'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 that covers the nucleic acid content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A DNA & the Genome 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: Labels for a large modelling activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities that covers the ATP content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A uses of ATP 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
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metabolism content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A types of metabolism information hunt activity
4: A formation of urea activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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 covering the cells content of the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An organelles information hunt
3: A revision summary sheet
4: Interactive notebook activities
5: A suggested movement across the membrane modelling activity
6: A student active transport model activity
7: 2 exam style questions
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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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, Mammalian Exchange Surfaces (Lung Dissection) 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: A key information starter activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in on the lungs
5: Lung dissection practical endorsement activity
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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 lesson with activities covering the Hooke’s law content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A practical command word starter game
3: A spring constant equation activity
4: A stretching and squashing explanation
5: A Hooke’s Law investigation design activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
8: A graph analysis activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ceramics, polymers and composites content in 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 key information starter game
4: A composite information hunt
5: A composite presentation activity
6: A polymers literacy activity
7: A polymer properties activity
8: A ceramic properties activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the aerobic respiration content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead with activities students through the lesson
2: A modelling respiration activity
3: A dice game AFL activity
4: A respiration key information literacy activity
5: 2 practice questions
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: 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 19 exam questions designed to improve how students answer questions based around practicals and practical data. The areas that the questions cover are:
1: Line transects
2: Electrolysis
3: Chromatography
4: Growing bacteria
5: Enzymes
6: Aerobic respiration
7: Anaerobic respiration
8: Using a potometer
9: Osmosis
10: Waves
11: Black body radiation
12: Temperature changes
13: Respiration in worms
14: Acceleration
15: Resistance
16: Decay
17: Refraction
18: Rate of reaction
19: Insulation
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the speed section of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification with a zombie twist. This resource includes
1: A literacy key word starter activity
2: An identify scalar & vector quantities activity
3: A speed calculation dice game
4: A rearrange the speed equation activity
5: A zombie chase data gather activity
6: A speed time graph activity
7: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a full lesson and activities covering the calculating chemical yield content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A chemical yield key word literacy activity
3: A trivial pursuit dice game activity
4: A circus of questions activity
5: An exam style question plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the global warming content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A global warming graph activity
4: A how global warming is caused activity
5: A suggested model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson on the evidence for evolution for the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A Literacy activity
2: A snakes & ladders game
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: A information hunt activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out 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 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 resources covering the anaerobic respiration content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A dice game AFL activity
4: A fermentation activity
5: A 6 mark plenary activity
6: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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 and activities covering the factors affecting enzymes content of 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: A enzyme action & collision theory activity
4: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson that covers the required practical in the coordination & control section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student practical sheet
3: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sliding filament content in the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: An actin & myosin game starter
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A student sheet
4: A suggested model activity
5: A card sort activity
6: A energy for muscles activity
7: A micro teaching plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the organisation of the nervous system section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet to help structure their notes
3: An information sheet
4: A starter game activity
5: A literacy questioning 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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