'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 Biology 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 reflexes part of the new 2015 OCR Biology A Level specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A reflex card sort
4: A type of reflex explanation activity
5: A reaction time practical 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 and activities covering the diabetes content of the new AQA 2016 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A battle ships starter game
3: A diabetes treatment information hunt
4: A graph analysis activity
5: An exam style question
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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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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This resource is a lesson and activities on the structure of the kidney section of the OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet with questions
3: A starter game
4: A microteaching task
5: A parts of the nephron information hunt
6: A student sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the calculating rate of chemical reactions content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A calculations snakes & ladders game
4: A rate of reaction graph activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the control & coordination content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: 2 6 mark AFL questions
4: A group discussion activity
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 humoral immunity content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A card sort activity
4: A humoral immunity model activity
5: A series of shorter activities breaking the process down
6: A series of sheets for students to fill out
7: A homework task
8: A dice assessment game
9: 2 Key information activities
10: A video showing how to model the process
11: A set of notes for students to use
12: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
13: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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A set of 5 posters covering most of the key mathematical ideas covered in the KS4 syllabus. The posters can be printed out in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the liver & excretion content in the 2015 OCR A level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A literacy game on excretion starter
4: A metabolism group activity
5: A card sort
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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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his resource is a GCSE Physics, space 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:
Objects in our solar system
The life cycle of a star
How new elements are made
Orbits
Red shift
The Big Bang
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 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 atomic structure section of the new AQA Chemistry 2015 specification. This resource includes
1: A starter blockbusters game to remind students how to use a periodic table
2: A atomic diagram activity
3: A drawing electron structure dice game
4: A what you can tell from an atoms symbol activity
5: A element analysis plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the potable water content of 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 desalination information hunt pair activity
4: A 6 mark plenary question on distillation
5: A suggested demo on distillation to carry out
6: A desalination modeling activity
7: Flipped learning information slide
8: A key information starter game
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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 GCSE Physics, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise tthe required practicals in the GCSE Physics 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Specific heat capacity
Thermal insulation
Resistance
I-V characteristics
Density
Light
Force and extension
Acceleration
Waves
Radiation and absorption
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