'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 genetic engineering content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the activity
2: A card sort starter activity
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A modelling activity
5: A micro-teaching plenary
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This resource is a series of lessons covering the immunity & communicable diseases content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. This bundle includes lessons covering:
1: Antibodies & antitoxins
2: Non specific immunity
3: Phagocytosis
4: Pathogens
5: Plant defences
6: Vaccination
7: Cell mediated immunity
8: Humoral immunity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the measuring the distribution of organisms content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a GCSE Bioenergetics work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology specification in the cells section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Photosynthesis
Rate of photosynthesis
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Respiration – aerobic and anaerobic
Response to exercise
Metabolism
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content. In particular there are lots of data analysis activities to help prepare students for the increase in maths content within the exams.
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This resource is a bundle of 4 GCSE Biology paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
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This resource is a GCSE biological organisation revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a GCSE infection & responce work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Communicable (infectious) diseases
viral diseases
bacterial diseases
fungal diseases
protest diseases eg. malaria
human defence systems
vaccination / antibiotics and painkillers / discovery and development of drugs.
Producing and using monoclonal antibodies.
Detection and identification of plant diseases
plant defence responses.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, homeostasis revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The nervous system
Reflexes
Removing waste
Synapses
Reaction time
The eye
The brain
Temperature regulation
Water regulation
Glucose regulation
Negative feedback
Menstrual cycle
Contraception
Fertility treatment
Plant hormones
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, inheritance, variation & evolution revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Meiosis
DNA
Genetic variation
Protein synthesis
Inherited disorders
Punnet squares
Genetic engineering
Cloning
Natural selection
Selective breeding
Evolution
Evidence of evolution
Extinction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a bundle of 3 GCSE Biology paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 3 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
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This resource is a set of 10 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the cells content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on DNA & the genome
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on action potentials
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on protein synthesis
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This resource is a set of multiple choice questions to help students revise A Level Biology questions on cell membranes
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Set of 2 lessons covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification on CHD. There are separate lessons on artificial treatments & drug treatments. All 2 lessons include activities for students to work through and there are lots of opportunities for AFL.
A new lesson covering all the points in the OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, introduction to exchange surfaces section. 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: A card sort activity
4: A surface area / volume ratio activity
5: 2 Mock exam questions
6: A homework activity
7: A modeling activity
8: A literacy activity
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