'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 acids & alkali section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A suggested practical
4: A forming salts dice game
5: A definition construction activity
6: A forming ions & equation construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the drugs and medicine section of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A Thalidomide dice game
5: A drugs 6 mark question marking activity
6: A drugs in sport literacy activity
7: Drug trailing stage cards
8: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy & biomass content in the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A key word starter game
4: 3 6 mark assessment questions
5: An efficiency dice activity
6: A pyramid of biomass activity
7: A decay card sort
8: A decay factors group activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adaptation & competition content of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A 6 mark question marking activity
4: An adaptations game
5: A shark adaptation 6 mark question
6: A plant adaptations 6 mark question
7: A plant adaptations card sort
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the metals section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A copper smelting starter activity
4: A blast furnace question
5: A purifying copper information hunt
6: A 6 mark question on titanium production
7: A 6 mark question on metallic issues
8: A aluminium & titanium literacy activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the changing planet content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A starter game
4: A structure of the Earth dice game
5: An atmosphere development sequencing activity
6: A 6 mark question on continental drift
7: A 6 mark question on the carbon cycle
8: A 6 mark question on the Earths atmosphere
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities covering the work, energy & momentum content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A kinetic energy starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: 4 work games
4: Basic momentum questions
5: A conservation of momentum activity
6: A terminal velocity 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 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 to aid with student's revision of sound waves. This resource includes
1: A starter snakes & ladders game on the key points students need to know
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A wave form labelling activity
4: A frequency calculation dice game
5: A frequency calculations circus of questions
6: A longitudinal wave plenary micro teaching 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 genetic engineering content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the activity
2: A card sort starter activity
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A modelling activity
5: A micro-teaching plenary
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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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