'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 and activities covering the meiosis content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A crossing over activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out
5: A meiosis model activity
6: A dice assessment game
7: A 6 mark assessment question
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 plant adaptations to water availability 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: A key information starter game
4: An adaptation to low water activity
5: An adaptation to living in water activity
6: A key information analysis activity
7: A group presentation 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 coving the medicines and their uses 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: A medicines discussion activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 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 inherited conditions content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information activity
3: A dice game for AFL
4: A 6 mark question analysis activity
5: Information on different inherited conditions
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 revision resource is designed for AQA GCSE Combined/Biology revision 9-1 but is equally suitable for other boards.
Topics include; Cell Biology, Organisation, Infection & Response, Bioenergetics, Homeostasis & Response, Inheritance Variation & Evolution and Ecology.
This resource includes
1: Power points coving GCSE Biology containing more than 250 slides of content
2: 55 short answer exam style questions with mark schemes built into the power points
3: 25 long answer questions with mark schemes
4: 32 revision activities designed to improve exam technique
Due to the number of files, most are contained in a zip file.
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This resource is a power point containing 15 A2 Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Neuronal communication x 2
2: Reflexes & muscles
3: Hormonal communication
4: Homeostasis
5: Excretion & the kidney
6: Photosynthesis
7: Respiration
8: Patterns of variation
9: Manipulating genomes
10: Genetic engineering & cloning
11: Biotechnology
12: Ecosystems
13: Genetics
14: Plant responces
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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This resource is a power point containing 17 AS Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Cells
2: Carbohydrates
3: Amino Acid & Lipids
4: Proteins
5: DNA
6: Enzymes
7: Membranes
8: Cell division
9: Substance movement
10: Exchange surfaces
11: Transport in animals
12: Transport in plants
13: Blood, tissue fluid & lymph
14: Classification & evolution
15: Biodiversity
16: Animal & plant pathogens
17: The immune system
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: Photosynthesis
2: Osmosis
3: Reaction time
4: Culturing microbes
5: Decay
6: Germination
7: Field investigations
8: Enzymes
9: Food tests
10: Microscopy
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This resource is a set of 33 Science Literacy games that can be used within normal lessons or as revision. Each game contains text that students need to read through and then a game with questions based on that text around it. The games included cover:
1: 2 on speed
2: Evolution
3: Rate of reaction
4: Organs
5: Classification
6: Adaptations
7: Understanding genetics
8: Electromagnetic induction
9: Protein synthesis
10: The cell cycle
11: Magnets
12: Bacteria
13: The atmosphere
14: Current
15: Neutralisation
16: Distance & displacement
17: Electrolysis
18: Atomic theory
19: States of matter
20: Blood
21: Sewage treatment
22: Anaerobic respiration
23: Natural polymers
24: Renewable energy
25: Drug testing
26: Meiosis
27: Acids & alkalis
28: Levels of organisation
29: Types of muscle
30: Power & Pd
31: Recycling
32: States of matter
All of these games are tried & tested and really help engage students. After students have played the game you can also ask students questions off the boards as a quick form of AFL.
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