'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 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 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 bonding, structure and the properties 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
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, electricity 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:
Circuit diagrams
Charge
Resistance
Series circuits
Parallel circuits
Resistance graphs
Plugs & cables
Mains electricity
AC DC
National grid
Static electricity
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 biological organisation 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 specification in this 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.
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This resource is a Excretion, Kidneys & the Liver work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the OCR A Level Biology specification on this content. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Structure of the liver
Liver function
Waste products (excretion)
Metabolism
Urea production
Liver cirrhosis
Kidney structure & function
Nephrons
Water regulation
Testing urine
Treating kidney disease
Throughout the booklet are a range of different activities including highlighting text, exam style questions, drawing diagrams, key word tables and lots more.
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This resource is a GCSE infection & responce 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 this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Communicable (infectious) diseases
viral diseases
bacterial diseases
fungal diseases
protest diseases eg. malaria
human defence systems
vaccination / antibiotics and painkillers / discovery and development of drugs.
Producing and using monoclonal antibodies.
Detection and identification of plant diseases
plant defence responses.
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 chemical 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:
Reactivity of metals
Reactions of acids
Iron extraction
Displacement reactions
Acids & alkalis
Neutralization
Making salts
Titrations
Electrolysis
Electrolysis of aluminium
Electrolysis of water
Electrolysis of brine
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, atomic structure 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:
Atomic structure
Electron structure
Development of atomic theory
Radiation
Uses of radiation
Half life
Background radiation
Fission
Fusion
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 Chemistry, rate of reaction 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:
Measuring rate of reaction
Factors effecting rate of reaction
Calculating rate of reaction
Drawing graphs
Calculating gradients
Catalyst
Reversible reactions
Le Chatelier’s principle
The Haber process
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 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry, using resources 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:
Finite resources
The impact of human growth
Water treatment
Distillation
Sewage treatment
Extracting copper
LCA
Rusting
Recycling
Alloys & polymers
Haber process
Making ammonium sulphate
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 5 GCSE Chemistry 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: Chemical analysis
2: Organic chemistry
3: Rate of reaction
4: The atmosphere
5: Using resources
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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 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 Chemistry, organic 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Alkanes
Alkenes
Fractional distillation
Cracking
Polymerisation
Burning
Alcohols
Organic acids
Oil
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 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 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 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 evolution content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An evolution starter game
3: A natural selection activity
4: A mutations game
5: A species literacy activity
6: An evolution tree 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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