'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 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 Chemistry GCSE. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. 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 lesson with activities covering the electrolysis content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: An acids & alkali game
4: An electrolysis dice game
5: An electrolysis snakes & ladders game
6: An electrolysis 6 mark question
7: An electrolysis of brine DARTS activity
8: An electrolysis of brine 6 mark question
9: An electrolysis of aluminium modelling activity
10: An electrolysis of aluminium 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the allotropes of carbon content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Modeling activities covering the structure of diamond, graphite & fullerenes
4: A student sheet that they can fill in throughout the lesson
5: 2 plenary 6 mark questions
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 GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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 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 with activities covering the natural polymers content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A condensation polymerization activity
4: A starch and cellulose activity
5: A protein activity
6: A DNA activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
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 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 lesson with activities covering the ceramics, polymers and composites content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. 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 composite information hunt
5: A composite presentation activity
6: A polymers literacy activity
7: A polymer properties activity
8: A ceramic properties activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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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 is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Chemistry exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bonding
2: Chemical analysis
3: Chemical reactions
4: Energy changes
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: Using resources
8: Atomic structure
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the rates of reaction content in the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A collision theory starter game
4: A calculating rate of reaction activity
5: A rate of reaction explanation activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on the Haber process.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry 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 Chemistry spec
2: A number of questions looking at practicals students may be asked about other than required practicals
3: Electrolysis
4: Combustion
5: LCA
6: Metals
7: Acids & alkalis
8: The periodic table
9: Reactions
10: Allotropes of carbon
11: States of matter
12: The Haber process
13: The Earth
14: Molecules
15: And lots more
This resource is a set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Chemistry. Each card has criteria on one side, and students need to use it to put together their own flash card on the reverse. The areas covered by these cards are:
1: Atomic Structure
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Rate of Reaction
8: Using Resources
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This resource is a set of 17 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Chemistry exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
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
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This resource is a power point containing method cards for the 31 required practicals in the AQA Science specification. The slides can either be printed off for students to use or be used during revision sessions.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on cracking hydrocarbons
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