'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 formulations 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 fuels literacy activity
4: A cleaning agents literacy activity
5: A medicines literacy activity
6: A paints literacy activity
7: A dice AFL game
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 polymers content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A polymerization card sort
5: A drawing polymers activity
6: A polymer strength data analysis activity
7: A 6 mark plenary 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 bundle of knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Atomic Structure & Periodic Table
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Using Resources
8: Rate of Reaction
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Iron & Steel in the metals 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 point1 leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of steel
4: Blast furnace stage cards
5: Uses of different steels activity
6: Mock exam question on the blast furnace
This is an activity that I have used with my Y11 students during their revision. It can be used in a number of ways. The general instructions of how to use it are:
1. Print off the power point slides (2 to a page works well)
2. Set up some tables and outline the shape of the periodic table
3. Put on the labels for the groups and the periods in the correct places
4. Write on a few elements
5. Give each student an element card which gives them a range of things they need to work out about the element as a starter
6. Ask the students to place their element where they think it should be
7. Use the question cards as a basis for a discussion about the periodic table (there are around 25 question cards so most students will be asked at least one thing.
There is lots in the power point and it can easily be differentiated
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the covalent bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of bonds an atom will form game
3: A series of covalent compounds for students to draw
4: A simple covalent compounds spag activity
5: A simple covalent compounds modeling activity
6: A giant covalent compounds literacy activity & presentation
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video showing how to carry out the modeling 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 reducing the use of resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A what is recycling activity
3: A key information starter game
4: A sheet for students to fill in about different types of recycling
5: A dice assessment game
6: Slides that go through the recycling of glass, paper & metal
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework task
9: Photos showing how recycling can be modeled
10: A video that can be used for a flipped learning activity if you want
11: Videos showing how you can get students to tell stories about recycling
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the molar gas volume content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A gas volume maze starter game
3: A moles in different volumes of gas activity
4: A calculating mass activity
5: A calculating volume activity
6: A volume of gas produced during an investigation activity
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This resource is a set of 19 exam questions designed to improve how students answer questions based around practicals and practical data. The areas that the questions cover are:
1: Line transects
2: Electrolysis
3: Chromatography
4: Growing bacteria
5: Enzymes
6: Aerobic respiration
7: Anaerobic respiration
8: Using a potometer
9: Osmosis
10: Waves
11: Black body radiation
12: Temperature changes
13: Respiration in worms
14: Acceleration
15: Resistance
16: Decay
17: Refraction
18: Rate of reaction
19: Insulation
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This resource is a power point containing 75 practice quantitative chemistry calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class. Some of the areas covered are:
1: RFM
2: Yield
3: Moles
4: Rate of reaction
5: Number of atoms
6: Reacting mass
7: Rf
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This resource is a set of 10 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the atomic structure content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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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 19 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the using resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a set of 8 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the energy changes content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a set of activities that can be used to help introduce new Y7 students to KS3 Science. The resource includes a set series of lessons accompanied by a work booklet for students to work through as well as a number of short standalone activities that can be used to help introduce students to specific skills they will need. This resource includes:
1: A power point to help lead students through lessons
2: A work booklet
3: A homework activity
4: A Hooke’s Law investigation planning activity
5: A reflection investigation results analysis activity
6: A Hooke’s Law data presentation activity
7: A looking at speed graphs activity
8: A respiration data presentation activity
9: A friction investigation data presentation activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the nano science content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information summary starter
3: A sheet for students to reflect on what they know throughout the lesson
4: A use of nano science discussion activity
5: A group presentation 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 and activities covering the rate of reaction content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A command word starter game
3: A rate of reaction practical modelling activity
4: A looking at methods activity
5: A method construction activity
6: A calculating rate activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework task
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the catalysts content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A command word starter game
3: A catalyst graph activity
4: A catalyst method analysis activity
5: A catalyst method construction activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A homework activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the acid rain 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 in
3: A burning fuels starter activity
4: A formation of acid rain activity
5: A problems caused by acid rain activity
6: A 6 mark assessment activity
7: A group presentation activity
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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