This is part of a series of Geography lessons designed for KS3 around the concept of sustainability. This SOW is complete with fully resourced lessons, assessments, furthering reading and ideas for building in cultural capital to the curriculum. This lesson focuses on building sustainability. The objectives of the lesson are: Describe what an Eco-home needs. Compare the sustainability features of a sustainable home. Suggest the best features for your own sustainable home.

Pupils begin by researching insulation or watching a small video (plenty on Youtube), the second task is to discuss way in which a house can lose heat (open windows, damage and leading to poor insulation), the main task is list ideas to reduce heat loss, looking at main areas of the house where heat is lost. The plenary allowed pupils to discuss houses of the future and how they need to be built to reduce heat loss. The lesson could also be guided to show eco friendly ideas.

During this lesson (P2.5 Heating and insulating buildings) GCSE students work through a variety of tasks to develop their understanding of how homes are heated and how to reduce the rate of cooling. Based on the 5th from the AQA 9-1 GCSE Physics (OUP scheme) P2: Energy transfer by heating chapter. Also available as a digital worksheet, which is ideal for distance learning, independent study or catch-up of missed work through absence. Presentation contains (28 slides)- Bell work activity Lesson objective and success criteria Information slides Challenge activities (group work) Practical activity (where appropriate) Demonstrate understanding tasks (with answers) Lesson resources (additional to scheme) Aimed at a mixed ability class covering content 1-8. Please note: Kerboodle worksheets from scheme are not included due to license.

Thematic discussion questions designed to encourage fluency & confidence in English Ideal to use as an engaging warmer or as a dynamic speaking activity to finish a class. Aimed at adults and teenagers. 1. Print & cut 1 set (double-sided) of flashcards for each pair of students. **2.**Students draw a question card and ask their partner. Encourage students to: • Extend their answers • Elicit more information • Agree / disagree with their partners • Justify their arguments 3. Change pairs 4. Students try and report to their new partner everything they can remember which their old partner has just told them.

This group of resources has been created for use as induction to science work for year 6 students preparing for secondary school. They can generally be used by KS2 and KS3 students (years 3 to 8) though. Build a Rainforest: In Science, some of the things we learn about are ecosystems, photosynthesis and the water cycle. All of these things can be explored by building our own mini ecosystem.

This is presentation slides about green home definition, it’s characteristics, organizations that give green status to buildings, examples of green home and building and mini task for students to do at the end.

Building a house from sustainable materials with the intention of keeping the interior naturally cool. Booklet includes research resources, building specifications. Also includes construction, research and peer assessment rubrics

What is the best way to build a brick wall? Children will learn how to build a strong brick wall, layering the bricks to make a bond pattern. Cut and Stick activity to allow children to express their understanding of how to build a brick wall.

Materials for Building a House Ideal for Houses and Homes topic work. Children will explore the different materials used to build and house and why they are used. In the activity, children will match the materials to an image of the item.

Activities and resources to encourage children to read, watch, play, create and do as they learn how and why canals were built and how they changed Britain. Use the activity plan to guide your learning.

Series of worksheets exploring the work of artist Hundertwasser. This set of worksheets looks at Hundertwasser work as an architect, and his refurbishment of old factory buildings. Students get the opportunity to redesign a famous building from around the world using Hundertwassers style.

This highly engaging series of 3 lessons can be run with no student computers so is suitable for lessons in a standard non-ICT classroom, in a computer suite or when pupils are self-isolating at home. Each lesson comes with a dyslexia-friendly PowerPoint presentation that includes all the instructions and takes the teacher and class through each lesson making this resource suitable for specialist and non-specialist teachers. The students have a workbook they fill in each lesson as they progress, extending their knowledge and helping you monitor their progress. An answer book is provided which can be used by the teacher or issued to students as a self-marking aid. This is a hands-on enjoyable series of three lessons that help pupils understand the hardware in a computer along with common software. Written for KS3 this is suitable for years 7 to 9 and can even be used with GCSE groups if you wish. Equipment needed: pupils should have access to a pair of scissors, a glue stick and a sheet of colourful A4 (or letter sized) paper along with a print-out of the 7-page template and 13-page workbook each (oh, and they will also need a pen). FREE BONUS PRODUCT INCLUDED As a special thank you for purchasing this product I am pleased to be able to also include a surprise FREE bonus gift. This gift is one of our complete resources which we will usually charge full price for but is yours absolutely free when you purchase this product. Just our little way of saying thank you to our valued customers. I hope you enjoy it and get use out of it, with my compliments.

Bridges are found all over the country forming links across a range of natural and artificial barriers to travel. Find out about different beam, arch, cantilever and suspension bridges using real examples on our canals and rivers. Carry out simple activities to build and test different bridge designs. Activity plan included to guide your learning at home.

Radian won the UK Gold Award at the 2011 Ashden Awards. Nearly 44,000 people are living in more energy efficient homes as a result, and reaping the benefits every day in lower fuel bills and a better quality of life.

Full lesson on the role of the British Home Front during WWI. Lesson focuses on the contributions made to the British Front Line and how significant this was to the war effort. KS3 students use a variety of sources in order to make a judgement. Activities include students fulfilling the role of a British general during the war in order to build understanding. Stretch and Challenge questions offer additional support for G&T students. Learning Question - How did the Home Front contribute to the war effort in WWI? Objectives - To examine the contributions made by the home front to the war effort. To identify the significance of the contributions made by the home front to winning WWI. To make a judgement as to how important the home front contributions were during WWI. Historical skills - Significance, Interpretation, Source Skills. Resources found within the PowerPoint itself - Print pages 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17.

This third of four units of work which consists of Promethean information flipchart pages, interactive activities, videos and worksheet activities to support learning builds on and promotes the development of a range of personal, social and practical skills in the context of learning about an animal of special interest to the student. In this unit we have focused on dogs. As well as content knowledge, students develop essential skills such as those of communication and language; thinking and reasoning; labelling; classifying; comparison and inferring. Knowledge, skills and attitudes for life are developed through links with the community, creative projects, numeracy, communication and literacy.

32 interesting photos of houses and homes around the world. This resource is intended to help you teach your students more about life in other countries, they can compare the homes in the resource with their own. You could show the resource on the computer or smart board, or print out individual images to use as discussion, creative writing or art project prompts. Please note, this resource is a PDF document.

Everything you need to create your own bug hotel! This lesson plan clearly presents how to easily build your own bug hotel while teaching children the importance of garden wildlife. The Bug Hotel lesson plan remains within the Forest School ethos and focuses on the social and emotional aspects of learning. The Bug Hotel lesson plan can be adapted to suit a Maths, Science or Forest School lesson. The Bug Hotel lesson plan is recommended for children in Nursery, Reception and Key Stage 1.

This is a resource that I use to extend pupils learning of famous buildings from around the world. It includes a selection of printable images of famous buildings along with pre made labels to allow pupils to sort and match the pictures with the names of the buildings. The resource includes two worksheets. The first is a matching activity and the second worksheet is a research frame for pupils to go online and research a famous building along with facts. I normally use this as an extension into the work of Hundertwasser and allow the pupils to re-design a famous building using Hundertwassers quirky style. This is also useful as a Geography task as an online research frame for younger pupils.

A collection of photos from my adventures and visits to different types of building and settlement. Please leave me a review and I will send you any other resource of your choice for free (contact me: office@oceansproject.com). Check out my other resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sarah277 Let me know if you have any resource requests and I will tailor make a resource for you.