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I am a secondary Science teacher with a Biology specialism; I teach Biology, Physics and Chemistry to KS3 and GCSE level, and Biology to A-Level.
Please enjoy my best tried-and-tested resources, activities, card sorts, games, PowerPoints, revision cards, and other materials that help my students to learn interactively and have fun while doing it.
I hope that you enjoy what I have to offer, and keep an eye out, as I'll keep adding more as the days go by.
Welcome to my Resource Shop!
I am a secondary Science teacher with a Biology specialism; I teach Biology, Physics and Chemistry to KS3 and GCSE level, and Biology to A-Level.
Please enjoy my best tried-and-tested resources, activities, card sorts, games, PowerPoints, revision cards, and other materials that help my students to learn interactively and have fun while doing it.
I hope that you enjoy what I have to offer, and keep an eye out, as I'll keep adding more as the days go by.
Hello everyone!
I made this page for all iGCSE scientists for their Physics exams.
The resource includes all the formulae and equations needed for Paper 1 and Paper 2, and also includes the UNITS that students need to learn.
I wasn’t able to find anything suitable for the new scheme, so I borrowed a layout idea from a previously available resource on here and made my own page from scratch.
Included in the download you’ll get the colour version and the black and white version.
Enjoy it - I hope it helps you!
These picture cards help students to use the main characteristics of organisms to classify the organisms into each one of the 5 main kingdoms (animal, plant, fungi, prokaryote, protoctista)
These will help to develop students’ problem solving skills and/or give them some independence in gaining some research skills.
There are 25 cards in the pack. These cards can be used in various different ways:
1. In groups of 2 or 3, get students to sort the cards into one of the 5 Kingdoms. The fun is in working out which card goes into which kingdom, and getting them to argue it out.
2. Give each student a card and get them to do some research on the organism on the card.
Answers are included on the final page.
Have fun!
This is a summary sheet I made for my students using the Pearson iGCSE Student book: the questions in each box inspire students to summarise the work that they need to know for this section.
I am gradually adding the other Chapters as I go along, including the Chemistry and Physics chapters.
I would print this A3 sheet double sided, so that the first of the 6 sections for Biology are all on a double-sided sheet. It would also be good to pop it onto a coloured sheet, then you can make each section a different colour to easily refer to them in class.
Are you tired of students identifying measuring cylinders as beakers and calling beakers "cups"??
Struggling with students getting names of apparatus wrong in test and in conversations?
This is what you have been looking for!
THIS is a resource that can be used for all years, particularly Year 7 apparatus identification and induction into secondary science, but also for Applications of Science BTEC course to help ensure students know their pieces of apparatus for their practical examination.
The first page has the names of the common apparatus for KS3 and KS4, the second page has the pictures of the apparatus to help students to recognise them.
This resource can be used in a number of different ways, depending what you want to do and what your students are familiar with:
-A starter or plenary activity
-Group work: they're given the cards, separated, and they need to sort and pair as a group.
-Pair work: Use the keywords as a question for an opponent to locate the answer.
-Give each student a card sort (separated already) as a homework/classwork activity.
-Give each student the two pages of cards to stick the words and the symbol back to back to make key idea revision cards to learn for revision.
-Choose a few as a starter activity, jumble them up, and pop onto a slide for the beginning of a lesson
-Any other use you can think of!
Laminate a class set of them if you want to use them repeatedly.
This is a resource that can be used for all years, particularly Year 7 lab safety induction into secondary science, but also for Applications of Science BTEC course to help ensure students know their hazard symbols.
The first page has the names of the hazard symbols, the second page has the pictures of the hazard symbols.
This resource can be used in a number of different ways, depending what you want to do and what your students are familiar with:
-A starter or plenary activity
-Group work: they're given the cards, separated, and they need to sort and pair as a group.
-Pair work: Use the keywords as a question for an opponent to locate the answer.
-Give each student a card sort (separated already) as a homework/classwork activity.
-Give each student the two pages of cards to stick the words and the symbol back to back to make key idea revision cards to learn for revision.
-Choose a few as a starter activity, jumble them up, and pop onto a slide for the beginning of a lesson
-Any other use you can think of!
If you use as a class set for starters or plenaries: laminate them, they will last longer and be reusable.
*Oct 2017: I have updated this resource to also now have the new red and black symbols included. Hope it helps*
A Card sort that has the names, functions and pictures of the different main organs within the body.
Can be used as starter, plenary, etc.
Students can use this resource in a variety of ways:
-Sort the cards in the three columns as given.
-Sort the cards and identify them according to the system they are in.
-Arrange the picture cards according to the approximate location of the organ from the top of the body downwards.
-In pairs, one could pick up a card and ask the other to find the two that match.
-You could put the parts on a slide with screen grabs and create a game of "splat" (where two students have to touch the parts that go with a particular word, i.e. "liver" - then hopefully they would touch the drawing of the liver and the function of the liver).
-Any other use you can think of!
I find this helps students to identify the organs once they move to playing with the body model. Sometimes in smaller groups, once they have sorted organs according to position, I'll give them the body model to do it there too. My students also love Splat as it is interactive and competitive.
This is a table containing the majority of chemical formulae that students will come across in GCSE.
I use this table for both my Chemistry GCSE students and my BTEC Applied Science students to get them used to the chemical formulae and their written names.
I also challenge my higher ability Year 9s with this page.
On the second page the table has been completed: This page I use for a card sort for pairs of students.
The second page can also be used to create revision cards by folding them on the middle line and gluing them together.
Have fun and happy learning!
I wanted a resource that would challenge my students to REALLY think about the various food tests and how they fit together, as well as which chemicals are used. This resource also incorporates the chemistry side of testing for gases, what to use, how it works, etc.
I couldn't find one to suit what I needed, so I made this.
This card sort encourages students to really think about reagents used in food tests as well as what the colour changes and the results will be.
The items covered in the card sort are:
Test for reducing sugars
Test for starch
Test for proteins
Test for fats
Test for carbon dioxide
Test for hydrogen
Test for oxygen
Test for an alkene
Test for chlorine
Test for ammonia
Test for water (both of them)
The boxes are all the same size, so students cannot find answers due to the size of the box.
I have included a second document with the answers - so that you can accurately assess students with a glance.
Give each student a copy of the '4 on one page' to cut up and stick in book, or laminate and use as a starter/plenary in groups.
If you can think of any other "test for" - feed back to me in the comments and I will happily add/edit my resource. Thank you!
This is a bundle of A3 summary sheets I made for my students using the Pearson iGCSE Student book: the questions in each box inspire students to summarise the work that they need to know for this section.
This resource includes the first two chapters of each of the Biology (Section A: Life Processes and The Variety of Living Organisms) and Chemistry (Section A: Kinetic Theory, Diffusion, Atomic Structure) topics, and Chapters 1 and 2 of the Physics topic (Movement and postion and Forces and Shape).
I am gradually adding the other Chapters as I go along.
I would print each of these topics on an A3 sheet double sided, so that the same topic is on a double-sided sheet. It would also be good to pop each sheet onto a double-sided coloured A3 sheet, then you can make each topic (Bio/Chem/Physics) a different colour to easily refer to them in class.
At last! All those little specialised cells for both plants and animals on one card sort!
This card sort has the name, structure, function and a picture of each specialised cell that students need to know for KS3 and GCSE.
I use this resource for both my Year 7s and for my Year 10 Applied Science BTEC group - because these same cells are present in the curriculum for both groups.
The resource can be used in oodles of different ways;
- Students can sort and stick in. Perhaps even get them to research and add appropriate colours to the different parts.
-You can make 'pair sets' (one between two students), laminate them and use them over and over for starters or plenaries.
-You can clip and place onto a slide for students to pair up for games of splat (put picture and function of cell and students need to put their hand on both when the name of the cell is said).
-You can keep the first column as a solid strip and only cut up the others (or do this with any column) to make it easier.
-If you haven't taught the topic yet, you can give them the cards, and a CGP book and get them to work out which card goes with which: that way also giving them some access to literacy within Science.
-Use it any way you can think of!
I find interactive learning is certainly the best way, and these cards facilitate the learning of students so that they can discover specialised cells for themselves!
This resource is a collection I have made over the years of 12 GCSE Chemistry questions for students to calculate the mass of reactants and products.
Use this resource to assist students through the calculations, or as a piece of homework to ensure they understand the work.
Questions can be used in tests, as starters, as plenaries, etc.
This resource gives step-by-step instructions of how to calculate theoretical and percentage yields of reactions.
There are also a few exercises students can try themselves.
I hope this helps you!
This is part two of the four important Chemistry Calculations
This is a fantastic resource to round up the Year 7 Human Reproduction topic.
The resource can either be used as Quiz questions to save a bit of time; or as a board game if you wanted the students to have a bit more fun.
Use at the end of the topic and combine with other Quiz cards at the end of the Year for a full-year revision syllabus.
The final page has the board for the game; this should be printed on to A3 paper.
Instructions are included on the first card, as: "All players begin on the ‘Start’ square. Each player rolls dice to start and moves that number of squares. If landing on an instruction square (i.e. “miss a go”)-follow the instruction. If landing on a Q square, answer the question correctly to move the stated number of squares forward. If question answered incorrectly, stay where you are. First player to ‘End’ square who answers the final question correctly, wins."
If you print the first 3 question pages onto coloured paper and laminate, this will make them easy to combine with different colours for the end of year revision session to make them easier to sort back into topic sets afterwards.
Have fun!
This is a fantastic resource to round up the Year 7 Cells, Tissues, and Organs topic.
The resource can either be used as Quiz questions to save a bit of time; or as a board game if you wanted the students to have a bit more fun.
Use at the end of the topic and combine with other Quiz cards at the end of the Year for a full-year revision syllabus.
The final page has the board for the game; this should be printed on to A3 paper.
Instructions are included on the first card, as: "All players begin on the ‘Start’ square. Each player rolls dice to start and moves that number of squares. If landing on an instruction square (i.e. “miss a go”)-follow the instruction. If landing on a Q square, answer the question correctly to move the stated number of squares forward. If question answered incorrectly, stay where you are. First player to ‘End’ square who answers the final question correctly, wins."
If you print the first 9 question pages (that's 71 questions!) onto coloured paper and laminate, this will make them easy to combine with different colours for the end of year revision session to make them easier to sort back into topic sets afterwards.
Have fun!
This is a gem of a resource: it has 36 elements of the periodic table: their symbol along with their name.
This will assist students to learn the names and symbols of elements quickly and easily.
An extension to this could be getting students to put the elements in order, or to place the elements into their groups, or, for older students place the elements into their combining power sets.
Have fun!
This game helps students to develop their explanations and descriptions of words; to be able to ‘talk around’ certain words helps to develop examination skills for later down the line.
This game of taboo involves 2-3 players.
Player 1 is given a keyword that the other two players need to guess, but player 1 is given two words on their card under the heading ‘Taboo’ that they are not allowed to say. Player 1 must talk around these words and give enough clues to the other player/other two players to be able to guess what the keyword is. The keyword also cannot be said.
This game contains ALL 33 symbols and units used in the OCR course. It also includes all 20 equations, symbol equations and units that need to be memorised for the course. The equations and formulae and using them make up 60-70% of the exam papers, so learning them is the best way to guarantee marks!
I created this game as my students have difficulty in remembering the Physics formulae and the units which go with the quantities.
You can use them in a variety of ways.
If you take the first and second pages and match them back to back students can ask one another the questions
Or they can ‘self study’ with the cards on the table answer-side down.
Or you can have them all as individual cards face up and students can match them that way.
If you print each set onto a different colour of paper, when you work with them in class it will help to keep them in sets and ensure that the students do not jumble them up.
Hope these help you. Great as a resource that students can use at home to help them get the equations and formulae for Physics into their heads.
I know how frustrating and time consuming it is to try to find resources for your students.
I have downloaded all the Physics Sample Papers and Exam papers issued by AQA for the 9-1 Papers along with their markschemes and placed them on TES for you.
I have no copyright on these and they are freely available elsewhere, as well as through AQA as individual downloads that you need to save one by one, I just felt it easier to put them all in one place for you, as a single download.
With sensible names.
I will keep updating this download as the years go by for you.
If you would like other resources, please do check out my shop. x
I know how frustrating and time consuming it is to try to find resources for your students.
I have downloaded all the Physics Sample Papers and Exam papers issued by Edexcel for the 9-1 Papers along with their markschemes and placed them on TES for you.
I have no copyright on these and they are freely available elsewhere, as well as through Edexcel as individual downloads that you need to save one by one, I just felt it easier to put them all in one place for you, as a single download.
With sensible names.
I will keep updating this download as the years go by for you.
If you would like other resources, please do check out my shop.
I have summary sheets, A3 pages of in-class summary activities and even the whole curriculum onto question-and-answer revision cards so that your students can quiz each other as lesson starters, or make their own cards at home to aid their revision.
I know how frustrating and time consuming it is to try to find resources for your students.
I have downloaded all the Biology Sample Papers and Exam papers issued by AQA for the 9-1 Papers along with their markschemes and placed them on TES for you.
I have no copyright on these and they are freely available elsewhere, as well as through AQA as individual downloads that you need to save one by one, I just felt it easier to put them all in one place for you, as a single download.
With sensible names.
I will keep updating this download as the years go by for you.
If you would like other resources, please do check out my shop. x