2 lessons: measuring the weather, climate zones, factors affecting climate. Instructions for making a wind sock to use outside and calculating sunshine hours (to cover Numeracy framework). Couple of references to Wales (to cover Curriculum Cymreig)

introductions to different ways plants adapt in rainforests, activity for kids to adapt a sunflower if it moved to live in the rainforest

Powerpoint and worksheet

Year 7, lots of lesson ideas on various aspects of mapping

States & Types of Volcanoes

Starter activity- mapping origin of pancake ingredients and calculating food miles Discussion on food miles and their contribution to climate change Newspaper writing task on why and how to reduce food miles

What a bar chart is, the difference between horizontal and vertical, how to draw one

Information on the correct use of apostrophes, and activities to reinforce student understanding of how to use them.

Introducing what active and passive are, and activities to promote students understanding of these terms

Range of 7 posters on common grammar mistakes and punctuation marks

Intro & activity on speech marks

Series of word mats/display posters with sentence starters, magic words (connectives) and keywords to help students from KS2-4 across all written subjects. Includes sheets on writing to describe, explain, compare and evaluate.

Introductory lesson on locating world ecosystems. Differentiated.

An easy way to remember capital letters- print out and stick on the wall

Poster with basic rules to stick on the wall

Brief introduction to coastal erosion

Sheets for practising four figure grid references, students colour in the squares to make a picture. Range of different sheets (Heart- H, Person- P, Flower- T, Smiley face- S, Car- C). Might be worth trying it out first as I haven't had chance to check it yet- sorry for any mistakes!

I planned this for high ability year 9. Heads and tails on earthquake keywords, link to video of buildings swaying, impacts worksheet with sorting exercise. Students list and count facts they know about Kobe at the start and end of the lesson. A few activities follow on my previous lesson so may not make sense!

30 min lesson for yr 7/8

Introduction to Wales. Students list everything they already know about Wales. Competition to get the most facts with questions and flashcards with answers for students to swap with each other. Mapping Wales from memory task, acrostic poem and afl plenary.

Sorting activity- steps of volcano formation