'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 whole lesson with activities on electrical power & potential difference. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter activity
3: A power question activity
4: A what fuse to use activity
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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 resource is a lesson with activities to enable students to revise the heat transfer section of the AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Various uses of a 6 mark question
4: A thermos flask modelling activity
5: A thermos flask diagram for students to annotate
6: A heat transfer information sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the speed time relationship content section of the new GCSE Physics specification with a walking dead twist. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A lesson explanation document
3: A key words starter activity game
4: An identifying scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A calculating speed dice game
6: A rearranging an equation activity
7: A zombie chase data collection activity
8: A drawing a graph activity
9: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 voluntary & involuntary muscles content of the new 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A muscle types starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A student sheet
4: A types of muscle activity
5: A muscle part card sort
6: A modeling idea that can lead into the sliding filament model (a series of pictures included
7: A practice exam question
8: A flipped learning information slide
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the animal & plant pathogens section of A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: A hexagon question activity
4: A virus dice activity
5: A multiple choice question activity
6: A fungi diagram activity
7: A modes of action discussion activity
8: A key information activity
9: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the work done content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter dice game
3: A sheet for students to work through
4: 4 work done games for the main part of the lesson
5: A blockbusters game
6: A work done question circus
7: 2 graph activities
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 electrolysis of aluminium content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A 6 mark starter activity
2: A aluminium electrolysis model activity
3: A micro teaching task
4: A power point to lead students through the lesson
5: A 6 mark assessment lesson
6: A literacy activity
7: A electrolysis 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 non specific immune response content in the 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: A blood clotting modelling activity
4: A dice game
5: A multiple choice answer activity
6: A sheet for students 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 collision theory content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A definition construction activity
3: Various model building activities
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the phagocytosis section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling activity
4: A student diagram sheet
5: A micro teaching activity
6: A sheet for students 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 set of 23 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Biology exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. All the editable files for the games are in the zip file as there are over 30 individual files. This resource includes games covering:
1: Enzymes
2: Digestion
3: Evolution
4: Adaptations
5: Biodiversity
6: Decay
7: Deforestation
8: Diabetes
9: Drug testing
10: Food security
11: Genetic engineering
12: Growing microbes
13: Reproductive hormones
14: Meiosis
15: Mitosis
16: Reflexes
17: Plant hormones
18: Temperature control
19: The use of glucose
20: Tropic levels
21: Using plant hormones
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the acids & alkali section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A suggested practical
4: A forming salts dice game
5: A definition construction activity
6: A forming ions & equation construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the mitosis & the cell cycle 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 mitosis modeling activity
4: A cell cycle modeling activity
5: A mitosis spag activity
6: A student sheet
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: Videos showing how the modeling activities work
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 metals section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A copper smelting starter activity
4: A blast furnace question
5: A purifying copper information hunt
6: A 6 mark question on titanium production
7: A 6 mark question on metallic issues
8: A aluminium & titanium literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adaptation & competition content of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A 6 mark question marking activity
4: An adaptations game
5: A shark adaptation 6 mark question
6: A plant adaptations 6 mark question
7: A plant adaptations card sort
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the drugs and medicine section of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A Thalidomide dice game
5: A drugs 6 mark question marking activity
6: A drugs in sport literacy activity
7: Drug trailing stage cards
8: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy & biomass content in the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A key word starter game
4: 3 6 mark assessment questions
5: An efficiency dice activity
6: A pyramid of biomass activity
7: A decay card sort
8: A decay factors group activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the changing planet content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A structure of the Earth dice game
5: An atmosphere development sequencing activity
6: A 6 mark question on continental drift
7: A 6 mark question on the carbon cycle
8: A 6 mark question on the Earths atmosphere
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