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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 […]

KS4 Drama Lesson Plan – Use These Exercises To Enhance Students’ Interpretations Of Monologues Teaching monologues can feel a little like plate-spinning, with 20 to 30 students all working on a different script. Getting the students to perform a series of exercises once they have chosen and researched their monologues will enhance their interpretations.

KS3/4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Photos To Get Students Talking In Foreign Languages Now more than ever, the ability to construct a response to unknown speaking and writing stimuli, presented in a foreign language and completed in controlled conditions, is key to success in new frameworks for assessment. With many teachers agreeing that the loss of valuable teaching and learning opportunities was the single biggest drawback to controlled […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Learn New Vocab By Helping Plan An Imaginary Wedding In this lesson plan pupils have to help make a happy couple’s wedding day extra special by using their language skills to translate well wishes from abroad from long lost friends and reminisce about days gone by through helping the best man write prompts for his speech; before finally writing their review of the big […]

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Flowcharts To Set Up Rules About Iterative Operations Flowcharts are a highly visual way of communicating information and are used in this lesson to set up rules about operations that will be performed iteratively. Students are invited to explore what happens when they put different numbers into a given flowchart, and later to experiment with varying the features of the flowchart themselves. They […]

KS3/4 Music Lesson Plan – Bring Java And Bali Into Your Classroom With The Bright And Beautiful Sounds Of Indonesian Gamelan Music ‘To create most western music, we use what is known as a chromatic scale and it contains 12 different notes. However, many non-western traditions use a pentatonic scale, made up of just five different notes, and this is much more user friendly and does not lend itself to accidentally playing ‘wrong’ notes. We will use […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Improve Fluency And Confidence In Giving Effective Presentations Many KS4 MFL students suffer from a lack of confidence when it comes to speaking, and struggle to respond to questions or comments in the target language and to use it spontaneously themselves. Taking them through a series of activities leading up to a presentation to ‘sell’ a Chindōgu invention (the Japanese art of inventing […]

KS4 Geography Lesson Plan – Find Out What Students Really Know About Climate Change And How It Is Debated What do your pupils really know about climate change? This lesson is intended to get KS4 geography students thinking carefully about the subject of climate change, and how the way it is debated affects our understanding of the subject. They will recognise the importance of having a view on the most important global issue of […]

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KS4 science – Explore the science of Harry Potter In this skills based KS4 science lesson pupils will be able to make their own hypotheses and investigate practical scenarios in a range of different contexts. They will learn about metals and alloys and how vibrations alone can cause a solid metal structure to break. You’ll also investigate the properties of light. Students will learn […]

KS4 History Lesson Plan – Examine 18th-Century Laws And Punishment Using Primary Sources And Archive Material At first sight, the 18th century can appear to students as one of the harshest, most bloody periods of British judicial history, especially once they are shown the well-trodden ground of the list of crimes punishable by death by the end of the century. Even the name assigned to laws of this period – The […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – New Year, New Language – Learn Past, Present Future Tense With Resolutions And Reflections Getting MFL pupils back into learning mode after the excitement of Christmas and the New Year can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. Asking them to think about resolutions for the coming year and perhaps also to reflect on past intentions (in your target language) is one way of providing them with a focus, […]

KS4 PSHE Lesson Plan – Let Students Make Financial Management Decisions By Putting Them In Charge Of Nations These activities help students understand that budgeting involves making decisions about a finite quantity of money. They will need to prioritise and decide spending areas and understand that spending in one area affects spending in another.

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Reading And Thinking Skills To Reflect On The Olympic Values As students get ready for the run-up to their MFL GCSEs, why not channel a little Olympic spirit to help them on their way? In this lesson plan they will learn about an inspirational Olympic hero, and describe in your target language what makes a hero and work on sport-related terms and phrases. Browse more Olympics teaching […]

KS3 and KS4 Algebra Resource - Can Students Spot The Mistakes? A group activity designed for mixed algebra revision on factorising equations. Each card has question and solution. Unfortunately, the solution may contain a classic mistake. The students need to identify the mistake and provide a correct solution. A great teaching resource for KS3 and KS4 maths. For more activities like this, visit mathsbox.org.uk Browse more […]

Ready-To-Project Algebra Lesson Starter On Factorising Equations A simple, ready-to-project algebra lesson starter (or plenary) for KS3 and KS4 on factorising equations. There are four different questions to project, with working space and solutions provided. For more activities like this, visit www.mathsbox.org.uk Browse more KS3 algebra resources.

Factorising Equations Treasure Hunt - Active Maths Lesson For KS3 And KS4 This 20-question algebra activity for KS3 or KS4 can be either used to get students out of seats and moving around the room doing maths, printed smaller and used as a table activity. To be used as an ‘out of seats’ activity, print the 20 factorising questions A4 size and stick randomly round the classroom. […]

KS4 Geography Lesson Plan – Grab Students’ Attention And Keep It In Jenet Gwaki’s lesson plan you will encourage the development of geography learner skills, including teamwork, while establishing understanding of the causes of uneven development. The learning objective is focused on the causes of uneven development. By the end of the session, learners should be able to: explain what is meant by ‘development’, analyse the […]

8-Question GCSE Exam Paper On Quadratic Inequalities Help prepare your students for their GCSE exams with this mini paper containing 8 questions that focus on quadratic inequalities. Answers to the questions can be found for free at themathsprofessor.com Browse our round-up of factoring quadratics worksheets.

Algebra Worksheet With 11 Challenging Questions For Solving Linear Equations A worksheet containing four pages of questions on solving linear equations of increasing complexity. The grading structure is similar to that proposed for the new GCSE specification. This resource includes both a question and answer sheet. For more resources like this, visit www.tes.com/member/silvestertim Browse more KS3 algebra resources.

Algebra Worksheet With 13 Great Questions On Quadratic Equations This resource includes a worksheet with four pages of questions on quadratic equations that increase in complexity. It has a grading structure proposed for the new GCSE specification and includes both a question and answer sheet. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim. Browse more KS3 algebra resources.

KS4 Maths – Algebra Lesson Starters To Help Build GCSE Exam Confidence Bored of seeing the same mistakes on every exam paper when marking? With the same algebra questions come up on the GCSE paper all the time, why not boost your pupils’ confidence by completing a 15-minute mini starter each lesson? These exam warm-up questions should take about 12 minutes to complete and 3 minutes to […]

Complete KS4 Lesson For Deriving Basic Equations And Expressions - Includes Treasure Hunt Activity Using this KS4 algebra lesson plan, students will learn to form expressions using area and perimeter (secure students will form expressions using angles in polygons). The treasure hunt, which is included as a PowerPoint file, enables you to create an engaging problem solving activity that students will complete moving round the room from question to […]

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Develop Spatial Awareness and Problem-Solving Skills by Exploring Two Successive Geometrical Transformations Traditionally, pupils are taught geometrical transformations by learning a set of skills they can apply to reflecting, rotating and enlarging shapes without giving the process too much thought. But what if they were to called upon to use those skills to solve a mathematical problem? In this maths lesson by Colin Foster, that’s precisely what […]

Post-16 Guidance And Advice For Secondary Teachers Liam Porritt considers how schools can prepare students for their post-education lives, when the daily classroom routine typically revolves around exams. The answer? Student-teachers – but not in the way you might think…

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