This interactive activity encourages students to discuss similarities and differences between the nervous system and endocrine system. A number of statements are provided for students who then stand in the correct place of the Venn diagram. Also provided are two different worksheets comparing the two systems, choose which is most appropriate for your students.

These resources are all based around BMI with an emphasis on data and handling. This is a sensitive subject and there are some teacher note to suggest how best to manage students as they measure their own BMI . There is a worksheet for students to record their findings along with some follow up work where they measure the BMI of some famous people - all fictitious data!

A highly structured and scaffolded suite of questions which guide students through the process of answering calculation questions using an equation. The smart use of a grid allows students to pick out the information they need and enables them to succeed. The questions get harder as the students progress through the pack. There’s also a worksheet (explaining electrical relationships) designed to help students think through what the mathematical relationships mean. This resources covers all the equations on the topic of electricity needed for AQA GCSE phyiscs (2016 spec)

This set of notes has been put together as a 12 page A4 booklet, organised for paper 1 and paper 2 For each required practical there’s a simple diagram, a list of equipment and a step by step method and hints about using the data collected; hopefully that’s everything a student may need to recall for the exams.

This excel spreadsheet provides good simulation of the Haber process where you can adjust the proportions of the raw materials, the temperature, the catalyst and the pressure to find out how much ammonia you make. Get it right and you can maximise your profit per day! When opening the spreadsheet, don't forget to click "enable" Students can work individually on this activity or the simulation can be projected and used with the whole class. There is also a worksheet to help students think through the process at the molecular level along with notes and answers for the teacher.

Using this simulation, written in excel, your students can explore the impact of surface area, temperature and concentration on reaction rate. As the conditions change, so the graph changes. When opening the spreadsheet, don't forget to click on "enable". There is a worksheet for students to complete as they work through the activity. There are also two additional worksheets with further explore rates graphs and help students to deepen their understanding.

Here are some activities most suitable for foundation students. The role play where the student playing the doctor has to decide on the most suitable treatment for a variety of patients. There are also two worksheets that examine antibiotic resistance, the second of which is built around data handling.

Here you'll find a colour- in worksheet which summaries photosynthesis along with a cut and stick poster that summaries respiration. Both activities are designed to promote thinking and understanding whilst still being enjoyable to complete. The suite is completed by a teacher led activity comparing the two processes that students have to add labels to.

This is a fundamental area of science that students really need to understand well. There are two lots of sorting to complete in the Venn diagram activity along with a student worksheet to consolidate the key ideas. It's accompanied by a teacher sheet providing details of demonstrations designed to bring home the properties of gases.

This set of activities provides teacher notes on ideas about helping students to understand exactly what speed means and goes on to suggest how to introduce the use of the equation for speed. There is a student worksheet to reinforce the key ideas about speed. A follow on activity with a set of animal pictures allows students to calculate the speeds of a wide variety of animals.

This is a hands on activity to help students consolidate and fully understand these important ideas. Students pass around pictures of 9 different types of cell and then complete the grid on the student sheet to show which of the genes listed will be switched on in that cell type. There is also a plenary activity designed to reveal any student misconceptions along with some teacher notes, with a link to a great animation which will explain the concept clearly to non-specialists

"......I do and I understand". This role play is designed to help students really understand the circulatory system and how it works. As they move the oxygen and carbon dioxide around the different parts of the heart and body, students take the route taken by blood cells and learn by doing. To accompany the activity there is a suite of worksheets: - cut and stick boxes to put in the correct order - a simple worksheet to colour - a worksheet to label and add arrows to - a more difficult sheet where information about artificial valves is sorted and matched

It's hard to find much practical work to do around food chains. Here's a very active demonstration that turns into a student race and brings home all the key ideas that students need to understand. It's accompanied by a crossword puzzle.

In this lesson, students use their knowledge (supplemented by the fact sheet provided) to decide how the meet the energy requirements of an island. In my experience, students enjoy the activity and there are often heated arguments between the groups!

Two hands-on activities for what can be a rather dry area of work. In the first, students examine diagrams of atoms and use a periodic table to identify them. In the seconds, atom pairs are examined in order to find out whether or not they are isotopes. The activities work well after the key idea have been explained since they help students consolidate and then apply their knowledge.

This group of resources is "hands-on and brains-on" Start the lesson with the practical work making a rainbow. This can be done as a teacher demonstration but is lovely for students to carry out. Follow up with the "colouring in" worksheet that takes a look at different indicators. There is a kinesthetic activity designed to get students moving and help them think about which acids and alkalis are needed to make a series of salts. To finish off students can work through the neutralisation worksheet which involves more thinking and colouring in.

Here is a suite of resources based around earthquakes: The demonstration makes very clear how s and p waves are produced and the follow up worksheet is designed to consolidate understanding. The Plotting activity requires students to interpret eye witness accounts to determine the strength of an earthquake felt at different locations. These strengths are then plotted on a map to find the epicentre. It's based on an activity from the old Salters' GCSE. There is also a data handling exercise.

There are two resources here. Resource One: two data analysis worksheets based on global carbon dioxide emissions. They are accompanied by a powerpoint with infographics showing similar information and a pdf that can be enlarged for easier viewing. Resource Two: an activity where groups of students have to decide between fossil and nuclear fuels. It's based upon Edward de Bono's thinking hats and helps students to communicate verbally and in writing.

A cut and stick diagram to help students think through the rock cycle plus a worksheet about the three main types of rock.

This hands-one, minds-on activity is designed to get students thinking about the differences between atoms and molecules. It is backed up with a student worksheets which gets students thinking even further. Molymod (or equivalent) models are required. Although this activity is aimed primarily at KS3 students, GCSE students are likely to find it helpful too.