Covers radioactive decay, alpha, beta and gamma radiation, dangers and uses

Worksheet that acts as a step by step guide to calculating the empirical formula of Magnesium Oxide from a practical.

Minecraft is a wonderful visual resource that can be used to teach an incredible variety of concepts in a wide range of subjects. It is particularly effective for helping pupils diagnosed with ASD. Here, I have used it to allow pupils to investigate square and cube numbers, and to display those results as a bar chart, all within the game.

Summary of the different rock types and how they are formed. Includes virtual field trip into Nottingham city centre to look at the different rock types used as building stone. Please adapt this 'safe&' field trip idea to your own home town - there are some gorgeous rocks out there to be found! Also has rock cycle cloze diagram to fill in at the end

Covers Keplers 3 laws in simplified form, superior and inferior planets, GEE and GWE, superior and inferior conjunction, transits, opposition and retrograde motion

These are 3 powerpoints that I have used as an introduction to B1 Biology through Edexcel. The pupils were med to low ability with SEN issues. Share and enjoy

Minecraft is a wonderful visual resource that can be used to teach an incredible variety of concepts in a wide range of subjects. It is particularly effective for helping pupils diagnosed with ASD. Here I have used it in four tasks taking pupils through different aspects of perimeter, area, volume and surface area that allows them to test multiple permutations of regular 2d and 3d shapes.

Simple and fun worksheet to demonstrate Half Life decay using Skittles sweets

Powerpoint and worksheet to show the different things that we can discover about our solar system and beyond using different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum

The lesson covers the celestial sphere, latitude and longitude, right ascension and declination, precession, the ecliptic plane, the zodiacal band and angular elevation

Practical worksheet to demonstrate smelting / reduction. This method always works. Can be used alongside games of Minecraft to show how aspects of the game are based on real science.

Covers the formation, location, composition and significance of asteroids and meteors. Includes summary of meteor showers for 2014-2015 including origin, radiant and viewing times

Includes Siderial and Solar time, apparent solar time and mean solar time (GMT), sundials, and using shadow sticks and the equation of time to determine compass directions and longitude

Worksheet for practical to show how temperature changes for a simple exothermic and endothermic reaction. Includes risk assessment and plotting of data on a graph.

Reflecting telescopes powerpoint, including Archimedes, making a parabola, uses of concave mirrors and reflecting telescopes. I usually supplement this lesson with this video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtzRAjW6KO0

This lesson was developed to help teach adaptation to a KS3 class of low ability pupils - its fun and colourful with plenty of visual resources

Powerpoint covering moon formation by collision, accretion and capture, and the formation and nature of ring systems

I wrote this resource as a companion piece to the Geography course on Plate Tectonics, as I felt that pupils were left high and dry when it came to finding a useful application of their knowledge. This resource looks at the other terrestrial planets, gives a brief summary of their exploration, topographic features and evidence for tectonics. We then look at reasons why The Earth is the most tectonically active planet in the Solar System. EDIT - Fixed Typos

Template and worked example where pupils can research significant events in spaceflight in order to produce a poster

Thanks to the currently ongoing Covid crisis, I have been finding the need to prepare teachers with non scientific backgrounds to be able to deliver more technical lessons to their class bubbles. I made this powerpoint as a way of teaching staff some of the basics in rock classification, identification, and interpretation. This powerpoint should hopefully help a lay person the things to look out for when teaching a class about rocks. I cover the main criteria that can be used to distinguish between the different rock types, how to produce an annotated sketch of rock samples, and how to interpret some of the basic information that a rock can provide about its origin. Naturally, this can be used to teach pupils too, but you will have to provide your own rocks i’m afraid.

I wanted to produce a resource that looks at the various bits of evidence that shows how Plate Tectonics was derived as a theory, and use them to explain the different features of plate boundaries. I must admit I got a little carried away, hence there being 113 slides. I would suggest that the best approach is to use this presentation in three lessons broken up as follows: Introduction and Constructive Plate Boundaries Destructive Plate Boundaries Conservative Plate Boundaries and Hot Spots What is covered: Alfred Wegener, Mantle Convection, Polar Wandering, Magnetic Striping, Ophiolite Sequences, Diverging, Converging and Conservative Plate Boundaries and Hot Spot Vulcanism.