These aim to develop student's ability to write longer answers. Not a writing frame, but should enable students to get started on the essay style question. One for Criminal behaviour, the other Obedience.

These 2 worksheets support students to plan and write about Piaget's stage theory and conservation study. One has partially written sentences, students then complete the answer to develop their exam skills on the 13 mark question. The other is about Piaget's stage theory and can be used as a writing frame for students to use with notes to develop extended writing or as an assessment after studying Piaget's stage theory.

A power point and student worksheet on the impacts of climate change in the future. The lesson is interactive and gets the class to suggest what their area will be like in 2050, it would fit in well following on from a climate change topic.

This can be used for KS3 RE - Islam. The power point presentation clearly shows how to deliver the lesson and the resources accompany the learning activities. It can take 2 lessons and can be easily adapted to extend discussions and a class debate. The clips are hyper-linked on the slides of the presentation for students to watch.

This works to revise the theory and has a quick recap then the main task is for students to work in pairs on reconstructing the diagram of the MSM. The blank diagram is for students and should be printed and enlarged to A3. The idea is that students are allowed to “peep” at the original which is fully annotated, then take turns to build up their copy with the correct descriptions of the components of this theory. At the end of the power point there are 2 slides that can be differentiated in lots of ways to support independent writing about the theory.

Geography year 8. lesson 2 of the amazing places unit. Contains clips and visuals about Svalbard. Students make notes and discuss/locate. It finishes with a mini assessment to apply learning.

Geography Year 8 students. Amazing world places. This lesson introduces a cluster of lessons which are numbered and should be taught as one unit over a half term. This introduction lesson shares amazing places and their types of geography a blank world map as an activity to get students locating some famous amazing places. There is an extended writing task where students describe and explain their amazing place.

This power point lesson on Validity and Reliability in Psychological Research has the background definitions, facts, examples and explanations of the difference between validity and reliability. Use it to teach these 2 elements of any psychology syllabus. It includes exam style questions and sample answers.

Amazing places lesson 4-5 all about death valley. Introduces facts, shows the location, has clips. Students summarise knowledge of deserts, complete an extended paragraph to apply understanding and design a creature to inhabit death valley.

This lesson is designed to take student through the chunking experiment that links to capacity and duration in the MSM. It has full instruction to explain how to get started and a printable results table for students to gather the raw data. It provides a good opportunity to link in to research methods and develop student’s understanding of and ability to write about how research in psychology works. It is accompanied by a help sheet for students to write up the experiment once they’ve carried it out. This could be given as a homework task following the DIY lesson. Both these resources link to pages 125-126 of the new spec (OCR)textbook. Finally, the homework sheet can be easily adapted for use on writing up any of the other student DIY tasks (now for some maths!)

Here is a power point that has a variety of clips and tasks about why Britain has such varied weather. There are links to the current storms Ciara and Dennis and students learn about forecasting and weather symbols too. There are 2 worksheets to go with the tasks also.

A mini-unit on Africa that can work for 4-5 lessons with tasks and group activities.

KS3 Geography - a topical, tropical storm! A power point format with 2 lessons about hurricanes and the current/recent one in the Bahamas/ North America. There are a variety of learning activities and tasks. Maps. Clips and information about Hurricane Dorian and the causes of tropical storms.

The starter activities link to research methodology and get students to think critically about questionnaires. Then this lesson follows on from the core study. It allows you to teach the main weaknesses of the study and ask students how they can expand on them. Students should then try out a 13 mark question or write about how the study could be improved.

Complete lesson with a range of clips, tasks, independent research and background information. The clip near the start details lots of cases and areas affected, the second part encourages research into why rivers flood.

Lessons that compliment the new GCSE OCR spec. Background information on theories and concepts, plus student activities.

New OCR psychology spec. Background information and student activities all in one power point.

A complete powerpoint lesson with a clip about the 4 sights. Starter, main learning activities and plenary. Resources included with which students create a storyboard about the Buddha’s life.

A complete lesson with powerpoint and worksheet to teach about the 4 noble truths. Links to learning from religion and has the 3 part lesson structure with the opportunity to differentiate using the attached worksheet.

Used with Y9 students as lesson 3/4 of the ethics unit. This introduces the definition of capital punishment, getting students to think about crime and punishment in general. It leads to some statistics from amnesty and a sorting task or the arguments for and against the death penalty.