'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 contraceptive content of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A type of contraceptive micro teaching activity
4: A exam style plenary activity
5: A set of notes for students to use
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
8: A starter game
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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 trophic levels content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key words starter game
3: A pyramid of biomass task
4: An efficiency dice activity
5: 2 6 mark plenary questions
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This resource is a A Level Biology, transport in plants workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Plant Transport Systems
Water Transport in Plants
Translocation
Plant Adaptations to Water Availability
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the use of plant hormones content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: A starter game on plant auxin use
3: An information hunt on the use of ethene to ripen fruit
4: A group activity on gibberellins
5: A data analysis plenary question
6: Resources to carry out the plant hormones required practical
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 controlling body temperature content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A 6 mark question mark scheme construction task
4: A card sort
5: A summary plenary activity
6: A group discussion activity
7: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 control of gene expression content in the new 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A literacy key information starter activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A multiple choice question activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
5: A post translation discussion activity
6: A transcriptional control dice game
7: An information slide that can be used for flipped learning
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 OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, introduction to exchange surfaces 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: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A surface area / volume ratio activity
5: 2 Mock exam questions
6: A homework activity
7: A modeling activity
8: A literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the mutations and variation content of the 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A causes of mutations information search activity
4: An effects of variation dice game
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: A flipped learning activity
7: A group presentation 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 whole lesson with activities covering the sensory receptors content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A type of sensory receptor starter card sort
3: A literacy activity
4: A generating a potential large model activity
5: A student sheet covering the lesson
6: A home work task is included
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 3 workbooks designed for students to work through before having a go at the 3 OCR specimen papers for the 2015 spec A Level Biology. Included in this resource are the 3 workbooks in power point format and a set of preview pictures so you can have a look at what the resource is like. In each workbook there is information to help focus students and a range of different activities to help students use the information.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the DNA profiling content of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A human genome AFL dice game
4: A DNA profiling modelling activity
5: A PCR modelling activity
6: A human genome key point highlight activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ventilation in insects content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lea students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A modeling activity
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A student sheet to use during the lesson
6: An AFL dice game
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This resource is a set of 93 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) A2 Biology revision task cards. This resource has been written so that all of the assessment points in the specification are covered.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the basics of glucose regulation within the body. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A worksheet for students to work through
3: A control of blood glucose modeling activity
4: A video showing how to carry out the modeling activity
5: A student set of notes
6: A modeling activity
7: A key information identification activity
8: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 GCSE biological organisation 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 specification in this 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.
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This resource is a set of 107 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) AS Biology revision task cards. This resource has been written so that all of the assessment points in the specification are covered.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the animal & plant pathogens section of A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: A hexagon question activity
4: A virus dice activity
5: A multiple choice question activity
6: A fungi diagram activity
7: A modes of action discussion activity
8: A key information activity
9: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the heart & cardiac content in the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet with home work task
3: A diagram starter activity
4: A set of heart part functions cards
5: A cardiac cycle card sort
6: A micro teaching activity
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