7 - Mitosis
3.8 - The cell cycle
This bundle covers topic 15 in AQA ALevel Biology and includes the following resources:
20.1 Gene Mutations
20.2 Stem Cells and Totipotency
20.3 Regulation of Transcription and Translation
20.4 Epigenetics and Control of Gene Expression
20.5 Gene Expression & Cancer
20.6 Genome Projects
This bundle includes 6 well thought out and easy to use lessons on:
20.1- Gene Mutations
20.2 - Stem Cells & Totipotency
20.3 - Regulation of Transcription & Translation
20.4 - Epigenetics & Control of Gene Expression
20.5 - Gene Expression & Cancer
20.6 - Genome Projects
AQA Biology
This bundle covers topic 15 in AQA ALevel Biology and includes the following resources:
15.1 Neurones & Nervous Coordination
15.2 The Nerve Impulse
15.3 Passage of an Action Potential
15.4 Speed of a Nerve Impulse
15.5 Structure & Function of Synapses
15.6 Transmission Across a Synapse
15.7 Structure of Skeletal Muscle
15.8 Contraction of Skeletal Muscle
This resource contains all of the lessons for the first unit of AQA A-Level Biology - Biological Molecules.
Including:
1.1 Introduction to Biological Molecules
12 Carbohydrates & Monosaccharaides
1.3 Carbohydrates - Disaccharaides and Polysaccharides
1.4 Starch, Glycogen & Cellulose
1.5 Lipids
1.6 Proteins
1.7 Ezyme Action
1.8 Factors Affecting Enzyme Action
1.9 Enzyme Inhibition
This resource bundle contains all of the lessons you need to teach section 8 - The Control of Gene Expression, AQA A Level Biology . This includes:
20.1 - Gene Mutations
20.2 - Stem Cells & Totipotency
20.3 - Regulation o Transcirption & Translation
20.4 - Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression
20.5 - Gene Expression & Cancer
20.6 - Genome Projects
21.1 - Producing DNA Fragments
21.2 - In Vivo Cloning
21.3 - In Vitro Cloning
21.4 - Locating Genes, Genetic Screening and Counselling
21.5 - Genetic Fingerprinting
This resource bundle covers the first section of the AQA ALevel Biology spec - section 1: Biological Molecules.
Resources included are:
Biological Molecules:
1.1 Introduction to Biological Molecules
1.2 Monosaccharides
1.3 Disaccharides & Polysaccharides
1.4 Starch, Glycogen & Cellulose
1.5 Lipids
1.6 Proteins
1.7 Enzyme Action
1.8 Factors Affecting Enzyme Action
1.9 Enzyme Inhibition
Nucleic Acids
2.1 Structure of RNA 7 DNA
2.2 DNA Replication
2.3 Energy & ATP
2.4 Water & its Functions
This bundle contains all 16 lessons for the entire section 4 from AQA Biology A-Level Spec.
The lessons within are well planned and easy to use. Slides contain visual illustrations, animations, videos and much more. There are differentiated questions throughout all of my resources so allow students to connect the dots and think out side of the box throughout every lesson.
