'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.
Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Homeostasis
• Glucose control
• Water control
• Temperature control
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark water control question
10: A glucose control literacy activity
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Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• The Digestive System
• Food Tests and Enzyme Required Practical
• The Heart and Blood Vessels
• Cardiovascular Disease
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark cancer question
10: A 6 mark student marking 6 mark question
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Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• The effect of exercise
• Metabolism
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: Respiration practice questions
10: The use of glucose by plants practice question
11: A 6 mark photosynthesis required practical question
12: A 6 mark question on metabolism
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Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Diffusion
• Active transport
• Osmosis
• Osmosis required practical
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark osmosis required practical question
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This resource is a lesson with resources on open, single closed & double closed circulation. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: An information sheet
4: Open, single closed and double closed circulation activities
5: A pair discussion activity
6: A sheet for students to work through as they move through the lesson
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the gas exchange in the alveoli content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter activity
3: A micro-teaching activity
4: A snakes & ladders AFL game
5: An alveoli modelling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A Gas exchange literacy activity
8: A Gas movement in the lungs demo
9: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biological organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A plant tissues dice game
2 modeling activities
6 mark question marking activities
An organs game
2 card sorts
A gas movement in the lungs snakes & ladders game
6 mark questions
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This resource is a lesson with activities based to the effect of adrenaline on cells. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An adrenaline literacy activity
3: An assessment dice game
4: A student sheet
5: An adrenaline action modeling activity
6: A set of 3 plenary questions
7: A video showing how the modeling activity is run
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 blood vessels & circulation 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 sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
4: A 6 mark assessment question
5: A circulation homework sheet
6: A blood vessels model example
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 the reflexes content in the AQA 2015 Biology 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 synapse function starter
4: 2 exam style questions
5: A spag activity
6: A reflex model activity
7: A types of reflex group activity
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A flipped learning information slide
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the carbon cycle content in 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 sheet for students to use
4: A model activity which can be potentially be used
5: A series of key questions to ask students
6: A presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A key information slide that can be used for flipped learning
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 and activities covering plant 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 Ring Rot, Potato Blight, TMV and Black Sigatoka
4: A Key information started game
5: A key information annotation activity
6: A question looking at how plant disease affects food security
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 antibiotics and painkillers content in 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 growing bacteria activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
5: A section on antibiotic resistance
6: A 6 mark 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 protist disease content in 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 Malaria SPAG activity
4: A Malaria group work activity
5: A 6 mark assessment 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
This resource is a lesson with activities that covers the autoimmune disease 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 type 1 diabetes activity
4: A presentation activity
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 farming techniques content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy starter activity
3: Information on organic and intensive farming
4: An organic farming activity
5: An intensively farming chickens 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 organisation of the nervous system content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: Key information covering the autonomic and somatic nervous system
4: A nervous system questioning activity
5: A set of notes for students to use
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: 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 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: 2 Group work activities
4: A genetic bottleneck activity
5: A founder effect activity
6: A population genetics activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adaption content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A exam question analysis starter activity
3: A literacy game
4: 2 6 mark AFL question
5: An extremophilles 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 has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the hormonal control 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: A insulin production pop up
4: A stages of adrenal control lever opening resource
5: A key words activity
6: A differences between key concepts pull down arrow
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