'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 GCSE Chemistry, rate of reaction 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Measuring rate of reaction
Factors effecting rate of reaction
Calculating rate of reaction
Drawing graphs
Calculating gradients
Catalyst
Reversible reactions
Le Chatelier’s principle
The Haber process
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 resources covering the photosynthesis required practical in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A 6 mark question starter activity
2: A power point which is used to structure the lesson
3: A set of student sheets to help students understand the practical
4: A 6 mark question which can be used for AFL
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This resource is a set of 29 multiple choice organic chemistry questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a set of flash cards to help students revise the transport in plants content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. Each card gives help on what students need to include.
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This resource is a set of 20 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the A Level Biology exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
1: Evolution
2: Animal & plant pathogens
3: Antibodies
4: Controlling heart rate
5: Controlling blood glucose
6: Excretion
7: Immunology
8: Insect ventilation
9: The brain
10: Mutations & variation
11: Non specific immunity
12: Organisation of the nervous system
13: Water transport
14: Phagocytosis
15: Plant defences
16: Sliding filament model
17: The structure of the kidney
18: Types of circulation
19: Vaccination
20: Variation
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This resource is a revision lesson covering the fission & fusion content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A fusion card sort
3: A nuclear power station information hunt
4: A summary sheet
5: An interactive notebook activity
6: 2 6 mark questions
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This resource is a set of over 300 revision activities that will enable students to put together their own revision flashcards. This resource has been put together using the 2015 AQA Science specification and covers all the specification points.
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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 lesson with activities covering the radiation content of the AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: An information sheet
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A blockusters starter game
4: A types of radiation 6 mark answered question to mark
5: A half life graph activity
6: An uses of radiation literacy activity
7: An uses of radiation 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the action potential section of the OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student work sheet
3: An action potential starter game
4: A key word literacy activity
5: An action potential modeling activity
6: An action potential card sort activity
7: A literacy activity
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 microscopes content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A labeling a microscope activity
3: Magnification activities
4: An electron microscope information hunt
5: A comparing microscopes card sort activity
6: 2 6 mark questions
7: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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 and activities covering the allotropes of carbon content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Modeling activities covering the structure of diamond, graphite & fullerenes
4: A student sheet that they can fill in throughout the lesson
5: 2 plenary 6 mark questions
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 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 with activities covering the stem cells and their uses content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A literacy activity
4: A uses of stem cells activity
5: A use of stem cells to treat diabetes 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 series of well resourced lessons covering the bioenergetics section of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. These lessons fit in with the SOW released by AQA.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on cracking hydrocarbons
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on photosynthesis investigations.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the vaccination content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A artificial immunity dice game
4: A vaccination model activity
5: A key words plenary activity
6: A SPAG activity
7: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 plant defences 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 plant defences modelling activity
4: A student diagram
5: A dice game
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A assessment question for students to work through
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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Introducing the perfect solution for students to ace their AQA GCSE Science exams! This resource comes with a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the content gradually, along with plenty of opportunities to check their understanding and apply their knowledge in exam questions. This resource covers:
• Diffusion
• Active transport
• Osmosis
• Osmosis required practical
The lessons provided are appropriate for the following specifications:
• Trilogy
• Synergy
• Separate Science Biology
This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A set of notes for students to use
3: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
4: Instructions to help students make their own notes
5: Student modeling activities
6: Multi choice plenary questions
7: Links to the specification
8: Plenty of practice exam style questions throughout
9: A 6 mark osmosis required practical question
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