Top results

Showing results for lesson+plans

Here's what we've found...

740 results match your search. Want to search again?

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

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 […]

SecondaryEnglishLanguagesby primary@artichokehq.com

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 […]

SecondaryEnglishby primary@artichokehq.com

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, […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

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 […]

SecondaryLanguagesby primary@artichokehq.com

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.

SecondaryHistoryby primary@artichokehq.com

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.

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

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 […]

SecondaryEnglishby primary@artichokehq.com

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 […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

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.

SecondaryEnglishby primary@artichokehq.com

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 […]

SecondaryLanguagesby primary@artichokehq.com

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 […]

SecondaryLanguagesby primary@artichokehq.com

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 […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Leaning Ladders to Explore Triangles Ladders leaning against walls is a classic scenario for mathematics problems and is often used to address topics such as Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry. In this maths lesson, the situation of two crossing ladders is used as an opportunity to work on ideas relating to similar triangles. How high will the crossing point be above […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

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 […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Find The Centre Of Enlargement For A Given Shape In this maths lesson, students are asked to decide where the centre of enlargement can go for a given shape with a scale factor of 3 enlargement so that no part of the image will go off the edge of the grid. Solving this problem involves students in intelligent trial and error as they experiment […]

SecondaryGeographyby Angus Willson

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 […]

SecondaryHistoryby Mel Jones

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 […]

SecondaryEnglishby Vanessa McCullogh

KS3 English Lesson Plan – Investigate The Relationship Between Language Use And Gender How far can the words we choose to use about people affect the way they are seen by society in general? This lesson uses both language and literature examples to discuss the way that word choice reflects values and influences thought. The aim is to introduce the idea that language works to create or emphasise […]

SecondaryLanguagesby Liz Fotheringham

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, […]

SecondaryLanguagesby Liz Fotheringham

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 […]

Primaryby Adele Devine

Want To Make Your Lessons More Inclusive? Learn From The Tube We can learn a lot about how to include pupils with SEND by taking a ride on the Tube, suggests Adele Devine...

SecondaryGeographyby Jenet Gwaki

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 […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS3 Biology Lesson Plan – Teaching Learned And Innate Animal Behaviours Dr Joanna Rhodes has been watching wildlife – and it’s given her some brilliant ideas for teaching about learned and innate animal behaviours. In this lesson plan students will think about attraction and how and why animals perform elaborate rituals to attract a mate. This fun biology lesson aimed at KS3 links animal behaviour and […]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plan

PrimaryEnglishHealth & Wellbeingby YPO

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson – Fun activities and resources This Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plan pack contains six full lessons, covering various elements from both the English and PSHE curriculum. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson resources There are plenty of activities and ready-made resources to suit KS2 (and some for KS1), together with extracts from the text. What children will learn […]

PrimaryScienceby James Clements

Cereal Offenders – Lesson Plan For KS2 Science Teach your pupils about nutrition by carrying out a thorough scientific examination of the breakfast cereals they eat each morning. Are some less healthy than others, and if so, why? Find six more great KS1/2 science lesson plans here.

Thanks, you're almost there

To help us show you teaching resources, downloads and more you’ll love, complete your profile below.

Which year groups do you work with? Select all that apply

What is your subject specialism? Select all that apply

At which school do you teach?