I wanted to make my KS3 booklets more interactive, exiting and visually appealing to learners of all abilities. I used angry birds as a theme as I found that my learners responded well to this type of visual stimuli. The project I am doing with them is a simple balancing toy to develop their basic metal work skills. I also wanted to emphasise the national curriculum requirements in a simple way. At the start of the project learners are given the opportunity to discuss and develop an understanding of the curriculum logo's (thinking, communication, etc) and how they relate to their work. I have added the document in both PDF and Microsoft publisher format. All fonts such as 'angry birds' are available from dafont.com .
This lesson is an excellent, accessible introduction into wood theory or KS3, 4 or 5. It is essential that design technology and/or product design students know this as part of their theory, ready for assessments.
The lesson covers hardwoods, softwoods and manufactured boards, wood examples and their respective properties and manufacturing (felled, formed and finished) through various activities. Included is also a video on plywood production, worksheets and home learning tasks.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria is a comprehensive lesson designed to help GCSE students develop their understanding of how the evolution of resistance in bacteria poses a threat to human health through engaging activities and differentiated instruction.
This lesson is the 8th in a series of lessons and covers the content from the AQA 4.6.3.7 Resistant bacteria lesson (B6 Inheritance, variation, and evolution unit), and AQA GCSE Biology OUP Scheme B15.8 Antibiotic resistant bacteria lesson (B15 Genetics and evolution chapter).
All resources are included, making it easy to run the lesson straight away. All text is editable, so you can adjust the depth, pace, or challenge to suit your class and the time you have available.
Presentation contains (35 slides):
● Lesson Prep and Technician Notes: Guidance notes for teachers to prepare the lesson and technician instructions.
● Bell Work / Do Now Activity: Engaging task to activate student prior knowledge and set the stage for the lesson.
● Clear Lesson Aim, Objectives & Success Criteria: Explicitly defined learning targets to guide students and measure their understanding.
● Discussion Slides: Thought-provoking prompts and questions to introduce the topic.
● Information Slides with Levelled Content: Varied levels of information catering to diverse learning styles and abilities.
● Differentiated Activities (Group Work): Collaborative tasks in small groups to encourage active participation and enhance learning.
● Differentiated Questions with Answers: Comprehensive questions with accompanying solutions for self-assessment and note-taking.
● Student Worksheets/Handouts: Printable materials for students to complete and gather notes.
● Homework Activities: Varied homework tasks to cater to individual needs and promote independent learning.
Aimed at a mixed ability class covering content Grades 1-9, with three levels of demand to accommodate different learning styles and levels:
● Level 1: Low demand
● Level 2: Standard demand
● Level 3: High demand
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info@cmgsciencelessons.com
This resource is a complete lesson that covers Resistance & Resistivity for the OCR A Level Physics A course. However, it is useful for other exam boards too.
This lesson teaches the following content:
-resistance; R = V / I ; the unit ohm
-resistivity of a material; the equation R = pL / A
-the variation of resistivity of metals and semiconductors with temperature
-techniques and procedures used to determine the resistivity of a metal.
This lesson includes:
-A full presentation including 3 example questions with worked solutions.
-A worksheet with model answers, perfect to set as homework.
-Clear visual aids and diagrams to simplify complex concepts.
-Editable PowerPoint and Word document for easy customisation.
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Mass, Weight & Force Basics Lesson
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The boat project is a resistant materials project designed mainly for year 10 pupils but can be used for KS3 or KS4 pupils. This project is a skills based activity to teach pupils how to use tools in the workshop safely as well as teaching them basic wood working skills which are needed when developing the subject knowledge leading up to GCSE resistant materials.
In the project the user will create a wooden boat and high impact polystyrene flags and sails using step by step guides and tutorials.
This tutorial has curriculum links with maths with regard to the marking out and measuring accurately.
The tutorial includes:
A3 display worksheets.
A4 booklet worksheets.
Power point tutorial.
2D design boat steering wheel template.
Exemplar product photo’s.
Assessment sheets.
Four great resources that can be used as lesson starters/settlers or plenaries or as fun and effective revision tools.
Includes three card sort games and a Fast Facts board game that can be used as a whole lesson with learners working in pairs, teams or as a whole class activity.
This is an electronically editable research task consisting of 12 pages. Learners to find out the working properties, physical properties, applications and other information as appropriate and record their findings in the tables.
It is based on the AQA GCSE Design & Technology specification and includes the following materials:
Manufactured boards
Softwoods
Hardwoods
Thermoplastics
Thermosetting plastics
Non-ferrous metals
Ferrous metals
Alloys
A PDF version is also provided to allow the resource to be printed where learners have limited ICT access.
Materials theory:
Metals, Plastics, Woods, health and safety, injection moulding and extrusion. Includes tests, whole lesson power point presentation, printable worksheets.
Could also be used for A level product design.
Students work in teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and draw for the group the tool, process etc. on the card. This can be done as a group on the whiteboard or in teams/pairs on paper. The student who guesses the tool, process being drawn wins the point for their team.
A great activity for a fun lesson starter and for revision.
Students work in two teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and describe to the group the tool, process etc. on the card. The learner who guesses the tool, process being described wins the point for their team.
A great whole class activity.
Each learner in the group is given a card. Each card has one question and one answer on it. The first learner reads their question and the group discuss the answer. The person who has the correct answer on their card puts their answer down next to the question and asks their question to the group. This continues until all questions have been asked and the answer and dominoes are linked together.
A great revision tool and whole class activity.
Designed for Edexcel specification but can also works for any Resistant Materials course.
Can be used as a whole class activity or small groups or pairs.
One player spins the wheel and it will land on a colour. They then collect the coloured card matching the colour on the wheel and read the question to the other player. The person with the card then attempts to answer the question on the card to gain the marks for the question. If they are unable to do so this can be passed to other player to answer.
A great revision tool which is engaging and fun for the group. Idea for the Edexcel syllabus but will apply for any resistant materials group.
A great revision lesson!
Each learner is given an Bingo card with answers to questions. The teacher can then shuffle the question cards and pick a question to read to the group. Learners then search their cards for the answer. The first learner to achieve a completed line wins.
Includes 20 Bingo cards, teachers question cards with answers and a PowerPoint with questions to show to the class, slides can be shuffled to create a random order.
Eight great revision tools to keep learners motivated and engaged during revision. Can be used as whole lessons, learners play the classic games with a twist answering question on Design Technology.
A great way to get learners engaged in the revision process and foster collaborative learning in the classroom.
36 PAGES (!!) (A4) OF STUDY NOTES ON RESISTANT MATERIALS CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES including wood , metal and plastics.
includes colour photos and diagrams
Grade descriptors for research, generating ideas, making and evaluating. These pages were created based around the new grade descriptors of 1-9 taking the main points that I expected pupils to meet within each of the areas. The pages include a space for self, peer and teacher grades and were added into work booklets to help pupils understand how to achieve a higher grade.
