For the AQA CH1 topic, a lesson that guides students through a recap about alkanes and their structure before looking at alkenes. Differentiated questions and tasks through the lesson. This was designed for a lower ability Foundation tier Y10 group.

A lesson focusing on finding out what the students already know about reversible reactions. They then have to self-assess where they are and choose which tasks to complete based on this. The main activity is another choice activity for students to move onto the main part of the lesson and the effect of changing conditions on chemical equilibrium.

A resource for Public Services Level 3, Unit 3 Citizenship. It can also be used for the Level 2 QCF, Unit 6 course.

New AQA GCSE spec lesson on chemical bonding. This is the introductory lesson to the topic on structure and bonding and so is more about establishing prior learning and beginning to understand what a bond is. The students can complete an investigation of burning magnesium in air to show that when a reaction takes place, a new substance is formed. Lots of questions and group work for them to complete.

Three lessons in one to try to encourage active and independent learning. The challenge and race element to the lesson really engaged a bottom set of disaffected Y11 boys. Students complete one of the starter activities about braking and stopping; thinking and braking distances or terminal velocity. They then have to start with the one that they ignored in the starter for the main part of the lesson. The key points of information for the three topics are given in note form but students will need to use textbooks to supplement it. The make notes on each topic, answering the questions and then self-assessing them. The question and answer slides in the power point will need to be printed out onto different colour paper for the students to help themselves to during this part of the lesson. I ran this as a challenge whereby I had a results table on the board and students recorded their marks for the each of the sets of questions and a prize was awarded for the first to finish and the highest total score. Once this section, has been completed, the elasticity topic is introduced to the whole class before some questions are given to check that they can use the equation.

Remember to PEE when writing a conclusion. Simple wall display to help remind your students what to do when writing a conclusion.

An assembly aimed for secondary students that summarises the events of 1916 before examining the key events in 1917 such as the entry of the USA into the war and the impact of the Russian Revolution in brief. The assembly moves on to look at the main battles of 1917 with focus on the 3rd Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele. For more information about this battle and for videos to show, the Royal British Legion has a good series of videos which can be shown.

This was designed as an introductory lesson to radioactivity to a low ability group and covers the first lesson in the AQA P7 Radioactivity topic. Students are taken back to the structure of the atom to ensure that they are confident about the terminology of subatomic particles before moving on to look at the three types of radioactive decay. As a practical is not always possible depending on the policy about radioactive sources in schools, I found a virtual lab online, (link in the presentation), which allows you to either demonstrate to the whole class or to allow students to carry out investigations on their own. Tables of results are provided. Example data has been put into the tables on the slides to allow discussion. A conclusion is then written about the practical with students having to complete the core question and one other. Students are then given a choice of differentiated questions to complete the lesson. There are some extra slides at the end to help in discussion.

Designed for a middle ability group, this is a summary of the AQA B9 Respiration topic. This can either be set as a graphic orgnaiser for homework or used in lesson as a prompt for students to complete their revision.

Guided revision going through all of the AQA specification points. key terminology properties examples with diagrams of the giant molecules examples of questions with “build your answer” explanations to model how to gain full marks exam questions carefully chosen and annotated using the BUG method to ensure students can achieve high marks

Guided revision for the AQA covalent bonding section, specifically the small molecules. The key specification points are covered with tips on how to draw the molecules and identifying the limitations of the molecules. AQA past paper exam questions are given to go through with the students modeling how to answer them, using the BUG technique (explained on the slides).

A lesson that covers how salts are made with a scavenger hunt for the students. They need to be given a copy of the Notes to Make Sheet and will need to decipher the clues to complete the gaps. The powerpoint then goes through the tasks and the students have an assessment point before they have to decide which route to take. Worksheets needed for these routes are labelled and described in the powerpoint. One of worksheets is from creative-chemistry.org.uk as it was so good, I didn't see the point in reinventing the wheel - it is not my work.

A Remembrance Day Assembly about the history of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance and why it is important to remember each year. The assembly traces the adoption of the poppy after the poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae and how it led to the work of pioneering women to lead the way in creating roles for the widows and those left behind in the making and distributing of poppies. The role of the Royal British Legion founder Earl Haig is covered along with the role of the Royal British Legion today. The war casualties in terms of war dead and the injured are also covered to show that we also need to remember those who went to war to fight for us but came back injured. The opportunity for a period of silent reflection is provided with a slideshow to the Last Post which lasts for two minutes culminating in a slide explaining why we remember. The Kohima Epitaph, which will be read at all Remembrance Day events in the last slide. I recommend visiting the RBL website for more information if you need it along with other Remembrance resources.

What actually is identity? Are there different types of identity? How do you prove your identity? Why would you need to be able to prove your identity? This lesson looks at identifying the different types of identity within society before thinking about which type of identity you need to be able to prove. I have included some examples of identity requirements which I have downloaded from the internet (see the documents for acknowledgements) but students can research this in the lesson. The lesson finishes with a discussion about whether or not the methods currently in use are any good and whether or not they could be forged before deciding what they think should be used.

Updated to remove references to levels. Please leave a review if you like this resource. Many thanks! The 'What Do You Know' worksheet is a starter that involves group work and assesses prior learning. Students work together and can either: 1. write an answer; 2. add to an answer or 3. correct an answer.The 'Research on Human Sex Cells' worksheet is the main body of the lesson and allows student to work either independently or in groups as you decide. They will need to have access to a range of textbooks for this. Hope you find it useful!

This fits into the Y8 Food and Digestion topic but can be used for assessing tables of results drawing and graph plotting. Students are given information to be able to plot a graph which they then have to analyse. The table of results must be completed by identifying any anomalies and then calculating the mean average before a line graph is plotted. New style assessment levels are given.

Using the First World War Centenary and why we remember as the theme, this assembly summaries the events of 1914 and shows how warfare changed in 1915. It looks at the main battles and the cost to life and then gives facts about the cost of war.

A lesson that summarises and assesses electrolysis and redox reactions. Information is given on the powerpoint and then students are given the worksheet for them to choose their working level of questions. Textbooks, revision guides or access to BBC Bitesize (or similar) will be required.

This lesson takes students through the way to calculate masses in a reaction and covers a very simple definition of a mole. It moves onto Percentage Composition before having a checkpoint for the students to assess their learning and choose which independent learning task that they are going to complete. Worksheets are provided (with answers) for both of these tasks. The plenary is to write a tweet to explain what they have learnt in the lesson.