'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 and activities covering the ATP synthesis & electron transport chain content in the OCR (it would be suitable for other exam boards) A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game on the electron transport chain
3: A chemiosmosis activity
4: A ATP structure & synthesis activity
5: An electron transport chain activity
6: An 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 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 2 page knowledge organiser covering the magnets & electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a set of 23 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Biology exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. All the editable files for the games are in the zip file as there are over 30 individual files. This resource includes games covering:
1: Enzymes
2: Digestion
3: Evolution
4: Adaptations
5: Biodiversity
6: Decay
7: Deforestation
8: Diabetes
9: Drug testing
10: Food security
11: Genetic engineering
12: Growing microbes
13: Reproductive hormones
14: Meiosis
15: Mitosis
16: Reflexes
17: Plant hormones
18: Temperature control
19: The use of glucose
20: Tropic levels
21: Using plant hormones
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This resource is a full lesson with activities for the limiting factors section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A dice AFL game
3: A literacy activity
4: A snakes and ladders game
5: A case study activity
6: A 6 mark question AFL question
7: 4 different limiting factors work sheets
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 water treatment section of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A water treatment stages card sort
4: An information hunt activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology 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 reaction profiles content in the new AQA 2016 Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A pacman starter game
3: A key information sheet
4: A set of energy profile cards
5: A information hunt student sheet
6: A energy profile analysis plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biodiversity content of the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A pair questioning activity
4: A what effects biodiversity information hunt
5: A micro teaching plenary activity
6: Maintaining biodiversity student notes
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, Mammalian Exchange Surfaces (Lung Dissection) 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: A key information starter activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in on the lungs
5: Lung dissection practical endorsement activity
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This resource is a whole lesson on static electricity covering what is required by the new AQA Physics spec. This lesson includes:
1: A starter information hunt
2: A power point covering the lesson
4: A series of suggested demos
5: A static micro teaching task
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This resource is a lesson and related activities covering the current PD graphs section of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A current PD graph analysis starter
3: A resistance in a diode activity
4: A resistance in a LDR activity
5: A method and photo of how the equipment should be used
6: A 6 mark question for your plenary and AFL
7: A calculating resistance from a graph activity
8: A dice game AFL activity
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This resource is a lesson on the evidence for evolution for the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A Literacy activity
2: A snakes & ladders game
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A information hunt activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out 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 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 electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy activity
3: An assessment dice activity
4: Slides explaining the right hand rule and solenoids
5: A parts of an electromagnet activity
6: An electromagnet practical activity
7: Suggested model activities
8: 3 uses of electromagnets activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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 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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The Massive start of the year icebreaker Quiz with over 100 questions and 9 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of term and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: TV
3: Science
4: Places
5: Sport
6: Books
7: History
8: Words
9: Art
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding in sand castles
2: USA landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Animals
8: Movie scenes
All answers are included. These are on slides at the end of each round, so groups can quickly swap their answer sheets and mark each others.
There are also 8 getting to know your classmates activities that can be used throughout.
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