I am a Science Teacher with 25 years experience and love producing resources. As one of my HoD's remarked "Your lesson plans and resources are outstanding, if only you could teach as good as your resources." Chemistry is my main subject, but have an interest in Pedagogy, especially CASE (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education) and misconceptions and how to overcome them.
I am a Science Teacher with 25 years experience and love producing resources. As one of my HoD's remarked "Your lesson plans and resources are outstanding, if only you could teach as good as your resources." Chemistry is my main subject, but have an interest in Pedagogy, especially CASE (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education) and misconceptions and how to overcome them.
This is a 90 mark (90 mins) KS4 mock exam paper with indvidually graded GCSE style questions with mark scheme or ppt answer walkthrough (for in class self assessment). It covers the topics: Development of the Atom/Periodic table, Group 1, 7, 0 and Transition Metals, Atomic Masses and Size of Atoms and Mixtures. It was designed with AQA in mind but can be used by other boards.
Included:
Exam paper
Mark Scheme with Grade boundaries
Animated ppt answer walk through
Student self-evaluation Sheet with graded question grid.
Spreadsheet analysis of scores
It is fully editable if you wish to make the exam out of 60 or 45 for shorter revision lessons.
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This booklet covers the basics of the Inheritance topic for KS4, it can also be used with upper KS3 students. It contains 11 content pages where on each page is a keyword and definition, an image, example and some simple questions and an extension question and/or project activity.
It comes with an interactive Power Point to guide the students through the booklet.
There is a punnett square activity to help the students understand how they work including sex determination, small/tall plants and sweet/sour fruit.
All the information is there in the booklet so that at the end they have a complete booklet to take home and hopefully revise from.
To see if this resource is for you, I have produced a free Infection and response booklet for free here (with emphasis on corona Virus)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/infection-and-response-to-the-corona-virus-covid-19-booklet-12270746
This includes links to a paid for ecology booklet and activities.
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This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts approx 2 hours. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides
Two page guide sheet (Required Practical Graphic Organiser worth £1.50 from my shop) based on IV Characteristics
Apparatus list for technician
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
If you would like to see a FREE sample similar to this before you buy, the I-V Characteristics one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-updated-i-v-characteristics-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-answers-12199364
If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358
If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081
If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346
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Update: Just added Electrical Models Lesson with animations
This misconceptions teacher toolkit is (hopefully) all you need to start you on challenging and overcoming misconceptions in your science lessons. It includes:
A full lesson aimed at KS3 or KS4 which challenges the misconception that solids do not push up and finishes with a 9-1 graded exam question on Newton’s 3rd law. (lasting 1 hour)
Questionnaires for your classes to illicit misconceptions on Earth, Astronomy, Living Things, Magnets, Electricity, Matter and Chemical Reactions
9 different worksheets which use Analogies, CASE, Venn diagrams and Models to overcome misconceptions.
Misconceptions by Topic and Key Stage that can easily be added to PowerPoint’s and/or SoW.
A Word version of the Misconceptions Booklet (so you can take out any bits that you need)
This resource is basically my Misconceptions CPD with the CPD part taken out, which can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-misconceptions-cpd-12237121
For a free activity that elicits student misconceptions about forces, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/identifying-physics-forces-misconceptions-12199581
For a free pdf booklet written about misconceptions in general, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/misconceptions-in-science-6442140
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This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts approx 2 hours. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides
Two page guide sheet (Required Practical Graphic Organiser worth £1.50 from my shop) based on IV Characteristics
Apparatus list for technician
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
If you would like to see a FREE sample similar to this before you buy, the I-V Characteristics one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-updated-i-v-characteristics-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-answers-12199364
If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358
If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081
If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346
Please comment if you have found this useful.
If you would like more required practical resources (or other science resources) free and paid, please check out my shop at:
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This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts at least 1 hour. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including recognising hazards, safety, method, and analysing results. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
20 slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Student method/practical sheet that students can fill it in as it matches the ppt
Two page guide sheet (Included free here, £1.50 from my shop. To see this sheet click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/required-practical-graphic-organiser-12181508)
Apparatus list for technician
Safety guide for teacher and technician
Links to student safety sheets
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
A sheet that explains how the questions were graded
If you would like to see a free sample similar to this before you buy, the Osmosis one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/updated-osmosis-required-practical-planning-with-graded-with-9-1-exam-style-questions-and-answers-12181019
If you just want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-chemistry-required-practical-revision-questions-12197299
If you want all the Chemistry required Practicals, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-chemistry-required-practical-lessons-aqa-12446174
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I have now added a sheet explaining how this can be done at home by students themselves.
This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts approx 2 hours. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides
Two page guide sheet (worth £1.50 from my shop)
Apparatus list for technician
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
It is available in a bundle with 8 other “home use” required practicals here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nine-required-practicals-for-home-use-12461001
If you would like to see a free sample similar to this before you buy, the Osmosis one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/updated-osmosis-required-practical-planning-with-graded-with-9-1-exam-style-questions-and-answers-12181019
All the biology practicals are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-biology-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answer-12220999
If you just want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/biology-required-practical-worksheets-with-graded-9-1-exam-style-questions-and-answers-12181051
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I have now added a sheet explaining how this can be done at home by students themselves.
This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers Density of a regular and irregular solid and liquid. It also contains the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions… It lasts approx 2 hours. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides
Two page guide sheet (Required Practical Graphic Organiser worth £1.50 from my shop) based on IV Characteristics
Apparatus list for technician
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
It is available in a bundle with 8 other “home use” required practicals here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nine-required-practicals-for-home-use-12461001
If you would like to see a FREE sample similar to this before you buy, the I-V Characteristics one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-updated-i-v-characteristics-required-practical-planning-with-9-1-graded-questions-and-answers-12199364
If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358
If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081
If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346
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This is a bundle of nine required practicals (or three for £2 see below) that can be done at home (with adult permission/supervision) for this time during whilst students are working from home (Chromatography, Density, Force and Extension, Specific Heat Capacity, Thermal Insulation, Waves, Field Investigations, Osmosis, Plant Response and Reaction Time).
This is all the required practicals that can safely be done at home with household equipment.
It includes all the necessary information, worksheets and powerpoints for students (all files are included in pdf format for easier home access).
If you just want three that can be done at home, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/required-practical-for-home-use-12460999
For more information click on the resource.
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This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It covers all the Biology Required Practicals: Food Tests, Photosynthesis, Enzymes, Plant Response, Decay, Field Investigations, Osmosis etc. The ppts carry the students through all aspects of the practical including hypothesis, variables, safety, fair testing, method, analysing results and evaluating the validity. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resources (apart from Food Tests and Microscopy) includes:
30+ slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Two page student method/practical sheet that follows the slides
Two page guide sheet (Required Practical Graphic Organiser worth £1 from my shop)
Apparatus list for technician
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification.
If you want ALL the Science Practicals, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-science-required-practicals-12449938
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This Chemistry resource is used with KS4 students, it is designed to ask 9-1 exam style questions on differences between Transition Metals and Group 1. It lasts approximately 1 hour. It encourages students to use keywords and link concepts together. It includes answers for peer or self assessment.
If you would like to try a free sample of a similar lesson to this before you buy, check out:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/atoms-elements-mixtures-compounds-revision-lesson-12190880
This resource is available as a BUNDLE with 5 other lessons that cover the other parts of the Atomic Structure and Periodic Table at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/atomic-structure-and-periodic-table-revison-pack-12193157
It is a complete lesson with:
Starter: Matching keyword to definition
Poster/Graphic Organiser of all the Keywords and definitions for this part of the course to help with:
Main activity 1: Comparing and Contrasting using Venn Diagram
Main activity 2: Completing a concept map to help make links between words
Main activity 3: 7 sheets of questions of adapted AQA past paper questions with answer sheet
Plenary: Tick list for evaluation linked to the specification and the questions in activity 3.
It is a lesson to:
Improve literacy
Increase use of keywords
Aid Understanding by correct definitions
Revision of all parts of this part of the specification (so AQA don’t catch us out…)
Link key words and concepts in the student’s minds
Provide visual stimuli
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This Chemistry resource is used with KS4 students, it is designed to ask 9-1 exam style questions on differences between Halogens and Noble gases. It lasts approximately 1 hour. It encourages students to use keywords and link concepts together. It includes answers for peer or self-assessment.
If you would like a free sample of a similar lesson to try before you buy, check out:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/atoms-elements-mixtures-compounds-revision-lesson-12190880
This resource is available as a BUNDLE with 5 other revision lessons that cover the other parts of the Atomic Structure and Periodic Table at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/atomic-structure-and-periodic-table-revison-pack-12193157
It is a complete lesson with:
Starter: Matching keyword to definition
Poster/Graphic Organiser of all the Keywords and definitions for this part of the course to help with:
Main activity 1: Classifying Spoof Elements into group 7 and 0
Main activity 2: Completing a concept map to help make links between words
Main activity 3: 4 sheets of questions of adapted AQA past paper questions with answer sheet
Plenary: Tick list for evaluation linked to the specification and the questions in activity 3.
It is a lesson to:
Improve literacy
Increase use of keywords
Aid understanding by correct definitions
Revision of all parts of this part of the specification (so AQA don’t catch us out…)
Link key words and concepts in the student’s minds
Provide visual stimuli
I hope you find this resource useful.
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This resources consists of photographs and exam style questions with a completed graphic organiser helpsheet. This is aimed at AQA students to encourage them to practice exam style questions on required practicals anytime during the lesson.
The questions are specifically generic so they can be asked about almost any of the practicals and consequently they do not need to go next to any particular one, producing over 400 combinations of questions with images.
The questions are colour coded for different levels with Red-Hard, Orange-Medium and Green-Easier (one could say differentiated, but one would be stretching the truth).
Also included is the required practical placemat (worth a whole £1!) to help your students answer the questions on the display.
Suggestions for Activities:
I generally sit my students round the display and then ask them to chose a question and I (or another student) choose a practical or vice versa. Then we discuss the answer as a class or nominate another student or practical or question, (or stick them round my board and let the display soak into their minds through osmosis / diffusion or ask a question as a plenary)
The set of images and questions can be printed smaller and students and given to groups of students who turn them face down and turn two over, an image and a question, which they then answer. This game works well and makes the question and required practical more random (like the exam).
Font size is set at 80 pt so that it can be seen at about 10 feet away (Approx 72 pt per 10 ft of distance is the rule)
I hope you find this resource useful
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This a Chemistry resource aimed at KS4 (and upper KS3) with 6 different concept maps for students to complete. It includes 1. Atoms, Elements, 2.Development of the Atom, 3. Development of Periodic Table and 4. Groups 7 and 0, 5. Group 1 and Transition Metals and 6. Mass, size and Electronic Structure.
Check out a free one (Development of the Atom) to try before you consider buying the full resource at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/development-of-a-model-of-the-atom-concept-mapping-worksheet-12191441
It gives students incomplete concept maps for them to complete and complete ones to check against. The complete ones have images to aid memory.
It is based on AQA but can be used by other boards. It can be used in 1 lesson, but is better over a series of revision lessons, given as a graphic organiser, homework or as a plenary.
The resource contains sheets for more or less able and answer sheets for students to peer or self assess.
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This booklet covers the Ecology topic at KS4, but maybe suitable for some KS3. It contains 15 pages where on each page is a keyword and definition, an image, example and some simple questions and a simple extension question.
It also contains a Power Point which circles key points to show the students where to look in their booklets and help them understand the ideas and processes.
Also included are two interactive activities, one on population changes in an ecosystem and one on land use and effects on food production.
These activities are simple, but challenge the student to give reasons for their choices.
This booklet also has project activities on each page for students to work on home at.
All the information is there in the booklet so that at the end they have a complete booklet to take home and hopefully revise from.
To see if this resource is for you, i have produced a free booklet on infection and response (with a focus on the Corona Virus) here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/infection-and-response-to-the-corona-virus-covid-19-booklet-12270746
Other booklets are available in my shop (see link below)
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Updated to include a Chemistry version on Thiosulfate and a Physics based on IV Characteristics
This organiser is designed to help students before, during or after the required practical activites. It is designed to be used with KS4, but may be used with higher ability KS3. It covers all of AQA’s glossary of key terms and working scientifically that links with the required practcials. It cover approx 40 of the keywords associated with the Required Practical part of the course.
Terms covered: Accuracy, calibration, data, error, measurement error, anomalies, random error, systematic error, zero error, evidence, fair test, hypothesis, interval, precision, prediction, range, repeatable, reproducible, resolution, resolution, sketch graph, true value, uncertainty, validity, valid conclusion, variables, categoric, continuous, control, dependent, independent, risk, hazard and control.
Included are an Animated Power Point where each box appears in order. A colour coded Power Point (for editing) and PDF version and black and white versions.
There are three versions, one based around Osmosis to be used during Biology required practicals and one based around Thiosulfate to be used during Chemistry Required Practicals and one based around IV Characteristsics.
To see a basic version of this (but with no examples) click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-required-practical-graphic-organiser-placemat-aqa-12449119
To see how they are used check out the free Osmosis Required Practical (but with this resource taken out):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/osmosis-required-practical-lesson-with-instructions-for-home-use-12181019
Please also check out the free IV Characteristics Required Practical (but with this resource taken out):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/i-v-characteristics-required-practical-lesson-12199364
Designed to help students understanding of key words and as a help sheet to answer questions on the Required Practicals/How Science Works part of the exam.
It can be given to students as a helpsheet/placemat when planning/analysing required practicals or as a homework aid/help sheet or placed on the wall as a large Poster(s).
It is also numbered so that students follow the correct order when planning the practicals.
More required free and paid required practical resources can be downloaded from my shop at:
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I hope you find it useful.
This KS4 AQA Required Practical covers the planning, carrying out and analysing of results with 9-1 graded exam style questions. It lasts at least 1 hour. The ppt carries the students through all aspects of the practical including recognising hazards, safety, method, analysing results, recognising types of errors, and how to determine the concentration of the acid in mol/dm3 and g/dm3. It finishes with exam style questions individually graded to assess students.
Resource includes:
25 slide ppt to guide the students through the practical (with answers and examples)
Student method/practical sheet that students can fill it in as it matches the ppt
Two page guide sheet (Included free here, £1.50 from my shop. To see this sheet click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/required-practical-graphic-organiser-12181508)
Apparatus list for technician
Safety guide for teacher and technician
Links to student safety sheets
Learning Objectives on each slide linked to AQA specification
A sheet that explains how the questions were graded
If you would like to see a free sample similar to this before you buy, the Osmosis one is free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/updated-osmosis-required-practical-planning-with-graded-with-9-1-exam-style-questions-and-answers-12181019
If you just want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-chemistry-required-practical-revision-questions-12197299
If you want all the Chemistry required Practicals, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-chemistry-required-practical-lessons-aqa-12446174
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Please find most of the resources I have been making for the last 3-4 years. I hope you find them useful.
They are mainly based on Mounce’s Greek and Van Pelt’s Hebrew, but can be used with any of the books out there.
Please comment if you find these useful.
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This lesson is used to introduce Physics equations to students. It explains where they come from, how we use them, how to convert the equation into a triangle, so that it can be rearranged.
It includes a sheet where equations can be added and analysed when they come across a new one.
The worksheet can be stuck in their book and new ones added in when you come across them or used as revision activity. This will allow them to think about it before they use it. Enjoy!
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This is an another updated version of my most downloaded free Physics resource. Designed for KS4 and based on AQA working scientifically and AQA style exam questions with model answers. Not only graded but with extra planning! It is used all the way through the required practical, from planning, practical, analysis and exam style questions.
This resource comes with:
32 ppt slide to project in lessons
Word and pdf versions of the students sheet and question sheets.
Answer sheets to allow the students to self or peer assess.
On the top right hand corner of the sheet the students can identify areas where they need to improve so that teachers can easily see which section they are having trouble with.
All other physics required practical sheets are currently being updated with ppt and will be available shortly.
If you want the FREE version of the questions only (my most downloaded resource) they are here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheet-revision-11791358
If you want a bundle of ALL the Physics Practicals with Planning, click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-physics-planning-practicals-with-graded-questions-and-answers-12227081
If you ONLY want the questions and answers, they are available as a bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/physics-required-practical-worksheets-with-9-1-graded-exam-style-questions-with-answers-12199346
Please comment if you have found this useful.
If you would like more required practical resources (or other science resources) free and paid, please check out my shop at:
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Thank you.