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I only share my very best work - creative, tried and tested resources. I have been teaching Science for more than fifteen years. Director of Science at Burnham Grammar School.
Featured Resources
Matching Pairs Interactive Game Creator
A fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. Very strongly recommended for all ages.
This template allows you to make your own interactive whiteboard games. Making your own game should take about five minutes.
A bonus matching pairs pictures template is included so you can include pictures and diagrams in your games.
Nineteen exemplar Matching Pairs Games are included with editing enabled to let you customise them.
Updated April 2015 to contain a one player timer and improved feedback to responses.
There are many free examples of Matching Pairs Games to try before you buy. Please visit my shop;
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5
bennyjohn5@hotmail.com
The Science of Seeing Colours Assembly/ Starter
This is my favourite optical illusion and it's not well known. Could be used as an interactive starter in Physics, Biology or Art. I have used this several times for Science Week assemblies - a hall full of students audibly stunned at how their own eyes work. Strongly recommended.
Warm The Brain: Fun Logical Problem Solving Starters
Six splendid puzzles to display on your interactive whiteboard. These make great lesson starters and are an essential part of a teacher's toolkit. You probably already know the River Crossing puzzle. The puzzles are animated to make them very attention grabbing. No printing is needed; all the puzzles should be solvable without the need to write anything down. Very engaging and fun.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: GCSE Magnets
An exemplar FREE version of this game is available to try before you buy. With this version the questions are unlocked and can be altered.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Magnets Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Matching Pairs Interactive Game Creator
A fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. Very strongly recommended for all ages.
This template allows you to make your own interactive whiteboard games. Making your own game should take about five minutes.
A bonus matching pairs pictures template is included so you can include pictures and diagrams in your games.
Nineteen exemplar Matching Pairs Games are included with editing enabled to let you customise them.
Updated April 2015 to contain a one player timer and improved feedback to responses.
There are many free examples of Matching Pairs Games to try before you buy. Please visit my shop;
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5
bennyjohn5@hotmail.com
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Factorising Quadratics
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy so you can see the format of the quiz.
The level of challenge is aimed at higher ability level GCSE students but it will serve as a useful starter at A-level. As an indication of the difficulty, the hardest expressions to factorise are x² + 2x - 35 and 2x² + 7x + 3
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Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Physics Bundle of Seven
A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Six games are presented here. They are designed primarily for use at GCSE level. The questions are fully editable.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Forces and Motion
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Forces and Motion Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Molecules and Matter
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Molecules and Matter Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: GCSE Physics Equations
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Physics Equations Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: X-Ray Medicine
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
X-Rays in Medicine Four in a Row is designed primarily for the AQA GCSE Physics/ Combined Science course but may be useful elsewhere.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Radioactivity
An exemplar FREE version of this game is available to try before you buy. With this version the questions are unlocked and can be altered.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Radioactivity Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Wave Properties
An exemplar FREE Four in a Row game on Radioactivity is available to try before you buy.
Four in a Row games on six other physics topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a greatly reduced price.
Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers.
Wave Properties Four in a Row is designed primarily for GCSE Physics/ Combined Science courses but may be useful elsewhere.
Circular Motion A-level Physics: Presentation, Worksheets and Game
A really strong collection of resources for teaching circular motion at A-level. I think even teachers who have been presenting this topic for decades will find some exciting ideas here.
The main presentation is animated with full notes and also contains links to film clips, an iPad app. It contains a careful derivation of the loop the loop treatment.
There are two documents with exam-style questions both written and multiple choice. These contain fully worked answers.
The "quickfire game" is an engaging recap race using questions on slips of paper.
Lens diagrams, lens power and magnification
These lessons contain ray diagrams, power calculations and lens practicals. Quizzes, question sets and practicals are in the presentation. This presentation was originally used to teach the topic at GCSE and stop short of the A-level lens equation.
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Physics A-level Electricity Collection
A collection of my very resources for teaching electricity at AS level
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Physics A-level Mechanics Collection
A collection of my very resources for teaching forces and motion from AS and A2 A-level
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A-level Quantum Physics and Particles Collection
A collection of my very resources for teaching particles and quantum physics at AS and A2 A-level
Physics A2 A-level Revision Matching Pairs Games
Five interactive competitive games on A2 Physics topics of Astro, Capacitors, Gravity, Space and Thermophysics. These will make a very welcome break from other less thrilling means of revision.
The Matching Pairs Game is a fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award.
An editor is separately available to make your own games;
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/matching-pairs-interactive-game-creator-11063058
These five games are also available together in a discounted bundle of ten A-level Matching Pairs Games; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/bundler/11560439
bennyjohn5@hotmail.com
Fuses lesson interactive
A carefully designed lesson on fuses, it is designed to follow on from a lesson on wiring plugs. All worksheets include careful answers and there are lots of opportunities for extension work.
1) Interactive plug parts recap
2) Fuses notes & calculations
3) Fuse wire practical
4) Dangerous appliance diagrams
5) Exam questions
Four Pictures One Word Science Quiz
Eighty two questions based on the popular ipad quiz game. Gets students oddly competitive and excited about literacy in Science.
Updated and expanded 28-08-2015
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Partial Solar Eclipse 20 March 2015
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the UK from 0830 to 1030 on Friday 20 March 2015 - a school day! It will be at maximum at 0930. I have used this animated presentation to preview the event to my classes.
More than 80% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon. A total solar eclipse will be visible from The Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
The next time a decent partial eclipse will be visible from the UK of this magnitude will be 12 Aug 2026. After that the next total solar eclipse for the UK will be 23 Sept 2090. The previous one was the very cloudy day of 11 Aug 1999.
To observe safely you will need glasses or to project the Sun onto card through a telescope.
Never look directly at the Sun, especially through a telescope or binoculars, your eyes will be damaged.
Presentation updated 31-01-15
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Internal resistance for A-level Physics
Resources for a lesson on internal resistance including careful notes and diagrams, results from a practical adding paperclips to a cell and exam style questions. My favourite item here is an extension task to stretch the most able in your group - students find the maximum power output from a cell using differentiation or trial and improvement.