'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 GCSE Bioenergetics 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 cells section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Photosynthesis
Rate of photosynthesis
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Respiration – aerobic and anaerobic
Response to exercise
Metabolism
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content. In particular there are lots of data analysis activities to help prepare students for the increase in maths content within the exams.
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 bundle is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science 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
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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 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 cells section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Cell structure
Cell jobs
Diffusion
Active transport
Osmosis
Cell types
The cell cycle & mitosis
Growing microbe
Stem cells
Magnification
Making slides
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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Chemistry spec
2: A number of questions looking at practicals students may be asked about other than required practicals
3: Electrolysis
4: Combustion
5: LCA
6: Metals
7: Acids & alkalis
8: The periodic table
9: Reactions
10: Allotropes of carbon
11: States of matter
12: The Haber process
13: The Earth
14: Molecules
15: And lots more
This resource is a set of 9 1-9 AQA GCSE Physics Equation Scrabble Games to help students with revision. I’ve put them on for free so have fun!
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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 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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Biology spec
2: The Nitrogen Cycle
3: The Heart
4: Genetic engineering
5: Cloning
6: Blood vessels
7: Cancer
8: Transpiration
9: The Kidney
8: Diffusion
9: Active Transport
10: Biodiversity
11: Decay
12: The carbon cycle
13: ADH
14: The immune system
15: Homeostasis
16: Malaria
17: Reflexes
18: HIV
19: Extinction
20: Evolution
These questions act as goo AFL activities at the end of the lesson and the mark schemes will allow students to see what the exam board want within long answer questions.
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering oil & it’s uses, space, electricity, motion, evolution and competition & adaptation
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 40mb of resources & 149 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the kinetic energy content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: 2 rearranged equation dice games
4: Slides to help students rearrange the equation
5: A roller coaster kinetic energy activity
6: A ferris wheel kinetic energy activity
7: A plenary question
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The resource is a lesson with activities that can be used to introduce students to acid & alkali. This resource includes:
1: A starter literacy game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A spag activity
4: A key word summary activity
5: A card sort
6: A plenary dice game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the atomic theory development of atomic theory 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: A key information highlighting activity
4: A modelling the development of atomic theory activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a pair of lessons covering the insulation content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. The lessons cover both house insulation & the insulation required practical. This resource includes:
1: 2 power points to lead students through both lessons
2: 2 6 mark plenary questions
3: A house insulation modelling activity
4: A house insulation labelling activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A key information highlighting activity
7: A practical results table
8: A dice game AFL activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the national grid content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A national grid model idea
4: A transformers 7 monkey 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 electron structure content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A atomic number starter game
3: A drawing electron structure circus activty
4: A key word card sort
5: A drawing electron structure trick
6: A plenary dice game
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metallic 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 student information sheet
3: A dice AFL game
4: A key information snakes & ladders game
5: A properties of metallic bonding information hunt
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A sheet for students to work through
8: A possible metallic bonding model 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 set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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