'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 resources is a lesson with activities covering the pure substances content in 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 pure substances literacy activity
4: A purity of a substance graph activity
5: A purity and melting point activity
6: A melting / freezing point of salty water graph 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 lesson with activities covering the waste management 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 sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A population growth activity
5: An air pollution spag activity
6: A water pollution activity
7: A population growth graph analysis activity
8: A 6 mark question plenary
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 polymers content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A polymerization card sort
5: A drawing polymers activity
6: A polymer strength data analysis 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
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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 deforestation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A possible model activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
5: A dice assessment activity
6: A deforestation graph analysis 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
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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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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the speciation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An exam analysis starter activity
3: A suggested model activity & video showing how to carry it out
4: A literacy activity
5: A 6 mark plenary 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
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the CHD content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A exam question analysis starter activity
3: A development of a cholesterol plaque model activity
4: 2 exam style questions
5: A card sort activity
6: A homework task
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video going through how to carry out the model activity
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 set of notes for students to use
12: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the covalent bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of bonds an atom will form game
3: A series of covalent compounds for students to draw
4: A simple covalent compounds spag activity
5: A simple covalent compounds modeling activity
6: A giant covalent compounds literacy activity & presentation
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video showing how to carry out the modeling 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 & activities covering the ionic bonding content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet with activities for students to work through
3: A literacy starter game
4: A giant ionic bonding model activity
5: A video showing how to model ionic bonding
6: A 6 mark plenary 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 and activities covering the allotropes of carbon content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Modeling activities covering the structure of diamond, graphite & fullerenes
4: A student sheet that they can fill in throughout the lesson
5: 2 plenary 6 mark questions
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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