'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 lesson with activities covering the stem cells and their uses content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A literacy activity
4: A uses of stem cells activity
5: A use of stem cells to treat diabetes 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 that covers the autoimmune disease content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A type 1 diabetes activity
4: A presentation activity
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 coving the medicines and their uses content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A medicines discussion activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 contains over 80 activities for GCSE Science coving areas of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Most of the activities are designed to help improve students literacy by having sections within them which force students to engage with a piece of key information then answer a a range of questions on it building in complexity.
Activities also contain a high level of duel coding, incorporating bespoke diagrams which are designed to help students to engage with the text in the activity. There are also a range of opportunities for students to identify and use key words.
Over the lock down and periods of home schooling these activities have proved to improve student progress and improve their literacy skills when engaging with Science.
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the antibiotics and painkillers 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 growing bacteria activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
5: A section on antibiotic resistance
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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 with activities covering the protist disease 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 Malaria SPAG activity
4: A Malaria group work activity
5: A 6 mark assessment 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
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the inherited conditions content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information activity
3: A dice game for AFL
4: A 6 mark question analysis activity
5: Information on different inherited conditions
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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 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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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the immune system 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 activity
3: A natural defenses information hunt
4: A natural barriers dice game
5: A phagocytosis literacy activity
6: An immune system dice game
7: A producing antibodies stop motion activity
8: A 6 mark assessment question
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 vaccination content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A history of vaccines starter activity
3: A vaccination spag activity
4: A key information dice game
5: A pair activity on heard immunity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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
7: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This is a free resource covering the investigating chlorophyll content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point that goes through the background information
2: A set of student notes
3: A method sheet
4: A Link to a video which takes students through the lesson
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the structure of chloroplasts content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information highlight then summarize activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
5: Examples of models students can make during the lesson
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 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 with activities covering the effect of exercise content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resources includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: An oxygen debt activity
4: A recovering from exercise activity
5: A mini project task
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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 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 animal pathogens and disease 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: Activities on Influenza, TB, HIV and Malaria
4: A Key information started game
5: A key information annotation activity
6: Questions on the different pathogens
7: A group discussion 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 and activities covering plant pathogens and disease 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: Activities on Ring Rot, Potato Blight, TMV and Black Sigatoka
4: A Key information started game
5: A key information annotation activity
6: A question looking at how plant disease affects food security
7: A group discussion 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 translocation in plants 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 out during the lesson
3: A key information starter game
4: A key information literacy activity
5: A translocation model activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A series of short assessment questions
8: A slide that can be used for flipped learning
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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