'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 full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Core Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Atomic structure
2: The periodic table
3: Metals
4: Oil & it's uses
5: The changing planet
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities covering the motion 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 key word starter game
4: A speed dice game
5: An inertial mass game
6: A speed time graph activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 lesson with activities covering the spectroscope content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A starter game
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A spectra comparison activity
5: A spectroscope modelling activity
6: A 6 mark AFL question
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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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the periodic table & atomic theory content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A summary sheet
4: Interactive notebook activities
5: A dice AFL game
6: A development of the periodic table literacy activity
7: A key word card sort
8: A periodic table construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the digestion & enzymes content of the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An enzyme information hunt
3: A lock & key card sort
4: 2 6 mark questions
5: A digestion summary sheet
6: An enzyme interactive notebook activity
7: A student information collection sheet
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This resource is a revision lesson covering the fission & fusion content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A fusion card sort
3: A nuclear power station information hunt
4: A summary sheet
5: An interactive notebook activity
6: 2 6 mark questions
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sustainability & water treatment content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook acitivity
4: A sustainability game
5: A water treatment 6 mark question
6: A sewage treatment model
7: A potable water literacy activity
8: A sustainable resources card sort
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the gas exchange in the alveoli content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter activity
3: A micro-teaching activity
4: A snakes & ladders AFL game
5: An alveoli modelling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A Gas exchange literacy activity
8: A Gas movement in the lungs demo
9: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
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This resource has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the protein synthesis content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: An instruction video explaining how to put the interactive notebook together
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook activity on transcription
4: An interactive notebook activity on translation
If you purchase this resource and need any extra help on how to put it together please get in contact with me
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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 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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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 GCSE Chemistry, the atmosphere 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:
The changing atmosphere
Global warming
Composition of the atmosphere
Formation of limestone
Carbon footprint
Acid rain
Carbon cycle
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 Physics, magnets & electromagnets 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:
Magnets
Magnetic fields
Electromagnets
Motor effect
Electromagnetic inductions
Speakers
Microphones
Transformers
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 whole lesson on static electricity covering what is required by the 2015 AQA Physics spec. This lesson includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information hunt
3: A dice AFL game
4: A literacy activity
5: A series of suggested demos
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reaction time required practical content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A reaction time conversion table
4: A booklet for students to work through while working through the investigation
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the enzymes in digestion content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A student sheet that they can fill in about enzymes in digestion
4: Activities on different types of enzymes
5: Assessment activity dice games
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: Videos going through how to model enzymes in digestion
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