'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
'If you keep trying the same old things, you'll keep getting the same old results'. Imaginative teaching ideas help stimulate students and improve student retention. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope that some of my ideas will help other teachers.
This resource is a A Level Biology, photosynthesis workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Electron transport chains
Chloroplast structure
Photosynthetic pigments
Light dependent photosynthesis
Light independent photosynthesis
Limiting factors of photosynthesis
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This resource is a set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Biology spec
2: The Nitrogen Cycle
3: The Heart
4: Genetic engineering
5: Cloning
6: Blood vessels
7: Cancer
8: Transpiration
9: The Kidney
8: Diffusion
9: Active Transport
10: Biodiversity
11: Decay
12: The carbon cycle
13: ADH
14: The immune system
15: Homeostasis
16: Malaria
17: Reflexes
18: HIV
19: Extinction
20: Evolution
These questions act as goo AFL activities at the end of the lesson and the mark schemes will allow students to see what the exam board want within long answer questions.
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This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Biology exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bioenergetics
2: Cells
3: Ecology
4: Homeostasis
5: Inheritance
6: Infection & response
7: Biological organisation
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the digestion & enzymes content of the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An enzyme information hunt
3: A lock & key card sort
4: 2 6 mark questions
5: A digestion summary sheet
6: An enzyme interactive notebook activity
7: A student information collection sheet
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the human reproductive content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes and ladders starter game
3: An information sheet
4: A card sort activity
5: A hormone concentration graph activity
6: An information hunt activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: An exam style question sheet for students to work through
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a revision lesson covering the photosynthesis section of the AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource include:
1: A starter 6 mark question marking activity which covers the basics of photosynthesis
2: A how the leaf is adapted to carry out photosynthesis model activity
3: A limiting factors snakes and ladders game
4: A 6 mark plenary activity to bring all of the key points together
5: A photosynthesis summary sheet
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This resource is a whole lesson with activities covering the leaf structure & photosynthesis section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A leaf structure demo activity
4: A information hunt activity
5 A 6 mark AFL question
6:A leaf modeling activity
7:A leaf interactive notebook activity
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a set of 30 graph analysis questions that can be used to help students answer questions involving graphs in the Science GCSE. There are some graphs with questions to discuss with students, some with anomalies for students to identify and some which ask students to describe what the graph shows.
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the cells to organ systems content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
Know the hierarchy of a living organism
Define cell, tissue, organ and organ system
Apply your knowledge of organisation to explain how the systems of the body are arranged
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A what students already understand diagnosis activity
4: Slides on cells, tissues, organs & organ systems
5: A modelling activity demo that works well with students
6: A multiple choice plenary activity
7: A summary sheet for students
8: A cells to organ system card sort
9: An organisation diagram activity
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, sexual & asexual reproduction sections. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of reproduction
4: An information hunt activity on the advantages of both types of reproduction
5: Card sort activity
6: Mock exam question on types of reproduction
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resource is a power point containing 15 A2 Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Neuronal communication x 2
2: Reflexes & muscles
3: Hormonal communication
4: Homeostasis
5: Excretion & the kidney
6: Photosynthesis
7: Respiration
8: Patterns of variation
9: Manipulating genomes
10: Genetic engineering & cloning
11: Biotechnology
12: Ecosystems
13: Genetics
14: Plant responces
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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This resource is a set of 33 Science Literacy games that can be used within normal lessons or as revision. Each game contains text that students need to read through and then a game with questions based on that text around it. The games included cover:
1: 2 on speed
2: Evolution
3: Rate of reaction
4: Organs
5: Classification
6: Adaptations
7: Understanding genetics
8: Electromagnetic induction
9: Protein synthesis
10: The cell cycle
11: Magnets
12: Bacteria
13: The atmosphere
14: Current
15: Neutralisation
16: Distance & displacement
17: Electrolysis
18: Atomic theory
19: States of matter
20: Blood
21: Sewage treatment
22: Anaerobic respiration
23: Natural polymers
24: Renewable energy
25: Drug testing
26: Meiosis
27: Acids & alkalis
28: Levels of organisation
29: Types of muscle
30: Power & Pd
31: Recycling
32: States of matter
All of these games are tried & tested and really help engage students. After students have played the game you can also ask students questions off the boards as a quick form of AFL.
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This resource is a set of 16 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the bioenergetics content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification.
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the structure & function of the brain section of the new OCR A Level Biology 2015 specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A suggested build a brain activity
4: Information cards on the sections of the brain
5: An information sheet on ways to look at the brain
6: A snakes & ladders game
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This bundle includes a range of games covering the following areas:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
18: Current electricity
19: Circuits
20: The early Universe
21: Energy from the nucleus
22: Forces
23: Heat transfer
24: Hydraulics
25: Kinetic energy
26: The life cycle of a star
27: Mains electricity
28: Making elements
29: Motion
30: The national grid
31: Power
32: Radiation
33: Renewable energy
34: Resultant force
35: The solar system
36: Sound waves
37: Spring constant
38: The Big Bang
39: The eye
40: Work done
41: X rays
42: Speed
43: Enzymes
44: Digestion
45: Evolution
46: Adaptations
47: Biodiversity
48: Decay
49: Deforestation
50; Diabetes
51: Drug testing
52: Food security
53: Genetic engineering
54: Growing microbes
55: Reproductive hormones
56: Meiosis
57: Mitosis
58: Reflexes
59: Plant hormones
60: Temperature control
61: The use of glucose
62: Tropic levels
63: Using plant hormones
I have also attached a range of other revision materials that you might find helpful to use with your students.
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This is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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This resource includes a sample AQA Biology 6 mark question with mark scheme. The question is designed to be used by either teachers in lessons or by parents as revision. This resource has been developed over the last three years and has been proven to help students gain more marks in GCSE long answer questions
This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on Lac operon.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on photosynthesis investigations.
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