'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 renewable energy content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This lesson includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
4: 4 suggested models that you can construct to help explain renewable energy
5: A 6 mark question analysis activity
6: A group presentation 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 distance and displacement content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A Spag activity
4: A scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A measuring distance and displacement activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the uses of radiation 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: A radiation information sheet
4: A monitoring the thickness of materials group activity
5: A radiation in smoke alarms key information activity
6: A sheet for students to work through
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A 6 mark analysis 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 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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Physics specification, burning fuel for power 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 6 mark AFL dice activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: Generating electricity information hunt activity
4: Generating electricity card sort
5: 6 mark question
6: How a power station works explanation activity
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 heat transfers content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information maze starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out on conduction, convection and radiation
4: A group presentation activity
5: A key information analysis activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the gravity & centre of mass content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A gravity key information starter game
3: An equation dice game
4: A weight on different planets activity
5: A centre of mass suggested practical
6: A 6 mark plenary 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 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 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 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 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 density content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A describing what density means starter activity
3: A density dice game
4: A section on the density required practical
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: 50 density calculations
7: A series of activities on how the density of different shapes can be calculated
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 nuclear radiation content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information hunt starter activity
3: Information, a group activity and a dice assessment game for the 3 types of radiation
4: A radiation deflection explanation
5: A 6 mark assessment question
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 lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: SHC
2: Insulation
3: Density
4: Resistance
5: I-V Charecteristics
6: Insulation
7: Light
8: Radiation & absorption
9: Force & stretching
10: Acceleration
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This resource is a set of 33 Science Literacy games that can be used within normal lessons or as revision. Each game contains text that students need to read through and then a game with questions based on that text around it. The games included cover:
1: 2 on speed
2: Evolution
3: Rate of reaction
4: Organs
5: Classification
6: Adaptations
7: Understanding genetics
8: Electromagnetic induction
9: Protein synthesis
10: The cell cycle
11: Magnets
12: Bacteria
13: The atmosphere
14: Current
15: Neutralisation
16: Distance & displacement
17: Electrolysis
18: Atomic theory
19: States of matter
20: Blood
21: Sewage treatment
22: Anaerobic respiration
23: Natural polymers
24: Renewable energy
25: Drug testing
26: Meiosis
27: Acids & alkalis
28: Levels of organisation
29: Types of muscle
30: Power & Pd
31: Recycling
32: States of matter
All of these games are tried & tested and really help engage students. After students have played the game you can also ask students questions off the boards as a quick form of AFL.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Physics 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. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
The required practicals in the GCSE Physics spec
Radiation
Heat
Electricity
The Big Bang
Red shift
Forces
Stretching
Sound
Magnetism
Space
The national grid
Insulation
Graphs
Falling objects
Electromagnets
States of matter
Centre of mass
Motors
And lots more
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This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Physics exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Magnets & electromagnets
2: Atomic structure
3: Electricity
4: Forces
5: Space
6: Particle model of matter
7: Waves
8: Energy
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This resource is a set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Physics. 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: Atomic Structure
2: Electricity
3: Energy
4: Forces
5: Magnets & Electromagnets
6: Particle Model of Matter
7: Space
8: Waves
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This resource is a set of over 30 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Physics 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: Current electricity
2: Circuits
3: The early Universe
4: Energy from the nucleus
5: Forces
6: Heat transfer
7: Hydraulics
8: Kinetic energy
9: The life cycle of a star
10: Mains electricity
11: Making elements
12: Motion
13: The national grid
14: Power
15: Radiation
16: Renewable energy
17: Resultant force
18: The solar system
19: Sound waves
20: Spring constant
21: The Big Bang
22: The eye
23: Work done
24: X rays
25: Speed
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