Lesson Resources
Practical resources for planning and teaching secondary science lessons.
Ready-made lessons and lesson components for setting up learning, building new knowledge, checking understanding and embedding learning. Use them individually or together, and adapt them to fit your teaching, curriculum and pupils.
Lesson and classroom resources
Teaching Efficiently lessons are built from tried-and-tested, research-supported and best-practice-checked components, designed to make each stage of the lesson both efficient for teachers to deliver and effective for student learning experience and outcomes.
Complete lessons include all Teaching Efficiently components and are ready to use with minimal prep, or can be fully edited and adapted to integrate with existing class and curriculum approaches.
Set up learning components are available separately, ready to use, integrate or adapt within existing lessons and schemes of learning.
Teaching Efficiently resources support four stages of the lesson and classroom process.
1. Set up learning
Learning Journeys
Learning Objectives
Do Now
Prior Knowledge
Hooks
2. Build new knowledge
New Knowledge
Checks for Understanding
3. Practise and apply
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Application
4. Check and consolidate
Hinge Questions
Plenaries
Set up learning
Set up learning components provide a complete set of tools to enable teachers to quickly engage students of all capabilities and prepare them for th elearning to follow. Components can be used independent from one another, allowing teaches to customise for the lesson and class.
Learning Journeys
Show students where they are in the learning sequence and how lessons connect.
Lesson-by-lesson maps orienting students to each lesson in the context of the sequence of learning across a topic, including what has already been taught, the current lesson and what comes next. Provided in ready-to-use and easily editable PowerPoint format.
For teachers
Quickly calibrate the lesson to where it falls in the wider learning sequence.
For students
Connect the individual lesson to the wider topic.
Available on TES
Learning Objectives
Show students specification-aligned learning objectives that they can understand and act on.
Ready-to-use, specification-aligned, fully curriculum-adaptable learning objectives for each topic using student-centred language and structured to reflect the Assessment Objectives (AOs) used in examination assessment. Provided Excel format for planning, reviewing and adapting learning objectives across the course and in ready-to-use and easily editable PowerPoint format.
For teachers
Help students of all abilities readily engage with the lesson.
Available on TES
Do Now
Activate students’ relevant prior learning, prepare them for the learning to follow.
Lesson-specific retrieval practice consisting of four questions drawn from previous learning, structured as True/False, Multiple Choice, Explain and Apply. Provided in Excel for planning, selecting and adapting retrieval questions, and in PowerPoint for ready-to-use classroom delivery.
Check for Prior Knowledge
Establish student starting points, identify knowledge gaps and misconceptions that could affect the learning to follow.
Lesson-specific questions checking prerequisite knowledge needed for the new learning. Designed so students can easily reflect on and explore what they already know and surface gaps and misconceptions, Provided in Excel for planning, reviewing and adapting, and in PowerPoint for ready-to-use fully editable classroom delivery.
For teachers
Quickly assess student starting points, adapt to target teaching where it is most needed.
Available on TES
Available on TES
For students
See an achievable and challenging target for the lesson.
For students
Build confidence and readiness to engage with new learning.
Hooks
Capture attention and stimulate student curiosity to engage with the new learning.
Ready-to-use visual stimuli based on scenarios, questions and real-world contexts that introduce the lesson content and prompt students to predict, explain or take an action.
For teachers
Quickly create interest and curiosity about the learning to follow.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
For teachers
Quickly activate the prior learning students need for the lesson.
For students
Recall and apply previous learning before new learning begins.
For students
Become curious about the new learning and interest to learn more.
Gather evidence of learning
Question-level analysis (QLA)
See performance question by question and connect results back to the curriculum.
Teaching Efficiently question-level analysis breaks assessment results down by question, topic, subtopic, specification reference and assessment objective, providing a structured view of where learning is secure and where further attention may be needed.
For Heads of Science
Analyse performance across classes and cohorts to identify questions and curriculum areas that were answered well and those that may require reteaching or intervention.
For subject teachers
Enter marks question by question, check totals automatically and identify strengths and development areas that can feed directly into feedback and reporting.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
QP-MS Feedback
Bring the question paper, mark scheme and examiner commentary together question by question.
Teaching Efficiently QP-MS Feedback resources combine each question with the relevant mark scheme and examiner commentary, making the information needed for marking and feedback easier to access and use.
For Heads of Science
Support consistent use of mark schemes, moderation across teachers and the development of subject-specific marking practice.
For subject teachers
Work through questions alongside the mark scheme and examiner commentary, use them directly in feedback sessions and add individual written or audio feedback where appropriate.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
Provide feedback
Student-specific feedback and next steps
Turn assessment evidence into specific, actionable feedback.
Teaching Efficiently feedback resources connect individual questions, answers and examiner feedback with the next steps students need to take.
For Heads of Science
Support consistent feedback across classes, connect common misconceptions with appropriate next steps, and create a more systematic approach to feedback and intervention.
For subject teachers
Direct individual students to the questions and areas requiring attention, with specific feedback and next steps already connected to their assessment performance.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
Marksheet analysis
Bring marks together across classes and cohorts for analysis and reporting.
Teaching Efficiently marksheet analysis consolidates assessment marks by class and tier, supporting comparison, moderation and identification of areas requiring attention.
For Heads of Science
Support grade-boundary setting, moderation across markers and analysis of patterns across classes and cohorts.
For subject teachers
Identify questions or areas where marking may need reviewing and highlight common areas for feedback, consolidation or reteaching.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
Report comments
Turn assessment evidence into consistent, data-informed reporting.
Teaching Efficiently reporting resources use assessment information to support structured report comments, including strengths, development areas and next steps.
For Heads of Science
Improve consistency and completeness of reporting across the department while keeping comments focused on evidence, actions and development.
For subject teachers
Use QLA-identified strengths and development areas to reduce repetitive report writing and connect reporting directly to the actions and next steps already identified through assessment.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
Monitor progress
Quadrants
Turn progress and effort data into clear priorities for action.
Teaching Efficiently progress-monitoring resources combine measures of student progress and effort to classify students into four quadrants, helping make the next action easier to identify.
For Heads of Science
Use a consistent effort-and-progress framework across classes to identify patterns, priorities and groups requiring different types of support or intervention.
For subject teachers
See each student's effort and progress together, identify their quadrant and use that classification to inform future actions and intervention.
Available on TES Autumn 2026
Aspire — High effort | High progress
Ambition — High effort | Low progress
Accelerate — Low effort | High progress
Action — Low effort | Low progress
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