SCIENCE AND HUMAN MIGRATION
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 7 to Year 10) that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what is culture
6 x A3 printout information hunt detailing Pakistani, Bengali, British, Eastern European (with Poland), Nigerian and Indian cultures. This links culture to astronomy, traditional medicine, blood types and Japanese personality types and human migration.
Content & Presentation – Astronomy, human migration, blood types
Independent Practice: Questions include:
Timeline of human migration from East Africa
Keyword table from different cultures
How astronomy links to agriculture
Tickbox exercise for blood types
what traditional medicines are used to treat illness.
Markscheme included
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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An introduction to forces lesson created for students in an SEN school. Can also be used for yr7 mainstream.
Included:
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Starter question
Info - Isaac Newton
Forces as push or pulls and changing an objects speed, shape or direction
ACTIVITY - unit of force, what forces are, how they effect objects, examples of force action on objects with pics - GAPFILL
Whole class check for understanding - are these forces pushes or pulls x 3
Use of arrows with forces
Types of forces - tension, normal, friction, thrust, upthrust, weight, magnetic, electrostatic air resistance. Arrows showing direction
Whole class check for understanding - which arrows are correct for direction of force x 3
Drag forces
ACTIVITY - Identify the force and add arrows to show direction
Whole class check for understanding - what type of force is this - x 5
Contact vs non-contact forces
ACTIVITY - table completion of contact vs non-contact forces and a gapfill definition completion
Whole class check for understanding - ontact vs non-contact forces thumbs up & down
ACTIVITY - Independent worksheet & answers
Plenary - what force is the picture and what way is it acting
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Created for students in an SEN school
Included:
3 x worksheets - unblurred when bought
Starter joke
DNA structure and pairing recap
Cell cycle and human life cycle link
what happens in interphase
mitosis importance
ACTIVITY - true/false on mitosis and cell cycle and interphase
ACTIVITY - fill in table of stages of mitosis [gapfill]
ACTIVITY - identify stages of mitosis, using previous pictures
ACTIVITY - identify real micrographs of stages of cells in mitosis
INDEPENDENT WORK - exam questions
Plenary activity - mitosis stages
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for SEN pupils in Yr11 in an autistic school
Included:
Starter - identify the white and red blood cells and platelets
What arteries, veins and capillaries are
ACTIVITY - identify whether the vessel is an artery, vein or capillary (table)
Left and right side of the heart - blood in blue and red / double circulatory system
Right side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
Left side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
ACTIVITY - add labels to the diagrams of left and right side of heart (lungs/body)
ACTIVITY - which are arteries/veins of the heart
Content - atrium and ventricles
ACTIVITY - identify the left and right sides of the heart - heart is numbered
Plenary - identify atrium, ventricles, arteries and veins
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This worksheet was created for students in an SEN school.
Neutralisation word equations: acid + alkali -> salt + water
30 questions -
Fill in the missing acid, metal and salt questions (fill in the gap)
Colour coordinated (15), then no colours (15)
Extension -
6 questions where students name the salt formed (3) and write word equations (3) from a written question. Can be scaffolded by underlining using different colours.
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This is an hour long lesson made for SEN/LAP pupils in Yr10.
Can be split into two lessons - theory and practical.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation - the pH scale, different acids and alkalis, what indicators are used for, colours of different acids and alkalis
Activities - completing a table, checking for understanding using finger voting, identifying colour using pH numbers, identifying pH strength using numbers
Practical - testing different household chemicals with universal indicator - pH number, colour and strength
Plenary - exit ticket
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This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Recall what DNA is and why it is needed
Describe the structure of DNA
Explain the importance of genes in genetics
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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This worksheet has been made for students doing entry level chemistry in an SEN school. 1 lesson practical, 1 lesson write up.
The worksheet has a picture of the practical and is investigating different sized marble chips and the reaction with hydrochloric acid.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the change in mass every 15 seconds for 3 minutes. It is based on chem guide UK’s video on how surface area affects rate of reaction.
Worksheet includes:
Gapfill activity method completion
Prediction
Results table - small, medium and large marble chips
Graph analysis gapfill - teacher to show students how to draw a line graph
What did students change, measure, keep the same questions
What could they improve - e.g. were they accurate
Conclusions
Whether this matched the prediction
Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
2 x paragraphs of information, first on photograph 51 and the second on other scientists.
TASK 1 - Questions based on work of Rosalind Franklin
TASK 2 - Questions based on work of scientists Mendel, Avery, Chargaff, Franklin, Watson and Crick
Answers to tasks
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils
Created for Year 7 or 8 – KS3 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Hook – Career link
Content and presentation – Types of joints, antagonistic muscles, bicep and tricep movement, hamstring and quadricep movement, what muscle contraction is, what tendons and ligaments are
Independent learning activity
Plenary – identify activity
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Information and picture on the water cycle
TASK 1 - 8 x questions based on this
Information and picture on the carbon cycle
TASK 2 - 8 questions based on this
Information and picture on the nitrogen cycle
TASK 3 - 8 questions based on this
EXTENSION - students summarise water, carbon and nitrogen cycles and identify the key processes
Answers to tasks 1, 2, 3 included
No answers for extension
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Created for Yr11s in an SEN school - 50 minute lesson
revamped - body as a castle, invaders as pathogens, soliders as immune system
Included:
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Starter - four pathogens
NEW - your body as a castle
ACTIVITY - part of castle link to human physical defence e.g. skin, stomach acid
NEW - pathogens as invaders, immune system as soldiers and dragon with combat rules
What are white blood cells, antibodies, phagocytosis and antibodies
ACTIVITY - white blood cell labelling activity and function gapfill
NEW - phagocytosis link to dragon
Video of phagocytosis
ACTIVITY - Phagocytosis story board creationand gapfill completion
NEW - antibodies as weapons of the soliders
NEW - antigens as colour of invaders and protections making them unique
NEW - invader combat rules
UPDATED - lymphocyte immune response linked to soliders and invaders
NEW - picture gapfill activity of lymphocyte action linked to soliders and invaders, made simpler
Plenary - exit ticket
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Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr12 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on crude oil and fractional distillation with pictures
TASK 1 - Questions based on paragraph
TASK 2 - Cut and stick activity where students sort the products of crude oil into the fractionating column [gives boiling points for easier acces]
Answers to tasks
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, for SEN/LAP pupils on the definition of Osmosis.
This has been completely revamped and links to Goldilocks and the three bears building toward the definition of osmosis.
Created for Year 10 – KS4 / Yr12 students completing GCSE biology. 24 slides.
Included:
Starter
Goldilocks and the three bears story link
Solute definition
What a solution is / activity on which is higher the water or salt
Cytoplasm as a solution
Water movement linked to drinking water (lots of water to less water in cells) and waterfalls (moving from a higher place to lower place)
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - water movement activity
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - using sugar concentration - water movement activity
Plenary:circle the correct words for Osmosis definition
Tried and tested - kids understood it
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and is 50 minutes long
Included:
What Carbon is
Aerobic respiration - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Photosynthesis - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from picture
Combustion - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Decomposition - what this means
ACTIVITY - identify the keyword from the description
The carbon cycle - picture
Whole class check - what is the process in the picture
ACTIVITY - identify the process by numbers in the picture
Independent questions - very simple
Plenary - identify, describe, explain the parts of the carbon cycle. Can be done as an exit ticket where students pick one to answer
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel for students doing GCSE.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – percentage change in mass calculation, how to break this down and put this in a calculator teacher modelling, you try calculation, link to osmosis and what positive and negative answers mean
Independent learning activity – easy calculations with percentage change in mass (again to practice using calculators)
Plenary – identify the correct calculation
Editted on 13/11/20 to include activity on whether water moves into or out of cells, and gapfil on whether cells swell, burst, shrink or wilt. Percentage change in mass calculation editted throughout to say starting mass, rather than initial.
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This lesson is 2 x 50 minute lessons, for SEN/LAP pupils. Split into two lessons.
Created for Year 10 – KS4.
First Lesson -
Starter
Recap – plant cells
Risk assessment
Practical explanation
Equipment labelling activity
Independent, dependent and control variables
Second lesson -
Percentage change in mass
Experiment conclusions (after 24 hours)
Worksheets – print slide 1 to 2 for first lesson
- print slide 3 for the second lesson
This is a year 10 lesson created for pupils in an SEN school
Included:
Content and presentation - demo ideas, how to use periodic table, reactivity of metals, where metals and non-metals are found and properties of metals vs non-metals
Activities - What are the symbols of certain elements, what groups/periods elements are found in, identify whether elements are metals and non-metals and complete a table of properties of metals vs non-metals
Print slide 2 and 3 single sided for the worksheets
Year 7 lesson on Animal cells only for students in an SEN school
Included:
Content and presentation - bricks to houses, cells to people; parts of an animal cell
Activities:
Label an animal cell picture
Label an animal cell slide
Video - Dr Binocs
What do the parts of an animal cell do
You can used prepared slides to have students observe cells if extra time
Print slide 1 for the worksheet
A resource created for a 20 minute assembly on domestic violence.
Students will learn:
What domestic violence is
How to recognise signs of domestic violence
Who to contact if concerned that they, or someone they know, is a victim of domestic violence.
Includes statistics on males and females, signs of abuse, spotting abuser signs as well as embedded videos and support for those concerned about domestic abuse.