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KS4 Physics Lesson Plan – Create Your Own Instruments And Calculate The Frequencies Of The Sounds Produced In this noisy and amusing lesson students investigate the physics of music by creating and playing their own musical instruments. You could even create an ‘orchestra’ to perform in assembly. Students can follow up their performance with detailed descriptions of how their instruments worked, including calculations of the frequencies of sound produced.

KS4 Media Studies Lesson Plan – Market A New Film Using Professional Techniques Media studies teaches young people to understand the nuances of sound, visuals, characters and technical composition. It offers them a broad range of opportunities to write, explore, create and evaluate. This lesson asks pupils to consider the impact of camera work on creating tension in a film sequence and come up with ideas to market […]

KS4 Physics Lesson Plan – Weigh Up The Pros And Cons Of Different Power Sources This lesson explores renewable and non-renewable sources of power and the pros and cons associated with them. It looks at the technical aspects of generation, including transmission of power and the National Grid. It also encourages physics students to engage with the wider debate concerning the future of power generation within the UK.

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Learn About Colour By Making Dyes And Performing Experiments If we close the doors of a wardrobe, are the clothes still coloured? During this vibrant lesson, students will learn about why substances have colour and will create their own dyes, perform experiments with colorimetry and chromatography, and learn about how chemistry plays a huge role in the art world. Students will learn about the […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Explore Evolution Via Great Apes, Cabbages And Darwin’s Finches In this biology lesson that explores evolution, students begin by investigating family trees starting with the great apes, move on to the selective breeding of cabbages and, finally, create their own family tree. In the next activity they retrace Darwin’s steps in the Beagle and model his work with finches on the island using an […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Take A Workshop Style Approach To Help Students Build Exam Technique Confidence Students need to see writing as an art form, constructing narratives and piecing together ideas until they form rich literary narrative, not sticking to a predetermined layout. A good way to start this process is to put an emphasis on reading for change, and to mould students into dynamic readers who share their ideas in […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Teach Students How To Think Scientifically And Plan Experiments Exam questions, coursework and ISAs require our students to have skills of analysis and comprehension. They also need to demonstrate an understanding of how to think scientifically and plan experiments. This lesson plan focuses on how to teach students to think scientifically. The activities present an opportunity to look at science in the media to […]

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Explore The Science Behind Cooking By Making Edible Treats In this lesson students explore the science behind traditional cooking methods and make edible treats using their chemistry skills. They also investigate methods of analysing foods employed by agencies such as the food standards agency and learn more about the colours, additives and preservatives that are designed to make our food attractive and give it […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – How Can We Prove That An Athlete Is Doping? In this chemistry lesson students will investigate the biological factors that determine a person’s levels of fitness and will assess their own fitness levels using a range of stimulating physical activities with cross-curricular links to PE. The lesson explores some of the techniques we use to determine the optimum personal best results for an individual […]

KS4 RE Lesson Plan – Hold A Class Debate That Gets Everyone Involved One activity that students really enjoy is debates, but at any one time only one or two students are speaking, while a certain percentage listen or wait to speak, and the remainder quietly switch off. This debate lesson, based on the topic of abortion, involves students working in small groups and will enable them to […]

KS4 PSHE Lesson Plan – Use Fictional Characters To Discuss The Different Stages Of Grooming This lesson provides a strong structure for discussion around child sexual exploitation. The foundation of the plan uses fictional characters and a research based storyline along with questions to help teachers guide young people to understand the different stages of grooming. It is a great opportunity for students to use their imaginations and empathy, whilst […]

KS3/4 PE Lesson Plan – Box With Nicola Adams To Raise Funds For Sport Relief Use boxing-related fitness to raise funds for Sport Relief. In this lesson, boxing training becomes the focus for KS3 PE activities, encouraging students to be physically active for sustained periods of time and improve their fitness for competitive sports. Boxing is fantastic for developing speed, stamina and strength, and is a great way to engage […]

KS3/4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Jaffa Cakes To Teach Past Perfect Tense It is a controversial topic: is the Jaffa Cake a biscuit or is it a cake? By exploiting children’s love for these orangey biscuits (or cakes) you can easily teach a very complex topic like the German past perfect tense to any age group or ability. Edible treats are great motivators for learning and the […]

Animal Farm GCSE lesson plan

Animal Farm GCSE – Discuss a key chapter This lesson plan for Animal Farm uses ‘home groups’ and ‘expert groups’ to give students ways of approaching a novel so that they have two opportunities to discuss a key chapter from the text before they complete their own written response. Through sharing and discussing original ideas with their peers, students can really delve into […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Explore The Ethics Of Testing Drugs On Animals And Humans The final phase of drugs testing and clinical trials are human trials. But who takes part in these? Are they safe? Is there an alternative? Here, pupils will learn about the processes that a drug must undergo before it can be used to treat patients. This chemistry lesson explores the ethics of testing on animals […]

KS3/4 MFL lesson plan – Practise extended writing with this group activity Students need to know how to write in the target language, creatively, and by themselves. A good way to build up their confidence is to start to create longer pieces of written work as a group. This can be done at a very basic level with KS3 and developed and extended into KS4. These ideas […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Bring Poetry Writing Alive by Heading Outside Poetry writing is, potentially, an ideal learning medium. Its succinctness, and paradoxically boundless scope for creativity, make it irresistible, once discovered. What’s more, poetry lends itself to song, beat, drama, graphics, and personal expression – there’s something for everyone. But how to show them? Youngsters spend long hours cooped up behind desks, even for poetry-writing, […]

KS3/4 RE Lesson Plan – Use A Film To Discuss The Abuse Of Vulnerable People And The Importance Of Charity TrueTube’s film For the Sake of the Child uses first hand testimony to describe the experiences of child migrants and opens up internal contexts from movies such as Rabbit Proof Fence (aborigines and forced sterilisation), Philomena (Magdalen laundries), Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave (slavery), as well as tapping into so many more recent […]

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Chemistry Specification With These Ideas During this lesson students will complete a number of discrete activities which focus on the newest chemistry content from a range of examination boards at KS4. You could break up the activities, using them individually as they fit into the larger scheme of learning, or deliver them as a more intense experience suited for separate […]

KS3/4 MFL lesson plan – Use these activities to create more confident speakers Create more confident MFL speakers by using these activities within your next lesson plan, or as part of a classroom carousel session.

KS4 History Lesson Plan – Ignite Curiosity While Teaching Medicine And Warfare Developments This exciting approach to the Historic Environment component of the new History GCSE will ignite curiosity in students and enable them to understand the developments of medicine and warfare and identify links set in the Western Front environment itself.

KS4 Biology Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Biology Specification With These Ideas It can be challenging for teachers to prepare lessons on new parts of the biology specification, such as neuroscience and the functions of the brain. New material such as the synthesis of monoclonal antibodies is a topic that has made it to KS4 from university research level and beyond, for example. During this lesson students […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Use Multimedia And Collaborative Activities To Perfect Close Analysis Skills There is a wealth of free multimedia materials floating around in the ether that are ours for the taking. With a pinch of creative magic, you can easily transform these materials into fantastic stimuli through which our students can practise and perfect their close analysis skills. Pair these whizzy stimulus materials with collaborative and competitive […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Physics Specification With These Ideas Take students on a journey into the centre of the Earth by travelling on the waves of an earthquake deep into the centre of the earth, excite them with the motion and orbits of the planets and satellites and challenge them with the mathematical content of resolving forces and vector diagrams.

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Increase Evaluation Skills And Independence By Giving Students A Two Question Limit Do you spend much of each lesson answering questions because pupils are terrified of failure or ‘getting it wrong’? This method forces kids to be resilient. Each pupil is issued with two ‘banknotes’ which can be exchanged for information or materials. However, once they’re gone, they’re gone. This increases evaluation skills; why am I asking […]

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