'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.
A new lesson covering all the points in the new OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, Mammalian Exchange Surfaces (Lung Dissection) 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 key information starter activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in on the lungs
5: Lung dissection practical endorsement activity
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This resource is a whole lesson on static electricity covering what is required by the new AQA Physics spec. This lesson includes:
1: A starter information hunt
2: A power point covering the lesson
4: A series of suggested demos
5: A static micro teaching task
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The Massive start of the year icebreaker Quiz with over 100 questions and 9 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of term and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: TV
3: Science
4: Places
5: Sport
6: Books
7: History
8: Words
9: Art
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding in sand castles
2: USA landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Animals
8: Movie scenes
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.
There are also 8 getting to know your classmates activities that can be used throughout.
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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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This resource is a lesson covering the momentum content in the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: The momentum equation activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A force & momentum activity
4: A conservation of mass activity
5: A graph drawing activity
6: A rearranging equations activity
7: A calculating stopping distance activity
8: A maze starter game
9: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, particle model of matter 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:
Density
States of matter
Cooling curves
Chemical & physical change
Internal heat energy
Latent heat energy
SHC
Pressure in gases
Calculating pressure
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 and related activities covering the current PD graphs section of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A current PD graph analysis starter
3: A resistance in a diode activity
4: A resistance in a LDR activity
5: A method and photo of how the equipment should be used
6: A 6 mark question for your plenary and AFL
7: A calculating resistance from a graph activity
8: A dice game AFL activity
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This resource is a lesson on the evidence for evolution for the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A Literacy activity
2: A snakes & ladders game
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A information hunt activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out 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 the negative feedback section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An AFL dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
6: A reading for purpose activity
7: A starter game on negative feedback
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 electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy activity
3: An assessment dice activity
4: Slides explaining the right hand rule and solenoids
5: A parts of an electromagnet activity
6: An electromagnet practical activity
7: Suggested model activities
8: 3 uses of electromagnets activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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 voluntary & involuntary muscles content of the new 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A muscle types starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A student sheet
4: A types of muscle activity
5: A muscle part card sort
6: A modeling idea that can lead into the sliding filament model (a series of pictures included
7: A practice exam question
8: A flipped learning information slide
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the equations of motion for uniform acceleration section of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculate acceleration from a graph starter activity
3: An information hunt
4: A constructing the acceleration equation using symbols activity
5: 2 re-arrange the acceleration equation activities
6: 2 dice games
7: A calculating distance travelled activity
8: A calculating final velocity equation construction activity
9: A using final velocity equation plenary
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the control of blood glucose content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph analysis activities
3: Control of blood glucose diagrams
4: A circus of information on glucose regulation
5: A plenary 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the negative feedback section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A questioning dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
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This resource is a full lesson with activities covering the use of a spirometer content of the new OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word card sort
3: A spirometer practical sheet
4: A student sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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A new A level Biology lesson covering the Neurons section of the 2015 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Neuron mix and match activity
3: A literacy key information activity
4: A neuron model activity
5: A student sheet with home work attached
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
9: A starter game
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the cancer content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A risk factor analysis question
4: A types of tumor activity
5: A cancer development modeling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A video showing how to run the modeling activity
8: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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 organisation of the nervous system section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet to help structure their notes
3: An information sheet
4: A starter game activity
5: A literacy questioning 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 DNA replication content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A nucleotide multiple choice question activity
4: A forming peptide bonds activity
5: A DNA replication modelling activity with explanation video
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