'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 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 revision lesson with activities covering the current 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 static electricity dice game
4: Series & parallel circuit activities
5: A resistance activity
6: A resistance graph activity
7: A resistance graph 6 mark question
8: A resistance in a wire 6 mark question
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Core Biology GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Health & immunity
2: Nerves & reflexes
3: Drugs & medicines
4: Energy & biomass
5: Variation & reproduction
6: Adaptation & competition
7: Evolution
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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 speed time relationship content section of the new GCSE Physics specification with a walking dead twist. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A lesson explanation document
3: A key words starter activity game
4: An identifying scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A calculating speed dice game
6: A rearranging an equation activity
7: A zombie chase data collection activity
8: A drawing a graph activity
9: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 breaking energy content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A kinetic energy starter game
3: A calculating kinetic energy activity
4: 2 graph activities
5: A calculating breaking energy activity
6: A breaking energy equation construction task
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This resource is the first in a series running throughout the year to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 7 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 7 Weekly revision resources covering acids & alkalise, fission & fusion, digestion, matter, radiation, water treatment and heat transfer
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 142mb of resources & 168 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reacting masses section on the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification with a section to remind students how to calculate the percentage mass of compounds. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A number of moles starter game
3: A percentage of nitrogen in compounds task
4: A percentage of elements in a compound task
5: A reacting masses interactive notebook activity
6: A series of reacting masses questions
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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 lesson with activities covering the electron microscope content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students though the lesson
2: An electron microscope model activity
3: An information hunt
4: An interactive notebook activity
5: A comparing images activity
6: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the evolution content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: 2 Group work activities
4: A genetic bottleneck activity
5: A founder effect activity
6: A population genetics activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the kinetic energy content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: 2 rearranged equation dice games
4: Slides to help students rearrange the equation
5: A roller coaster kinetic energy activity
6: A ferris wheel kinetic energy activity
7: A plenary question
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This resource is a GCSE Bioenergetics 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:
Photosynthesis
Rate of photosynthesis
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Respiration – aerobic and anaerobic
Response to exercise
Metabolism
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content. In particular there are lots of data analysis activities to help prepare students for the increase in maths content within the exams.
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 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 infection & responce 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 this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Communicable (infectious) diseases
viral diseases
bacterial diseases
fungal diseases
protest diseases eg. malaria
human defence systems
vaccination / antibiotics and painkillers / discovery and development of drugs.
Producing and using monoclonal antibodies.
Detection and identification of plant diseases
plant defence responses.
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 is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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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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This resource is a series activities to help enable students to effectively revise. This resource includes:
1: Daily revision task (termly sheets given out & stuck into revision books)
2: Instructions for tasks with explanation power points
3: For each task there is a explanation video on youtube
4: 6 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 6 Weekly revision resources covering oil & it’s uses, space, electricity, motion, evolution and competition & adaptation
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 40mb of resources & 149 files
The majority of the resources are in the zip file, however, there are a number of pictures showing some of the resources.