'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 revision lesson with activities designed to cover the infection & response content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
An immune system snakes & ladders game
A vaccination spag activity
A key information dice game
A drug development literacy game
A marking a 6 mark question activity
A construct a mark scheme for a 6 mark question on monoclonal antibodies activity
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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 lesson with activities designed to help students revise the bioenergetics content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A limiting factors snakes & ladders game
A respiration literacy game
A photosynthesis 6 mark starter activity
A key information dice game
Types of metabolism activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biological organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A plant tissues dice game
2 modeling activities
6 mark question marking activities
An organs game
2 card sorts
A gas movement in the lungs snakes & ladders game
6 mark questions
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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 infection & response 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.
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 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 lesson with activities covering the basics of glucose regulation within the body. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A worksheet for students to work through
3: A control of blood glucose modeling activity
4: A video showing how to carry out the modeling activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the enzyme required practical content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A reading for meaning starter activity
3: A set of student sheets to lead them through the required practical
4: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a set of 16 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the bioenergetics content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification.
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice magnification calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a set of activities that can be used to help introduce new Y7 students to KS3 Science. The resource includes a set series of lessons accompanied by a work booklet for students to work through as well as a number of short standalone activities that can be used to help introduce students to specific skills they will need. This resource includes:
1: A power point to help lead students through lessons
2: A work booklet
3: A homework activity
4: A Hooke’s Law investigation planning activity
5: A reflection investigation results analysis activity
6: A Hooke’s Law data presentation activity
7: A looking at speed graphs activity
8: A respiration data presentation activity
9: A friction investigation data presentation activity
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This resource contains a variety of interactive B1 revision activities designed to get students revising in a different way rather than just the traditional chalk & talk. On each slide with information there are a series of questions to help get students thinking about that particular topic. Included are a variety of different games & activities that can be tailored for your particular needs.
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This resource in a lesson plan with activities for the 2015 AQA Biology spec human defense systems / immune system section. This resource includes:
1: A power point which leads students through the lesson
2: Immune system information with game
3: Natural immunity information gathering activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: 6 mark question starter activity
6: 6 mark plenary AFL question
7: A phagocytosis activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the control of blood glucose content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph analysis activities
3: Control of blood glucose diagrams
4: A circus of information on glucose regulation
5: A plenary 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the practical aspect of the how the body controls its temperature content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter on ways to take temperature
3: A practical sheet for students to work through
4: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 to lead students through the lesson
2: A questioning dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ventilation in insects content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lea students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A modeling activity
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A student sheet to use during the lesson
6: An AFL dice game
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This bundle contains a series of lessons covering the exchange surfaces & breathing section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification
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This resource is a lesson with activities on the function of the nephron content in the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort starter
3: A large diagram activity (stage cards included but you will need to draw a large nephron)
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A student sheet
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