'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 immune system content of 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 starter activity
3: A natural defenses information hunt
4: A natural barriers dice game
5: A phagocytosis literacy activity
6: An immune system dice game
7: A producing antibodies stop motion activity
8: A 6 mark assessment 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 whole lesson with activities for the fuses section of the AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2; 2 Exam style AFL questions
3: A fuses literacy activity
4: A circuit breaker activity
5: A 6 mark question for the plenary
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the sustainable fisheries content 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 discussion activity
4: A dice game
5: A graph analysis activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: An exam style question
8: A potential model activity
9: A key information sheet
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 with activities covering the electrolysis of aluminium content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A 6 mark starter activity
2: A aluminium electrolysis model activity
3: A micro teaching task
4: A power point to lead students through the lesson
5: A 6 mark assessment lesson
6: A literacy activity
7: A electrolysis 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 causes o variation content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A speciation starter activity
3: A plant chlorosis activity
4: A genetic variation activity
5: A continuous & discontinuous variation 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 control of heart rate content of the 2015 OCR A2 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A receptor type summary activity
4: A dice AFL activity
5: A hormones that affect the heart discussion activity
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the anaerobic respiration content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A dice game AFL activity
4: A fermentation activity
5: A 6 mark plenary activity
6: A student sheet for them 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 states of matter content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling states of matter activity
4: A micro-teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
7: A homework task
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 national grid content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A national grid model idea
4: A transformers 7 monkey activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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 evolution content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An evolution starter game
3: A natural selection activity
4: A mutations game
5: A species literacy activity
6: An evolution tree 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 lesson with activities covering the communities section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy activity
3: A key information game
4: A SPAG activity
5: A competition graph activity
6: A stable community modeling activity
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 extinction content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A causes of extinction information hunt
4: A mass extinction literacy activity
5: A suggested model 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 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
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the fertilisers section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A Haber process recall game
3: A use of fertilisers SPAG activity
4: Information on the reactions that produce ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate and ammonium phosphate
5: Sheets for students to gather information on
6: A making fertilisers industrially vs in the lab activity
7: A making ammonium sulphate plenary activity
8: A possible model 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 nuclear fission content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A parts in a nuclear power station starter activity
3: A activity looking at chain reactions
4: A 6 mark assessment question
5: A sheet for students to work through
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 whole lesson with activities for the making ethanol part of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet on ethanol production
3: A AFL dice game
4: 2 AFL 6 mark questions
5: A making ethanol information hunt starter activity
6: Making ethanol by fermentation & hydration activity
7: Properties of alcohols 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
11: A question sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the deforestation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A possible model activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
5: A dice assessment activity
6: A deforestation graph 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 lesson and activities covering the magnets content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
4: A plotting magnetic fields activity
5: A properties of magnets activity
6: A drawing magnetic fields activity
7: A dice plenary game
8: A properties of temporary and induced magnets 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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