Archive for the 'Science' Category

2011 Christmas Quiz – Science

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

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!

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Awesome Christmas Quiz

Resource contributed by Henry Cordy-McKenna.

Christmas present quiz – Maths

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

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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Maths Christmas Quiz

Resource contributed by Joanne Holloway.

Christmas all wrapped up – Humanities

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

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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Christmas all wrapped up

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

Monday, November 28th, 2011

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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Renewable energy

Resource contributed by BP Educational Service.

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!”

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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.”

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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