Lesson Plans
EEBL Placements
Scotland's teacher placement programme is called EEBL (Excellence in Education through Business Links). If you would like more information about EEBL, please click here.
We have asked teachers who completed their EEBL placements to produce lesson plans for us. These lesson plans cover biology, physics, chemistry, maths and technology. Please refer to the overview spreadsheet for more information or select the individual lesson plan. All lesson plans contain up to date references to the Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.
This overview spreadsheet shows you the individual lesson plans that were developed for biology, physics, chemistry, maths and technology. It contains information about the topic, target age range, SQA Arrangement, worksheets and case studies.
MATHEMATICS
These four lesson plans are all based on a placement with James Jones & Sons, manufacturers in the timber industry.
Choose from:
Using Formulae
Making Statistics Meaningful
Arithmetics in the real world
From the Architect
TECHNOLOGY
There are two lesson plans covering renewable energy in form of wave power. One for S1/S2 and one for S3/S4.
lesson plan S1/S2, project plan S1/S2
lesson plan S3/S4, project plan S3/S4
PHYSICS
The lesson plan for P7 covers Energy and Engineering in the Highlands.
The lesson plan for S4 covers Hydro Electricity. There is a set of starter questions and a power point presentation about Glendoe.
BIOLOGY
The lesson plans were developed after a placement with SAMS (Scottish Association of Marine Science) in Oban.
The lesson plans for Standard Grade are:
Rocky Shores (with power point, plant sheet, animal sheet, recording sheet, transect sheet)
Seaweed BioFuels (with power point)
Toxic Algae (with power point and info leaflet from SAMS)
and for 11 - 14 yrs: Marine Collisions (with power point)
and for 13 - 16 yrs: Marine Aliens (with power point)
CHEMISTRY
There are three lesson plans
for S1/S2
Making New Substances
Introduction to Science
for S5/S6
Chemical Industry
Generic case studies
Pharmacist
Community Pharmacist
Pharmacy Technician
Further lesson ideas
are provided for
Advanced Higher
S1/S2
Standard Grade Chemistry
Higher Grade Chemistry
Information about a careers in Pharmacy
Brief Overview Pharmacy
Pharmacy as a career
What do pharmacists do?
What qualifications do I need?
Where can I study?
Leaflet of the National Pharmacy Association:
STEM Clubs
The Inverness College has run a series of STEM Club for S1 and S2 pupils in the school year 2008/09 and you can find their lesson plans including worksheets and further information here.
Take home sheets with instructions for the practical activities - (TH) in the table below
Worksheets used in class – (W) in the table below
Risk Assessments for each activity carried out during the STEM clubs - (RA) in the table below
List of relevant and extension internet resources
Theme | Activity |
| The activity introduces students to a range of methods used in solving crimes and explores the scientific principles behind these methods. | TH Detectives |
| RA fibre analysis | |
| RA dusting for fingerprints | |
| The activity includes experiments related to common supermarket items. Students learn to create a battery and pH indicators using fruit and veg, build an egg protector and use salt and pineapple to make jelly and icecream. | TH Supermarket |
| Supermarket practical | |
RA pH indicators | |
RA Icecream | |
| RA Food dye diffusion | |
Lesson Plan Magnets | |
| The activities inform students about how widely used magnets and magnetic forces are, e.g. bird orientieering, compass, electromagnet. | TH Magnets |
| Make a compass | |
| Magnets practical | |
| W Vectors and orienteering | |
| W Electromagnets | |
| Quiz | |
| Entertainment | Lesson Plan Entertainment |
| This lesson covers how scientific and engineering principles are applied in film and theatre, e.g. animations, special effects, pulleys. | TH Entertainment |
| Entertainment practical | |
| RA geysers | |
| RA pulleys | |
| RA Soda snakes | |
| This session identifies common plants and insects and explains their distribution. | TH Nature and Numbers |
| flower design | |
| fibonacci spiral | |
| plant answers | |
| plant parts | |
| plant dissection | |
| plant record sheet | |
| insects record sheet | |
| RA design | |
| RA dissection | |
| RA identification skills | |
| This lesson investigated some of the applications of science and technology encountered during holidays, e.g. chemicals in photography, sorting machines and air rockets. | TH Holidays |
| Holidays practical | |
| W inclinometer | |
| W launcher and rocket | |
| rocket results | |
| photochemicals | |
| RA sorting machine | |
| RA rockets | |
Enterprise Events Manual
The Enterprise Activity Days have been developed by James Kean, Technology teacher at Plockton High School. They encourage problem solving skills in a real life context.
All activities come including full description of the activity, all relevant worksheets, checklist, and links to the Curriculum for Excellence.
General Information for all the Acitivity Days (Introduction, The purpose of Problem Solving Days, CfE links, How to set up the Problem Solving Day, How to set up Curricular Inserts, Organisation Gantt charts, Topic planning template, checklists for consumables, equipment, team tub contents, team folder contents, adult helper details, testing devices wind and earthquake machine and short introductions to all the activities)
Audit of all activities against Technology, Literacy, Numeracy and Health & Wellbeing Third Level Outcomes
Activity 1: Charity boxes (complete with CfE links)
Activity 2: Wind generators (complete with CfE links)
Activity 3: Emergency shelters (complete with CfE links)
Activity 4: Creative spaces - school environment (complete with CfE links)
Activity 5: Hot air balloons (complete with CfE links)
Activity 6: Re-inventing the water wheel (complete with CfE links)
We have provided all files in pdf format but we are happy to supply word documents as well, just email stempoint@hient.co.uk
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EEBL placements:
STEM Club Ideas:
Enterprise Events Manual: Charity boxes, Wind generators, Emergency shelters, Creative spaces, Hot air balloons, Water wheel