Four puzzles I have made for science such as fuels, electromagnetic radiation, metal reactions and photosynthesis. There is also a link to the software that you need to down load to acess. It is free!

A concept cartoon for animal adaptation. All statments are paritally right but the students can use them to discuss the ideas at the start of the lesson or at the end of the lesson to asses progess. I have used it at both the start and the end of a lesson so the students can see how much progress they have made.

a fully contained lesson for higher biology - b1b aqa but could be used for other boards. set up as a market place around the room with the posters. students draw a table in the book with the headings: animal, numbers left, reasons for endangered status

a graph that I use to stick in the front of students books and whenever they do a summertive assesment or task that provides them with information on their achievement they fill in a bar on the graph. In my books I get the students to draw a thick black line on the graph where their target is so they can see quickly if they are on at or above the target.

a lesson based on adaptations for survival. Includes lesson plan and all resources

a lesson based around hearing ranges relevent to the 'mosquito' device and how it works. You need a signal generator and a speaker or download a free app on the iphone/pod/pad. if you have clip bank there are some good news clips about it you can use. It is based for a btec lesson but the outcomes on the plan and exit ticket can be changed to GCSE grades.

a powerpoint to show the keywords of photosynthesis.

A tarsia puzzle for AQA unit three with the main key points. Useful as a revision tool.

A marking grid for self or peer assesment for students. It should be used to help them understand what they need to know about ways the medical proffesion can see into the body without invasive surgery. Marks on the grid are guidlines to how many points are needed for each section

A work sheet which students have 3 blood sample pictures and they have to identify the components in the normal slide, explain differences in two other slides. Similar to an exam question from 2008

a grid that can be attached to work/book for students assesment. they are then supposed to go and correct mistakes in the work when it has been marked.

a lesson based on using speed with the HSW angle of how speed cameras work. video clip taken from youtube to add an intresting angle to the lesson.

a lesson that i recieved excellent feedback on for an observation. all resources are there but you will need post it notes and practical equipment: different sized marbles/balls, meter rulers, stop watches. some of the slides need printing too - they are hidden in the document. hope you find it useful

a 2 part session to go through the common areas that students do badly in. The equipment is just basic- sponge, scissors, measuring cylinder, washing up bowl, funnel, ruler. Students cut the sponge to different sizes as the independent variable.

kinestetic activity to help understand how sedimentry rocks form. Can also be used for app evaluation strand when completing the levelled evaluation sheet. the making needs to be done before the evaluation can be done.

Full lesson for evlauating and justifying why recycling is important. The starter links to the ideas of mining and extracting metals from ores. It is an A and B lesson but you easily adapt. The ideas were to show lots of progress in the lesson and this is why the exam question is given before the main activity. I printed out a website with possitive points and negative points. This formed the basis of the main task. Im sorry I dont have it electronically so its not been linked. \n\nThis was done for an observation with B/C graded kids and got an outstanding for progress!

A lesson based on how to use research and form hypothesis for the unit 2 btec applied science project. could be used for other types of research too. The only additional resource needed are some printouts of websites that can be used for planning an experiment. I have added the follow on list of stuff that we used to check off what was required for the write up in the next lesson - it may be useful to adapt to fit the assignment written in your school

students made cells (specialised or basic) out of materials such as jelly, plastacene, paint, plastic cups, pain ect.. they then were asked to evaluate them with the help of the levelled scaffold. A photo of their cell was taken and printed to put in their books with the evlauation. its for a lower level class where literacy and vocabulary is an issue. it can also be used as an app assesment in a modeling contex

A basic sheet that can be photocopied and stick in the front of books for the words the student often mispelled when you mark books. Get the student to refer back to the list and use it as a personailsed spelling dictionary to help them corect their spelling.

a full lesson with static electricity. you need to have rods and cloths as a class resource and the van der Graff for a class demo.