A lesson based on how to use research and form hypothesis for the unit 2 btec applied science project. could be used for other types of research too. The only additional resource needed are some printouts of websites that can be used for planning an experiment. I have added the follow on list of stuff that we used to check off what was required for the write up in the next lesson - it may be useful to adapt to fit the assignment written in your school

For threats to the earth topic. Complete lesson that was done for an interview that was 30 min long. This could be adapted though to fill a full 50 -60 min as there are opportunities for it to be adapted to enable the students to do more tries and complete a graph on paper rather than a class graph only. Some of the power point and the all of the plenary pyramid were off of this site so sorry for reposting but without them the lesson is not complete!

This is a 30 min lesson that could be easily extened to a full lesson with class feedback and other activities linking energy transfer in a real situation. I did 3 demos of fuels so pupils could see that not all fuels are traditionally though of as fuels. the demos were blowing custard powder/icing sugar into a bunsen, whoosh bottle (big water cooler bottle with a small amount of ethanol and ignite it - it looks like an upside down rocket) and methane bubbles. It really engaged them and they really enjoyed putting ideas about the true or false cards.