A full set of lessons on penguin huddling to develop student investigation skills for STEM

A series of lessons aimed to develop scientific investigation skills in KS3 students, would be good for year 7/8 or lower ability year 9 or for revision for higher ability year 9. Lesson scheme as follows: 1-3. intro investigation skills and compression strength of biscuits-planning, doing and analysing (3 lessons) 4.which biscuit has the most energy and/or 4.dunkability of biscuits (which biscuit can be left in the longest without breaking/ absorbing the most liquid without breaking 5. density of chocolate bars floating and sinking 6. making tea method writing 7. tea investigations-shape, stirring or temperature of water.

A full sequence of lessons for a high ability year 8 class taht covers waves, light and sound. All resources (including equipment orders in notes), activities and video/ web links are within the document. What is light and how does it travel Reflection (mirror writing, mirror maze and pin hole cameras) Reflection I-law of reflection and investigation Refraction- demos (vanishing penny, split pencil, bottle leak with lazer pen). Law of refraction and investigation Spectrum and dispersion Colour- mixing coloured light and filters Application- iridescence, interference and spectrometers What is sound? How does sound travel? Sound waves The ear and hearing

A PowerPoint for a year 9 forces and motion topic. The document contains all the resources, worksheets and activities for 7 topics. Some topics and investigations may require 2 or more lessons depending on the group. Lesson topics: speed- affect of height of a ramp on speed Speed- affect of mass on speed Distance time graphs Speed safari Friction and speed Moments Pendulums

A lesson/ set of resources for scientific investigation skills- how to plan an experiment, draw a results table, draw a graph/ identify anomalies and conclude/ evaluate. Slides can be adapted to suit any practical. I have some investigation Powerpoints ready made if you would like them check out my page (indigestion, slime, pendulum etc)

Full lessons for waves scheme for year 8, covering light and sound. All worksheets are included on slides and practical activities and materials have links and videos connected to them.

A whole lesson plannings and carrying out a pendulum investigation. The students plan their own investigation investigating the factors that can affect the time taken for a pendulum to swing.

Full lessons with resources/ worksheets within the PowerPoint. Lesson order: What are forces, how do we draw them and measure them? Balanced and unbalanced forces + parachute investigation Friction ACE skateboard surfaces Mass and weight (link to fields and planets) Understanding stretching forces- hookes law (graph drawing) Buoyancy Moments- theory and investigation Test Forces fun lesson- investigating the strength of a biscuit (compression) + improve ACE

Short quick resource about women in science with weblinks to help research

Graph checklist for drawing bar and line graphs in science. The document has the checklist in a selection of sizes to aid printing. I print the mini version to stick on graphs when teacher/ pee/ self assessment.

A learning mat/ support sheet for drawing Sankey diagrams.

An extended writing task linking pressure, boyles law and mechanism of breathing. It has short exam questions and activities to work through the extended writing task.

Whole unit of work on separating mixtures, lesson order: SLG revision, What are mixtures Different kinds of mixtures Solutions- does it dissolve? What affects the speed something dissolves? Separating mixtures- overview of separation techniques Evaporation- rock salt prac Copper sulphate practical Chromatography Distillation

Full unit of work on forces. Lessons include resources and links within the Powerpoint.

Full set of lessons on a year 7 topic on forces. All activities are within the PPT and practical resources are listed in the notes of the relevant slides. Lesson order: What are forces? How do we draw and measure forces? Making a newton meter? Springs- Hookes Law investigation Balanced and unbalanced forces- parachute investigation Resultant force Friction Pressure Pressure in liquids and gases Speed

A full set of lessons on current and electricity Full activities and suggestions for practicals included in the powerpoint

A series of lessons for a unit about electricity for KS3, covers: 1. circuit drawing 2. current 3. voltage 4. series and parallel circuits 5. models of electricity 6. evaluating models in science 7. dangers of electricty

A task aimed at developing extended writing in science. Based on 6 mark GCSE style questions. Activities, links, writing frames and markscheme are within the powerpoint. "Using ideas about electricity and magnetism, describe and explain how this circuit causes the bell to ring."

A task aimed at developing extended writing in science. Based on old GCSE 6 mark questions. Activities, links, writing frames and markschemes are within the Powerpoint.

A PowerPoint with a full set of lessons for a space scheme. Aimed at mid to low ability year 7s. Lessons include: Gravity and earth Gravity in space Our solar system Rocket science-international space station (link to Tim Peake) Design a planet lesson-making fun lesson The milky way and other galaxies Forces on a rocket Days years and seasons eclipses Phases of the moon Lightyears Extra task: aliens There are slides at the end of each lesson to be printed as worksheets- with 2-4 sheets per slide to save on printing. Links to videos and practical activities and resources. I hope this is useful :)