'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 in a lesson plan with activities for the 2015 AQA Biology spec human defense systems / immune system section. This resource includes:
1: A power point which leads students through the lesson
2: Immune system information with game
3: Natural immunity information gathering activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: 6 mark question starter activity
6: 6 mark plenary AFL question
7: A phagocytosis activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities introducing students to the concept of enzymes. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students trough the lesson
2: An information hunt activity
3: A card sort activity
4: A 6 mark question mark scheme construction task
5: A enzyme literacy activity
6: A denaturing enzymes SPAG activity
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise the required practicals in the GCSE Biology 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Microscopy
Microbiology
Food tests
Germination
Osmosis
Field Investigations
Photosynthesis
Enzyme
Reaction Time
Decay
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the phagocytosis section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling activity
4: A student diagram sheet
5: A micro teaching activity
6: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 with activities covering the plant defences section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A plant defences modelling activity
4: A student diagram
5: A dice game
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A assessment question for students to work through
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 speed time relationship content section of the new GCSE Physics specification with a walking dead twist. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A lesson explanation document
3: A key words starter activity game
4: An identifying scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A calculating speed dice game
6: A rearranging an equation activity
7: A zombie chase data collection activity
8: A drawing a graph activity
9: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities on the function of the nephron content in the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort starter
3: A large diagram activity (stage cards included but you will need to draw a large nephron)
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A student sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reaction time required practical content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A reaction time conversion table
4: A booklet for students to work through while working through the investigation
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson and activities on the maintenance of a resting potential content in the new 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet which can be used throughout the lesson
3: A build a axon membrane activity
4: A literacy questioning activity
5 A micro teaching plenary activity
6: A homework activity
7: A key information literacy activity
8: A starter game
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 new interactive A2 Biology lesson on the light independent reaction of photosynthesis. This lesson gives lots of opportunity for student interaction and really allowing the reaction to be picked apart. This resource includes:
1: A power point to introduce the lesson
2: A student sheet to work through during the lesson
3: A light independent reaction diagram for students to fill in
4: Calvin Cycle stages to use on a large model
5: Carbon atom templates
6: A series of photos showing how the model can be set up
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 AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Fractional Distillation in the Oil 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 dice AFL activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: Fractional distillation stage cards
4: Properties of alkane card sort starter activity
5: 6 mark question
6: A fractional distillation foldable activity
7: A key information literacy 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
11: A sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adrenaline & hormonal communication section of the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: An information hunt starter activity
4: An adrenaline dice game
5: A micro-teaching plenary activity
6: An adrenaline literacy activity
7: A hormonal control of cells activity
8: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
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 decay section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter literacy game
3: A decay factors information hunt
4: An experimental analysis question
5: A decay card sort
6: A 6 mark plenary 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
10: A decay practical
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the resultant force content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculating basic resultant force starter activity
3: A calculating resultant force of a race car activity
4: A resultant force dice game
5: A literacy 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 with activities covering the life cycle of a star content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter activity
3: A diagram construction task
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A question 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 with activities covering the breaking energy content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A kinetic energy starter game
3: A calculating kinetic energy activity
4: 2 graph activities
5: A calculating breaking energy activity
6: A breaking energy equation construction task
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities designed to cover the infection & response content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
An immune system snakes & ladders game
A vaccination spag activity
A key information dice game
A drug development literacy game
A marking a 6 mark question activity
A construct a mark scheme for a 6 mark question on monoclonal antibodies activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities that covers the field investigations content in the required practical section of 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 key information literacy activity
4: A sampling area activity
5: A 3 page booklet for students to work through while carrying out the investigation
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sustainability & water treatment content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook acitivity
4: A sustainability game
5: A water treatment 6 mark question
6: A sewage treatment model
7: A potable water literacy activity
8: A sustainable resources card sort
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This resource is a A Level Biology, cell division revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The cell cycle
Mitosis
Meiosis
The organization & specialization of cells
Stem cells