I have been teaching science for the last seven years in the south-west. I have had experience doing a roadshow for the Vancouver aquarium for schools across British Columbia to gain experience outside the classroom. I am to provide differentiated lesson plans and resources along with plenary ideas.
I have been teaching science for the last seven years in the south-west. I have had experience doing a roadshow for the Vancouver aquarium for schools across British Columbia to gain experience outside the classroom. I am to provide differentiated lesson plans and resources along with plenary ideas.
Fully differentiated presentations on the cells topic to include:
using microscopes
animal cells
plant cells
specialised cells
unicellular organisms
diffusion
organisation in multicellular organisms
organ systems
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans for the year 8 metals topic. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
metals
metals and acids
metals and oxygen
rusting
wonders of tin
metals and water
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans on the fuels part of the C1 topic. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
hydrocarbons
properties of hydrocarbons
fractional distillation
cracking of hydrocarbons
Here is a set of fully differentiated lesson plans for the cells topic. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include:
animal cells
plant cells
specialised cells
culturing bacteria
stem cells
prokaryotes vs eukaryotes
diffusion
osmosis
active transport
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans for the classification topic B2 - OCR. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
classification
vertebrates and invertebrates
species
feeding relationships
pyramids of biomass and numbers
competition
relationships between organisms
carbon cycle
nitrogen cycle
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans on the periodic table. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
elements and compounds
organising elements - Mendeleev
atomic structure
The halogens
The noble gases
Vital non-metals
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans for the first half of the C2 topic. These include starters and plenaries. These include the following:
earths structure and tectonic plates
volcanic rock (igneous rock)
metals
alloys
steel and aluminium
rusting
concrete and thermal decomposition
construction materials
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans on the microbes topic in year 8. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
microbes
avoiding microbes
boosting immunity
cell differentiation
natural defences (WBC)
Changing your mind (drugs)
I have created frames for four types of plenary assessments I do at the end of each lesson. These frames can be easily changed to allow simple planning time. The frames I have made are for:
catchphrase
Have I got news for you
Question of Sport
PEEL conclusions
each frame is colour coded for level of question (blue = easy, orange = medium, purple = hard)
Catchphrase contains boxes that you can alter the questions within. Once pressed the box will disappear to reveal a part of the catchphrase behind. Pupils love guessing the catchphrases. Their is an abundant source of catchphrase pictures on google images.
Have I got news for you enables pupils to identify the missing keywords from the sentence surrounding the lesson. The tiles that hide the keywords will disappear with each click.
Question of sport contains 5 boxes that are colour coded to show level of difficulty. Pupils pick a number which will hyperlink to a slide with the question on. there is a box in this slide that allows you to hyperlink back to the original slide ready for the next number.
PEEL conclusion is a frame to help pupils develop their written conclusion answers. P = point - make a simple conclusion, EE = explain and evidence - use your table of results to prove this conclusion and L = link - link this conclusion to wider society.
Here are six revision broadsheets that covers all the topics in year 8 science. The topics link to those of the Collins KS3 science textbook. The broadsheets are as follows:
Human body and energy
plants
Particles
Acids and alkalis
contact and non contact forces
magnetism and electricity
This is a fully differentiated resource for the new year 8 plants scheme of learning. This includes starters, fully differentiated activities and plenaries. The lessons included are:
2.2 importance of plants
2.3 Photosynthesis
2.4 Leaf adaptations
2.5 Role of stomata
2.6 Rate of photosynthesis
2.7 Xylem and Phloem
2.8 Plant minerals
2.9 Chemosynthesis
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans for the heating and cooling topic in year 8. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
heat vs temperature
heat flow
conduction
convection
radiation
conserving energy (Sankey diagram)
Here are some fully differentiated lesson plans, presentations, tracking sheets and revision worksheet for the atomic structure topic. These lessons include:
1. The history of atom
2. Atomic structure
3. Electron configuration
4. Isotopes
5. Revision broadsheet
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans for the year 8 light topic. These include starters and plenaries and was aimed at lower ability pupils. These lessons include the following:
what is light
reflection
refraction
dispersion of light (prisms)
seeing colours (filters)
the eye
Here is a series of fully differentiation lesson plans introducing the new year 7's to science in secondary school. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include the following:
lab rules
Bunsen burners
pouring and mixing chemicals
research a famous scientist
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans on the new AQA B2 course on ecology and classification. These include starters and plenaries. These lesson include the following:
classification
vertebrates and invertebrates
species
pyramids of numbers and biomass
relationships between organisms
competition
animal and plant adaptations
line transects
quadrats
Here is a series of fully differentiated lesson plans on DNA and proteins. These include starters and plenaries. These lessons include:
DNA
Protein synthesis
DNA and mutations
enzymes
Here is a series of KS3 investigation skills LAT's created for the new year 7 scheme of learning. This is to help promote pupils skills in scientific methodology.