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Navigate a submarine through David Cameron’s blood

julia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:23:33 +0000

Have a look at this unique idea for a new style of homework for KS3 Science called J2i (Journey to Independence). Pupils are given 4 weeks to produce their final piece of work, and can do it pretty much any way they like. Perfect for your Key Stage 3 Biology classes for the blood and circulation topic, this project lets them navigate a submarine through David Cameron’s blood to locate and destroy the alien controlling his brain! View the YouTube clip for more information or preview now.

“Pupils are amazing us with what they produce!”

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Resource contributed by Henry Cordy-McKenna.

Projectile Motion

julia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:22:54 +0000

Great for your GCSE Physics classes, this download is a ready-to-use presentation for Year 11 GCSE (Higher) Space for Reflection OCR Gateway Science Suite Lessons 5-6 (P5c). This science powerpoint covers the lessons: 1) horizontal and vertical velocities are vectors 2) resultant velocity of a projectile is the vector sum of the horizontal and vertical velocity 3) in horizontal projectile there is no acceleration horizontally 4) how to use equations of motion for an object.

“Well-explained and presented. The structure of this resource encourages interactivity, plus there are some amusing animations to keep the class entertained!”

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Resource contributed by James Ferguson.

Teaching the PH Scale?

julia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +0000

This Chemistry powerpoint offers a great flexible way of teaching pH scale. Suitable for all age groups, it has been tried and tested on primary, KS3 and KS4 students and worked well. This chemistry resource contains enjoyable activities and guessing games and examples of materials. It uses the idea of folding the original scale into a ‘V’ to help students remember which is high and low on the scale. You can use last slides to show how neutralisation works. Get this helpful ready-to-use chemistry download now.

“My class liked this resource because they found it colourful and said it helped them to understand acidity and alkalinity.”

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Resource contributed by Sarah Parker.

March of the penguins – KS2 Biology

julia — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:06:17 +0000

While it’s still feeling cold get your lessons warmed up with this Key Stage 2 Biology resource giving you a fun activity for winter. Students have to hunt for penguins which have been hidden around the classroom. Once found they can then try and make relationships between numbers and colours. This activity is perfect for your primary science or secondary science classes.

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Resource contributed by Simon Perkin.

Running hot and cold? – KS3 Chemistry

julia — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:05:56 +0000

This Key Stage 3 Chemistry download gives you a fun and colourful quiz to cover the Heating and Cooling topic. Well suited for Secondary Science Year 8 classes, this can also be used with younger classes and is ideal for use on interactive whiteboards. Play this fun quiz to review this topic and challenge misconceptions on the subject.

“A great summary quiz for this year 8 topic!”

Buy and download this 5-star rated resource for just £2.95.

Resource contributed by Helen Bate.

Release the catapult! – GCSE Physics

julia — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:04:43 +0000

An excellent GCSE Physics resource, bound to engage your students using an exciting catapult demo. The animated powerpoint explains: Justification of method; Accuracy; Repeatbility; Hazards; Risk; How to draw a table; How to draw a graph; Why you need a large range; Scatter; Error bars; Lines of best fit. This secondary science resource also has a worksheet that gets students to identify and highlight key features of the method.

“This will be a great tool to help do what is a very difficult job to teach the skills and techniques needed to draw graphs and analyse data.”

Buy and download this 5-star rated resource now, just £5.90.

Resource contributed by Toby Tufton.

2011 Christmas Quiz – Science

julia — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:46:04 +0000

Back by popular demand it’s the Christmas Quiz, great for your secondary Science lessons this week! News, celebrities, music (played backwards!) and science rounds, and you don’t need YouTube in school to use it – there’s a link to download the video itself in the PowerPoint. Get stuck into this fun quiz in your Key Stage 3, GCSE or A Level Science classes and both the kids and staff will love it as classes compete for the highest score. Don’t forget the joker!

“Looking forward to using this!”

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Resource contributed by Henry Cordy-McKenna.

Christmas present quiz – Maths

julia — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:38:36 +0000

A great Christmas quiz for small groups or a whole class, perfect for your Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 or GCSE Maths lessons. Answer the questions in the middle to colour your teams Christmas presents, the first team to colour 5 presents wins. Play with hands up or on mini whiteboards. There are 10 quizzes on the powerpoint and you can easily produce more by changing the numbers in the pink squares to make your own questions. Play it today with your primary maths or secondary maths classes.

“A seasonal quiz to enhance maths teaching. Plenty of topic areas covered and a nice touch lighting up the presents.”

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Resource contributed by Joanne Holloway.

Christmas all wrapped up – Humanities

julia — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:38:06 +0000

Great for your Key Stage 1 and 2 Humanities, Citizenship or Science lessons, this is a series of curriculum-matched lesson plans designed to make children aware of all the green activities they can do at home this Christmas and how they affect the environment. Covers electricity usage, recycling of Christmas trees and toys and food miles of the Christmas dinner. Great ready-to-use primary Christmas lesson resources.

“This lesson was able to allow children to continue eco work whilst linking the lesson to Christmas. The children worked well in teams.”

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Resource contributed by healthyplanet.org and Teachable Team.

And check out lots of other Christmas teaching resources, ready to go for the last couple of weeks of term.

The renewable energy skills challenge

julia — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:34:53 +0000

This highly interactive resource for your Key Stage 3 Science and GCSE Science students is full of videos, worksheets and interactive experiments to help develop secondary science skills. 6 engaging challenges cover biofuels, using catalysts, cracking, wind and solar energy, and the fractions of crude oil with reference to real life examples from BP’s business. The worksheets and teacher guidance here use the weblink to test relative efficiency of wind turbines.

“A hugely impressive resource package.”

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Resource contributed by BP Educational Service.