'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 drugs and medicine section of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A Thalidomide dice game
5: A drugs 6 mark question marking activity
6: A drugs in sport literacy activity
7: Drug trailing stage cards
8: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy & biomass content in the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A key word starter game
4: 3 6 mark assessment questions
5: An efficiency dice activity
6: A pyramid of biomass activity
7: A decay card sort
8: A decay factors group activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adaptation & competition content of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A 6 mark question marking activity
4: An adaptations game
5: A shark adaptation 6 mark question
6: A plant adaptations 6 mark question
7: A plant adaptations card sort
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reproduction & variation content of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Student summary sheets
3: An inheritance starter activity
4: Types of reproduction card sort
5: Ethics of cloning 6 mark question
6: Genetic engineering modelling activity
7: Genetic engineering 6 mark question
8: Types of reproduction card sort
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Core Biology GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Health & immunity
2: Nerves & reflexes
3: Drugs & medicines
4: Energy & biomass
5: Variation & reproduction
6: Adaptation & competition
7: Evolution
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year 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: 7 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 7 Weekly revision resources covering acids & alkalise, fission & fusion, digestion, matter, radiation, water treatment and heat transfer
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 142mb of resources & 168 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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the measuring the distribution of organisms content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the electron microscope content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students though the lesson
2: An electron microscope model activity
3: An information hunt
4: An interactive notebook activity
5: A comparing images activity
6: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the evolution content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: 2 Group work activities
4: A genetic bottleneck activity
5: A founder effect activity
6: A population genetics activity
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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.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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This resource is a GCSE Cells 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 biological organisation section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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This resource is a GCSE infection & responce 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 this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Communicable (infectious) diseases
viral diseases
bacterial diseases
fungal diseases
protest diseases eg. malaria
human defence systems
vaccination / antibiotics and painkillers / discovery and development of drugs.
Producing and using monoclonal antibodies.
Detection and identification of plant diseases
plant defence responses.
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 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 revision lesson with activities designed to cover the infection & response content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
An immune system snakes & ladders game
A vaccination spag activity
A key information dice game
A drug development literacy game
A marking a 6 mark question activity
A construct a mark scheme for a 6 mark question on monoclonal antibodies activity
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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 Excretion, Kidneys & the Liver work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the OCR A Level Biology specification on this content. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Structure of the liver
Liver function
Waste products (excretion)
Metabolism
Urea production
Liver cirrhosis
Kidney structure & function
Nephrons
Water regulation
Testing urine
Treating kidney disease
Throughout the booklet are a range of different activities including highlighting text, exam style questions, drawing diagrams, key word tables and lots more.
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This resource is a lesson with activities designed to help students revise the bioenergetics content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A limiting factors snakes & ladders game
A respiration literacy game
A photosynthesis 6 mark starter activity
A key information dice game
Types of metabolism activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biological organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A plant tissues dice game
2 modeling activities
6 mark question marking activities
An organs game
2 card sorts
A gas movement in the lungs snakes & ladders game
6 mark questions
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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 Communicable Disease & Immunity Revision Workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the OCR A Level Biology specification on this content. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Plant & animal diseases
Types of pathogen
Disease transmission
Plant defences
Non specific immunity
Antibodies
Humoral immunity
Acquired immunity
Phagocytosis
Throughout the booklet are a range of different activities including highlighting text, exam style questions, drawing diagrams, key word tables and lots more.
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