'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.
The Massive start of the year icebreaker Quiz with over 100 questions and 9 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of term and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: TV
3: Science
4: Places
5: Sport
6: Books
7: History
8: Words
9: Art
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding in sand castles
2: USA landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Animals
8: Movie scenes
All answers are included. These are on slides at the end of each round, so groups can quickly swap their answer sheets and mark each others.
There are also 8 getting to know your classmates activities that can be used throughout.
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise the required practicals in the GCSE Biology 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Microscopy
Microbiology
Food tests
Germination
Osmosis
Field Investigations
Photosynthesis
Enzyme
Reaction Time
Decay
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the cells to organ systems content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
Know the hierarchy of a living organism
Define cell, tissue, organ and organ system
Apply your knowledge of organisation to explain how the systems of the body are arranged
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A what students already understand diagnosis activity
4: Slides on cells, tissues, organs & organ systems
5: A modelling activity demo that works well with students
6: A multiple choice plenary activity
7: A summary sheet for students
8: A cells to organ system card sort
9: An organisation diagram activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the using microscopes content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
Label the parts of a microscope
Observe onion cells using a microscope
Draw an accurate diagram based on your observations
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A microscope part information hunt starter
4: An example of how to work out magnification
5: A modelling how to make an onion cell slide activity
6: A multiple choice plenary activity
7: An extension activity
8: Making cheek cell slide instructions
9: Instructions on how to draw cells
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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 use of plant hormones content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: A starter game on plant auxin use
3: An information hunt on the use of ethene to ripen fruit
4: A group activity on gibberellins
5: A data analysis plenary question
6: Resources to carry out the plant hormones required practical
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 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 control of gene expression content in the new 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A literacy key information starter activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A multiple choice question activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
5: A post translation discussion activity
6: A transcriptional control dice game
7: An information slide that can be used for flipped learning
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 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 lesson with activities covering the Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes a run through of the stages involved with the lac operon
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: Key word definitions
4: A lac operon modelling activity with explanation picture & video
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: A micro teaching activity
7: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
8: A homework 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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This resource is a GCSE Bioenergetics work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the GCSE Biology specification in the cells section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Photosynthesis
Rate of photosynthesis
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Respiration – aerobic and anaerobic
Response to exercise
Metabolism
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content. In particular there are lots of data analysis activities to help prepare students for the increase in maths content within the exams.
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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 lesson and activities covering the ATP synthesis & electron transport chain content in the OCR (it would be suitable for other exam boards) A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game on the electron transport chain
3: A chemiosmosis activity
4: A ATP structure & synthesis activity
5: An electron transport chain activity
6: An assessment question
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 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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE new spec . All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed using the new content in the 2015-2016 specification and is designed to help get students started straight away in September
A set of 5 posters covering most of the key mathematical ideas covered in the KS4 syllabus. The posters can be printed out in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
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This resource is a whole lesson with activities covering the leaf structure & photosynthesis section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A leaf structure demo activity
4: A information hunt activity
5 A 6 mark AFL question
6:A leaf modeling activity
7:A leaf interactive notebook 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 & activities covering the DNA and genome content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A chromosomes key points activity
4: A dice assessment activity
5: A how genes code for amino acids activity
6: A DNA student model activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework 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 & activities covering the protein synthesis content in the 2015 AQA Biology spec. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A nucleotide codon activity
4: A transcription activity
5: A translation activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A homework question
8: 2 videos showing how protein synthesis can be modelled
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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