'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 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 adaption content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A exam question analysis starter activity
3: A literacy game
4: 2 6 mark AFL question
5: An extremophilles activity
6: A student sheet for them to work through during the lesson
7: A set of notes for students to use
8: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
9: 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 power point containing 17 AS Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Cells
2: Carbohydrates
3: Amino Acid & Lipids
4: Proteins
5: DNA
6: Enzymes
7: Membranes
8: Cell division
9: Substance movement
10: Exchange surfaces
11: Transport in animals
12: Transport in plants
13: Blood, tissue fluid & lymph
14: Classification & evolution
15: Biodiversity
16: Animal & plant pathogens
17: The immune system
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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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: 5 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 5 Weekly revision resources covering cells, the heart, enzymes, the periodic table, the immune system, diseases, salts & electrolysis
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 160mb of resources & 157 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 activities covering the DNA profiling content of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A human genome AFL dice game
4: A DNA profiling modelling activity
5: A PCR modelling activity
6: A human genome key point highlight activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the control of heart rate content of the 2015 OCR A2 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A receptor type summary activity
4: A dice AFL activity
5: A hormones that affect the heart discussion activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the causes o variation content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A speciation starter activity
3: A plant chlorosis activity
4: A genetic variation activity
5: A continuous & discontinuous variation activity
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 with activities covering the DNA replication content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A nucleotide multiple choice question activity
4: A forming peptide bonds activity
5: A DNA replication modelling activity with explanation video
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the diabetes content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter literacy game
3: 2 graph activities
4: A stem cells in diabetes treatment activity
5: A type of diabetes activity
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 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 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 series of lessons covering the immunity & communicable diseases content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. This bundle includes lessons covering:
1: Antibodies & antitoxins
2: Non specific immunity
3: Phagocytosis
4: Pathogens
5: Plant defences
6: Vaccination
7: Cell mediated immunity
8: Humoral immunity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the humoral immunity content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A card sort activity
4: A humoral immunity model activity
5: A series of shorter activities breaking the process down
6: A series of sheets for students to fill out
7: A homework task
8: A dice assessment game
9: 2 Key information activities
10: A video showing how to model the process
11: A set of notes for students to use
12: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
13: 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 with activities covering the cell mediated immunity content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy starter game
3: A key information sheet
4: A cell mediated immunity model activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A Sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
7: A home work sheet
8: A video showing how to model the process
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 lesson with activities covering the vaccination content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A artificial immunity dice game
4: A vaccination model activity
5: A key words plenary activity
6: A SPAG activity
7: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: 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 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 evolution section 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 snakes & ladders starter game
4: A comparing theories of evolution activity
5: A natural selection dice game
6: An evolutionary tree activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 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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