Total coverage of the curriculum for KS3 Science
Explore KS3 Science with comprehensive and varied teaching material, like this animation explaining conduction in metals. With over 1,400 slides in total, and fully revised for the 2008 KS3 changes, Boardworks gives you everything you need to teach exciting and engaging lessons across the entire curriculum.
- Specifically designed to cover the content, concepts and processes in the 2008 Programme of Study, 40 presentations comprehensively cover Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
- The wealth of material contained in each presentation enables you to explore and teach KS3 Science in detail.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All presentations are logically structured and enhanced with a wide range of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about how energy is gathered in the roof of an Ecohouse, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with relevant illustrative material.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, and easily incorporate it into your lesson structure.
- Clearly defined menu structures at the beginning of each presentation enable you to navigate through lessons with ease.
- Every slide is colour-coded to match National Curriculum levels from 3 to 7.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. 17 engaging videos throughout the product, like this one about supersaturated solutions, demonstrate experiments and show science in action.
- ‘Science Around Us’ presentations that cover real-world case studies, issues and science careers help your class put science in context.
- Step-by-step animations explain complex processes in an appealing and informative way.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore the concepts of KS3 Science in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. For example, introduce your class to the principles of reflex responses with this visually appealing activity which has students tickling various animals with a feather and watching their reactions.
- Use your whiteboard technology to demonstrate dynamic processes in a unique, thorough and fully engaging manner.
- Inspire your students with embedded audio and video, stimulating games, interactive graphs and thoughtful animations.
- 550 interactive activities are embedded throughout the lessons.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Present important scientific ideas and theories in a visually appealing and easily recalled way. For example, this activity uses an interactive slider and changing image to allow you to demonstrate the differences between high and low biodiversity with ease.
- Support and enhance practical lessons with thought-provoking virtual experiments and animations.
- Simplify complex scientific theories with interactive diagrams and step-by-step simulations.
- Encourage class discussion of topical, science-based issues using voting charts, true-or-false exercises and opinion panel activities.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks KS3 Science, you can completely tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This engaging animation of an experiment testing the reactivity of metals can be incorporated into lessons as required: as a starter for a lesson on reactivity, for example, or for revision purposes.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and meet the different abilities and learning needs of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks KS3 Science presentations contain numerous additional features to enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. For example, these editable and printable worksheets accompany different presentations on preparing for exams, and can be used for individual work in the class or as homework exercises.
- Printable contents guides are well organised, easily navigable, and a great aid for lesson planning.
- Over 80 editable and printable worksheets full of stimulating activities are included in the product to help with extension ideas and setting homework tasks.
- Comprehensive glossary slides serve as useful tools for reference and aid revision.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with engaging summary activities. For example, this interactive true-or-false quiz can be used to recap students’ understanding of electrical circuits. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a subject from start to finish.
- Motivating summary material helps students to master the subject and facilitates revision.
- End-of-topic plenaries reinforce understanding of scientific terms and concepts.
- Presentations covering exam preparation with worked examples mean you can be confident your pupils will be fully prepared come assessment time.
