Differentiated worksheets using the speed = distance / time formula

Students paint the underside of a leaf and look at the stomata Whilst the nail varnish is drying the students will complete the worksheet.

Complete lesson based on the Electromagnetic Spectrum topic of the AQA Physics/Trilogy new specification GCSE course, also known as P13.1 from the Nelson Thornes text books. This lesson contains: Starter See slide notes for this starter, but a demonstration of one of the non-visible parts of the EM spectrum. This is a demonstration the students can do at home also. Main Self learning task, known as the market place activity. This is an excellent activity to showcase group work, peer learning, peer teaching and cooperation. I have used this activity with all ability groups and find it works brilliantly with all. Low ability groups will need more support, but they will probably gain more from the activity. All resources that you should need are contained within this lesson. Plenary Students either complete an exam question or some short answer questions (all with answers), or both, depending on the ability of your groups and the time you have remaining

You will need 4 samples of 'rain water&' spiked with acid or alkali to represent the different areas you can get the rain from

Using carbon to extract copper

A worksheet for students to work on either as part of the lessons on reflection and refraction, or, as I used them as a topic recap.

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Complete lesson based on the Simple Inheritance topic of the AQA Biology/Trilogy new specification GCSE course, also known as B13.7 from the Nelson Thornes text books. This lesson contains: Starter BoB’s big five. A recap over the last few lessons in 5 questions that they complete in the back of their books (Hence BoB). There are then the answers on the next slides for students to self or peer mark. This is to encourage memory retention over a series of lessons and has had a great impact in my classroom. Main Introduction to the keywords and then guided through some genetic crosses. Emphasis given to the correct working out that needs to be written down in order to gain ALL the marks. Students are then expected to complete any of the next tasks. If you have iPads in the classroom then I would print out the QR code scanner (See note at bottom) sheet and students can choose the PDFs to load (and save paper) and either complete on the iPads, or in their books. Answers are provided for all three activities. Activity 1 - Harry Potter genetics. Students use information from Harry Potter to get used to the punnet square approach to these tasks. Activity 2 - Moving on from Harry Potter, students have to do more work. There is a lot of repetition here so I would advise students to move on when happy. Answers are again provided. Activity 3 - Exam questions, a series of exam questions to challenge the students, with mark scheme. Plenary Students complete an EBI and WWW for the lesson Bonus The final slide contains an optional task that can be a cover lesson, or just a less teacher focused lesson. NOTE ABOUT QR CODE SHEET - The QR codes on there will NOT work, you will need to upload the PDFs to a location on your schools network and then use a QR code generator website to generate the QR codes.

Complete lesson on gravitational potential energy. Starter - Students start thinking about GPE Main -Introduce GPE, some worked examples and then an opportunity for students to complete a worksheet of questions (rearranging questions included). Answers to questions are included as part of a progress check. Students can then do a simple practical looking at their own gravitational potential energies Plenary - Link to a Kahoot! quiz

Revision sheets for students to complete. Covers the main points from these lessons.

This is for a 100 minute lesson, but there are two tasks which could be split over two 50 min lessons. The Timeline Poster is one activity and the Darwin text based activity is the second activity. The text may be too textual for low ability or low reading age students, my low reading age group had an LSA and they were ACE!

Practical looking into the effects of sweating on the body.

Using ramps and cars the students plan their investigation using the planning sheet, and then carry out the investigation. This can all be done in one lesson. I then set them the task of writing up the investigation (using the level ladder) as homework, but could be done in a subsequent lesson

Guides through the pressure equation, then hydraulics. Answers to W/S on the powerpoint

Points to prove activity on Xrays. Rewards and sanctions built in to this

6 questions, students have to use the information posters (which contain red herrings) to get the correct answers. First person back with a correct answer to a question gets 10 points, 9 for the next etc.

Complete KS3 and KS4 fully differentiated lesson on Adaptation Two versions of the lesson for the price of one. One version is suitable for KS3, one version is suitable for KS4. Starter KS3 KS4 - BoB’s big five. A recap over the last few lessons in 5 questions that they complete in the back of their books (Hence BoB). There are then the answers on the next slides for students to self or peer mark. This is to encourage memory retention over a series of lessons and has had a great impact in my classroom. Followed by a series of images showing animals that have adapted to their surroundings. Main KS3 & KS4 - Place the station cards from the PPT file around the room. Students then have copies of the station cards from the word file and have to move around the room completing the cards. There are helper sheets to support students if needed, or for your LSA’s. Helper sheets are for any LSA’s you may have Plenary KS3 & KS4 - Beach ball questioning. You need a beach ball. Throw to a student, ask a question, they then throw the ball to another student, who you then ask the next question to.

Various stations set up around the room with levelled objectives to complete. Answers to the stations are included

Students use the information in the PPT to create their own little comic strips of bonding. Bondings increase in their difficulty