'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 digestion & enzymes content of the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An enzyme information hunt
3: A lock & key card sort
4: 2 6 mark questions
5: A digestion summary sheet
6: An enzyme interactive notebook activity
7: A student information collection sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reflexes part of the new 2015 OCR Biology A Level specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A reflex card sort
4: A type of reflex explanation activity
5: A reaction time practical activity
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 body plans content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A homeobox genes key information highlighting activity
3: A building a fly embryo starter activity
4: A AFL dice game
5: A apoptosis modelling activity
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 Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes a run through of the stages involved with the lac operon
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: Key word definitions
4: A lac operon modelling activity with explanation picture & video
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: A micro teaching activity
7: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
8: A homework activity
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: 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 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 set of 23 A Level Biology games that can be used to help get students describing different concepts within different topics either as part of normal lessons or as revision.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the waste management content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A population growth activity
5: An air pollution spag activity
6: A water pollution activity
7: A population growth graph analysis activity
8: A 6 mark question plenary
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: 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 ATP synthesis & electron transport chain content in the OCR (it would be suitable for other exam boards) A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game on the electron transport chain
3: A chemiosmosis activity
4: A ATP structure & synthesis activity
5: An electron transport chain activity
6: An assessment question
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 knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Cells
2: Organisation
3: Bioenergeticis
4: Ecology
5: Homeostasis
6: Infection & Response
7: Inheritance
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the DNA and genome content in 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 chromosomes key points activity
4: A dice assessment activity
5: A how genes code for amino acids activity
6: A DNA student model activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework question
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: 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 & activities covering the protein synthesis content in the 2015 AQA Biology spec. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A nucleotide codon activity
4: A transcription activity
5: A translation activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A homework question
8: 2 videos showing how protein synthesis can be modelled
9: A set of notes for students to use
10: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
11: 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 set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Biology. Each card has criteria on one side, and students need to use it to put together their own flash card on the reverse. The areas covered by these cards are:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Homeostasis
4: Ecology
5: Bioenergetics
6: Infection & Response
7: Inheritance & Evolution
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This resource is a series of summary sheets covering the biological molecules content in 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: Water
2: Amino acids
3: Types of protein
4: Protein structure
5: DNA replication
6: Nucleotides
7: Dissacharides
8: Cellulose
9: Starch
10: Lipids
11: Triglycerides
12: Glycogen
13: ATP
14: Transcription
15: Translation
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the effect of exercise content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resources includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: An oxygen debt activity
4: A recovering from exercise activity
5: A mini project task
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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 lesson with activities that covers the types of protein content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A protein structure recall starter activity
3: A student modelling activity
4: A range of exam style questions throughout
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 quick fire set of plenary questions
9: An optional Haemoglobin modelling activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the gas exchange in the lungs content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
Recall the structure of the lung and the process of breathing
Describe the process of gas exchange in the alveoli
Explain how the body is adapted to ensure a high rate of gas exchange
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A recall starter task
4: A starter diagnosis question
5: A key information game
6: Information on the alveoli
7: A modelling activity
8: A scientific writing activity
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This resource is a A Level Biology, evolution and classification workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Classification
The 5 Kingdoms
The 3 Domains
Natural Selection & Evolution
Evidence of Evolution
Variation
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the DNA profiling content of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A human genome AFL dice game
4: A DNA profiling modelling activity
5: A PCR modelling activity
6: A human genome key point highlight activity
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