'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 power point containing method cards for the 31 required practicals in the AQA Science specification. The slides can either be printed off for students to use or be used during revision sessions.
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This resource is a bundle of lessons covering the forces content in the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. Most of the resources should work with the forces SOW published by AQA
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the resistance in a wire required practical content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance in circuits starter activity
3: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the black body radiation practical content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A series of sheets for students to work through while carrying out the practical
4: An absorption of infrared radiation activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a whole lesson covering the resistance (including a required practical) section of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance equation activity
3: A student sheet for students to use throughout the lesson
4: A required practical
5: A planning sheet if you wish to extend the lesson
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a set of 27 multiple choice magnets & electromagnets questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a set of 20 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the energy content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a 2 page knowledge organiser covering the magnets & electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the density content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A describing what density means starter activity
3: A density dice game
4: A section on the density required practical
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: 50 density calculations
7: A series of activities on how the density of different shapes can be calculated
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 radiation and atomic structure. 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 question looking at the structure of the atom (atomic theory)
4: A questions looking at the 3 types of radiation
5: A question looking at radioactive decay
6: A question on half life
7: A question on background radiation
8: A question on radiation safety
9: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
10: 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 inertial mass content in the new AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: An instruction sheet on how to run the lesson
3: A dice game
4: A literacy starter activity
5: 2 graph drawing activities
6: A data analysis circus of questions
7: An equation activity
8: A suggested drag race activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Newton's 2nd Law content in the new 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A teaching outline for the lesson
3: An acceleration in F1 starter activity
4: A dice game
5: A graph analysis task
6: A speed time graph in relationship to Newton's 2nd Law activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the equations of motion for uniform acceleration section of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculate acceleration from a graph starter activity
3: An information hunt
4: A constructing the acceleration equation using symbols activity
5: 2 re-arrange the acceleration equation activities
6: 2 dice games
7: A calculating distance travelled activity
8: A calculating final velocity equation construction activity
9: A using final velocity equation plenary
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This resource is a lesson covering the momentum content in the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: The momentum equation activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A force & momentum activity
4: A conservation of mass activity
5: A graph drawing activity
6: A rearranging equations activity
7: A calculating stopping distance activity
8: A maze starter game
9: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: SHC
2: Insulation
3: Density
4: Resistance
5: I-V Charecteristics
6: Insulation
7: Light
8: Radiation & absorption
9: Force & stretching
10: Acceleration
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the renewable energy content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This lesson includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
4: 4 suggested models that you can construct to help explain renewable energy
5: A 6 mark question analysis activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment 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 with activities covering the distance and displacement content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A Spag activity
4: A scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A measuring distance and displacement activity
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