This lesson is a key stage 4 lesson (Year 10) that is 60 minutes long.
Can be used for higher ability year 9 pupils or Year 10
Success criteria:
State what an allele is
Describe the difference between genotype and phenotype.
Explain homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
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
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Print 2 pages per sheet, double sided
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Identify the placenta and umbilical cord
Describe how a woman becomes pregnant after fertilisation
Describe how the developing foetus is protected inside the mother.
Included:
Starter & Accessing Prior Knowledge Questions
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks] & Markscheme
Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet [print slide 1 to 2 double sided]
Instructions in the notes
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 using a gas syringe.
Students complete 3 sets of results, writing the volume of gas that is collected every 15 seconds for 3 minutes.
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
Created for students in Yr8, 9 and 10 in an SEN school
Included:
Starter
Neutralisation equation
Neutralisation in everyday life [bees, wasps, heartburn, tooth decay]
The metal salts formed from using hydrochloric, sulphuric and nitric acids
Activities -
Complete everyday neutralisation tables
Whole class check for understanding - what is the salt formed
Complete salt names from word equations [gapfill]
Complete a mind map for neutralisation
All answers included
Worksheets - print slide 1 to 2 double sided, slide 3 separate
Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr10 and Yr11 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on human impacts on environment
Students highlight key information
15 Questions based on paragraph
Answers to tasks included
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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 a key stage 3 or 4 lesson that is 60 minutes long.
Topic 6 – Edexcel – Plant Structures
Success criteria:
Recall how to use a microscope
Describe the role of stomata in gas exchange
Prepare a specimen for viewing under a microscope
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Practical activity – preparing stomata imprint to view under microscope
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task] as extension [unblurred when bought]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This is a Year 10 lesson created for SEN/LAP pupils
The focus is only on how to calculate actual size from image size and magnification. There is no triangle or rearranging equations.
Included:
Starter - scientific drawing of a white blood cell
Recap - how to calculate total magnification
Content and presentation - how to calculate actual size, examples given: an Ant and Leonardo DiCaprio
Independent task 1 - actual size table completion and a question
Independent task 2 - using rulers to calculate actual size from images of 8 cells
Plenary - calculation actual size question
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Answers included for independent task 1. Not for task 2 as this is dependent on how you print. The lines for where to place the ruler are included.
This is a 50 minute lesson created for students in an SEN school who are of lower ability.
This lesson covers
What crude oil is
Hydrocarbon definition
The names of the first 4 hydrocarbons
Mnemonic for remembering these
Identifying the hydrocarbons from pictures
Drawing hydrocarbon structure - first four only
Moly mod activity
Plenary - exit ticket
1 x worksheets, unblurred when bought. print slide 1
This is an hour long lesson created for SEN students in Yr10.
Included:
Starter
Content & Presentation - how to arrange an equation using baking a cake as an equation, word equations from sentences, what are chemical reactions
Teacher modeling how to write an equation using words in a sentence
You try - identifying reactants and products
You try - completing word equations (gap fill)
Activity - identify which reactions are chemical
PRACTICAL* conducting and writing down observations from three chemical reactions
Worksheet printed double sided, folded into an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
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
2 x worksheets - unblurred when bought, print slide 1 and 2
This is a 50 minute lesson created for Yr11 pupils in an SEN school.
Included:
where blood cells are made
Components of blood
colouring in activity of blood in a vessel
function of the blood parts
matching structure to function
2 x worksheets - print slides 1 and 2 single sided
This was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
2 x worksheets on slide 1 and 2, unblurred when bought
Starter activity labelling an animal cell
Career link
Computers [binary code] and DNA link
What DNA is and why its important
DNA as a double helix - quick check, which is the correct shape
DNA base pairing
ACTIVITY - fill in the other DNA strand code
DNA has a strong backbone with bases held by weak hydrogen bonds
ACTIVITY - add the bonds to the previous activity, add bonding and backbone labels
Genome as the entire DNA of an organism
ACTIVItY gapfill bsaed on picture
Independent task - complete the missing information on the DNA strands and describe the structure of DNA using the picture to help you
All answers
Plenary - true/false
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school - 50 minutes long.
***Edited to include all answers, an additionally final check activity [storyboard gapfill],better picture for current atmosphere, better questions for devonian period
Included:
What the atmosphere is
Geological periods of the earth - this will be beyond their understanding, briefly explain that the age of earth is given names same as humans e.g. baby, toddlers, teen etc
The Hadean Eon and atmosphere composition of Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
The Archaen Eon and changing atmosphere of the Earth [decreasing volcanic activity, earth cooling]
ACTIVITY - Gapfill activity
Devonian Period and changing atmosphere of the Earth [plant evolution]
Photosynthesis definition with picture
ACTIVITY - equation fill in the blank
ACTIVITY - questions on devonian period
Current atmosphere of the Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
FINAL ACTIVITY - Story board gapfill of the changing atmosphere over time
Questions are simple. Follows teacher instruction then studen task format
Print slide 1 to 3 for worksheet, unblurred when bought
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Define the term adaptation
Describe how adaptations can affect the survival of organisms
Explain how organisms become endangered or extinct
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Adaptation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define what a tissue is
Describe cell organisation
Explain the functions of different tissues in an organ
Created for Year 7 - KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, silver and gold task] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet – print two pages per sheet, double sided – unblurred when bought
This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
Define Aerobic Respiration
State the word equation for Aerobic Respiration
Describe how cells get the reactants it needs for aerobic respiration.
Compare combustion & respiration.
Included:
Starter & Accessing Prior Knowledge Questions
Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold tasks] & Markscheme
Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Instructions in the notes
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Identify and give examples of inherited and environmental variation
Describe how inherited and environmental variation is caused
Explain why environmental variation can confuse the idea of a species
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Variation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
State the importance of photograph 51
Describe what the x-ray diffraction experiment revealed about the structure of DNA
Explain the role of scientists in the discovery of DNA
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
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
Post assembly form time reflection task - see other uploads for the free assembly
Reflection includes:
Domestic abuse definition
Crime stats
Turn and talk activity
Video - domestic abuse in the UK
Class discussion task about video
Signs of domestic abuse
Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
How to help others
Where to seek support