Archive for the 'Science' Category

Ready to teach Light and the Electron?

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Ready-to-use with your A Level Physics students, this detailed presentation clearly explains the use of wave and particle models to measure light, together with key formulas. It also discusses spectroscopy, looking at excitation of electrons, absorption and emission spectra and ionisation. The resource is complete with a set of simple animated diagrams, images and some question slides suitable for A Level Science.

“Good detailed graphics. Good clear links between emission and absorption spectral lines.”

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Light and the Electron

Resource contributed by Barnaby Grimble.

Winner takes all in 2 player digestion game

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Winner of a Microsoft Innovation award, this Key Stage 3 Science interactive whiteboard quiz is perfect for two players or two teams. The board is divided in half with all questions suitable for Key Stage 3 level digestion. The winning team must correctly answer seven questions in a row. Engage your biology students with this very competitive and fun game they will love.

“My student’s favourite type of quiz!”

Download it and play now for free – only 12 free downloads left!

Digestion Game

Resource contributed by John Hudson.

Anyone for a game of quarks cards?

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Play this fun card game with your A Level Physics students to teach particles. The highly visual cards contain twenty-two different fundamental particles and offer an engaging and interesting way to teach this Physics topic.

“Thoroughly recommended – it turned particles into my class’s favourite topic.”

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Quarks cards

Contributed by John Hudson.

Get a reaction

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Recently updated, this engaging resource for Key Stage 3 Chemistry let’s your pupils explore strange new worlds as you explain about acids, metals and reactivity. This can be used as a fun summary for lower ability students to describe an astronaught’s journey to an alien world made of acid oceans, metallic rocks and strange sea creatures. Get students to use their knowledge of metals to help him collect samples and get back home!

“The concept of this resource is both fun and challenging, encouraging an investigative approach while covering some important reactions. Should be enjoyed by all the class.”

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Metal Reactions

Resource contributed by Simon Perkin.

Looking for feedback?

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

This detailed resource for GCSE Biology or A Level Biology will introduce feedback mechanisms to your students. It uses a variety of written descriptions of different examples of feedback mechanisms to get students to practise producing feedback diagrams. Download it today to cover this topic with your class.

“Very useful resource which lots of student interaction.”

There are still free downloads left – download your copy now!

Feedback mechanisms

Contributed by Ellie Timberlake.

New! Current voltage soldiers and Mars bars

Monday, October 31st, 2011

This excellent new resource for KS3, GCSE and A Level Physics offers a carefully animated model for current and voltage. Current is represented by soldiers running along wires, voltage is the mars bars (energy) they transfer. The presentation contains an entertaining starter, a quiz and worksheets with answers to review learning. This model can be very effective for teaching science with a huge range of ability levels.

“Imaginative and very attractive animation – this has helped my own understanding.”

Download for free now to review and use this new resource today – only 7 free downloads left!Voltage soldiers

Resource contributed by John Hudson

Teacherhorizons launches to teachers around the world

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Ever considered building your teaching experience abroad? Where would you go? What’s holding you back?

Last week Teacherhorizons launched to help teachers explore teaching opportunities in schools around the world.

Check out the Teacherhorizons Launch Video to find out more.

TeacherHorizons

TeacherHorizons video

No more short circuits

Monday, October 31st, 2011

These two complete lessons on circuits for Key Stage 3 Physics or GCSE Physics offer a complete set of engaging materials on this topic, including exciting starters such as electricity bingo. Lesson 1 covers Current and lesson 2 covers Voltage, both providing an interactive starter, slides explaining practical work, measuring current or voltage in series and parallel circuits, and summary slides using knowledge from the practical to answer questions.

“Very clearly set out and good use of assessment incorporated into it”
“Electricity bingo was fun – kids enjoyed this method of revision”
“Worth every penny!!”

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Circuits lessons

Resource contributed by Joanne Holloway

How to remember elements, compounds and mixtures

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Use this great resource to make a mind map with your Key Stage 3 Science students to help them remember Elements, Compounds and Mixtures’. This useful revision resource is arranged in slides that move automatically from one to another but that can also be sopped to allow you to discuss each stage if needed. The mindmap is deliberately left unfinished for students to complete. Help your KS3 students get stuck into their chemistry revision with this accessible exercise.

“This pp could be used as a template or example for all subject areas. It has a nice flow to it.”

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Mind mapping

This resource was contributed by Sarah Benyon.

Variation without the tongue-rolling

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

This great resource will stretch brighter students on the topic of Variation for GCSE Biology and give them something a bit more challenging to think about than the usual tongue-rolling exercise! It offers a worksheet addressing distribution curves, outliers, lines of best fit and continuous/discontinuous variation. It points out that eye-colour is complicated and gives them a 6 mark extended Q to answer and then look at how they answered it. Everything you need is here, including a mark scheme.

“Really handy set of questions to use with my group of very able Year 10′s”

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Variation worksheet
This resource was contributed by Toby Tufton.