Here's my annual gift to all the science educators of the planet. Hope you have had a great year. The quiz is as big as ever with the addition of a couple of video links in the answers ppt. Hope you get to enjoy this with as many students as possible. Have a great holiday and all the best for 2015!

It's finally here! A Christmas gift to my fellow science teachers. As big and fat as ever! Same format - 23 multiple choice questions on the weird and wonderful science events of 2015. Answer grid optional. A great way to end the year (or start the new one). Enjoy.

Seasons Greetings! Here is my annual gift to the science educators of Britain! Same format as last year - 23 multiple choice questions- make your own holy answer sheet from one of the grids for quick marking and keep your class (or year group or school) entertained and scientifically stimulated for an hour! Wishing you a relaxed end to the term and a Happy New Year. Enjoy!

I downloaded the first slide from TES connect and was inspired to add 8 more dingbats of my own for neon, boron, gold, mercury, antimony, tungsten cobolt and radon. (The first three are aluminium, helium and iodine.)

This is my 2012 Christmas present to all Science educators across the land. It's bigger and fatter this year and I&'ve made all the questions multiple choice so can be used with a wider age range. The answers have extra bits of info and some nice photos. There&';s even an answer grid you may like to use - I've punched holes in the correct answers on a copy to speed up marking my whole schools&' answers! Hope it helps make your end to the term a little easier. Enjoy. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I loved the Mr Men cross-breeding resource uploaded on here by pyrites and have extended this idea. I showed profiles of the characters to the students and got them to work out possible gene pairings for a couple of their choosing. They then discussed how the couple would react after genetic screening revealed their offspring would have the undesirable characteristics.

Give the students the worksheet then work your way through the PPT. The first graph I explain in detail. They then have a go at the cloze exercise before doing the journey question independently - they should join points dot to dot for this. You can then show them the graph and go through answers.

A 15 mark quiz with 3 rounds of questions related to Easter.

I have used this PowerPoint whrn teaching about heat transfer by radiation. The first couple of slides are good to get students thinking. I discuss uses of IR and also show a video of an IR camera. If you have an interactive white board it's good to get students to highlight the parts of the picture coldest (blue) to hottest (red). Finally, I give students a vacuum flask to explain how it works which ties in conduction and convection.

Really good team quiz. Some multiple choice questions then some to get them really thinking! You may want to give them a reminder of what events there are in the Olympics before you start.

Related to AQA Unit 2. Answers - redox, nucleophile, alcohols, reducing agents, elimination, nucleophilic, stereoisomers, carbonyl, aldehyde, carboxylic acid, haloalkane.

I used this as a fairly quick progress check. Took around 15 -20 minutes to complete then the students peer-assessed their answers as I went through them.

A nice starter to get students thinking about how a fossil can be changed. I got students to compare metamorphic rock samples to sedimentary and igneous and asked them to work out what each metamorphic rock is made from.

After getting pupils to plan, collect data and draw a chart/graph of results for an investigation in to long a candle will burn with different sized beakers placed over them, I gave them this sheet to assess each others work. I changed the AFL criteria wording in to easier to understand terms related to the investigation - pupils did need some explanation of what a continuous scale was. I found this really useful at high-lighting student science investigation ability. It also made my assessment much quicker and easier.

Powerpoint for KS3 and KS4 Biology on animals' environmental adaption using imaginary planets. Includes a Star Wars based plenary activity. Encourages students to develop a theory, then work collaboratively to improve and present it. Students should be encouraged to be critical of the weaknesses in each others ideas. Sorry for spelling mistakes - will only take you a minute to change them rather than the couple of hours I spent creating the resource. (Amazing how none of my students pointed them out to me and were just engaged and enjoying science for an hour!)

Some tricky ones in here. Great starter for revision lessons.

I do this over 2 lessons starting then High Grow task first - I give them a choice of soils, cotton wool, plastic bags and where to leave the dishes. The chemistry task - I give a boiling tube of acid + UI, a boiling tube of alkali + UI and 4 test tubes. The physics/engineering task - don't allow students to screw the paper in to balls. I discuss the science involved after each task. There are a few questions related to the tasks ate the end.

Students try to identify the apparatus from close up images. Nice puzzle to pass the time - I've used them for students to do when they have finished an end of unit test early.

Homework sheet given near the end of topic. I showed the answers at the start of the following lesson and got pupils to mark their own answers. Students responded well to this style of this worksheet and it saved me loads of marking!

I showed students the pictures of penguins and asked if they could relate their behaviour to a state and then changes of state. The pupils then tried drawing their own models of particles. They had some great ideas. Can't wait to do this lesson again.

Homework sheet given near the end of topic. I showed the answers at the start of the following lesson and got pupils to mark their own answers. Students responded well to this style of this worksheet and it saved me loads of marking!