'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 biotic and abiotic factors content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A question sheet for students to work through
4: A 6 mark assessment question
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
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the structure of an atom content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A what atom is it starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: An example of an atom model
4: A dice assessment game
5: A properties of atoms activity
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The Massive Summer Quiz / End of Year Quiz for 2019 with over 100 questions and 9 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of term and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: TV
3: Science
4: Places
5: Sport
6: Books
7: History
8: Music
9: Art
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding in sand castles
2: UK landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Album covers
8: Famous people
All answers are included. These are on slides at the end of each round, so groups can quickly swap their answer sheets and mark each others.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the nuclear fusion content in the new 2016 AQA Physics 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: An information hunt
5: A 6 mark question
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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 with activities covering the tissues, organs & how they come together to make organ systems content in the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark, marking activity
3: A plant organs dice game
4: A tissues & organs model suggestion
5: An organs game
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A student summary sheet
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reproduction & variation content of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Student summary sheets
3: An inheritance starter activity
4: Types of reproduction card sort
5: Ethics of cloning 6 mark question
6: Genetic engineering modelling activity
7: Genetic engineering 6 mark question
8: Types of reproduction card sort
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This resource is a series of lessons designed to be used when revising GCSE Additional Physics. This resource includes:
1: A lesson on motion
2: A lesson on mains electricity
3: A lesson n current electricity
4: A lesson on work, energy & momentum
5: A lesson on radiation
6: A lesson covering space physics
7: A series of revision grids & booklets
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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 lesson with activities covering the equations of motion for uniform acceleration section of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculate acceleration from a graph starter activity
3: An information hunt
4: A constructing the acceleration equation using symbols activity
5: 2 re-arrange the acceleration equation activities
6: 2 dice games
7: A calculating distance travelled activity
8: A calculating final velocity equation construction activity
9: A using final velocity equation plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the inertial mass content in the new AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: An instruction sheet on how to run the lesson
3: A dice game
4: A literacy starter activity
5: 2 graph drawing activities
6: A data analysis circus of questions
7: An equation activity
8: A suggested drag race activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the measuring the distribution of organisms content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: SHC
2: Insulation
3: Density
4: Resistance
5: I-V Charecteristics
6: Insulation
7: Light
8: Radiation & absorption
9: Force & stretching
10: Acceleration
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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 biological organisation section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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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 revision lesson with activities designed to cover the infection & response content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
An immune system snakes & ladders game
A vaccination spag activity
A key information dice game
A drug development literacy game
A marking a 6 mark question activity
A construct a mark scheme for a 6 mark question on monoclonal antibodies activity
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