Chapter summary of concepts, formulae and content - helpful for all grade levels

A3 Summary diagram - useful to summarise chapter 7.1

Summary of Chapter 7.3 Synergy

A3 summary poster - useful overview of very descriptive chapter, lots to remember.

This is a particularly tricky topic, difficult concepts and many things to get confused; my students found the revision resource a handy way to comprehend all the different parts.

Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has been described as the single most important thing for teachers to know. However; How does CLT impact Teaching & Learning? What does it mean for the Curriculum? What is ‘slow’ teaching and what makes teaching efficient and learning effective so you can achieve ‘mastery’ or fluency? What is deliberate practice? What is essential knowledge or ‘powerful’ knowledge? I’ve been teaching for over 25 years and I am now changing what I am doing in the classroom, re-evaluating the elements that make up a successful lesson and starting again. This mindmap helped me piece together some of the theory and the literature. The answers to all these questions is not all here, not in the necessary detail, but how they are connected is. I hope it helps.

My students find these sheets really useful: For each unit they have all the learning objectives covered, including all formulas and key words in a friendly visual format.

A3 summary diagram - useful to summarise the unit content.

A useful revision resource for students to enable them to review and check their knowledge.

Summary of the formulas that students need to remember and the ones given on the equation sheet, helpful aid so that they focus on knowing when to use them and to rearrange them.

The second of two A3 Concept maps.

The first of two A3 concept maps that summarise the ideas behind effective teaching, direct instruction and other key elements that arise from Cognitive Load Theory.

My students really appreciate these; they find them inspirational to make their own posters, to colour in and some use them as a revision guide for their own flash cards or mind maps.

Summary of P3: Particle Theory and how it applies to solids, liquids and gases then the calculations involving Specific Heat and Latent Heat.

Useful summary of the ‘Powerful Knowledge’ students will need in this topic.

Useful summary of Chapter 2 - my students demand these now that they are used to them

Covering the key questions and skills that may be asked for: 11. Analysis and purification of water samples; 12. Measuring population size and using sampling techniques to investigate the effect of a factor on the distribution of a species; 13. Stretch tests; 14. Investigating force and acceleration, and; 15. Investigating different components.

Covering the key questions and skills that may be asked for: 1. Measuring Density; 2. Calculating Specific Heat Capacity, and; 3 Looking at Cells