Differentiated worksheet to introduce students to sampling with a quadrat. This can lead on to more detailed sampling or dicussion of habitats and environments, food webs
KW: quadrat, sampling, percentage cover, organism, species, environment, habitat, food webs
Set of 32 superhero cards with their genotypes so that your class can predict superhero baby traits. Great way to demonstrate inheritance, alleles, homozygous, heterozygous, punnet squares etc.
Lion king foodweb activity. Kids love when you play them some of the movie first (from you tube). Also requires students to use key words omnivore, herbivore, producer, consumer, etc.
This task is a **mini project **that requires students to apply their knowledge of sound to create a musical instrument.
Students are asked to:
Summarise key ideas about how instruments produce sound
Describe the difference between wind/string instruments
Create an instrument using scrap materials around the home
Identify the notes that their instrument produces
Refine and adjust their instrument to play particular notes
Play a song with their instrument
The resource is ideal for students working at different levels as the task gradually increases in difficulty. Teachers may choose to differentiate by providing access to only parts of this assessment based on student ability levels.
The resource also includes links to additional supporting resources.
This resources is well suited to set for students during home isolation, cross-curricular contexts, and project based learning contexts.
Key skills students will practice in this task include: summarising, communicating scientific ideas, applying physics concepts in practice, thinking critically and creatively, problem solving.
Colourful powerpoint to revise/teach BEDMAS/BIDMAS/BODMAS using the Matrix movie. Would work well with a few youtube video clips to interest students - especially Neo dodgint the bullets... Has theory notes, problems to solve, starter, main and plenary.
Superhero Factors Activity ppt: Use Optimus Prime Number, Penelope Perfect number, Multiple man and Fraction Woman to revise prime numbers, perfect numbers and multiples and factors. Bright colourful pop art presentation.
Revise key genetics and variation concepts by playing Cranium!
This resource provides instructions and resource materials for revising key vocabulary and simple concepts.
Vocabulary and concepts include
Mutation
Phenotypes and genotypes
Meiosis
Natural, artificial and sexual selections
Genes, alleles, chromosomes
Easy classification starter that requires no explanation. Especially good for very low literacty classes. Allows some assessment of prior knowledge.
KW. Classification Compare Adaptation Evolution
This worksheet asks students to use their knowledge about various concepts about light to draw a series of images rather than write about them.
Key words: refraction, mirror, prism, reflection,
Access the resource grid: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1z9ZHreEcrd7ivQeyqUDRRzC37OnB-0wWROcS3vAlve0/edit?usp=sharing
Explore and make sense of habits, environment and niche with the help of magical creatures expert Newt Scamander. The resource provides:
A range of activities at different levels of difficulty
Student choice
A range of learning modes
A fun context
A self assessment rubric
Instructions for chocolate fossils. Cut the cards out and arrange them in the right order to find the instructions to make chocolate fossils. Then make your own chocolate fossil (Can be done for a whole class under 10 quid).
Includes key words about fossilisation and can lead to discussion about why not all animals who die form complete fossils.
KW: fossil sediment mineral rock
How might we help our students to think more scientific? How can we help student understand scientific validity? Hogwash is an here to help!
Students get points for selecting the most valid method for a provided hypothesis. Each hypothesis is based on real scientists’ work or a published scientific paper. Articles were found based on biology and ecology topics that students were interested in.
Student reviews
“It helped me see what a good method looks like and the type of words that are used.”
“It helps to learn the appropriate language to use in these sorts of scientific works and how to measure how valid/reliable a method is.”
Why play this game?
It’s fun!
Develop knowledge of scientific techniques.
Promote discussion between students about scientific ideas including:
* Discuss ethical issue in science
* Discuss reliability and validity
Develop scientific literacy.
Introduce students to current scientific work.
Provide different levels of challenge with the same resource.
Improve scientific investigation skills.
This resources applies learning about acids and bases in a fun way, while building critical thinking skills. The task supports students to:
Revise understandings about acids and bases.
Record, organise and draw conclusions from data.
Features of this task
Differentiated
Rubrics provided
Practical is easily resourced
Supports development of critical thinking
Cognitive progression to ensure all students are challenged
Includes practical instructions
Caters for a range of curiculum levels
Students are provided with a range of ‘Martian’ soil samples. They test the samples and analyse the results to draw conclusions about whether alien life would be possible given the soil conditions.
This task could be used and adapted for a range of contexts including:
Microbiology eg. extremophiles
Biological adaptations
Acids and bases
Earth and space science
Learning Objective: Deconstruct artworks by using algebra
This lesson helps students make sense of how the world can be represented with equations. By combing art and algebra, to learning areas that students commonly hold as opposites, students are able to gain a much better appreciation of the role that algebra plays in making sense of the world.
Features of this lesson:
- Differentiation
- Cross-curricular links
- E-learning
Pythagoras and Trigonometry revision based on military examples. Great to engage boys in class however the girls in my classes all seemed very interested too!
Use an angry bird backdrop to calculate the linear equations, parabolas etc. Or do it the other way around... Give them the formula and ask if you hit!