'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 set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE new spec . All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed using the new content in the 2015-2016 specification and is designed to help get students started straight away in September
This resource is a lesson and activities covering the human reproductive content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes and ladders starter game
3: An information sheet
4: A card sort activity
5: A hormone concentration graph activity
6: An information hunt activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: An exam style question sheet for students to work through
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 using the Earth’s resources and sustainable development content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: A card sort activity
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A sheet for students to fill out about the problems & solutions to sustainability issues
6: A group work activity on wheat students have covered in the lesson
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the structure & function of the brain section of the new OCR A Level Biology 2015 specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A suggested build a brain activity
4: Information cards on the sections of the brain
5: An information sheet on ways to look at the brain
6: A snakes & ladders game
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Culturing microorganisms 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 practical sheet for students to work through
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: Calculating bacteria activity
4: Growing bacteria cards
5: 6 mark exam question plenary
6: Bacterial colony size 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 GCSE Biology, ecology 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 Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Species
Classification
Distribution of organisms
Sampling
Predator prey graphs
Adaptations
Pyramids of biomass
Carbon cycle
Water cycle
Eutrophication
Global warming
Food security
Sustainable fisheries
Microprotein
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, drug development 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 drugs starter question
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A starter game
4: Drug development card sort
5: 6 mark question
6: A question sheet for students to work through
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 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 cells section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Cell structure
Cell jobs
Diffusion
Active transport
Osmosis
Cell types
The cell cycle & mitosis
Growing microbe
Stem cells
Magnification
Making slides
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 new lesson covering the introduction to homeostasis content in the 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A card sort activity
4: A peer homeostasis questioning activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, inheritance, variation & evolution 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 Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Meiosis
DNA
Genetic variation
Protein synthesis
Inherited disorders
Punnet squares
Genetic engineering
Cloning
Natural selection
Selective breeding
Evolution
Evidence of evolution
Extinction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria
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 Biology, homeostasis 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:
The nervous system
Reflexes
Removing waste
Synapses
Reaction time
The eye
The brain
Temperature regulation
Water regulation
Glucose regulation
Negative feedback
Menstrual cycle
Contraception
Fertility treatment
Plant hormones
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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology GCSE. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed over the last three years and has been proven to help students gain more marks in GCSE long answer questions
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reflexes part of the new 2015 OCR Biology A Level specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A reflex card sort
4: A type of reflex explanation activity
5: A reaction time practical 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 and activities covering the diabetes content of the new AQA 2016 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A battle ships starter game
3: A diabetes treatment information hunt
4: A graph analysis activity
5: An exam style question
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson and activities on the structure of the kidney section of the OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet with questions
3: A starter game
4: A microteaching task
5: A parts of the nephron information hunt
6: A student sheet
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the control & coordination content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: 2 6 mark AFL questions
4: A group discussion activity
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 humoral immunity content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A card sort activity
4: A humoral immunity model activity
5: A series of shorter activities breaking the process down
6: A series of sheets for students to fill out
7: A homework task
8: A dice assessment game
9: 2 Key information activities
10: A video showing how to model the process
11: A set of notes for students to use
12: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
13: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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A set of 5 posters covering most of the key mathematical ideas covered in the KS4 syllabus. The posters can be printed out in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the liver & excretion content in 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 literacy game on excretion starter
4: A metabolism group activity
5: A card sort
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