'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 reaction time required practical content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A reaction time conversion table
4: A booklet for students to work through while working through the investigation
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the enzymes in digestion content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A student sheet that they can fill in about enzymes in digestion
4: Activities on different types of enzymes
5: Assessment activity dice games
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: Videos going through how to model enzymes in digestion
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This resource is a A Level Biology, cell division revision workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The cell cycle
Mitosis
Meiosis
The organization & specialization of cells
Stem cells
This resource is a set of 19 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the using resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the reducing the use of resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A what is recycling activity
3: A key information starter game
4: A sheet for students to fill in about different types of recycling
5: A dice assessment game
6: Slides that go through the recycling of glass, paper & metal
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework task
9: Photos showing how recycling can be modeled
10: A video that can be used for a flipped learning activity if you want
11: Videos showing how you can get students to tell stories about recycling
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This resource is a new lesson covering the calculating empirical formula content in the new 2016 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students though the lesson
2: A dice calculating percentage mass starter activity
3: An empirical formula circus of questions
4: A empirical formula by percentage mass plenary
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the collision theory content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A definition construction activity
3: Various model building activities
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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 series of summary sheets covering the homeostasis content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. These sheets can be used during revision in lessons, as prompts in lessons or can be sent to students as flipped learning activities. The areas covered in this resource are:
1: Homeostasis
2: Water regulation
3: Temperature regulation
4: Negative feedback
5: The synapse
6: Reaction times
7: The eye
8: Phototropism
9: The endocrine system
10: The brain
11: Reflexes
12: The kidney
13: Dialysis
14: Kidney transplants
15: Hormones in reproduction
16: Glucose regulation
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This resource is a set of flash cards to help students revise the biological molecules content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. Each card gives help on what students need to include.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the falling under gravity content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph activities
3: A starter dice game
4: A practical activity with help sheets
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 lesson with activities covering the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out
3: A key information starter game
4: A haemoglobin modelling activity
5: Oxygen dissociation curve activities
6: A transport of carbon dioxide information activity
7: A group presentation activity
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, Mammalian Exchange Surfaces (Lung Dissection) 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 key information starter activity
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A sheet for students to fill in on the lungs
5: Lung dissection practical endorsement activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities on the maintenance of a resting potential content in the new 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet which can be used throughout the lesson
3: A build a axon membrane activity
4: A literacy questioning activity
5 A micro teaching plenary activity
6: A homework activity
7: A key information literacy activity
8: A starter game
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 2 page knowledge organiser covering the magnets & electromagnets content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a set of 93 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) A2 Biology revision task cards. This resource has been written so that all of the assessment points in the specification are covered.
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