'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 to aid with student's revision of sound waves. This resource includes
1: A starter snakes & ladders game on the key points students need to know
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A wave form labelling activity
4: A frequency calculation dice game
5: A frequency calculations circus of questions
6: A longitudinal wave plenary micro teaching activity
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This resource is a GCSE energy changes 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:
Energy level diagrams
Endo & exothermic reactions
Collision theory
Bond energy calculations
Batteries
Hydrogen fuel cells
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 Physics, atomic structure 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:
Atomic structure
Electron structure
Development of atomic theory
Radiation
Uses of radiation
Half life
Background radiation
Fission
Fusion
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 lesson and activities covering the heart & cardiac content in the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet with home work task
3: A diagram starter activity
4: A set of heart part functions cards
5: A cardiac cycle card sort
6: A micro teaching activity
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the monoclonal antibodies 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: An information hunt activity
4: A 6 mark question mark scheme construction activity
5: A micro teaching task
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
9: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a pair of lessons covering the insulation content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. The lessons cover both house insulation & the insulation required practical. This resource includes:
1: 2 power points to lead students through both lessons
2: 2 6 mark plenary questions
3: A house insulation modelling activity
4: A house insulation labelling activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A key information highlighting activity
7: A practical results table
8: A dice game AFL activity
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This resource is a GCSE bonding, structure and the properties of matter 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:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
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 lesson with activities covering the falling under gravity content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph activities
3: A starter dice game
4: A practical activity with help sheets
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the antibiotic resistance content in A Level specifications. This resource includes:
1: A discovery of antibiotics starter game
2: A how antibiotics effect bacteria activity
3: A model activity
4: A how bacteria deal with antibiotics activity
5: A antibiotic resistance development 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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This resource has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the nerves & co-ordination content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
An instruction video cut into 3 sections due to file size restrictions
Interactive notebook activities covering the following sections
1: Maintaining a resting potential
2: Action potentials
3: Synapses
4: Action potential propagation
5: Neuromuscular junctions
6: The sliding filament model
This resource also includes 3 summary information sheets which can also be used with students.
If you choose to buy this resource it’s a lot of fun to use and my students got lots out of it, however, if you need any extra information or help please get in contact and only give it a go after watching the correct section in the instructional video.
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This is a new resource covering the Moles content of the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An inquiry question starter activity
3: 2 working out the number and mass of moles tasks
4: A working out how many moles of an element circus activity
5: A dice game plenary activity
6: The Avogadro number game
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
10: A question sheet for students to work through
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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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the work done content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter dice game
3: A sheet for students to work through
4: 4 work done games for the main part of the lesson
5: A blockbusters game
6: A work done question circus
7: 2 graph activities
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 body plans content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A homeobox genes key information highlighting activity
3: A building a fly embryo starter activity
4: A AFL dice game
5: A apoptosis modelling 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 negative feedback section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A questioning dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the basics of glucose regulation within the body. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A worksheet for students to work through
3: A control of blood glucose modeling activity
4: A video showing how to carry out the modeling activity
5: A student set of notes
6: A modeling activity
7: A key information identification activity
8: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the symplast & apoplast pathway of water movement in plants content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A block busters starter literacy game
3: A water movement modelling activity
4: A water pathway dice game
5: A presentation activity
6: A sheet for students to work through
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 the control of blood glucose content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph analysis activities
3: Control of blood glucose diagrams
4: A circus of information on glucose regulation
5: A plenary 6 mark question
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