'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 set of 30 graph analysis questions that can be used to help students answer questions involving graphs in the Science GCSE. There are some graphs with questions to discuss with students, some with anomalies for students to identify and some which ask students to describe what the graph shows.
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice Rf calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the natural polymers content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A condensation polymerization activity
4: A starch and cellulose activity
5: A protein activity
6: A DNA activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
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 with activities covering the testing for ions content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Explanations how to test for metal ions, sulphates, halides, carbonates & carry out flame tests
3: A sheet for students to fill out
4: A starter game based on experimental command words
5: Quick practice exam style questions
6: A work out what is in a mixture activity
7: A key information annotation activity
8: A 6 mark assessment 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 focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on Chemistry practicals. For each required practical there is an explanation of how to carry it out, a long answer question looking at getting students to write methods, a diagram / model to help students write a method and an answer to each question. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A slide on key vocabulary to do with practicals
4: A questions looking at endo and exothermic reaction practicals
5: A questions looking at the density required practical
6: A questions looking at chromatography practicals
7: A questions looking at rate of reaction practicals
8: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
9: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the potable water content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry 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 desalination information hunt pair activity
4: A 6 mark plenary question on distillation
5: A suggested demo on distillation to carry out
6: A desalination modeling activity
7: Flipped learning information slide
8: A key information starter game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the calculating rate of chemical reactions content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A calculations snakes & ladders game
4: A rate of reaction graph activity
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This resource is a set of 17 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Chemistry exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
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This resource is a GCSE bonding, structure and the properties of matter 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
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 Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Atoms, elements & compounds
Mixtures
Atomic structure
The periodic table
Groups in the periodic table
Transition metals
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 lesson with activities covering the chromatography content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A suggested chromatography demo
4: Student sheets designed to lead students through the required practical
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 formulations 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 game
3: A fuels literacy activity
4: A cleaning agents literacy activity
5: A medicines literacy activity
6: A paints literacy activity
7: A dice AFL game
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 with activities covering the polymers content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A polymerization card sort
5: A drawing polymers activity
6: A polymer strength data analysis 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 set of 18 multiple choice rate of reaction questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Chemistry exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bonding
2: Chemical analysis
3: Chemical reactions
4: Energy changes
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: Using resources
8: Atomic structure
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This resource is a bundle of knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Atomic Structure & Periodic Table
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Using Resources
8: Rate of Reaction
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Iron & Steel in the metals section. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point1 leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of steel
4: Blast furnace stage cards
5: Uses of different steels activity
6: Mock exam question on the blast furnace
This is an activity that I have used with my Y11 students during their revision. It can be used in a number of ways. The general instructions of how to use it are:
1. Print off the power point slides (2 to a page works well)
2. Set up some tables and outline the shape of the periodic table
3. Put on the labels for the groups and the periods in the correct places
4. Write on a few elements
5. Give each student an element card which gives them a range of things they need to work out about the element as a starter
6. Ask the students to place their element where they think it should be
7. Use the question cards as a basis for a discussion about the periodic table (there are around 25 question cards so most students will be asked at least one thing.
There is lots in the power point and it can easily be differentiated
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the covalent bonding content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of bonds an atom will form game
3: A series of covalent compounds for students to draw
4: A simple covalent compounds spag activity
5: A simple covalent compounds modeling activity
6: A giant covalent compounds literacy activity & presentation
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A video showing how to carry out the modeling 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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