'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 lesson with activities covering the gas exchange & ventilation in fish content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information hunt activity
3: A dice game
4: A student sheet
5: A fish ventilation modeling activity
6: A gill structure modeling activity
7: A counter current flow modeling activity
8: A key information starter game
9: 3 videos showing how the modeling activities are carried out
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This item is a set of Science key words with definitions for the AQA Science course
Each card has a different key word and a description of what the key word means
The cards come in a power point format and simply need printing off and cuting out
The separate slides can also be printed off as A4 sheets and put up to remind students what different key words they can use in the exam to improve their grade
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This is a new lesson for the antibodies & antitoxins section of the new OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet for students to use throughout
3: A snakes and ladders starter activity
4: A Plasticine building activity
5: A key word plenary activity
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year 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: 5 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 5 Weekly revision resources covering cells, the heart, enzymes, the periodic table, the immune system, diseases, salts & electrolysis
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 160mb of resources & 157 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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This resource has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the hormonal control 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: A insulin production pop up
4: A stages of adrenal control lever opening resource
5: A key words activity
6: A differences between key concepts pull down arrow
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the control of heart rate content of the 2015 OCR A2 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A receptor type summary activity
4: A dice AFL activity
5: A hormones that affect the heart discussion activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the DNA replication content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A nucleotide multiple choice question activity
4: A forming peptide bonds activity
5: A DNA replication modelling activity with explanation video
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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 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 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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This resource is a set of 18 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the inheritance & evolution content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification.
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This resource is a set of 24 multiple choice biological organisation questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a full lesson with activities covering the use of a spirometer content of the new OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word card sort
3: A spirometer practical sheet
4: A student sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This is a series of 3 lessons for the new AQA Biology Specification on the Heart & Circulation. The resource includes:
1: A power point leading through the 3 lessons
2: Heart dissection instructions
3: Alveoli diagrams
4: Alveoli information speed dating cards
5: Student blood vessel sheet
6: 6 mark exam style question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson covering the reaction time required practical aspect of the 2016 AQA Biology specialization. The lesson is designed to enable students to answer a range of questions based around the practical similar to old ISA paper 2 questions
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the reflexes content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A synapse function starter
4: 2 exam style questions
5: A spag activity
6: A reflex model activity
7: A types of reflex group activity
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A flipped learning information slide
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This resource is a series of summary sheets covering the hormonal control content in the A Level Biology specification. These sheets can be used during revision in lessons, as prompts in lessons or can be sent to students as flipped learning activities. The areas covered in this resource are:
1: The endocrine system
2: Hormonal control of cells
3: Control of blood glucose
4: Regulating insulin release
5: Control of heart rate
6: Adrenaline
8: ADH
9: The pancreas
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This resource is a new lesson covering the introduction to homeostasis content in the 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A card sort activity
4: A peer homeostasis questioning activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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