INSET Taster Activities for Teachers

View examples of some of our workshops:

KS3 (with focus on the QCA Scheme of Work – England only)

• Dynamic Rock Cycle : Deformation
• Spot that Rock: the grouping of rocks on the basis of reliable characteristics.
• Earth Science Out of Doors - Any Quarry Guide: quarry potential
• Earth Science Out of Doors – Will My Gravestone Last:  pupils notes, map of churchyard and pictures of gravestones
• Earth Science Around Your School

KS4 (with focus on GCSE Science specifications – England and Wales)

• ‘Life, the Atmosphere and Everything: ‘the washing line of time’ [Applicable to AQA, OCR 21st Century Science, OCR Gateway (excluding CCEA, EDEXCEL)]
• Life, the Atmosphere and Everything: a year in the dome [Applicable to AQA, CCEA, EDEXCEL, OCR 21st Century Science, OCR Gateway, WJEC)]
• The Earth and Plate Tectonics: prediction of earthquakes [Applicable to AQA, CCEA, OCR 21st Century Science (excluding EDEXCEL, OCR Gateway, WJEC)]

Science in an Earth Context: KS3 Biology, Chemistry and Physics

• Biology - Life's Cycle
• Chemistry - The heat is on! – can heat cause chemical breakdown?
• Physics - What physics can you see from the window?

Science in an Earth Context: KS4 Biology, Chemistry and Physics

• Biology - What is a fossil
• Chemistry - The metal in me – calcium
• Physics - Soil Resistance

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