'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 whole lesson covering the resistance (including a required practical) section of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance equation activity
3: A student sheet for students to use throughout the lesson
4: A required practical
5: A planning sheet if you wish to extend the lesson
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a bundle of 4 GCSE Chemistry paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the first Chemistry paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Atomic structure & periodic table
2: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
3: Chemical change
4: Energy change
5: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a bundle of 4 GCSE Biology paper 1 work booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the rates of reaction content in the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A collision theory starter game
4: A calculating rate of reaction activity
5: A rate of reaction explanation activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, space 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:
Wave characteristics
Transverse & longitudinal waves
Frequency
Waves required practical
Reflection
Refraction
Refraction required practical
Sound & hearing
Ultrasound
EM
Lenses
Infrared radiation
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 originally was a resource designed to be used over 3 lessons to prepare students to take the 2015 P3 exam as a mock. The lessons are based around a series of activities designed to engage students rather than reteaching them the content. For each activity there is a short tick list of what students need to know to help them identify where they still need to revise. The activities include:
X-ray & ultra sound battle ships
Electromagnetic induction micro-teaching
The eye snakes & ladders
CT scanner question matrix
Refractive index card sort
Pendulum data analysis activity
Hydraulic question race
Transformers 7 monkey activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the radiation content of the AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: An information sheet
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A blockusters starter game
4: A types of radiation 6 mark answered question to mark
5: A half life graph activity
6: An uses of radiation literacy activity
7: An uses of radiation 6 mark plenary question
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Copper Extraction & Purification in the metals 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: Purification diagrams
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark starter question on smelting
4: Copper purification production stage cards
5: Literacy activity
6: A pick out the key points activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the blood, tissue fluid & lymph content of the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A blood parts activity
4: A forming tissue fluid model / class activity
5: A micro teaching (group presentation) plenary activity
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This resource is a 2 page knowledge organiser covering the magnets & electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a set of 107 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) AS Biology revision task cards. This resource has been written so that all of the assessment points in the specification are covered.
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This resource is a A Level Biology, neuronal communication revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Nerves & neurones
Generator potential
Resting potentials
Action potentials
Propagation of an action potential
Synapses
Structure of the nervous system
The brain
Reflexes
Muscles
Sliding filament model
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 covering the structure and function of the nervous system content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including leading students through the lesson
2: A nerve structure starter activity
3: A structure of the nervous system literacy activity
4: A activity showing students what happens at the synapse
5: A synapse 6 mark AFL question
6: A synapse interactive notebook activity
7: A synapse modeling 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 resources covering the controlling body water concentration content in the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities includes
2: A 6 mark analysis activity
3: A renal system labeling activity
4: A pair literacy activity
5: A plenary discussion activity on ADH
6: A sheet for students to fill out
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A literacy key information starter game
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Active Transport section. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: Active transport darts activity
4: Active transport literacy starter
5: Mock exam question analysis activity
6: Labeling a villi 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
11: A student question sheet
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the ATP synthesis & electron transport chain content in the OCR (it would be suitable for other exam boards) A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game on the electron transport chain
3: A chemiosmosis activity
4: A ATP structure & synthesis activity
5: An electron transport chain 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 Le Chatelier’s principle & Haber Process section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry 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 in during the lesson
4: A modelling activity
5: A Le Chatelier’s spag activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: An information hunt
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A homework 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
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Burning Fuels in the Oil 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 power point leading students through the lesson
2: A modeling activity with student sheet
3: A 6 mark starter activity
4: Combustion equation card sort
5: 6 mark question
6: Burning fuels issues 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 new lesson and activities covering the formation of the Solar System content of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A literacy battle ships activity
2: A power point to help lead students through the lesson
3: A information hunt activity
4: Presentation help cards
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A power point explaining how to carry out a micro teaching 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
10: A sheet for students to work through
11: A project sheet
12: A key information activity
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