'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 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 set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry 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 life cycle assessments content of the new 2016 AQA Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A card sort activity
3: A life cycle assessment of window frame activity
4: A life cycle assessment of paper & plastic bag activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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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 hydrogen fuel cells section of the new 2015 Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A literacy starter activity
2: A modelling a hydrogen fuel cell activity
3: A annotating a diagram activity
4: A bond energy calculation activity
5: An energy level diagram activity
6: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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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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This resource is a GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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, 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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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 lesson with activities covering the energy changes section of the new AQA Chemistry 2016 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A counting the types of bond in a compound activity
3: A step by step guild on how energy change is calculated
4: A calculating total bond energy in a compound activity
5: A using energy change to draw an energy level diagram plenary activity
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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 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 Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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:
Atoms, elements & compounds
Mixtures
Atomic structure
The periodic table
Groups in the periodic table
Transition metals
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, 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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