How to use Teachers’ Club Science to help with your planning.
Teachers’ Club Science has been helping KS3 science teachers since summer 2014. We have enjoyed a great response from teachers, who are finding it an invaluable tool for enhancing their planning and delivery experience – and it’s all FREE of charge!
This guide to Teachers’ Club Science explains how it all works. We’ve created a wide range of resources based on topics new and familiar to KS3 science, which we know will help you to cut down planning time. Plus we will regularly release a suite of six brand new resources on a new topic. The focus of our current content is ‘Composites and compounds’ and you can help yourself to a raft of materials to assist with your planning, teaching and assessment at Key Stage 3.
If you search the archive you will find more resources for: Biology – bacteria, impact of asthma, human skeleton, DNA and cell diffusion; Chemistry – periodic table, Earth and it’s composite structure, Brownian motion, ice and water, composites and compounds as well as catalysts; Physics – convection, forces, waves and light years. Each suite of resources includes some of the following elements:
Science homework activities
Fun activities for your students which they will want to try out and which they can carry out at home. Just don’t tell them that they will be learning! These resources will help them to explore a topic more deeply as well as practicing their working scientifically skills.
See this example on how your Physics students can investigate convection by brewing up a storm at home!
Oops – when science goes wrong!
Articles based on case studies looking at when science doesn’t quite go as planned. These are great for practicing science literacy skills and include some examples of questions you can ask the students to test their understanding. Reading them can be set as a homework, the article can be printed out and displayed in the classroom or you could use it as an interesting context in a lesson.
Why not use the example of Nanotechnology when talking to your Chemistry students about Brownian motion?
Scientist Biography
Learning about how the work of scientists around the world have contributed to our current understanding of science, is an important aspect to any KS3 science course. These articles are biographies of famous scientists which are written in language that all students can access.
If you’re studying the human skeleton with your Biology students, why not take a look at the
biography of Sir John Charnley and discover how he invented the hip replacement?
Smart Facts
Did you know that if you unravelled the DNA from all of your cells and laid out it out end to end, the strand would stretch from the Earth to the Sun hundreds of times? Well you do now!
Share this and other fascinating facts with your students by checking out the Smart Facts articles.
Smart Videos
We’ve scoured the internet for the best science videos so you don’t have to. Each video comes with an explanation of how it can be used in the classroom or some questions which you could ask students after they watched it.
We love this video of the Periodic Table song – in order! which offers a fun way of remembering all the elements, their function and where they belong in the table. You’ll be singing it all day!
Free teaching resource
If all that wasn’t enough, each topic also comes with a free resource which you can use in your lessons. This could be a worksheet, or some structured questions (with answers!), which will save you valuable time when it comes to planning.
Take a look at these structured questions on healthy diet which really test your Biology students’ understanding of this topic.
Why not search the whole archive for resources on new and familiar PoS topics for Biology, Physics and Chemistry?
Coming soon!
Keep an eye out for more resources for Chemistry, Biology and Physics coming your way soon.
We’d love to hear about your experience of using Teachers’ Club Science. Please do let us have your feedback by emailing [email protected] using the subject “Feedback”.
We are also keen to expand our list of science teachers who can act as peer reviewers and/or authors for future site content. If you would like to be involved, please email [email protected] using the subject “Peer Review”.