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Five comprehensive and fully resourced lessons on refraction, reflection, lenses, dispersion, shadows and eclipses for middle school, plus team quest which is a fantastic way to consolidate learning at the end of the module and to promotes team – building. Team Quest is a 72 question, animated, interactive team quiz with built – in scoreboard for up to seven teams. All questions are pictorial and multiple choice. It is also a great end of year and back to school activity.

Each topic comes with an engaging, animated PowerPoint and eleven printables which make even the more difficult concepts easy to understand.

Emphasis is placed on assessment for learning and detailed answers to questions are provided throughout, which makes self-assessment and peer assessment easy. Each topic comes with a checklist for pupils to assess their progress on completion of the topic.

Each topic comes with a one-page flow-chart lesson plan showing where logical choices between resources can be made enabling the teacher to totally bespoke lessons according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision. Many activities place an emphasis on literacy and oracy. These are identified on the flow-charts.

What’s Included for Each Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Team Quest

Team Rounds

• Each team will attempt their own three questions, the answer to each of which must be decided by the whole team. If a wrong answer is given, the next question goes to the first hand up and, if correct, that person’s team get to try the rest of the round.
• Each team will also have to solve the clues to identify a fact or process.
• There are five lightning rounds in which team members consult to try to identify a slowly revealed fact or process…
• Memory Test – questions on the order and detail of eleven objects which cross the screen then disappear.

Individual Rounds

• Two unscramble and identify rounds which consists of a picture which has been cut up and rearranged.
• Memory Test – give coordinates of ammeters which have moved around a grid
• Finally, the fifteen - question individual bonus round. This round allows flexibility in terms of the time the quiz takes as not all the questions have to be attempted. The quiz therefore can last between 40 and 50 minutes.

Full instructions are given on the PowerPoint itself.

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