This is a community for UK teachers within the Inspiring Science Education community. Here you can find ready-made lesson plans or share some of your own. If you're not already registered, then please register here. Lesson plans aim to effectively support all stages of the UK curricula. They provide an engaging and interactive atmosphere using interactive tools and web-based content. As a teacher you will be able to closely monitor the performance of your class as well as set homework or tasks
Star In A Box offers a lesson plan for 1 or 2 hour sessions centered around the highly interactive Star In A Box application. This App simulates the evolutionary stages of stars of various masses. It is possible for students to follow changes in Temperature, Pressure and Size for various stars. Sample questions of various difficulties are provided. In this framework students will learn about the way stars are detected from Earth, about types of stars (ie various mass) and about how this affects
