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Lesson 1:
Food Labels (Year 7)
Pupils use digital images of food packaging to look closely at nutritional information and make decisions about comparing foods. Core and extension lessons, include decisions about spending the energy gained from food on a range of physical activities. |
 Food Labels (core)
Food Labels (support)
Food Labels (extension)
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| Lesson 2:
Penguins (Year 8)
Pupils use a mathematical model of huddling penguins to explore how surface area to volume ratio changes.
The extension lesson has pupils considering the general case of an m x n array of penguins. |
Penguins (core)
Penguins (support)
Penguins (extension)
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| Lesson 3:
Real Life Graphing (Year 8)
Pupils use a CBR to create their own distance-time graphs exploring different types of motion and write response to questions; pupils collaborate to write the "story" for each graph,
The extension lesson includes calculations of speed for particular parts of the graph. |
Real Life Graphing (core)
Real Life Graphing (support)
Real Life Graphing (extension)
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| Lesson 4:
Slopes (Year 7)
Pupils use graphical calculators to investigate straight line graphs. The extension lesson has pupils using interactive geometry software, matching straight line graphs onto superimposed pictures of slides and staircases. |
Slopes (core)
Slopes (support)
Slopes (extension)
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| Lesson 5:
Transformations (Year 8)
Using dynamic geometry pupils find and record transformations. |
Transformations (core)
Transformations (support)
Transformations (extension)
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| Lesson 6:
Weather (Year 9)
Pupils compare data from a number of weather stations carefully choosing a fairly representative sample.
They produce graphs and write a report requiring interpretation of the graphs. The extension activity asks pupils to interrogate weather station historical data. |
Weather (core)
Weather (support)
Weather (extension)
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