Key Stage 3 is the largest part of the catalogue, and the part with the most freedom. There is no exam specification to cover, so these are the years when a department can try a different cell and see what happens.
Every subject is here, and so is every cell. The quickest way in is through the topic sets, each of which takes one Key Stage 3 objective through all nine cells: the causes of the First World War, persuasive writing, photosynthesis, heart rate and exercise, the Industrial Revolution and analysing a poem.
A few lessons show the range. Year 8 hunt planted bugs in a remixed Scratch game and post fixes to Padlet. Year 9 sing and layer a four-part round with one voice in Soundtrap. Year 8 test a textbook list of Austrian German words with a partner class in Vienna. Year 7 watch an overnight time-lapse of their own diffusion beaker.
The lessons below are grouped by subject, so you can go straight to your own.
Art
Over half a term, each student makes one observation drawing a week in Procreate and watches its time-lapse replay to see how they built it.
Each student builds a Canva collage about a place in school from three photographs, two of their own drawings and a 20-second sound recording of that place.
Each student paints a harbour scene after André Derain, testing a natural and a Fauvist colour scheme on separate layers before choosing one.
Each student photographs eight to ten images on one theme and edits them into a short Adobe Express video with captions, timed to music chosen for tone.
Students photograph their own line drawing of a tin, bring it into Canva and build a four-panel Warhol-style repeat with a different flat colour scheme in each panel.
Each student photographs a lino print at six stages, from first drawing to final print, and sets the photos out in order in PowerPoint with a caption explaining each decision.
Students rank three crops of a still-life photo on Mentimeter, and the teacher opens the discussion on the crop that divides the class most.
Students post photos of their shell or seed-head sketches to Padlet, three named peers comment on each, and revised versions go up beside the originals next lesson.
Students zoom into Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow on Google Arts & Culture, choose one small detail, and post a reading of the painting's mood that the detail supports.
Each student gathers 12 portrait references from Google Arts & Culture and the web onto their own private Padlet wall, with a one-line caption for each.
Students read a one-page introduction to Käthe Kollwitz that the teacher drafted with Copilot and checked line by line, then look at two of her War woodcuts with that background in mind.
The teacher plays a time-lapse of one clear day filmed from the art room window, and students watch the colour of the light and shadows shift before comparing them with Monet's Rouen Cathedral series.
The teacher pours thinned paint from a stick in three different gestures while a tablet films in slow motion, and students watch the replays to see how the speed of the hand decides the mark.
Computing
Each student programs a short Scratch story in which two characters take turns to speak across two scenes.
Students plan a robot on the squared page of their book, then write p5.js commands such as rect(), ellipse() and fill() to draw it at the coordinates they planned.
Each student codes a micro:bit to show a random rock, paper or scissors icon of their own design when it is shaken, then plays a classmate.
Every student remixes a teacher-made Scratch game with two planted bugs, hunts them in their own copy and posts the cause and fix to a class Padlet wall that the teacher uses to run the debate.
Each student traces one of three pseudocode snippets, posts a plain-English explanation of what it does to a class Padlet, and challenges classmates' explanations in the comments.
Students vote on which of three search algorithms is most efficient, test each in Scratch on growing lists, chart the class's comparison counts and vote again.
Students watch the teacher's screencast of fixing a buggy Python program in Edpuzzle and must predict each next debugging step before the video continues.
Pairs drag shuffled pseudocode lines into working order for three algorithms on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard, spotting the one line in each puzzle that belongs to no correct solution.
Pairs run a teacher-provided micro:bit program in the MakeCode simulator, press each virtual input, record what happens and test a prediction by swapping two event handlers.
Students trace three short Python programs line by line, recording each variable's value in trace tables in their own copy of a Google Doc, which the teacher marks for the next lesson.
Pairs tilt, turn and carry a school tablet while phyphox shows its accelerometer, magnetometer and pressure sensor live, to work out which sensor sits behind screen rotation, the compass, step counting and floor detection.
Students each ask Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for five short character sketches of someone in an assigned job, log the names and pronouns in a class sheet, and compare the pooled results with published UK workforce figures.
Students judge twelve teacher-written emails as phishing or genuine, ask Gemini for its verdict and reasons, and test every reason against what the email actually shows.
Grade 6 watch a ten-minute tutorial on the board that builds a draw-a-square program with a repeat block, then predict in their books what other loops would draw.
The teacher runs an animated PowerPoint that follows one web page request from a school laptop to a server and back, while Grade 7 label a network diagram in their books.
Grade 8 read a Google Doc of worked examples on binary, denary and hexadecimal conversion, doing each matching question in their books.
Drama
Groups script and record a three-minute radio drama told through invented news bulletins, layering voices, sound effects and silence in one shared Soundtrap project.
The teacher takes the class round the ancient theatre at Epidaurus through 360-degree views in Google Earth, from the circular orchestra to the top rows of seats, before groups stage a chorus in the studio.
Before their own puppetry work, Grade 7 watch Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler's TED talk, where the puppeteers show how breath and small movements make the War Horse puppet seem alive.
Design and technology
Groups load four glued pine joints until they fail, enter each breaking load into one shared sheet, and the teacher uses the live chart to question the results that do not fit.
Students wire a 9 V battery, a resistor and an LED in Tinkercad Circuits, run the simulation with five resistor values and record the current and brightness for each.
English
Groups of three turn a written appeal for the school's charity week into a 60-second radio advert in Soundtrap, redrafting the script each time they hear it played back, and the chosen adverts are played in assembly.
Pairs make a two-page Book Creator spread on one poem from the unit, with their own recorded reading and a commentary on three of the poet's choices, for an anthology the other Grade 7 classes revise from.
Students draft a 150-word persuasive paragraph in a shared class Doc, three named peers comment using a fixed frame, and each writer revises before the bell.
Each student builds a six-slide PowerPoint report on Michael Morpurgo's 'Private Peaceful', including an audio clip of themselves reading a key passage.
Each student scripts and records a 90-second review of 'Of Mice and Men', reading two quotations aloud over a music bed chosen for the novel's tone.
Each student builds a Google Sites page on Owen's poem with their own recorded reading, six tap-to-open annotations and a 200-word essay.
Each student writes and lays out a one-page leaflet in Canva persuading visiting Grade 5 pupils to join one of the school's Grade 6 clubs, printed for the open evening.
Each student types a three-paragraph answer in their own Google Doc on how Shelley presents power in 'Ozymandias', following 'what, how, why' with one quotation in every paragraph.
Groups write two rival openings for a bulletin article urging pupils to use the new water refill stations, test them on around 200 pupils at a partner school in another town through an anonymous Microsoft Forms survey, and rewrite from the results and from that school's comments on their drafts.
Grade 7 pairs post explanations of Dickinson's 'Hope is the thing with feathers' in answer to questions a Grade 6 class at a partner school left on a staff-run Padlet, then rewrite them twice from Grade 6's replies.
Students name the device at work in fifteen extracts from charity leaflets and adverts in a self-paced Wayground quiz, acting on instant feedback, while the teacher stops the class to untangle the device most of them are confusing.
Students listen to a recorded reading of Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman in Edpuzzle, answering seven questions that pause the recording, while the teacher watches the answers arrive and sits with those who need another listen.
The class splits into three groups and each student comments on rhetorical devices in one shared Google Doc per speech, ready for a plenary comparison.
Each student analyses one of three contrasting Gothic story openings and posts its structural choices and effects to that opening's column on a class Padlet.
Pairs drag twelve shuffled sentences from a persuasive letter to the council back into order on a Microsoft Whiteboard, then label the job each paragraph does.
Pairs recolour fourteen jumbled sticky notes, one for each line of Christina Rossetti's 'Remember', by the rhyme each ends on, then use the colours and the sense to rebuild the sonnet in FigJam.
Students annotate William Blake's The Tyger in their own Google Doc, using four highlight colours for questions, repetition, fire imagery and forge imagery, then draft a paragraph on what the questions do.
Students read The Empty House, a teacher-written Twine mystery, choosing a route at each of nine branch points and logging their predictions and the tension of each passage in their books.
Pairs drag eighteen sticky notes on a FigJam board into quotation, technique and effect triples from Wilfred Owen's Exposure, then rank the triples by how much work each technique does.
A city Grade 6 class and a Grade 6 class at a partner school in Keswick rank the same ten arguments about wind turbines on the Lake District fells, then compare rankings on a staff-hosted Teams call to find out how much the audience decides what persuades.
Pairs search a Google Sheet holding every line of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, counting and reading the matches to find out how far 'The Tyger' is typical of the book it comes from.
The teacher steps through eight saved drafts of a persuasive paragraph in Google Docs version history, so the class watches a flat opening become a sharp one change by change.
Students follow Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners' in a Google Doc and listen through the teacher's Mote voice notes, one reading the whole poem and one on each section, before writing about who the listeners are.
Grade 7 listen to the 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Tennyson reading 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', replayed by the teacher, and mark on printed copies where his voice lands hardest in each line.
The teacher shows a filmed stage production of the opening storm scene twice, first for the chaos and then with closed captions on, so students can catch the lines the storm is meant to drown out.
The teacher reads W. H. Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts' aloud and zooms into Landscape with the Fall of Icarus on Google Arts & Culture at each detail the poem names.
Students follow a teacher-written model letter arguing for a longer lunch break, shown a paragraph at a time on PowerPoint slides, and log each persuasive device in a table in their books.
Grade 6 watch Rodrigo Blaas's animated short Alma twice on the board and collect setting details in their books before writing their own eerie openings.
Grade 7 meet Blake's 'A Poison Tree' one stanza per slide, writing a prediction in their books before each reveal, and end by explaining how the growing tree stands for the speaker's hidden anger.
The teacher talks Grade 7 through five slides on ethos, pathos and logos before they draft their own persuasive speeches.
The teacher plays a GCSE context video on An Inspector Calls, pausing at each key term so Grade 8 can log it in a vocabulary grid in their books.
The teacher plays nearly four decades of Google Earth Timelapse imagery of Alaska's Columbia Glacier, and Grade 6 turn what they watched into the evidence paragraph of a persuasive speech.
Grade 7 watch Chrome Music Lab's Spectrogram draw the teacher's voice reading two lines of Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', one showing as short broken patches of sound and the other as long drawn-out ones.
Geography
Each student pins a named hazard event on a shared Padlet map with a one-line summary, and the class watches patterns such as the Ring of Fire appear as the pins arrive.
Grade 8 drop into Street View at three saved places in Mumbai, look around and move along the streets, and record evidence for a written comparison.
Each student places an unlabelled population pyramid in a demographic transition stage column on a class Padlet, and the teacher reveals the countries after discussing the disagreements.
Students fly to eight teacher-chosen coordinates in Google Earth, identify the biome at each from what the imagery shows, and record two pieces of visual evidence in a table.
Students work through a self-paced set of 20 four-figure, six-figure and map-symbol questions on Wayground, the same set the department ran as a Kahoot challenge last year.
Students open Windy's pressure layer, find today's highs and lows over the North Atlantic and answer the department's standard chart-reading questions from the isobars.
Pairs switch between wind, pressure, rain and wave layers to complete the scheme of work's data table for a named tropical storm, then predict which stretch of coast takes the worst of it.
The teacher plays a 12-minute section of a documentary podcast episode on daily life in Lagos through the classroom speakers while Grade 7 take notes under set headings.
Grade 7 read a two-page Google Doc on why people live where they do, then shade a world outline map in their books to show dense and sparse regions.
The teacher plays a vetted clip on waterfalls and meanders from YouTube on the board, pausing after each landform while Grade 8 take notes, then they draw an annotated oxbow lake sequence.
The teacher plays Google Earth's Timelapse of Rondônia on the board so Grade 7 watch the forest being cleared year by year since the 1980s.
The teacher shows Windy's animated wind, pressure and rain layers for a real depression approaching the UK, and Grade 7 watch the air spiral into the low.
The teacher shows near-real-time ocean currents and sea surface temperatures on earth.nullschool, following the Gulf Stream from Florida to the North Atlantic Drift off Ireland, while the class compares Britain with Labrador on the same latitude.
History
The Industrial Revolution: Google Earth project of six stops on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Groups of three build a six-stop Google Earth project along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, writing at each placemark what stood in Stephenson's way and how it was overcome, then test it on another group.
Pairs script and record a five-minute Soundtrap podcast in which one voice argues Fischer's case against Germany and the other Clark's 'sleepwalkers' case, re-recording until each argument lands.
Each student designs a one-page notice in Canva, dated 1872, in which Titus Salt's mill invites Bradford workers to move to Saltaire, using five accurate features of the village and one of its rules.
Each student writes a one-page memo to Asquith, dated 2 August 1914, arguing for or against British intervention from the evidence in the source pack.
Pairs write a 150-word history of one household from their town's 1851 census on a staff-run Padlet, and rewrite it after family history society volunteers reply with records the class does not hold.
Groups build a playable Twine simulation of the July Crisis whose hidden variables carry every decision forward, then play each other's versions to test whether war could have been avoided.
Grade 7 rule on ten cases as factory inspectors in 1840, answering against the 1833 Act, allowed by it or outside it in Wayground, and the teacher reteaches the cases that the class gets wrong most often.
Pairs post a fact and a viewpoint from the 1215 charter and from Roger of Wendover's chronicle to Padlet, and the teacher sets conflicting readings side by side.
After each of five moments in the July Crisis, Grade 8 rate six powers' responsibility on a Mentimeter scale, and the teacher uses the shifts and splits to choose which arguments the class has next.
Two pairs per decade choose the three most significant events from a set of cards and post them to that decade's Padlet column, then defend any choices that differ.
Pairs record a 60-second Mote voice comment analysing extracts from Scheidemann's speech, and the teacher plays contrasting ones back and replies by voice.
Pairs work through a branching Microsoft Form on the death of William II in the New Forest in 1100, where each reliability decision sends them to a different source and, in the end, a different verdict.
Each student studies Punch's 1852 cartoon 'A Court for King Cholera' and types answers to six questions in a Microsoft Form, from what they can see to what the cartoonist wanted readers to think.
Each student colour-codes the ten demands of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum by how Serbia answered them, adds margin comments, and judges whether the ultimatum was written to be rejected.
Before writing their causation essay, pairs arrange nine cause cards, each carrying a factual anchor, into a diamond-nine on a Padlet Sandbox board and justify every placement.
Pairs filter and count a Google Sheet of about 6,000 people from their own town's 1851 census to test a textbook claim about industrial towns, then put a question of their own to the same records.
Grade 8 and a partner class in Vienna each read their own country's newspapers from three days in 1914, share translations in a Google Doc, and question each other's readings on a staff-hosted Teams call.
Grade 7 watch a museum film of a restored spinning mule running, replayed by the teacher at quarter speed, and mark on a sketch where the piecer and the scavenger had to work while the carriage moved.
The teacher flies Google Earth along the archduke's route through Sarajevo, drops into Street View at the Latin Bridge corner and zooms out to the capitals of Europe while Grade 8 annotate their own maps.
Grade 6 watch an eight-minute documentary clip on the Black Death on the board, take structured notes and write a paragraph on the change that mattered most.
Grade 7 follow a teacher-led slide story of the steam engine from Newcomen's mine pump of 1712 to Watt's rotary engine of the 1780s, noting each problem and its fix, then explain why mills could leave the riverbank.
Grade 7 read a teacher-built Sutori timeline of the five Tudor monarchs and fill in a blank timeline in their books before a recall check.
Students read down a teacher-built Sutori timeline of fourteen Industrial Revolution events, answer the questions set at four checkpoints in their books, then rebuild the turning points from memory.
Grade 8 watch a twelve-minute documentary extract on the Anglo-German naval race, taking notes under three headings, and write a paragraph on whether it made war more likely.
The teacher recaps militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism and the Sarajevo assassination on six slides, and Grade 8 summarise and rank the causes in their books.
The Industrial Revolution: watch the queues build in a time-lapse of the class's own production line
Grade 7 work a twenty-minute shift as craft workers or on five-step production lines, every student at a station, then watch the overhead time-lapse paused at two-minute marks to count the queue at each station.
The teacher plays a Sonic Pi sonification of the 1665 London Bills of Mortality, one bar per week and one click for every hundred plague deaths, and the class listens to the epidemic build and fade before reading Pepys.
The teacher sets Stellarium to St Ann's Bay, Jamaica, on the evening of 29 February 1504 and runs time forward so the class watches the eclipsed Moon rise, then tests Ferdinand Columbus's account of how his father used it.
The teacher plays a Sonic Pi piece in which every British and German dreadnought entering service from 1906 to August 1914 sounds as a bell, and Grade 8 judge what the naval race looked like from Britain in 1909.
The teacher plays Google Earth's Timelapse over central Berlin from 1984, and students watch the empty ground where the border cut through Potsdamer Platz persist, then fill with building sites and new blocks through the 1990s.
Maths
Every student drags ten mixed values onto their own Desmos number line, and the teacher uses the live view of all thirty lines to pair up disagreements and choose what the class discusses.
Students plot a shape's vertices in all four quadrants in a Desmos activity, and the teacher uses the dashboard overlay to spot and fix quadrant errors as they happen.
Students answer a live Kahoot of linear equations whose wrong options come from common mistakes, and the teacher stops on any question where the answer chart splits.
Three days before an algebra assessment, students work through a Seneca assignment that keeps returning them to the skills they get wrong, and the class results decide Friday's warm-up.
Students predict three probability outcomes on Mentimeter, run 1,000 trials of each in a Google Sheets simulator, and pool the class's results to see which predictions held up.
Students drag twelve graph cards onto twelve equation cards in a Desmos Classroom card sort, with three deliberate near-misses such as y = 2x + 1 against y = 2x - 1.
Grade 7 answer 30 mixed times-tables questions on a Microsoft Form at the start of the lesson, with results hidden, and the teacher reads the totals afterwards as they once marked the printed grid.
Pairs drag sixteen sequence cards into arithmetic, geometric and other columns on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then find the nth term of every arithmetic one.
The teacher narrates five worked examples of multiplying fractions on a PowerPoint that students follow on their iPads, trying a matching question in their books after each one.
Before their first circumference lesson, students read a teacher-built Sutori story on how mathematicians closed in on pi, then answer five questions in their books.
The teacher plays a 12-minute worked-solutions video on Pythagoras' theorem on the board, pausing between problems while Grade 8 copy the working, before they practise in their books.
Languages (MFL)
Over five lessons, a Grade 8 Spanish class and a partner class in Seville learning English build a photo essay on the school day, rewriting each caption in response to the other class's replies.
A Grade 8 German class argues in German and a partner Gymnasium class argues in English on whether schools should have uniforms, with every student in a role and judges scoring each speech live.
Students ask Copilot Chat to translate twelve French sentences built around idioms and false friends, test every translation against a bilingual dictionary and their own version, and question Copilot on the choices that disagree.
Students record short spoken answers to five Spanish prompts on a private class Padlet, give each other feedback on pronunciation, and re-record one answer.
Students test six textbook claims about French school life against anonymous survey answers from a real partner class in France, then question that class live in French.
In a staff-hosted Teams call, Grade 7 ask a partner class in Vienna whether they really say the Austrian words their textbook lists, such as Jänner, Paradeiser and Sackerl, and tally the answers.
Pairs walk assigned shopping streets in Montreal and Paris on Google Earth Street View, logging every shop sign into a shared sheet to test whether French speakers really borrow English words everywhere.
The teacher plays a five-minute section of a slow-speech podcast for German learners twice through the classroom speakers, and Grade 7 answer six questions in their books.
Grade 7 read a 250-word French text on a Lyon teenager's daily routine on their iPads, then answer comprehension questions and find the reflexive verbs in their books.
The teacher plays a five-minute vlog made for Spanish learners, in which a teenager in Madrid describes her weekend, twice on the board while Grade 8 complete a listening worksheet.
Music
Groups of four each build a 90-second forest-dawn soundscape in a shared Soundtrap project, with every student composing one layer.
Each student records every entry of 'London's Burning' themselves, staggers the entries two bars apart, balances them and adds a part of their own.
Students write two eight-bar variations on the opening of Beethoven's Ode to Joy in Sibelius, one in D minor and one with a new rhythm, playing each back as they notate.
Students use GarageBand's on-screen keyboard as their instrument to compose an eight-bar melody from four pitches, then perform it live to the class.
Each student programs a 16-step drum pattern with kick, snare and hi-hat, varies it, and writes a fill for the end of a four-bar phrase.
Students rate three melodies over the same chords for how singable they are and how well they fit a lullaby, then sing the one that splits the class.
Students notate four-bar rhythms and a short melody the teacher plays, then play their own notation back in Sibelius, hear where it differs from the original and correct it before the answer is shown.
Students upload their Soundtrap film cues to Padlet, three named peers each comment on harmony, rhythm or texture with a time marker, and composers reply with their revision plan.
Students open a teacher-recorded 12-bar blues in C from a BandLab for Education assignment and mute and solo its four tracks to work out where the chords change.
The same A is played on a tuning fork, a flute, a violin and sung, while a phone running phyphox streams a live spectrum to the board and the class watches each timbre appear as a different pattern of harmonics.
PE
Pairs film a cool-down routine and turn it into a 90-second narrated video in Adobe Express explaining why heart rate should fall gradually, for Grade 6 tutors to show.
Each student plans a ten-minute warm-up for a Grade 6 netball lesson on a one-slide PowerPoint template, ordering activities so heart rate rises gradually, and the plans are printed and marked.
Pairs program a micro:bit pacer that beats out a step rate and shows a model heart whose beat rises and recovers by rules they write, then test the model against their own pulses in a step test and rewrite its rules.
Pairs film each other's crouch starts in slow motion, post their best clip to a class-only Padlet, and comment on classmates' clips against set coaching points.
Each student sketches how heart rate will change across a described interval session on a Desmos sketch screen, and the teacher overlays the class's sketches anonymously to pick out misconceptions before a short practical.
Each student sets out a formation to protect a late 1-0 lead on their own pitch on a shared FigJam board, and the teacher groups the approaches live.
Pairs drag five unlabelled heart-rate graphs onto the sports they came from, a 100 m sprint, a marathon, a football match, a yoga class and a boxing bout, on a FigJam board and justify each match.
A sports scientist runs a treadmill test on a volunteer athlete in a university lab over a staff-hosted Teams call, and Grade 7 decide when the speed rises and predict each heart-rate and breathing reading before it is read out.
Before their first circuit, students watch a clip on how the heart responds to exercise in Edpuzzle, at their own pace, with the teacher's recorded voice notes at five points linking it to the circuit.
The teacher shows a short animation on how the heart and lungs respond to exercise, students copy the key terms, and then each learns to find and count their own pulse.
The PE teacher wears a chest-strap heart-rate monitor linked to phyphox and does a three-minute step test while the class watches the live graph climb, level off and fall on the board.
PSHE
Groups design two versions of a vaping-awareness poster for Grade 6 in Canva, test both with the whole year group through an anonymous Microsoft Form, and redesign from what the responses show.
Students post what they would do with a found wallet and why, and the teacher sorts the moderated posts live by the factor each student weighed.
Students answer the same bullying scenario twice in anonymous polls, once for what a friend should do and once for what most people would do, and discuss the gap.
Students rate three pieces of sleep advice, from the NHS, a social media clip and a celebrity supplement advert, against four credibility checks in Microsoft Forms.
Pairs drag sixteen short health scenarios about fictional people on a FigJam board into four columns: call 999, call NHS 111, see a pharmacist or look after it at home.
RE
Each student posts their own-words interpretation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the teacher groups the posts live into themes.
Students place themselves on an agreement scale about forgiveness, meet Christian teaching on it, then place themselves again and compare the two results.
Each student reads the same account of Guru Nanak, Guru Amar Das and the langar, in one of three versions the teacher prepared with Gemini at different reading levels, plus a checked Polish version for a student new to English.
Science
Groups of three script, narrate and edit a 90-second Adobe Express video answering a Grade 5 teacher's question, why do plants need light, for the school's transition day.
Each student makes a six-panel comic in Canva following one carbon atom from a bus exhaust, through a stoma and a chloroplast, into starch, into a caterpillar and back into the air.
Each student codes a Scratch model in which light and carbon dioxide sliders set the rate of oxygen bubbles, then rewrites its rule until it matches the class's own pondweed results.
Grade 7 vote in Mentimeter on where most of an oak tree's mass came from, meet van Helmont's willow experiment, argue in pairs and vote again, while the teacher uses both results to steer the rest of the lesson.
Grade 7 work through a Seneca assignment on particles and states of matter, and the teacher stops the class part way to reteach the question most students are getting wrong.
Students build each of the first ten elements particle by particle in PhET's Build an Atom, using its live readouts to correct their builds, then draw each shell diagram in their books.
Each student places three elements in metal, non-metal or metalloid columns on a class Padlet with a property justification, and the teacher uses the split placements for the plenary.
Grade 8 answer five checkpoint questions in an Edpuzzle video on digestion, and the teacher reteaches the one most of the class got wrong before they move on.
Pairs work through a teacher-built PowerPoint dichotomous key, clicking Yes or No at each question, to name ten pond invertebrates from photographs.
Pairs drag nine leaf-feature cards onto nine function cards on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then place each matched pair on a cross-section of a leaf.
Students answer an eighteen-question Microsoft Forms quiz on organelle functions and cell types, with results held back until the teacher returns them next lesson.
Students drag label boxes and arrows onto four cell images in their own copy of a PowerPoint file, removing the labels that do not belong, and hand it in for marking.
Students paste their own typed notes on respiration into Gemini, ask for ten questions with no answers, type their answers from memory in a new Doc and mark themselves against their notes.
Over two weeks, Grade 7 read the carbon dioxide and light curves from a sealed plant box at the start of each lesson and choose the next condition to test, building a chain of tests the sensors record day and night.
Grade 6 watch the teacher's narrated PowerPoint, exported as a video, that traces blood through the heart with a recorded heartbeat, pausing at three points to sketch the route.
Before making their own leaf peels, Grade 7 watch the teacher's microscope view of stomata and guard cells, sent live from a tablet camera to the board.
The teacher shows NASA's live view of Earth from the ISS on the board, pointing out clouds, coastlines and the thin atmosphere, with a recorded clip ready if the feed drops.
Students read a teacher-written Google Doc on the carbon cycle and listen to a short Mote voice note from the teacher beside each of its four diagrams, before drawing the cycle from memory in their books.
Before lighting any flame, Grade 6 watch the technician's five-minute safety video on the board and answer the teacher's spoken safety questions.
Grade 7 follow a teacher-led slide story of Joseph Priestley's and Jan Ingenhousz's experiments, predicting each result in their books before it is revealed, and end by building the word equation from what the experiments showed.
Grade 7 open the cells and microscopy knowledge organiser as a view-only Google Doc, cover the definitions and test themselves on 15 keywords before a written exit ticket.
Grade 8 read a four-page atomic structure chapter as a Google Doc, make notes in their books, then answer six questions set on the board.
The class watches a time-lapse, filmed by a school tablet over five days, of the copper sulfate solutions they set out to evaporate, as crystals appear and grow.
A tablet films the class's potassium permanganate beaker overnight in time-lapse, and Grade 6 watch hours of diffusion in under a minute and measure the spread.
Grade 7 watch a 48-hour time-lapse of their own hydrogencarbonate indicator tubes turning purple under the lamp and yellow in the dark, played and paused by the teacher.
A school tablet films the teacher's lithium, sodium and potassium demonstration in slow motion, and Grade 8 watch the replays on the board to record what the eye missed.
Lessons that look like one cell but sit in another
Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.
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