'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 CHD content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A exam question analysis starter activity
3: A development of a cholesterol plaque model activity
4: 2 exam style questions
5: A card sort activity
6: A homework task
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video going through how to carry out the model activity
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 set of notes for students to use
12: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the evidence for evolution, fossils & bacterial evolution content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A evolution snakes & ladders game
2: A power to lead students through the lesson
3: A fossils literacy activity
4: A how fossils form presentation activity
5: An AFL dice activity
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
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This resource is a new lesson covering the alternating current content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A AC / DC literacy activity
4: A calculating frequency activity
5: A plenary activity pulling the lesson together
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 electrolysis content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question analysis activity
3: A literacy activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: An electrolysis model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: 2 slides that can be used for flipped learning
8: A key information starter game
9: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
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 lesson & activities covering the cell cycle content in A Level specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A cell cycle activity with student sheet
4: A dice assessment activity
5: A control of cell cycle 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 lesson with activities covering the measuring the distribution of organisms content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the enzyme required practical content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A reading for meaning starter activity
3: A set of student sheets to lead them through the required practical
4: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource contains a variety of interactive B1 revision activities designed to get students revising in a different way rather than just the traditional chalk & talk. On each slide with information there are a series of questions to help get students thinking about that particular topic. Included are a variety of different games & activities that can be tailored for your particular needs.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the mass of atoms content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A structure of the atom activity
3: A mass of the first 20 elements activity
4: A micro teaching activity on the mass of atoms
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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 protein synthesis content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: An instruction video explaining how to put the interactive notebook together
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook activity on transcription
4: An interactive notebook activity on translation
If you purchase this resource and need any extra help on how to put it together please get in contact with me
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the diabetes content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter literacy game
3: 2 graph activities
4: A stem cells in diabetes treatment activity
5: A type of diabetes 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 & activities covering the DNA and genome content in 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 chromosomes key points activity
4: A dice assessment activity
5: A how genes code for amino acids activity
6: A DNA student model activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework question
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 Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes a run through of the stages involved with the lac operon
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: Key word definitions
4: A lac operon modelling activity with explanation picture & video
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: A micro teaching activity
7: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
8: A homework 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 resistance in a wire required practical content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance in circuits starter activity
3: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the treating drinking water content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A why we need water treatment pair activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
5: A modeling activity
6: A dice mid lesson assessment game
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities to enable students to revise the heat transfer section of the AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Various uses of a 6 mark question
4: A thermos flask modelling activity
5: A thermos flask diagram for students to annotate
6: A heat transfer information sheet
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This resource is a lesson and set of activities covering the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet which can be filled out in the lesson or for homework
3: A maze of questions starter activity
4: A set of variation cards
5: A graph analysis plenary 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 digestive system content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question analysis starter
3: A starter game
4: An information hunt
5: A literacy activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A answering exam questions activity
8: A digestive system project activity
9: A video on how to run the modeling activity
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
13: An example video showing what a digestive system stop motion video looks like
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the cancer content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A risk factor analysis question
4: A types of tumor activity
5: A cancer development modeling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A video showing how to run the modeling activity
8: A student sheet for them to work through during 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 lesson with activities covering the cracking hydrocarbons section of 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 looking at alkenes activity
4: A cracking process activity with potential modelling activity
5: A sheet for students to fill in
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: An alkenes card sort
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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