'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 eye section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An information hunt activity
3: An eye problems activity
4: A focusing card sort
5: A 6 mark assessment question
6: A group discussion activity
7: A sheet for students to work through
8: A literacy key information starter game
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 role of synapses section of the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A synapse parts information hunt
4: A model activity synapse activity
5: A cholinergic synapse card sort
6: A role of synapse dice game
7: A summation & control literacy activity
8: A starter game
9: A homework task
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 sliding filament content in the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: An actin & myosin game starter
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A student sheet
4: A suggested model activity
5: A card sort activity
6: A energy for muscles activity
7: A micro teaching plenary
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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 inertial mass content in the new AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: An instruction sheet on how to run the lesson
3: A dice game
4: A literacy starter activity
5: 2 graph drawing activities
6: A data analysis circus of questions
7: An equation activity
8: A suggested drag race activity
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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 on the structure and function of the pancreas which will give students the opportunity to achieve PAG 1. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A drawing pancreas tissue PAG activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
5: An endocrine function activity
6: An exocrine function activity
7: A group activity
8: A flipped learning information slide
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 speed section of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification with a zombie twist. This resource includes
1: A literacy key word starter activity
2: An identify scalar & vector quantities activity
3: A speed calculation dice game
4: A rearrange the speed equation activity
5: A zombie chase data gather activity
6: A speed time graph activity
7: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adrenaline & hormonal communication section of the new 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: An information hunt starter activity
4: An adrenaline dice game
5: A micro-teaching plenary activity
6: An adrenaline literacy activity
7: A hormonal control of cells activity
8: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
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 control of glucose and secretion of insulin section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A micro-teaching activity
4: An insulin production model activity
5: A question maze game 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 breaking energy content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A kinetic energy starter game
3: A calculating kinetic energy activity
4: 2 graph activities
5: A calculating breaking energy activity
6: A breaking energy equation construction task
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the decay section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter literacy game
3: A decay factors information hunt
4: An experimental analysis question
5: A decay card sort
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
10: A decay practical
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the resultant force content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculating basic resultant force starter activity
3: A calculating resultant force of a race car activity
4: A resultant force dice game
5: A literacy 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 global warming content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter activity
3: A global warming graph activity
4: A how global warming is caused activity
5: A suggested model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the sustainable fisheries content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A discussion activity
4: A dice game
5: A graph analysis activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: An exam style question
8: A potential model activity
9: A key information sheet
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 bundle of lessons covering the forces content in the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. Most of the resources should work with the forces SOW published by AQA
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 electrolysis content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question analysis activity
3: A literacy activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: An electrolysis model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: 2 slides that can be used for flipped learning
8: A key information starter game
9: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 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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