Covers the first 6 lessons with year 7. Contains lab safety, scientific equipment and measuring, the Bunsen burner and an ISA style investigation on salt and water boiling.

Powerpoint on classification and evolution and worksheet with evolutionary tree questions.

Practise in writing a null hypothesis, choosing and carrying out a statistical test (from the three required for AQA ISAs), and determining significance. 2 each of chi squared, standard error and spearman rank.

An interview lesson for the theme of the olympics. Contains some introductary pre-KS5 material but could be added to for A level if desired and some KS4 revision material such as homeostasis, respiration and how science works is included. There is material on here that is not on the syllabus. See 'read me&' for more info.

AQA BYB1 10.4 Test Enzymes, answers/marks cheme and grade boundaries included.

Practise for pupils in answering graph questions - both describing and explaining. Powerpoint demonstrating the mark scheme and explaining the difference between 'describe' and &'explain&';. Questions relevent to B2 for AQA topic revision.

Test for AQA BYB1 Section 10.1 and answers with grade boundaries

Pupil friendly guide to show how to get the maximum marks available in a case study for 21st century science. Have also now added a worksheet which can be used to draft the case study.

Part 3 of 4 lessons on the science of the cinema. Looking at whether or not the science in popular films could actually happen. Youtube links worked at the point of making but I can't guarantee they still do. A search should find new ones if not. End of term fun or to fit into other topics.

starter/plenary activity based on the 4 pics 1 word app. Uses HSW vocab - reproducable, repeatable, accurate, error, dependent, independent, control. Changed the last slide in line with the review.

Activity to make sentences describing cell structures and their role in the cell. Pupils choose one box from each column. Clicking on a box changes it's colour to map the full sentence onto the board. Worksheet version is printable for those who struggle to read from the whiteboard.

Test for AQA BYB1 Section 10.2 part one and answers, with grade boundaries

Sheets for AS pupils to complete for key vocabulary for the BYB1 topics

Silly puzzle as a logic problem intro to food chains with animated solution. Useful to have on the board while pupils are arriving and getting sorted if they don't all arrive at the same time. 'I have a lion, an antelope and a plant to get from the quarantine area to different sections of a safari park – how could I transport them around the park safely? I can only have room for one in my trailer at a time. I can’t leave the antelope alone with the lion or the plant or something will get eaten!'

Some exam questions look more complicated than they are - a worksheet with several complicated looking questions which are actually quite simple. Pupils read the questions and work out what the examiner wantes before answering them.

GCSE preparation for HSW style questions on the new spec. Accurate, Precise, Resolution, Fair test, Control, Repeatable, Reproducible, Error

Part 2 of 4 lessons on the science of the cinema. How do the eye and brain enable us to see moving images on TV or at the cinema? Plus make a zoetrope. End of term fun or to fit into other topics.

Very basic key for identifying microorgansims grown on agar plates. There may be some bacteria which don't fit into it but it is quite fun for pupils to do to compare their bacteria to other pupils and practises skills using keys. Can lead into discussion on MRSA when most of them have staphlococcus.

Part 4 of 4 lessons on the science of the cinema. Making some special effects using chemistry and physics. I plan to film these then use movie maker to make a 'film&' of all the special effects set to music to show them in the next lesson e.g. fire-writing set to Harry Potter theme music, flaming bubbles to Prodigy&';s firestarter, lightening to the X-Factor theme etc. End of term fun or to fit into other topics.

Part 1 of 4 lessons on the science of the cinema. Looking at how to make ice-cream, why popcorn pops and which pick and mix sweets are worst for the teeth. End of term fun or to fit into other topics.

Revision of key concepts for module 4 AQA on inheritance using Santa's secret reindeer breeding programme.