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Plans, feedback and simpler rewrites for Year 8 science.

Tom Linden4 promptsUpdated 27 Sept 2026

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Plan a 50-minute lesson on topic for year group students. Most of them already prior knowledge. · Starter (5 min): a question they can answer on a mini whiteboard · Teach (15 min): the one idea that matters most, with a worked example · Practice (20 min): three tasks that get harder; the last one is a stretch · Exit ticket (5 min): two questions that show who got it · Spare (5 min): what to cut if we run late List the misconceptions students usually have about topic, and where in the lesson I deal with each one.
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Here's a student's type of writing answering: task. Their level: level. Give feedback in this format: one thing they did well (quote it), the single most important thing to fix (with an example of how the sentence could look), and one question that makes them think. Write it to the student, in the second person, in under 80 words, with no grade. paste student writing
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Rewrite the text below so a 13-year-old can read it easily. Keep every fact. Short sentences, common words, and explain any term you can't avoid in brackets. Don't add anything new. Then list the words you replaced. paste text
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Explain concept to someone who knows field they already know well but nothing about new field. Use one analogy from their field, then drop the analogy and explain it properly. Then give me 3 questions to check I understood, with the answers below a line of dashes. Max 250 words before the questions.
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