KS3 Science Year 8 Complete Scheme | 77 Lessons + 20 Practicals | Editable PowerPoint, PDF and Worksheets

Year 8 is where KS3 science gets harder, and where the gaps start to show.

These seventy-seven lessons pick up each of the ten big ideas at the point Year 7 left them and push into the difficult second half. Magnets and electromagnets, and the motor effect that runs every motor. Pressure in fluids. The particle model doing real work. Exothermic and endothermic change. Natural selection, taught properly as selection rather than the giraffe stretching its neck.

Every lesson is built the same way, because that consistency is what lets students concentrate on the science instead of working out what the teacher wants. A Do Now with answers. An explanation. A worked example. Independent practice with a model answer. An exam style question with a mark scheme.

What you get

• 77 complete lessons covering the second half of all ten big ideas
• 2,252 slides in all, so a lesson runs 22 to 26 slides and fills the hour
• 20 practical lessons with the method broken into steps and one named working-scientifically skill taught and shown
• Editable PowerPoint plus PDF for every single lesson
• A worksheet for every lesson, in colour and in black and white, each with its own answer key
• A student progress checklist covering every unit
• A contents sheet so you can plan the year without opening seventy-seven files
• Model answers written out in full, not bullet points you have to expand
• A teaching guide for the year, covering how every lesson is built and how to adapt it
• A medium-term plan for each of the ten units, with the learning objectives, the unit vocabulary and the misconceptions to plan for
• A curriculum map for the year on one editable A3 page, showing the route across the six half-terms and where every unit leads at GCSE
• A guide to running the scheme over a two year key stage or a three year one

Why the misconceptions matter here

By Year 8 students have usually decided what they think. That a heavier object falls faster. That temperature and thermal energy are the same thing. That animals change because they need to. These lessons name those ideas and take them apart rather than teaching around them.

Written by Mrs Hayles, an award-winning science educator, former deputy headteacher and science curriculum author, with over twenty five years in science education.

Fully editable, so you can adapt anything to the class in front of you.

Licence

One purchase covers one teacher. You can use these lessons with your own classes for as long as you teach, edit them to suit your pupils, print them and share them with the children you teach and their parents.

If your whole department wants to use them, buy one copy per teacher or email info@advisoryscience.com and I will arrange a department price.

Please do not upload the files to a public website, share them outside your own school, or resell them.