'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 A Level Biology, cell division revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The cell cycle
Mitosis
Meiosis
The organization & specialization of cells
Stem cells
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 that covers the field investigations content in the required practical section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A sampling area activity
5: A 3 page booklet for students to work through while carrying out the investigation
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the stem cells content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A uses of stem cells discussion 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 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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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the negative feedback section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An AFL dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
6: A reading for purpose activity
7: A starter game on negative feedback
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 bundle of 12 GCSE Science paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 12 sections in the second Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, variation & evolution
4: Chemical analysis
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: The Atmosphere
8: Using resources
9: Forces
10: Magnets & electromagnetism
11: Space
12: Waves
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This resource is a bundle of 3 GCSE Biology paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 3 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
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This resource is a A Level Biology, neuronal communication revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Nerves & neurones
Generator potential
Resting potentials
Action potentials
Propagation of an action potential
Synapses
Structure of the nervous system
The brain
Reflexes
Muscles
Sliding filament model
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 Biology, ecology 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Species
Classification
Distribution of organisms
Sampling
Predator prey graphs
Adaptations
Pyramids of biomass
Carbon cycle
Water cycle
Eutrophication
Global warming
Food security
Sustainable fisheries
Microprotein
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 Biology, inheritance, variation & evolution 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Meiosis
DNA
Genetic variation
Protein synthesis
Inherited disorders
Punnet squares
Genetic engineering
Cloning
Natural selection
Selective breeding
Evolution
Evidence of evolution
Extinction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria
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 bundle of 4 GCSE Biology paper 1 work booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, homeostasis 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:
The nervous system
Reflexes
Removing waste
Synapses
Reaction time
The eye
The brain
Temperature regulation
Water regulation
Glucose regulation
Negative feedback
Menstrual cycle
Contraception
Fertility treatment
Plant hormones
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 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 Communicable Disease & Immunity Revision Workbook 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:
Plant & animal diseases
Types of pathogen
Disease transmission
Plant defences
Non specific immunity
Antibodies
Humoral immunity
Acquired immunity
Phagocytosis
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 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 bundle of 4 GCSE Biology paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
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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.
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