A RAG123 self assessment grid that can be printed and stuck on students' exercise books. Students can rate their understanding and effort for the lesson or series of lessons and give this a R3 or G2 for example. Also included are RAG123 self assessment slips. Students 'tag' their work after a lesson or series of lessons on a topic with a small RAG123 grid, a short plenary (there are maths, English & science examples included and prompts students to proofread their work for spelling, grammar and accuracy. Ready to print and easy to customise.

6 ready to print starter or plenary ideas. 1 Social media review 2. Handy review 3. Come Dine With Me 4. Newspaper 5. Mini Mind Map 6. Give me a ? and a ?

Solo hexagon activity worksheets for AQA Science A Physics course. Can be adapted and will be suitable for an electromagnetic spectrum or waves topic from any course. Easily adaptable. Students choose keywords from the list and enter them into the hexagon grid. The numbers correspond to links between the keywords and students have to construct a sentence linking them. This is excellent evidence that students have moved from multi-structural to relational understanding. Includes a more able and less able version for easy differentiation.

A complete lesson on competition in animals using SOLO Taxonomy. Use the pictures of different species to start a discussion about adaptation or issue pictures to students to use post-it notes to generate ideas. The competition SOLO map encourages students to stretch their ideas from multi-structural to relational. Resource is differentiated with subtle 'helping hand' hints on one version. Plenary is a 6 mark exam question which can be used in a variety of ways, either by simple discussion or by a more in-depth deconstruction of the 2 different answers. Students could explain why the better one is so good and correct and offer feedback on the not so great answer.

A differentiated SOLO taxonomy hexagon activity designed to demonstrate multi-structural to relational understanding of the hydrocarbons topic. Students populate the hexagon grid with keywords and number the links between them. They must construct a sentence that links the two keywords together. Includes a differentiated version with a simpler grid.