'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 covering the national grid content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A national grid model idea
4: A transformers 7 monkey activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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 activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the kinetic energy content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: 2 rearranged equation dice games
4: Slides to help students rearrange the equation
5: A roller coaster kinetic energy activity
6: A ferris wheel kinetic energy activity
7: A plenary question
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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering oil & it’s uses, space, electricity, motion, evolution and competition & adaptation
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 40mb of resources & 149 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
This resource is a GCSE Physics, electricity 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Circuit diagrams
Charge
Resistance
Series circuits
Parallel circuits
Resistance graphs
Plugs & cables
Mains electricity
AC DC
National grid
Static electricity
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 GCSE Physics, atomic structure 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Atomic structure
Electron structure
Development of atomic theory
Radiation
Uses of radiation
Half life
Background radiation
Fission
Fusion
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 bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, magnets & electromagnets 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Magnets
Magnetic fields
Electromagnets
Motor effect
Electromagnetic inductions
Speakers
Microphones
Transformers
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 whole lesson on static electricity covering what is required by the 2015 AQA Physics spec. This lesson includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information hunt
3: A dice AFL game
4: A literacy activity
5: A series of suggested demos
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a bundle of 4 GCSE Physics paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Forces
2: Magnets & electromagnetism
3: Space
4: Waves
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the radio waves content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A literature starter activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A frequency activity
4: A sheet for student to fill in
5: A radio wave model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 motor effect content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A spag starter activity
3: A dice assessment activity
4: A magnetic flux density activity
5: A model activity
6: A diagram & question 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 electromagnetic induction content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A generator diagram / modeling activity
5: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the magnets content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
4: A plotting magnetic fields activity
5: A properties of magnets activity
6: A drawing magnetic fields activity
7: A dice plenary game
8: A properties of temporary and induced magnets 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 lesson and activities covering the speakers content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out
4: A speaker model activity
5: A dice game assessment activity
6: A parts of a headphones activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the microphone content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A question analysis starter activity
3: A key information activity
4: A microphone model activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out
6: A dice assessment game
7: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a set of 16 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the magnets and electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a power point containing 50 practice kinetic energy calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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