I am a chemistry teacher, I spend lots of time making resources and decided to share them here on TES. Most are free or have free sample versions, but the best and most detailed ones that I'm particular proud of I sell for around £2-£5.
I am a chemistry teacher, I spend lots of time making resources and decided to share them here on TES. Most are free or have free sample versions, but the best and most detailed ones that I'm particular proud of I sell for around £2-£5.
For the teacher, this is quick and easy revision activity that requires a one-time set up and then it can be used time and time again! Very little effort is required by you and the students can happily spend all lesson playing the game (if you let them) leaving you free to do what you fancy! My students love it and I get chance to sit down with the students who need extra help, or catch up on a bit of marking.
My science version of the board game and some sample question cards are freely available to view and download at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-revision-board-game-free-version-11445205
This resource pack contains: -
THE BOARD GAME TEMPLATES:
1. Blank with no text, graphics, shortcuts or colours.
2. Black and white version with shortcuts and logo.
3. Colour version with shortcuts and logo.
4. The colour full version which is how I use it with classes.
THE QUIZ CARD TEMPLATES
Use these to write your questions on. This file contains two formats; a multiple-choice style question card and a picture based question card. These could be adapted to be useful for defining keywords, spellings, subject knowledge questions etc.
THE YELLOW CARD TEMPLATES
Use these cards as subject themed action cards, for example…
‘Romans have invaded, go back three spaces’
‘You spilled some chemicals and must clean up the lab, miss a go’
‘You handed in your homework early, roll again’
THE INSTRUCTIONS
This shows the rules and requirements for the game, it is current set up with the rules that my students chose however you can alter these to suit your needs.
ALL THE RESOURCES ABOVE ARE IN MICROSOFT WORD AND SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHANGE ANY ASPECT OF THE RESOURCE YOU LIKE.
This is the free version of a board game that I use with KS3 and KS4 students to revise for their end of unit tests or exams.
For the teacher this is quick and easy revision activity that requires a one-time set up and then it can be used time and time again! Very little effort is required by you and the students can happily spend all lesson playing the game (if you let them) leaving you free to do what you fancy! My students love it and I get chance to sit down with the students who need extra help, or catch up on a bit of marking.
To get started:
• Print the board game on white A3 paper.
• Print the question cards on blue paper/card, cut them up and pop them in little bags.
• Print the hazard cards on yellow paper/card, cut them up and pop them in little bags.
• Laminate the board game (optional but makes the game last longer)
• Get a little stash of counters or items that could be used as the player pieces e.g. coloured paper circles, novelty rubbers, little model etc
• Get some dice.
For a class of 30 I’ve found that 6 groups of 5 work quite well, therefore you’d need 6 game boards and 6 packs of cards.
How to play:
This game is suitable for 2-6 players, you need one di and each player needs a counter
(coloured tokens or paper circles will do).
• The players put their counter on the start square, take turns to roll the dice and move across the game board.
• The aim of the game is to be first to get to the end of the board.
• If the players land on a YELLOW square they should pick up a yellow hazard card.
• If the players land on a BLUE square the person to their left should pick up a blue question card and ask the player the question on the card, if the player gets it right they can move two spaces forward, if they get it wrong they stay where they are. The question cards have the correct answer either shown at the bottom or highlighted in bold.
These are the rules my students came up with but feel free to alter them to suit your needs.
For each unit taught I’ve made my own quiz cards so the students can test themselves on the unit content, I have quite a few different units which I am in the processing of uploading to TES now. Keep your eyes peeled for the bundles I am putting together.
This is the full resource bundle for an assessment for KS3/KS4 students who are forces, scientific investigations, friction, investigation planning, method writing, data analysis, graph plotting, writing conclusions and evaluations.
This bundle contains all stages of an investigation including planning, method writing, data analysis, concluding findings, and evaluating findings.
Each resource pack included in this bundle comes with several parts;
1. PowerPoint presentation to introduce the task and relevant background information.
2. Word document printout for the students to stick in their books.
3. Word document printout with a level ladder on so that the students work can be assessed, this has two columns so that the students can tick off the levels as they go and then the teacher can tick off the achieved tasks too.
4. Excel spreadsheet that can be used to automatically generate extended written feedback including improvement strategies for the teacher to give the students. Instructions of how to use this part of the resource have been included in the bundle (see "The Automarker!")
This is the full resource bundle for an assessment for KS3/KS4 students who are studying magnets, electricity, scientific investigations, electromagnets, investigation planning, method writing, data analysis, graph plotting, writing conclusions and evaluations.
This bundle contains all stages of an investigation including planning, method writing, data analysis, concluding findings, and evaluating findings.
Each resource pack included in this bundle comes with several parts;
1. PowerPoint presentation to introduce the task and relevant background information.
2. Word document printout for the students to stick in their books.
3. Word document printout with a level ladder on so that the students work can be assessed, this has two columns so that the students can tick off the levels as they go and then the teacher can tick off the achieved tasks too.
4. Excel spreadsheet that can be used to automatically generate extended written feedback including improvement strategies for the teacher to give the students. Instructions of how to use this part of the resource have been included in the bundle (see "The Automarker!")
I made this spread sheet for my department to help keep track of how well the current year 10s (leaving July 2017) do on their coursework that is due for submission March 2017.
This is a worksheet I made to help my students to practice the graphs skills required for the ISA controlled assessment, I've also included questions that regularly come up on paper two.
This sheet has been done in the context of testing how temperature affects the viscosity of oils however this could easily be adapted to suit other investigations.
I intend on uploading a mark scheme for this after I have delivered this lesson.
Just a quick spread sheet that shows each lesson title in each unit in AQA's new (accredited in 2016) courses for Biology (8461), Chemistry (8462)and Physics (8463).
This could be used as a route through the GCSE used to inform planning, I actually made it to tick off the work covered so far so that whoever picks up my classes knows what they have already done.
The required practical's are highlighted in orange.
The triple science content is bordered in blue.
I spend hours and hours of time marking, and a lot of the time it's writing similar (if not the same) comments.
For example..
-Please use capital letters at the start of sentences.
-Do the highlighted tasks on the level ladder.
-Please write in FULL sentences.
-Stick in your graph.
The list goes on...
In order to save time and ink I thought I'd make a mail merge to mark the student's work for me! I've trialled this with 4 different classes and found it EXTREMELY useful!
It has cut my marking time in at least half! I read the student's work, pick the comments that apply (or type new comments), print the comments on green paper ( our marking policy says marking must be in green ), get the students to stick it in and improve their work! BOOM!
I've written a guide on how to use the resource and included some examples of it being used. This is the first time I've made and shared a resource like this, and it's safe to say it is definitely not perfect, I'm not an ICT expert and I expect ICT teachers will be able to improve this resource no end.
I use it for science lessons but I think it should be easy to adapt for most subjects, especially those doing extended writing with clear criteria. I've found it quite useful for marking the 6 mark exam extended writing questions. I've added a few different sets of comments including graph work, descriptive work for science, and the science APP level descriptors
So hopefully it'll be useful for someone other than just myself, please do send me feedback if you use this resource!
What will your tutees do this year?
Will they use this opportunity to start afresh, what targets will they set themselves for this year?
1. A bad habit I'm going to break:
2. A new skill I’m going to learn:
3. A person I want to be more like:
4. A good deed I’m going to do:
5. A place I want to visit
6. A book I’m going to read:
7. A message I’m going to write:
8. A project I’m going to start:
9. A new food I’m going to try:
10. One thing I’ll do less of:
11. One thing I’ll do more of:
12. One way I’ll inspire others:
13. One way I’ll give back:
I use this spread sheet in my long term planning, I use it in conjunction with SOW's and unit overviews to plot my progression across the year and to ensure all courses are finished in good time.
It includes a calendar side section so you can factor in key dates such as inset days and bank holidays. The two versions attached contain the dates for the school year 2015-2016.
