'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 a range of space Physics concepts included in the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students trough the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An early universe starter game
4: A Big Bang 6 mark, marking activity
6: A snakes & ladders AFL game
7: A set of cards to explain how new elements are made & the life cycle of a star
8: A 6 mark new elements plenary question
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This resource is a lesson investigating 3 different factors that effect the output of solar cells. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A work sheet for students to fill out during the practical
4: A plenary 6 mark question
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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 a lesson with activities covering the generating electricity content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A generators starter activity
4: A power station sequencing activity
5: A power station 6 mark question
6: A national grid dice game
7: A renewable energy game
8: A renewable energy 6 mark question
9: A problems with generating energy 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the pressure & surfaces content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A pressure calculations starter game
3: A equation re-arrangement activity
4: A unit conversion activity
5: A suggested practical
6: A series of pressure questions
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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 revision lesson with activities covering the motion content of the GCSE Physics 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: A speed dice game
5: An inertial mass game
6: A speed time graph activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities covering the work, energy & momentum content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A kinetic energy starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: 4 work games
4: Basic momentum questions
5: A conservation of momentum activity
6: A terminal velocity 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the how new elements are formed content of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A fusion starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A series of demo cards to explain to students how elements are formed
4: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson and activities on the early Universe content of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A 6 mark starter activity
2: An information sheet
3: A question maze activity
4: A power point leading students through the lesson
5: A micro teaching plenary activity
6: An early universe card sort
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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 Physics 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 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 GCSE Physics, forces 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 Chemistry 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Resultant force
Weight
Work done
Spring constant
Hooke’s Law
Stretching a spring
Moments
Gears & levers
Floating & sinking
Air pressure
Distance & displacement
Speed
Acceleration
Terminal velocity
Newton’s Laws
Moments
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 Physics energy 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Types of energy
Work done
Efficiency
Sanky diagrams
Kinetic energy
Elastic energy
GPE
Power
Energy dissipation
Conduction, convection & radiation
Energy sources
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 lesson covering the drawing circuits and circuit symbols section of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A circuit symbols card sort
3: A drawing circuit diagrams task
4: A drawing circuit diagrams from real circuits task
5: A circuit symbols plenary game
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