—·Subject · Year 7 to A Level
Everything the site has for Science in one place — a subject playbook, schemes of work, examination playbooks, questions with model answers, knowledge organisers and free classroom posters. Written inside a school, not a consultancy, and built from the published subject content rather than from any one board's papers.
One book for the whole department — the argument the rest of the shelf is built on.
Biology · Chemistry · Physics · KS3 to A Level £4.99
One book for a department that teaches three subjects, runs a laboratory and shares a technician — the head of science who has to hold it together and the teacher setting up period four with a class already at the door.
The current GCSE and A Level science specifications · 72 pages, 69 sections · For department CPD, planning and curriculum review
One sequence table a year, in half-termly units and in teaching order.
Science · Key Stage 3 £3.99
Six half-termly units across one academic year, two each of biology, chemistry and physics. Each discipline starts where it actually starts — biology at the cell, chemistry at the particle model, physics at forces — because nothing else in the key stage works if those three are shaky.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 science (DfE, 2013) · 41 pages, 13 sections · For heads of science, subject leaders, technicians and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · Key Stage 3 £3.99
Six half-termly units across one academic year. Year 7 built three foundations — the cell, the particle model and force. This year turns each of them into a mechanism, and photosynthesis is taught as respiration’s complement rather than as a second equation to memorise backwards.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 science (DfE, 2013) · 43 pages, 13 sections · For heads of science, subject leaders, technicians and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · Key Stage 3 £3.99
Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. The abstraction year: the particle becomes the atom, forces become quantities with equations, and variation becomes inheritance. Unit 1a explains the reactivity series Year 8 built from evidence.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 science (DfE, 2013) · 42 pages, 13 sections · For heads of science, subject leaders, technicians and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · GCSE Biology £4.99
Sixty-two pages, board-neutral, written for combined science and separate biology together. The combined content is a subset of the separate content — checked statement by statement against both DfE documents — so the nineteen statements combined classes do not need are marked, and one book serves both routes. Ninety-one of the subject content’s one hundred and forty-three statements are taught here; the rest are Year 11. Six figures, six printable diagnostics, and student work shown beside the repair in every unit.
The GCSE subject content for biology (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 63 pages, 19 sections · For heads of science, biology leads and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · GCSE Chemistry £4.99
Sixty-one pages, board-neutral, written for combined science and separate chemistry together. The eleven statements combined classes do not need are marked, so one book serves both routes. Ninety-six of the subject content’s one hundred and sixty-one statements are taught here; the rest are Year 11. Six figures, six printable diagnostics, and student work shown beside the repair in every unit — including the balancing error that changes water into hydrogen peroxide.
The GCSE subject content for chemistry (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 63 pages, 19 sections · For heads of science, chemistry leads and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · GCSE Physics £4.99
Sixty-four pages, board-neutral, written for combined science and separate physics together. Twenty of the seventy-seven statements are separate physics only — and they cluster, so moments, fluid pressure and everything about waves at a boundary are marked rather than woven in. Every Higher-tier statement is named in the unit that teaches it, including the two that look like core content and are not. Six figures, six printable diagnostics, and an equations page separating the nineteen to recall from the nine given in the examination.
The GCSE subject content for physics (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 65 pages, 20 sections · For heads of science, physics leads and every teacher who has to deliver it
Science · GCSE Biology £4.99
Sixty-three pages completing the two-year course. Year 10 was the organism; this is the population — the genome, inheritance, selection, ecosystems, and feeding a growing population out of them. The remaining fifty-two of the subject content’s one hundred and forty-three statements are taught here, and every one is mapped to the phase that teaches it. Seventeen separate-only statements are marked, the fifth half-term teaches no new content so it can be spent on diagnosis and technique, and the tiering page carries the arithmetic most departments never see.
The GCSE subject content for biology (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 65 pages, 20 sections · For heads of science, biology leads and every teacher taking a class to the examinations
Science · GCSE Chemistry £4.99
Sixty-seven pages completing the two-year course. Year 10 was the substance; this is the account — how much of it there is, what it actually is, what can be built from it and what it costs to make at scale. The remaining sixty-five of the subject content’s one hundred and sixty-one statements are taught here, each mapped to the phase that teaches it. Half the year is separate chemistry only and it does not spread evenly, so every unit states what a combined class actually studies and what to do with the time.
The GCSE subject content for chemistry (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 70 pages, 20 sections · For heads of science, chemistry leads and every teacher taking a class to the examinations
Science · GCSE Physics £4.99
Seventy pages completing the two-year course. Year 10 was the mechanical world; this is what cannot be touched — light and the electromagnetic spectrum, magnetic fields, the inside of the atom, and the universe. The remaining forty-six of the subject content’s one hundred and twenty-three statements are taught here, each mapped to the phase that teaches it. Seven figures, an equations page dividing the nineteen relationships to recall from the nine supplied, and eight named joints back to Year 10.
The GCSE subject content for physics (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014) · 71 pages, 21 sections · For heads of science, physics leads and every teacher taking a class to the examinations
Science · A Level £4.99
Forty-four pages covering biology, chemistry and physics together, because the DfE publishes one subject content document for all three. What they do not share is the mathematical demand — at least 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the assessment — so it is diagnosed by discipline in Week 1 rather than taught as one shared lesson. The twelve practical activities are scheduled across the two years with technician lead times, and practical skills are prepared for as written-paper marks as well as for the endorsement.
The DfE subject content for AS and A level science (biology, chemistry, physics and psychology) · 44 pages, 15 sections · For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
A separate book for each board — AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, at GCSE and A Level — with what each assessment objective is worth quoted from the specification.
Science · GCSE · AQA £3.99
AQA only — AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.
AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) · 28 pages, 22 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Science · GCSE · OCR £3.99
OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) Gateway Science Combined Science A (J250). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.
OCR GCSE (9–1) Gateway Science Combined Science A (J250) · 28 pages, 22 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Science · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £3.99
Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Combined Science (1SC0). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.
Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Combined Science (1SC0) · 28 pages, 22 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Science · A Level · AQA £3.99
AQA only — AQA A-level Biology (7402), Chemistry (7405) and Physics (7408). An examination manual for an A-level science department, covering Biology, Chemistry and Physics. It is about how the three qualifications are assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the content. The three sciences share one set of assessment objectives and weight them differently, so most pages here cover all three.
AQA A-level Biology (7402), Chemistry (7405) and Physics (7408) · 25 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Science · A Level · OCR £3.99
OCR only — Biology A (H420), Biology B (H422), Chemistry A (H432), Chemistry B (H433), Physics A (H556) and Physics B (H557). Six qualifications in two architectures, and the routes are not interchangeable: what OCR examines, how it asks for it, and what a strong answer looks like, split by route throughout.
OCR A-level Biology A (H420), Biology B (H422), Chemistry A (H432), Chemistry B (H433), Physics A (H556) and Physics B (H557) · 35 pages, 28 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Science · A Level · Pearson Edexcel £3.99
Pearson Edexcel only — Biology A (9BN0), Biology B (9BI0), Chemistry (9CH0) and Physics (9PH0). Four qualifications that share their assessment objectives and not their papers, so the weightings hold across the sciences while Paper 3 does not — and Paper 3 is 40 per cent.
Pearson Edexcel A-level Biology A (9BN0), Biology B (9BI0), Chemistry (9CH0) and Physics (9PH0) · 35 pages, 28 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
A hundred questions a book, each answered three times — weak, middling and strong — with the one move that separates them named.
Biology · GCSE £4.99
Six marks in ten on a biology paper are for applying and analysing, and the commonest way to lose them is to write something true — a sentence about mitochondria that would be just as correct on a page about a muscle cell. Every page here names what the question demanded and the answer never touched. The mark schemes carry the allow and do not accept lines a real scheme has and a textbook never does; at six marks they become level descriptors, with the one move that lifts a response from one band to the next written out in a sentence.
The GCSE subject content for biology published by the Department for Education, which every board builds its specification on, and the three assessment objectives set by Ofqual · 107 pages, 9 sections · For biology and science teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide
Chemistry · GCSE £4.99
A student who reaches 9.75 g instead of 10 g because they forgot the hydrogen keeps two of the three marks — and one who writes 10 g with no working keeps none. That is error carried forward, and it is worth more marks in chemistry than in any other subject on the timetable. Every calculation here is marked step by step, each step saying what it still earns when the number coming into it is wrong; below six marks the schemes carry the allow and do not accept lines a real scheme has, and at six they become level descriptors.
The GCSE subject content for chemistry published by the Department for Education, which every board builds its specification on, and the assessment objectives and mathematical requirements set by Ofqual · 107 pages, 9 sections · For chemistry and science teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide
Physics · GCSE £4.99
Of the equations in GCSE physics, some must be recalled and the rest are given to you in the exam — and no revision guide tells a student which is which. Every calculation page here opens with the equation set large and a chip saying which side it falls on, read out of the subject content rather than typed on the page. Below six marks the schemes carry the allow and do not accept lines a real scheme has; on every calculation they are step marked, each step saying what it still earns when the number coming into it is wrong.
The GCSE subject content for physics published by the Department for Education, which every board builds its specification on, and the assessment objectives and mathematical requirements set by Ofqual · 107 pages, 9 sections · For physics and science teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide
A4, printable, one per unit — the vocabulary, the knowledge and the misconceptions a unit turns on.
KS3 Science · Year 7 · six A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 7 half-terms: cells and organisation, particles and states of matter, forces, reproduction, elements and compounds, and energy stores and transfers.
Empower Educators Year 7 Science scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
KS3 Science · Year 8 · six A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 8 half-terms: nutrition, digestion and respiration, chemical reactions, electricity and magnetism, photosynthesis and ecosystems, acids and the reactivity series, and waves.
Empower Educators Year 8 Science scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
KS3 Science · Year 9 · six A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 9 half-terms: atomic structure and the periodic table, inheritance and evolution, motion and pressure, the atmosphere and climate, space and energy resources, and health and the immune system.
Empower Educators Year 9 Science scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Biology · Year 10 · twelve A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 10 terms: Cell Biology — structure, division and scale; Bioenergetics — enzymes, respiration and photosynthesis; Transport Systems — exchange, circulation and plants; Health and Disease; Coordination and Control — the nervous and endocrine systems; and Homeostasis and Control in Plants.
Empower Educators Year 10 Biology scheme of work · 12 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Chemistry · Year 10 · twelve A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 10 terms: Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table; Structure, Bonding and the Properties of Matter; Chemical Changes — equations, acids, metals and electrolysis; Energy Changes in Chemistry; The Rate and Extent of Chemical Change; and Earth and Atmospheric Science.
Empower Educators Year 10 Chemistry scheme of work · 12 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Physics · Year 10 · twelve A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 10 terms: Energy — stores, transfers and efficiency; The Particle Model of Matter; Electricity — current, circuits and safety; Forces, Pressure and Moments; Forces and Motion — graphs, Newton's laws and stopping; and Waves in Matter.
Empower Educators Year 10 Physics scheme of work · 12 pages, 6 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Biology · Year 11 · ten A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 11 terms: The Genome — DNA, genes and gene expression; Inheritance, Variation and Evolution; Ecosystems — organisation, cycling and energy transfer; Biodiversity, Food Security and Gene Technology; and Final Preparation.
Empower Educators Year 11 Biology scheme of work · 10 pages, 5 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Chemistry · Year 11 · ten A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 11 terms: Quantitative Chemistry — conservation of mass, moles and concentration; Chemical Analysis — purity, separation and identification; Chemistry at Scale — extraction, equilibrium, yield and sustainability; Carbon Compounds — crude oil, homologous series and polymers; and Final Preparation.
Empower Educators Year 11 Chemistry scheme of work · 10 pages, 5 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
GCSE Physics · Year 11 · ten A4 sheets £3.99
The Year 11 terms: Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum; Magnetism and Electromagnetism; The Nuclear Atom, Radioactive Decay and Half-life; Nuclear Energy, Radiation in Use and the Universe; and Final Preparation.
Empower Educators Year 11 Physics scheme of work · 10 pages, 5 sections · For science teachers, technicians and heads of department — printed one per pupil
A3 and print-ready, quoted from the published subject content. Free to download.
Science · GCSE · Every exam board Free
Six A3 posters for the laboratory: twenty-six physics equations grouped by topic with the unit of every symbol, eighteen chemistry and biology calculations, units and prefixes and standard form, the vocabulary a method has to use, the nine hazard symbols, and the six rules of drawing a graph.
Quoted from the published subject content across the GCSE Science specifications · 6 A3 posters · For laboratory walls, prep rooms and revision spaces
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