'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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Physics 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 set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Biology spec
2: The Nitrogen Cycle
3: The Heart
4: Genetic engineering
5: Cloning
6: Blood vessels
7: Cancer
8: Transpiration
9: The Kidney
8: Diffusion
9: Active Transport
10: Biodiversity
11: Decay
12: The carbon cycle
13: ADH
14: The immune system
15: Homeostasis
16: Malaria
17: Reflexes
18: HIV
19: Extinction
20: Evolution
These questions act as goo AFL activities at the end of the lesson and the mark schemes will allow students to see what the exam board want within long answer questions.
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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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The Massive Christmas quiz with over 100 questions and 10 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of the year and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students but could be used for all students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: Christmas
3: Places
4: Books
5: Sport
6: TV
7: History
8: English
9: Art
10: Christmas
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding behind Christmas trees
2: US landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Album covers
8: Animals
There are also challenges on the following where students can get extra points
1: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas films as you can.
2: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas songs as you can.
3: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas TV specials as you can.
4: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many reindeer names as you can.
5: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many characters from A Christmas Carol as you can.
6: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many thigs you would find on a Christmas dinner as you can.
7: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas stories as you can.
8: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas presents your teacher might want to receive as you can.
9: In 30 seconds write down the names of as many Christmas carols as you can.
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.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ceramics, polymers and composites content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A key information starter game
4: A composite information hunt
5: A composite presentation activity
6: A polymers literacy activity
7: A polymer properties activity
8: A ceramic properties activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, electricity 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:
Circuit diagrams
Charge
Resistance
Series circuits
Parallel circuits
Resistance graphs
Plugs & cables
Mains electricity
AC DC
National grid
Static electricity
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 stem cells and their uses content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A literacy activity
4: A uses of stem cells activity
5: A use of stem cells to treat 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 set of over 30 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Physics 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: Current electricity
2: Circuits
3: The early Universe
4: Energy from the nucleus
5: Forces
6: Heat transfer
7: Hydraulics
8: Kinetic energy
9: The life cycle of a star
10: Mains electricity
11: Making elements
12: Motion
13: The national grid
14: Power
15: Radiation
16: Renewable energy
17: Resultant force
18: The solar system
19: Sound waves
20: Spring constant
21: The Big Bang
22: The eye
23: Work done
24: X rays
25: Speed
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This resource is a A Level Biology, photosynthesis workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Electron transport chains
Chloroplast structure
Photosynthetic pigments
Light dependent photosynthesis
Light independent photosynthesis
Limiting factors of photosynthesis
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This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on Physics required practicals. For each required practical there is an explanation of how to carry it out, a long answer question looking at getting students to write methods, a diagram / model to help students write a method and an answer to each question. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A slide on key vocabulary to do with practicals
4: A questions looking at the resistance required practical
5: A questions looking at the density required practical
6: A questions looking at the stretching a spring required practical
7: A questions looking at the IR required practical
8: A questions looking at the SHC required practical
9: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
10: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Culturing microorganisms 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 practical sheet for students to work through
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: Calculating bacteria activity
4: Growing bacteria cards
5: 6 mark exam question plenary
6: Bacterial colony size 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 bundle of knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Atomic Structure
2: Electricity
3: Energy
4: Forces
5: Magnets & Electromagnets
6: Space
7: Waves
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry 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 and activities covering the mixtures & separation section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy group starter activity
3: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
4: Activities on distillation, crystallisation, filtration & chromatography
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: An activity that can be used for homework
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the human reproductive content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes and ladders starter game
3: An information sheet
4: A card sort activity
5: A hormone concentration graph activity
6: An information hunt activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: An exam style question sheet for students to work through
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 broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on photosynthesis investigations.
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