'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 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 diabetes content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter literacy game
3: 2 graph activities
4: A stem cells in diabetes treatment activity
5: A type of 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 lesson with activities covering the biodiversity content of the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A pair questioning activity
4: A what effects biodiversity information hunt
5: A micro teaching plenary activity
6: Maintaining biodiversity student notes
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 food security content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A blockbusters starter game
3: A Literature activity
4: A types of farming discussion activity
5: An information hunt activity
6: A dice game
7: A micro-teaching 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 understanding genetics 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 what Mendel discovered activity
4: A punnet (genetic) square activity
5: A discovery of the genome activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A genetic tree 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 water cycle content in 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 information summary activity
4: A water cycle diagram activity
5: A group presentation activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: A homework task
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 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 lesson and activities covering the genetic engineering content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A genetically engineering bacteria to produce insulin activity
4: A model activity
5: A dice assessment game
6: A question on genetically modifying wheat
7: A question on genetically modifying rice
8: A genetic modification ethics activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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 & 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 with activities covering the mitosis content in most A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A mitosis stage activity with sheet for students to fill in
4: A mitotic index activity
5: An assessment question
6: A video showing how mitosis can be modelled
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 translocation in plants content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A key information starter game
4: A key information literacy activity
5: A translocation model activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A series of short assessment questions
8: A slide that can be used for flipped learning
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 transpiration content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource contains
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A transpiration literacy activity
3: A card sort activity
4: A stomata presentation activity
5: Transpiration stage cards
6: Factors affecting transpiration activity
7: A cohesion / adhesion of water 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 set of 4 lessons include content covering natural selection & evolution, types of variation, the evidence for evolution, classification and the 5 kingdoms. Also included is a student workbook on evolution & classification.
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
Description
This set of 4 lessons include content covering an introduction to gas exchange surfaces, gas exchange in insects and gas exchange in fish. Also included is a student workbook on gas exchange systems.
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This set of 4 lessons include content covering:
Action Potentials
Resting Potentials
Organisation of the nervous system
Neurones & nerve cells
Reflexes
Sensory receptors
Synapses
The brain
Also included are a set of summary notes, a workbook and a interactive note book
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This set of 4 lessons include content covering the cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis and stem cells. There is also a work book and revision flash cards included
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This set of 5 lessons include content covering:
Blood vessels
Blood, tissue fluid & lymph
Types of circulation
The heart
Transport of oxygen & carbon dioxide
There is also a work book included
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 5 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This resource is a set of flash cards to help students revise the transport in animals content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. Each card gives help on what students need to include.
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