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      • Movement across membranes
        • Active transport
        • Diffusion
        • Osmosis
        • Surface area
      • MRS GREN
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      • Sampling techniques
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    • Amounts and equations
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      • Balancing and writing chemical equations
      • The mole
      • Titrations
    • Atomic structure
    • Bonding
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      • Covalent bonding
      • Intermolecular forces
      • Ionic bonding
      • Metallic bonding
    • Earth
    • Electrolysis
    • Enthalpy
    • Equilibria
    • Organic
      • Polymers
    • Particles
      • Particle pictures
      • Gas pressure teaching resources
      • Diffusion
      • Elements, mixtures and compounds
      • Separating mixtures
        • Filtration and crystallisation
        • Distillation
        • Chromatography
      • Solutions
      • Density
    • Periodic table and reactivity
      • Reactivity or physical change
      • Reactivity of metals
      • Group 1 alkali metals
      • Extraction of metals
      • Redox
        • Combustion
      • Halogens (Group VII)
      • Tests for ions and gases
    • Rates of reaction
      • Catalysts and activation energy
      • Collision theory
      • Rates of reaction graphs
  • Physics
    • Earth and space
    • Electricity
    • Energy
      • Heating and cooling
      • Internal energy
      • Specific heat capacity
    • Forces
      • Air resistance and free body diagrams
      • Floating and sinking teaching resources
      • Friction
      • Moments
      • Newton’s laws
      • Pressure
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    • Powerful ideas of science
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    • Lesson objectives in science lessons
    • Quick Do Now
    • Check prior knowledge
    • Challenge
    • Use a context
    • Challenge all appropriately
    • Direct instruction in science lessons
      • Board work is not boring
    • Model abstract ideas
    • Question for understanding
    • Check for understanding
    • Troubleshooting your science lessons
  • Pedagogy
    • Cognitive science and science teaching
      • Challenge
        • Structuring struggle
      • Deep learning
      • Diagnostic science teaching
      • Knowledge versus understanding
      • Misconceptions
        • Errors are not misconceptions
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      • Progression
      • Zooming in and out in science
    • Argumentation
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      • Dangers of definitions
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      • Demonstrations in science teaching
      • Managing whole-class practical work
      • Scientific inquiry
      • Next steps for practical lessons
    • Using drama
  • Assessment
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