'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 with activities covering the tissues, organs & how they come together to make organ systems content in the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark, marking activity
3: A plant organs dice game
4: A tissues & organs model suggestion
5: An organs game
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A student summary sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the health & immunity content of the AQA Biology GCSE specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A diet & exercise starter question to mark
4: A pathogens & disease 6 mark question
5: A growing bacteria 6 mark question
6: A changing bacteria 6 mark question
7: Immune system snakes & ladders game
8: A human defence mechanisms answer for students to mark
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reproduction & variation content of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Student summary sheets
3: An inheritance starter activity
4: Types of reproduction card sort
5: Ethics of cloning 6 mark question
6: Genetic engineering modelling activity
7: Genetic engineering 6 mark question
8: Types of reproduction card sort
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the generating electricity content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A generators starter activity
4: A power station sequencing activity
5: A power station 6 mark question
6: A national grid dice game
7: A renewable energy game
8: A renewable energy 6 mark question
9: A problems with generating energy 6 mark question
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This resource is a series of lessons designed to be used when revising GCSE Additional Physics. This resource includes:
1: A lesson on motion
2: A lesson on mains electricity
3: A lesson n current electricity
4: A lesson on work, energy & momentum
5: A lesson on radiation
6: A lesson covering space physics
7: A series of revision grids & booklets
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the pressure & surfaces content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A pressure calculations starter game
3: A equation re-arrangement activity
4: A unit conversion activity
5: A suggested practical
6: A series of pressure questions
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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 with activities covering the inertial mass content in the new AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: An instruction sheet on how to run the lesson
3: A dice game
4: A literacy starter activity
5: 2 graph drawing activities
6: A data analysis circus of questions
7: An equation activity
8: A suggested drag race activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Newton's 2nd Law content in the new 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A teaching outline for the lesson
3: An acceleration in F1 starter activity
4: A dice game
5: A graph analysis task
6: A speed time graph in relationship to Newton's 2nd Law activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the measuring the distribution of organisms content of 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 quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: SHC
2: Insulation
3: Density
4: Resistance
5: I-V Charecteristics
6: Insulation
7: Light
8: Radiation & absorption
9: Force & stretching
10: Acceleration
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This resource is a GCSE Cells work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology specification in the biological organisation section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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 set of 3 workbooks designed for students to work through before having a go at the 3 OCR specimen papers for the 2015 spec A Level Biology. Included in this resource are the 3 workbooks in power point format and a set of preview pictures so you can have a look at what the resource is like. In each workbook there is information to help focus students and a range of different activities to help students use the information.
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This resource is a GCSE energy changes 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Energy level diagrams
Endo & exothermic reactions
Collision theory
Bond energy calculations
Batteries
Hydrogen fuel cells
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 GCSE Biology, inheritance, variation & evolution 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 Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Meiosis
DNA
Genetic variation
Protein synthesis
Inherited disorders
Punnet squares
Genetic engineering
Cloning
Natural selection
Selective breeding
Evolution
Evidence of evolution
Extinction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria
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 bundle of 4 GCSE Physics paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Forces
2: Magnets & electromagnetism
3: Space
4: Waves
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry, chemical analysis 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 Chemistry 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Purity
Chromatography
Flame tests
Testing for sulphides
Testing for carbonates
Testing for metal ions
Instrumental analysis
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 radio waves content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A literature starter activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A frequency activity
4: A sheet for student to fill in
5: A radio wave model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the resistance in a wire required practical content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance in circuits starter activity
3: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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