Year 7 Science help

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DS12 says his science teacher was rubbish (she was!) and he didn't really understand his science this year. He got a 5 in his end of year test when predicted a 7.

What are the best online revision tools for him? I'm happy to pay if very good but think he might be happier working from his laptop rather than books.

Seneca

I would check what access he already has. Look in his school diary. Does he have access to Sam learning or any similar platform?

I agree with PP. Lots of schools have subscriptions to online packages. Tassomai? Educake?

The CGP KS3 revision books and workbooks are excellent. But books rather than online.

Thanks. I've the school but obviously not expecting an answer but we don't think he has any subscriptions but will look into those recommended.

Seneca and Tassomai are both good. BBC bitesize KS3 also have nice revision notes on all the national curriculum topics.

How are his maths skills?

He is good at maths. He got an 8 in is end of year test.

Agree with Seneca and there are lots of good videos on BBC Bitesize.

Thank you. I've subscribed to Tassomai for a 7 day trial.

Unlike the rest of the world i never recommend sencea, have found way too many errors in their stuff, and no i am not up for emailing them every time i see an error.
Buy some good revision guides, eg CGP, and back up with bbc bitesize, and something like ks3revisionmonkey videos

BBC bitesize is good but you need to find out which topics they cover in year 7 as schools will do things differently and this covers all of ks3 not just year 7. This could be on their website, a lot of schools will share their schemes of learning on the website.

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zng4d2p

Our year 7 curriculum really focused on How Science Works.
Make sure he knows:
What classroom science equipment is called and how to draw appropriate 2D diagrams of it
what a hypothesis is,
how to write a concise method,
draw a results table and calculate a mean average (remembering to ignore anomalies),
write a conclusion and an evaluation.
Lots of very simple experiments you can do at home for all of those.

Another large chunk of our year 7 was cell's so learning the function of key organelles (nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondria, ribosomes, cell wall, permanent vacuole, chloroplast) and to draw and label animal, plant and specialised cells (sperm, egg, nerve, root hair, palisade)

Basic reproduction changes during puberty, labeling male and female reproductive systems and then a main focus on plant reproduction building on cells knowledge.