'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 ceramics, polymers and composites content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. 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 composite information hunt
5: A composite presentation activity
6: A polymers literacy activity
7: A polymer properties activity
8: A ceramic properties activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a set of 19 exam questions designed to improve how students answer questions based around practicals and practical data. The areas that the questions cover are:
1: Line transects
2: Electrolysis
3: Chromatography
4: Growing bacteria
5: Enzymes
6: Aerobic respiration
7: Anaerobic respiration
8: Using a potometer
9: Osmosis
10: Waves
11: Black body radiation
12: Temperature changes
13: Respiration in worms
14: Acceleration
15: Resistance
16: Decay
17: Refraction
18: Rate of reaction
19: Insulation
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This resource is a full lesson and activities covering the calculating chemical yield content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A chemical yield key word literacy activity
3: A trivial pursuit dice game activity
4: A circus of questions activity
5: An exam style question plenary
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This resource is a set of over 300 revision activities that will enable students to put together their own revision flashcards. This resource has been put together using the 2015 AQA Science specification and covers all the specification points.
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This resource is a new lesson covering the calculating empirical formula content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students though the lesson
2: A dice calculating percentage mass starter activity
3: An empirical formula circus of questions
4: A empirical formula by percentage mass plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sewage treatment content in the 2015 GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A key information highlighting activity
4: A dice game AFL activity
5: A sewage treatment model
6: A 6 mark question to be used as assessment
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the collision theory content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A definition construction activity
3: Various model building activities
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the calculating percentage mass section of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A starter mass of compounds game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A calculating the percentage of nitrogen in fertilizers task
4: A circus of questions with answers
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Fractional Distillation in the Oil 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 dice AFL activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: Fractional distillation stage cards
4: Properties of alkane card sort starter activity
5: 6 mark question
6: A fractional distillation foldable activity
7: A key information literacy 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
11: A sheet for students to work through
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the sustainability & water treatment content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook acitivity
4: A sustainability game
5: A water treatment 6 mark question
6: A sewage treatment model
7: A potable water literacy activity
8: A sustainable resources card sort
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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 mass of atoms content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A structure of the atom activity
3: A mass of the first 20 elements activity
4: A micro teaching activity on the mass of atoms
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the cracking hydrocarbons section of the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A looking at alkenes activity
4: A cracking process activity with potential modelling activity
5: A sheet for students to fill in
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: An alkenes card sort
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 treating drinking water content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A why we need water treatment pair activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
5: A modeling activity
6: A dice mid lesson assessment game
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the polymers content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill in throughout the lesson
4: A polymerization card sort
5: A drawing polymers activity
6: A polymer strength data analysis activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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 states of matter content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling states of matter activity
4: A micro-teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
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 with activities covering the natural polymers content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A condensation polymerization activity
4: A starch and cellulose activity
5: A protein activity
6: A DNA activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Chemistry specification, Fuels from Oil in the Oil 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 AFL dice game
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A graph activity
4: Properties of alkane information hunt activity
5: A crude oil 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 fertilisers section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A Haber process recall game
3: A use of fertilisers SPAG activity
4: Information on the reactions that produce ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate and ammonium phosphate
5: Sheets for students to gather information on
6: A making fertilisers industrially vs in the lab activity
7: A making ammonium sulphate plenary activity
8: A possible model activity
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 formulations 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 fuels literacy activity
4: A cleaning agents literacy activity
5: A medicines literacy activity
6: A paints literacy activity
7: A dice AFL 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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