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SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS3 Science Lesson Plan – Explore How Science Is Used To Change The Way We Think Investigate how different ways of looking at pictures or watching films affect our thoughts, feelings and enjoyment. Explore how the creative application of scientific ideas such as MRI scans can be used to change the way people think and behave. You will also explain how a consumer society has led to the need for ever […]

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 […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – The Creative Chemistry Of Cosmetics Exploring unexpected topics can reveal new enthusiasm for science – and scientific careers – amongst your students, and this lesson plan uses cosmetics and make-up as useful hooks to get more of them into chemistry. Cosmetics and make-up, as a context, provides many links across the key stage 4 chemistry syllabus including nanoparticles, emulsions and […]

SecondaryThe Artsby Emma Delpech

KS3/4 Art Lesson Plan – Encouraging Students To Be Political In Their Works Do we feel we have choices in this world? Creative people, by their very nature, are always on the lookout for inspiration, exciting materials and innovative ways of working. There is a lot to be said for having to resource a project from scratch both from a practical and metaphysical viewpoint. To explore what we […]

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 […]

Great Gatsby lesson plan

SecondaryEnglishby Chloe Sefton

KS4 English lesson plan – Use The Great Gatsby to get pupils debating literature In this lesson plan, Chloe Sefton shares with you a few fun and engaging activities to inspire of love critical analysis and create what she likes to call ‘good noise’ in your lesson. The learning directive in this lesson is: To understand how to analyse the rivalry of Tom and Gatsby in Chapter 7 of […]

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.

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Geometry to Define the Attributes of the Shapes Around Us, Like Parallelograms and Rhombuses Remind your students that maths isn’t just about numbers with this detailed lesson from Colin Foster that encourages pupils to take a closer look at what we know about geometry, and polygons in particular. What makes a parallelogram a parallelogram? Can the attributes of a shape be mathematically defined and used to decide whether, say, […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

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 […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

Meaning Business – Language And Terminology Lesson For KS4 Science By necessity, the language employed in the study and practice of science is highly specific and precise, notes Dr. Joanna Rhodes – to the point that it’s worth teaching as a distinct linguistic phenomenon, rather than simply expecting students to pick it up for themselves… Find 7 more innovative science ideas for KS3/4 here.

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS3 Biology Lesson Plan – Get In The Mood For 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

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Making Mole Calculations And Chemical Equations Accessible…With Bacon In this Key Stage 4 chemistry lesson plan you will use a visual approach to help students understand these advanced scientific concepts. Teach mass, ratios and limiting reactants through the ingredients of a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, use the ‘mole keyhole’ to help students understand which equation to use and when and give advanced […]

SecondaryHistoryby Tim Wright

KS3/4 History Lesson Plan – Creative Ways to Develop Students’ Inference Skills when Reading and Analysing Written Source Materials How good are your history students at reading and analysing written sources? What are they able to infer from them, and how can that be used to inform their understanding? In this lesson plan, Tim Wright suggests taking a more creative approach to the study of written sources, so that students can see for themselves […]

PrimaryScienceby primary@artichokehq.com

Remains Of The Day – Fossils Lesson Plan For KS2 Science Introduce your class to palaeontology. Using peas to represent various fossils, discuss what is and is not a fossil, then make some amber fossils of your own, with raisins in place of insects. Find six more great KS1/2 science lesson plans here.

PrimaryEnglishby Carey Fluker Hunt

Lessons that dig deeper Into Roald Dahl’s subversive themes Roald Dahl’s stories are often hilarious, but behind the larger-than-life characters, imaginative settings and humorous situations there are also thought-provoking issues and questions for children to consider, says Carey Fluker Hunt...

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Show Students the Importance of Histograms by Illustrating the Limitations of Bar Charts If your maths students are struggling to see the point of why we have histograms, this maths lesson devised by Colin Foster will quickly highlight the limitations of the bar charts they learnt about in primary school. Students here are tasked with devising bar charts in a deliberately misleading way, by splitting data concerning visitor […]

PrimaryHealth & Wellbeingby Cartoon Network Imagination Studios

Cartoon Network Teachers’ Toolkit – English, Art/Design and PSHE Lesson Resources For KS1 And KS2 A selection of free curriculum-linked teaching resources designed to support the Cartoon Network Imagination Studios Awards – an annual competition that invites pupils aged 6-13 to create their own cartoon content, whilst exploring the themes of interpersonal relationships, equality and diversity. This download includes: • Four lesson plans containing learning activities, discussion points and extension […]

SecondaryScienceby Dr Joanna L Rhodes

KS3 Science Lesson Plan – Engaging Meteorology Activities to get Pupils Thinking about Weather, What Influences it, and How it is Predicted Dr Joanna L Rhodes presents a series of engaging classroom physics activities and app-based homework suggestions to get your pupils thinking about weather – the factors that influence it, and how weather predictions are made and presented. From viewing film clips, to making rainbows with water-filled pans and even building their own weather station, there’s […]

SecondaryEnglishby Michelle Shin

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Use Memory, Research and Narrative to Produce Structured and Creative Travel Writing Michelle Shin presents an inspiring lesson plan aimed at getting your students to think like travel writers. Using their memories of a previous trip (or one they’ll embark on soon), students are encouraged to combine imaginative creative writing with accurate research and present their recollections in a clear and compelling narrative structure. Click here for […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Perimeters And Pythagoras’ Theorem to Calculate the Shortest Route on a Map Applying their knowledge of scale and Pythagoras’ Theorem, students are tasked with calculating the shortest route between two destinations on a map and explaining their reasoning as clearly as possible in this detailed lesson plan devised by Colin Foster. For more Colin Foster geometry and measures lesson plans click here.

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Shading Graphical Linear Inequalities by Locating Mystery Pairs of Coordinates From this page you can download the ‘What’s the Point?’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.3 ‘What’s the Point?’ teaches shading graphical inequalities, but not as a sequence of instructions to follow, as it is often done. Instead, asking learners to find a ‘mystery point’ can bring the process to life… For […]

SecondaryMathsby Colin Foster

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Show how Line and Rotational Symmetry are Linked by Inventing and Drawing Your Own Shapes From this page you can download the ‘Shape Up’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.5 ‘Shape Up’ teaches students about line and rotational symmetry and how they are related, getting them to invent and draw their own shapes with particular symmetries… For more information and further maths resources from Colin Foster, visit […]

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