Planning on delivering KS3 in two years? Or perhaps you’re moving on to a more skills-led or thematic way of teaching? The Exploring Science: How Science Works Resource Bank provides you with a giant bank of more than 3,000 different lesson activities and supporting resources, for you to pick, choose and re-organise in a way that suits you!

Fully flexible and easy-to-use alongside your existing Scheme of Work, this Resource Bank enables you to:

l search from a bank of over 3,000 activities and lesson suggestions by Programme of Study statement, Framework objective, skill or resource type

l deliver a 2-year KS3 with ease and confidence with our ready-made lesson plans that you can customise to your pupils’ needs

l supplement your lessons with a powerful bank of Whiteboard interactive activities, BBCActive videos and animations to bring your lessons to life

l consolidate your pupils’ learning with a range of assessment options, and classwork and homework activities

l easily manage all your resources from one central location.

One package, thousands of resources!

Read on to see how this Resource Bank will help you make the delivery of your existing Scheme of Work even better!

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Flexible to use alongside your own Scheme of Work, this unique tool is your gateway to a vast bank of more than 3,000 high-quality activities, searchable by Framework objective, skills, themes and more.

By teaming up the Planning and Personalisation Tool with ActiveTeach, you can gain direct access to thousands of digital resources at your fingertips!

Every worksheet, assessment item, video or animation mentioned in an activity will display as a live link – just click once, and you can access the resource. No more having to flick through files or toggle between bits of software – 3,000 activities, all the resources, all in one place.

Flexible lesson planning Deliver resource-rich lessonsPlanning and Personalisation Tool ActiveTeach

Select our specially-designed two-year KS3 route for lesson plans that condense the content for you – no extra work required.

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Activities

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Take your planning one step further; drill down to the lesson planner to review each lesson separately.

All resources on ActiveTeach will appear as live links on the Planning and Personalisation Tool to help you easily preview them and assess their content.

Find activities on any topic, skill or ability level, or refine your search criteria to locate tasks that relate to very specific curriculum statements.

Use the flexible Task Bank alongside your own Scheme of Work to access a range of high-quality Exploring Science resources, without being constrained by year group.

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Add your own tasks and weblinks to suit your pupils’ needs –

you can either search from our extensive task bank of more

than 3,000 activities, or upload your own!

The Exploring Science Resource Bank not only enables you to customise your planning to suit your pupils’ needs, but it also provides you with a range of assessment opportunities, and differentiated support materials for classwork and homework use.

Consolidate pupils’ learning

Catering for four levels of ability – Access, Must, Should and Could – this resource provides you with a bank of differentiated worksheets to ensure all your pupils are working at the right level.

Personalise how, when and where you assess your pupils with the Formative and Summative Assessment Support Pack. Offering a comprehensive range of assessment opportunities, including baseline, formative and end-of-topic assessment, it helps you measure and track your pupils’ progress, no matter how you like to assess.

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Why do things fall at different speeds? Many people think that heavy objects fall faster than light

ones because they have more weight, but this is only part of the answer. When Dave Scott went to the Moon on board Apollo 15 he took along a hammer and a feather.

He dropped them together and they both accelerated at exactly the same rate and hit the ground

together. There was more force on the hammer because it had more mass, but it also takes more

force to accelerate a more massive object. The two effects cancel each other out so the hammer

and the feather fell at exactly the same rate.

If you tried the same experiment on Earth you would get a very different result. The hammer

would fall much faster than the feather. The difference is due to air resistance. The amount of air

resistance depends on an object’s shape, so it is easier to work out why this happens if we think of

two objects with roughly the same shape.A balloon full of air has a mass of 10 g. Its weight is 0.1 N. A bowling ball is about the same size as

the balloon and it has a mass of 1 kg. Its weight is 10 N. (On Earth, 1 kg has a mass of 10 N.)

The effects of mass and weight cancel each other out and both objects start to fall at the same rate.

They have only just started to move so there is no air resistance.If you drop the balloon and the bowling ball, they will both accelerate at the same rate to start

with. There is more force from gravity (weight) on the bowling ball but because it also has more

mass it only accelerates downwards at the same rate as the balloon. Once the two objects are

moving, air resistance starts to act on them. If they are the same shape and moving at the same

speed, the air resistance on them will be the same.

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mass = 0.01 kg

weight 0.1 N

mass = 1 kg

weight 10 N

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1 Fill in the missing words on the drawing.

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Organ system

circulatory system

breathing system

digestive system

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gets glucose into your blood

carries blood

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Worksheets are differentiated to four levels, covering pupils working towards level 4, right up to Exceptional Performance.

End of unit tests at two tiers provide a hassle-free way of assessing pupils’ understanding of a topic.

Access sheets allow pupils who struggle with literacy to demonstrate their scientific skills and understanding.

Level ladders encourage pupils to measure their own progress.

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One package, thousands of resourcesMake the delivery of your existing Scheme of Work even better with the Exploring Science: How Science Works Resource Bank and you’ll benefit from:

l a bank of over 3,000 activities and lesson suggestions

l customisable ready-made 2-year KS3 lesson plans

l a powerful bank of Whiteboard resources to supplement your lessons

l a range of assessment options and activities to consolidate pupils’ learning

l huge savings!

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