'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.
Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Variation
• Cloning
• Genetic engineering
• Evolution
• Speciation
• Evidence of evolution
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: A genetic engineering diagram for students to annotate
6: A fossils literacy activity
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark genetic engineering question
10: A cloning spag activity
11: A muti choice question activity
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This resource is a new lesson and activities covering the blood vessels content in the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
3: An information hunt
4: A model activity
5: A group presentation activity
6: Activities that can be used for homework
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the DNA replication content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A nucleotide multiple choice question activity
4: A forming peptide bonds activity
5: A DNA replication modelling activity with explanation video
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the levels of organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: 3 6 mark AFL questions
4: A pyramid of biomass activity
5: A competition activity
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 lesson with activities covering the blood & it’s functions content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter question
3: A literacy game
4: A dice game AFL activity
5: A modelling blood activity
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A Blood literacy activity
9: A video on how to run the modeling activity
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 lesson with activities covering the classification content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A classification game
3: An AFL dice game
4: A how organisms are named interactive notebook activity
5: A 3 domains literacy activity
6: A species discussion activity
7: A classification card sort
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 lesson with activities covering the enzymes in digestion content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A student sheet that they can fill in about enzymes in digestion
4: Activities on different types of enzymes
5: Assessment activity dice games
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: Videos going through how to model enzymes in digestion
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the kidney failure content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A reading for meaning activity
4: 2 modeling activities
5: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
6: A 6 mark AFL question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the cloning content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A what is a clone literacy activity
4: A plant cloning dice assessment game
5: A question sheet on embryonic and adult cell cloning
6: A cloning SPAG activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
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 lesson with activities covering the plant organ & tissues content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to help lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A 6 mark question analysis activity
4: A leaf structure activity
5: A dice assessment game
6: A counting stomata investigation
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A homework task
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 lesson covering the classification systems content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort classification timeline starter activity
3: A what is a species literacy activity
4: An exam question plenary activity
5: A worksheet for students to work through during the lesson including a homework task
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 lesson with activities covering the speciation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An exam analysis starter activity
3: A suggested model activity & video showing how to carry it out
4: A literacy activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 lesson and activities covering the meiosis content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A crossing over activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out
5: A meiosis model activity
6: A dice assessment game
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A homework activity
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 lesson with activities covering the understanding genetics content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A what Mendel discovered activity
4: A punnet (genetic) square activity
5: A discovery of the genome activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A genetic tree 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 lesson with activities covering plant adaptations to water availability content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
3: A key information starter game
4: An adaptation to low water activity
5: An adaptation to living in water activity
6: A key information analysis activity
7: A group presentation 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 lesson with activities covering the biotic and abiotic factors content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A question sheet for students to work through
4: A 6 mark assessment question
5: A set of notes for students to use
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: 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 lesson and activities covering disease transmission in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information annotation activity
4: 3 questions on disease transmission
5: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
6: A discussion activity
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 lesson and activities covering the health issues content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An alcohol problems starter game
3: A risk factors activity
4: A dangers of smoking activity
5: A dangers of alcohol discussion activity
6: A type 2 diabetes 6 mark question
7: A student sheet for them to work through on the dangers of alcohol
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
11: A potential effects of alcohol on the body demo
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the bacterial disease content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A how bacteria spreads key information activity
4: A key information dice game
5: A set of notes for students to use
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic cells
• Plant & Animal cells
• Specilised cells
• Microscopes
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark microscope question
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