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Reviewer: gwyneth heald

Teacher notes will download, the activity will not! Help...has the promise of being a real winner.

Reviewer: Abby Linton

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Reviewer: c honey

Very interesting activity, look forward to try it with my classes! :-)

Reviewer: amelie pira

Once again UPD8 has produced some fantastic resources. Shared this with the department and they are looking forward to teaching it in the new term.

Reviewer: Nosheen Aziz

My Year 9 middle set pupils were engaged in this activity.
It was a useful revision tool for the Year 9 exams as it is a nice summary and good fun!

Reviewer: emer mc dermott

Good consolidation exercise to end a lesson, gave worksheet out as a homework with very mixed results, those who "got it" did excellent and enjoyed it, you could tell who didn't spend 5 minutes thinking about it and rushed it however

Reviewer: Rob Ellison

an enjoyable fun lesson with a small group of EBD pupils.The pupils remained focused and engaged and enjoyed naming the metals . Some pupils needed help with their drawings

Reviewer: Nick Jones

I work with SEN pupils so the colourful resources helped the pupils engage in the activity which I could easily adapt. Many thanks!

Reviewer: Elaine Bush

upd8 activities are very good for a teacher to see how science works using scientist profiles and HSW maps.Now Ifully understand how HSW skills can be fully incorporated in my lessons. My lesson plans are far more challenging and engaging for my pupils and i am even more motivated to try various approaches. Thank you.

Reviewer: brian caesar

My students enjoyed this different approach to learning about metals. A very good resource, the class was mostly girls and most of them like Jonny Depp so I was on to a winner straight away. Thanks UPD8.

Reviewer: Hazel Butterworth

I used this with my SEBD Yr 9 pupils (boys).
They enjoyed the different approach and really engaged. My pupils enjoy researching and this allowed them the freedom to do so (metals page 2).
We had looked at the peroidic table in depth and had learnt most of the common symbols so they quickly recognised some of the metals and this motivated them to untangle the clues from page 2.
I got them to re-write page 2 in their own words and this helped them to understand the clues. It was also evidence that they had completed the work.
Drawing the items (page 3) gave the less academic pupils the chance to shine.
I really enjoyed this activity and so did my pupils.
Thank you very much.

Reviewer: Paula Inglis

an attention getting method to have students learn symbols of chemicals and chenical properties through use of information presented to answer mystery questions and then illustrate their understanding of reactivity in water by their drawings

Reviewer: ron Hallock

Worked really well 2 high abilty yr8 sets.

Reviewer: Isabel Wragg

Tried this on two separate year nine groups, one top set & one much lower ability.
Worked great for both groups (I made sure I gave the lower ability group more help and guidance).
Both sets really enjoyed it, too !

Reviewer: Stephen Clark

Fantastic activity. Pupils challenged and engaged.

Reviewer: Leon Rowland

I used this activity with my upper yr 9 science group ( mixed level 6 &7), after we had put together revision notes for the topic. It proved to be a great way to make use of their revision material. It was set as a competiton (golden merits as prizes), which appealed to the boys in the group. If using for a lwer group i would probably change some of the language to make it fully accessible for those with lower literacy skills.

Reviewer: rhona punter

Great activity for my lower ability Year 8 Group - really enjoyed the art work and could relate to what happened to treasure, brining topic alive.

Reviewer: jane Griffin

Year 9 enjoyed the challenge of translating pirate speek into the modern and illustrating the treasure using information on the reactivity of metals. I have recommended it to our science team.

Reviewer: Tony Smart

I used this resource as a revision exercise for a mixed ability year 9 group. The students really enjoyed it and i will be implementing it into our scheme of work.

Reviewer: lisa biddulph

I used this resource on the IWB as an introduction to the main activity. Trialling drugs is one of the topics covered in the new GCSE and this was an invaluable discussion starter. It also introduced the students to the concept of the use of placebos and double blind trials and why they might be used.

Reviewer: allan hui

very popular with boys. Made the topic much more fun to learn.

Reviewer: lorraine nenguke

This activity was very popular with both year 9 and year 10 groups. Pupils really engaged with the work and the promise of a chocolate bar gave the competition an extra buzz. The idea that we were doing something on football grabbed the imagination of one group of boys in particular - the fact that there were no 'football' questions didn't seem to matter.

Reviewer: sarah Nhamo

Went down well with my average ability Year 10 group in the last week of term. Those with an artisitic flair particularly liked presenting the "what happened to the treasure" as a poster.

Reviewer: Tracy Roofe