On this site you will find a lot of different resources to help support your learning in Science throughout year 7-11.
The Key Stage 3 materials are written following AQA's Big Ideas. There are 10 of these ideas. Students will learn about: waves, forces, organisms, matter, electromagnets, genes, reactions, energy, earth and ecosystems.
Key Stage 4 (GCSE) materials are written for both the AQA Trilogy (combined science) and Triple Science specifications. These resources are split into the Biology, Chemistry and Physics components.
General revision resources
There are lots of useful websites out there for you to use. You might choose to do some extra work for your favourite subject or use them to help you to understand the work that you have been set.
Educake is used for independent learning & homework tasks at Shrewsbury Academy. You are also able to login and practice questions on all of the different topics that you cover for KS3 & KS4.
Learning by Questions offers 60,000 questions, allowing pupils to deepen their knowledge, freeing up what limited time teachers have…
Me Power provides more than 100 practical tactics and tips to improve examination performance.
Gojimo.com has GCSE quizzes that relate to different specifications and are set up and ready to go.
Socrative.com allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly.
Quizlet.com/live can be used to create keyword flashcards online and give out to students.
Another great app for creating timed quizzes is Kahoot.com for added competition for keywords or ideas.
Memrise.com is a useful app for all languages and uses videos to help learners.
Tableau Public is a great platform to connect to a spreadsheet and create interactive visuals.
Looking for visual thinking? Try bubbl.us, to help students better understand, remember and generate new ideas.
Revisionbuddies.com can provide short bursts of revision for many GCSE topics and tracks progress too. It even allows the pupils to access past papers and mark schemes.
Goconqr.com allows pupils or teachers to create mind maps and flashcards using key terms.
Wordflex.com app uses a dictionary with a focus on key terms and a content-rich curriculum.
Exam season can be stressful for pupils and mindfulness can be a way to combat this and improve grades overall. Keltymentalhealth.ca/breathr helps pupils focus and relax can be a useful tool for achieving top grades.
Brainpop has a great set of videos, freely available for pupils.
Seneca Learning offers many online courses for pupils.
Finally, it’s been around for a while and just as good, BBC Bitesize resources and videos.