Resources by Best Evidence Science Teaching

Resistance

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the effect on a simple circuit of changing the voltage of the battery.
• Describe resistance (in Ohms, Ω) as a measure of how hard it is for charge to flow.
• Explain...

Resultant force in two dimensions

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify forces between interacting objects.
• Identify the free body (force) diagram representing the forces on an object.           
• Draw and interpret free body (force)...

Seeing in Colour

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Give an example of how coloured lights mix to make light of another colour

• Explain how adding coloured lights together affects brightness

• Describe...

Sensing circuits

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Use the addition rule for p.d. in a series circuit to calculate the p.d. across components.
• Use the ratio rule for p.d. in a series circuit to calculate the p.d. across components...

Separating Solutions

This progression toolkit develops understanding of the key concept of separating solutions, as part of a topic on substances and mixtures. This key concept helps to build broader understanding about substances and properties, which is one of the big ideas of science education at ages 11-14.

It includes...

Sexual and asexual reproduction in flowering plants

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify the two types of reproduction (sexual and asexual) that take place in plants.
• Describe the function of the male and female reproductive structures in a flowering plant....

Sexual Reproduction in Humans

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how the male and female reproductive structures work collectively as a system to produce and release gametes.
• Explain the importance for fertilisation of the chromosome...