Ideal for a KS3 / GCSE cross-curricular day. A good problem solving activity with a PowerPoint and handout. In addition to designing a lander for their egg and earning tokens to purchase the materials to build it in teams, they must also design a lander that will release the egg safely on impact!!!!! In addition to Science and Maths, there is an element of enterprise here too as the students earn tokens through maths challenges, to purchase the materials that they need to build their design. (Sorry about the ad on the first clip)

Biology books usually have a detailed picture of the villi. Some plastic science models also show villi. However, this easy to create model more accurately presents the concept of villi in a way that can be accessed tactually and visually. Blood vessels on the outside of the intestinal wall absorb nutrients so that they can travel around the body in the blood. The second activity involves a quick and simple way to demo the increased surface area thanks to villi.

Students often struggle to make the connection between respiration as a process and as an equation. This lesson includes a number of activities which reinforce the idea of respiration as the process that occurs in cells and that is NOT the same as breathing!!!

I have adapted the SNAB activity for chromosome assortment and meiosis. This adaptation has made the activity tactile and therefore made it accessible to blind and visually impaired students. This adapted activity, is now suitable for all students and not just those with or without a visual impairmant.

This is a brief introduction to some of the issues that affect people with a visual impairment. I used it to deliver a disability awareness workshop for staff at a University, but it may be equally useful for raising staff awareness of the challenges faced by a person with a visual impairment.

This is a Pub Style quiz about the Olympics. I used it on a cross curricular day and the questions are nice and general so as not to give the advantage to those who are really into sport. I have put the answers onto a separate PowerPoint so that you don't accidentally give the answers away.

I wrote this song and my daughter kindly sang it for me to record. My year 7s love listening to it each lesson as we have been studying plants and have now learnt the photosynthesis equation because of it. I have added a you tube link in case others are also having trouble downloading.

Biology textbooks usually feature a complicated diagram illustrating the flow of blood in the heart as well as the names of the 4 chambers and the major arteries and veins. This activity offers an opportunity to study the chambers, valves and blood flow with hands on, and an interactive method.

I have created a document with the pattern for the Knitted Digestive System and my very easy to make model of the small intestine can be found as an activity sheet on the Perkins School website. Teaching this subject in such a tactile way really brings it to life and makes much more sense than looking at a digram. It really gets the point across that the digestive system is simply one long tube from mouth to anus!

Entry level Certificate Science lesson on electrical devices and their power ratings. The lesson uses active learning strategies and focuses on power ratings of various electrical appliances. There is also opportunity to direct your learning support assistant to assist students in recording their responses using Flip cams or dictaphones. See some of my other resources for ideas on how you can use these or the velcro boards that I mention here too.

This model allows students to observe and explain the processes of transcription and translation, during protein synthesis, which is a requirement of pretty much every A level Biology course. I designed this model for use with students who are blind or visually impaired in place of an animation. However, I hope that you will agree that it is a useful model to use with all students; with and without a visual impairment!

This is a help sheet for teachers and learning support staff of blind and visually impaired students. There are several ideas for biological models and several ideas for modifying practical equipment to allow tactile access.

This document is a step through guide in how to make activity cards to use with the Velcro boards (see my other resources). The cards are designed for use with sighted, partially sighted and blind students and the way that I suggest you create them means that you will have cards that you can use with sighted and VI students together.

This resource can be used with all students and is in no way exclusively useful to blind or visually impaired students. It's also a much more active way of teaching than using the interactive whiteboard and an animation. My reason for designing these boards stemmed from the frustration during sorting activities with blind and visually impaired students.Students can make up the boards and easily move them to a different part of the room to display their work to others. The reverse side of the board is a whiteboard.

These are the 2013 key terms for AQA GCSE How Science Works. I have put them into a document which can be printed off to produce print and braille cards for use with Velcro boards. You will need to download the Braille font so that the gobbledigook in the document becomes grade 2 (SEB) Braille. Producing these cards in this way will allow your braillists to work with those who read print.

This lesson involves a variety of active learning tasks and students should develop a better understanding of the role of decomposers in composting. I have added the link to rotting corpses even though the specification does not refer to forensics because I wanted the students to be hooked in and grossed out! Composting alone rarely achieves this sort of reaction!

Students prepare a news story which will be captured by Flip cam, in one take at the end of the lesson. News airtime is limited and there is a link within the teacher sheet to a BBC news story (about something else) which shows students what a good news story looks like. There is also a link to a short YouTube clip about the development of Penicillin. This is a very active and challenging task involving interviews with Fleming, Florey and Chain.

Some advice on how to use a Bunsen burner with a visually impaired student.

This lesson plan teaches students how the human body self-regulates to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment -- a process called homeostasis.

This guide considers the challenges of teaching science to pupils with vision impairment. It is a guide to practical approaches, essential equipment, working safely and learning and teaching resources, for Science teachers of blind and visually impaired students.

The five activities included in this lesson plan provide students with evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle.