Use as a starter/through the door activity. Helps students to track progress during the lesson. Please leave a comment if useful and I will upload more.

Lesson and resources for Applied Science.

Students use the literature to make notes and then rewrite it using the connectives. I have found this an extremely effective way of teaching them to extract relevant information from text and rewriting it in their own words.

A giant wordsearch suitable for end of term activities. Reinforces keywords. Suitable for Yr 9 to Yr 11

A few wordsearches for this topic. Although based on the Go Science Scheme it is pretty generic.

Use as a starter/through the door activity. Helps students to track progress during the lesson. Please let me know if you find these useful and I will upload more.

Use as a starter/through the door activity. Helps students to track progress during the lesson.

Attached is a presentation and worksheet for students to complete. Activity 1 requires AQA Applied Science books but is not entirely necessary. You will require a class set of 2p pieces and some pipettes if you wish to carry out the investigation.

Included are Learning Grids for KS3 Forces, Classification, Energy, Compounds Elements and Mixtures and Light This activity is designed to force deeper thinking at all levels, forcing students of all abilities to make links between concepts they have encountered over the course of the topic. This is a highly engaging activity for all which draws on both literacy and content. Each word has a point value ascribed to it, depending on level of difficulty. Students then construct sentences linking as many of the words as they can in a single sentence. They tally up their word score and then move on to producing another sentence. etc. Instructions on how to use the activity with a set of dice is also included. Always ensure that students have access to glossaries or text books so that they can challenge themselves to find the meaning of new terminology or concepts. This is best carried out in pairs, where students can discuss and share ideas.

Multiple choice mini assessment consisting of 18 questions. The answers have been designed to cover any misconceptions. Can be used as is, or used in conjunction with the free "quick key" app, which allow instant feedback and data analysis.

Ideal activity for all abilities as feedback tasks, revision or homework. Students are given a category (route) that the teacher feels they need the most work on. Students use the tube map and the station brochure, to guide them through the stations and present them with the relevant questions. Differentiate by giving lower achievers a set of cue cards (included) or allow some revision using the revision cards (included) beforehand. Higher achievers can follow the challenge route. This resource includes: - Tube map - Revision Cards - Cue cards - Brochure of stations with questions - Answers

Objective: Understand the process of diffusion within the cell and the factors that affect the speed of diffusion. The activity draws on ideas of SOLO taxonomy hexagons, Tony Ryan's Thinkers' Keys and other strategies that focus on deeper thinking and conceptual links. The resource is made up of a double sided Trifold leaflet with some activities more challenging than others. I have included each page as a separate file so that it can be previewed more thoroughly for inspection before purchase.

Approximately 30 word searches in total covering the topics of solutions, heating, classification, variation, acids and alkalis, cells and safety.

This comprises 2 activities. The first resources asks students to construct their own crossword using the questions provided (they need to find the answers to the questions as well). The second is a collection of KS3 Word searches on cells.

A resource consisting of 2 documents a worksheet on pathogens and a crossword for high ability students

Take your students on a virtual tour of London. Students are issued with a London Underground Map and they follow the tube routes. As they do this they will collect money for each station that they visit providing they answer the question correctly or complete the task! Routes are differentiated so perfectly suited to mixed achievement groups.

A crossword suitable for middle to high ability year 8 students. Answers attached.

Objective: To better understand and use keywords in the cells and diffusion topic. Who is it for: Scientists who have poor literacy, recall and spelling skills. Differentiation opportunities: Use the Spiderman Glossary for struggling scientists. What is in the resource? - Spiderman themed glossary comic - Dominoes activity matching key words with definitions - Activity circle with 6 activities. To use this I put students in groups of 3, each student choosing 2 of the activities. Alternatively you could use this as a "hot potato" activity by giving students a set time (3 minutes) to start the task and then they have to pass their work on to the person on their left. They will then continue where the previous student left off etc. - Giant Wordsearch and hidden message - Kinasthetic activity where students have to unjumble a sentence relating the topic. Wherever possible I have included the answers.

Objective: To be able to name some plant and animal viruses. To describe the spread and symptoms of some plant and animal viruses. To compare and contrast plant animal viruses. Suitable for all KS4 biology students (fully differentiated) Included: This resource comprises an infographic (text) and 9 differentiated activities, from a level 1 to 9. Included are the photo files, pdf and word documents . You may also be interested in this free resource on dna and the genome https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/b13-4-dna-and-the-genome-foldable-11706112 Please visit me at my shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/heelis