'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 acids & alkali section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A suggested practical
4: A forming salts dice game
5: A definition construction activity
6: A forming ions & equation construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metals section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A copper smelting starter activity
4: A blast furnace question
5: A purifying copper information hunt
6: A 6 mark question on titanium production
7: A 6 mark question on metallic issues
8: A aluminium & titanium literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the changing planet content of the GCSE Chemistry 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 structure of the Earth dice game
5: An atmosphere development sequencing activity
6: A 6 mark question on continental drift
7: A 6 mark question on the carbon cycle
8: A 6 mark question on the Earths atmosphere
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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 resources covering the reacting masses section on the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification with a section to remind students how to calculate the percentage mass of compounds. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of moles starter game
3: A percentage of nitrogen in compounds task
4: A percentage of elements in a compound task
5: A reacting masses interactive notebook activity
6: A series of reacting masses questions
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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 power point containing 100 practice concentration calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice percentage mass calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a power point containing 50 practice relative formula mass calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a set of 21 multiple choice chemical analysis questions that can be used for some last minute revision with students
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This resource is a set of 16 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the chemical changes content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a set of activities that can be used to help introduce new Y7 students to KS3 Science. The resource includes a set series of lessons accompanied by a work booklet for students to work through as well as a number of short standalone activities that can be used to help introduce students to specific skills they will need. This resource includes:
1: A power point to help lead students through lessons
2: A work booklet
3: A homework activity
4: A Hooke’s Law investigation planning activity
5: A reflection investigation results analysis activity
6: A Hooke’s Law data presentation activity
7: A looking at speed graphs activity
8: A respiration data presentation activity
9: A friction investigation data presentation activity
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice number of atoms / molecules calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This resource is a set of 8 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the energy changes content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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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 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 item is a set of Science key words with definitions for the AQA Science course
Each card has a different key word and a description of what the key word means
The cards come in a power point format and simply need printing off and cuting out
The separate slides can also be printed off as A4 sheets and put up to remind students what different key words they can use in the exam to improve their grade
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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: 5 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 5 Weekly revision resources covering cells, the heart, enzymes, the periodic table, the immune system, diseases, salts & electrolysis
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 160mb of resources & 157 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 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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