Resources by Kyra Teaching School Alliance
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Photosynthesis - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use conceptual change texts instruction to teach about photosynthesis. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson starts with an activity to establish pupils'...
Plate tectonics - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan describing how to use slow motion animation (slowmation) to teach plate tectonics. It gives ideas on how to deliver the task along with the key questions to ask to ensure understanding and suggested software to use for the animation.
The research summary discusses how...
Radioactivity
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use analogies to teach about radioactive decay. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson introduces several activities to model the concepts of radioactive decay...
Rate and extent of chemical change - chemical equilibrium - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use modelling-based teaching to teach about chemical equilibrium. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson outlines how to use a demonstration of the appearance of...
Relationships in an ecosystem - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use system thinking to teach about ecosystems. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson includes an activity where individual pupils are given an organism. They...
This is a useful collection of research informed secondary science lesson plans produced as part of the Research-2-Practice project undertaken by research teams at the University of Roehampton, University of Lincoln, York St John University and KYRA research school, between 2020 and 2021, which was funded by...
Research-2-Practice - Supporting secondary science teachers to engage with education research
This booklet contains all the research informed secondary science lesson plans produced as part of the Research-2-Practice project undertaken by research teams at the University of Roehampton, University of Lincoln, York St John University and KYRA research school, between 2020 and 2021, which was funded by...
Sound waves - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use musical instruments to teach about sound waves. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson outlines a set of activities that can be used to demonstrate that...
The particulate nature of matter - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use enquiry based instruction to teach the particulate nature of matter. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson leads pupils through a series of activities....
The Sun - Earth - Moon system - R2P
This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use mental model building to teach about the Sun-Earth-Moon system. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.
The lesson includes an activity where pupils look at different...