'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 aerobic respiration content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead with activities students through the lesson
2: A modelling respiration activity
3: A dice game AFL activity
4: A respiration key information literacy activity
5: 2 practice questions
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: 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 digestion & enzymes content of the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An enzyme information hunt
3: A lock & key card sort
4: 2 6 mark questions
5: A digestion summary sheet
6: An enzyme interactive notebook activity
7: A student information collection sheet
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This resource has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the hormonal control content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: An instruction video explaining how to put the interactive notebook together
2: A summary sheet
3: A insulin production pop up
4: A stages of adrenal control lever opening resource
5: A key words activity
6: A differences between key concepts pull down arrow
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the gas exchange in the alveoli content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter activity
3: A micro-teaching activity
4: A snakes & ladders AFL game
5: An alveoli modelling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A Gas exchange literacy activity
8: A Gas movement in the lungs demo
9: 2 videos showing how to carry out the modeling activities
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes a run through of the stages involved with the lac operon
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: Key word definitions
4: A lac operon modelling activity with explanation picture & video
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: A micro teaching activity
7: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
8: A homework activity
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 resources covering the anaerobic respiration content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A dice game AFL activity
4: A fermentation activity
5: A 6 mark plenary 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 lesson with activities covering the blood & it’s functions content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question starter question
3: A literacy game
4: A dice game AFL activity
5: A modelling blood activity
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: A Blood literacy activity
9: A video on how to run the modeling activity
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 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 hormones & the endocrine system, electrolysis, cell division, photosynthesis, waves & nerves & coordination
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 190mb of resources & 159 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 has been a complete labour of love and is a series of resources to go into an interactive notebook covering the protein synthesis content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: An instruction video explaining how to put the interactive notebook together
2: A summary sheet
3: An interactive notebook activity on transcription
4: An interactive notebook activity on translation
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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.
This resource is a lesson with activities designed to help students revise the bioenergetics content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A limiting factors snakes & ladders game
A respiration literacy game
A photosynthesis 6 mark starter activity
A key information dice game
Types of metabolism activity
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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 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.
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 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 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.
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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 infection & response 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.
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 bundle of 4 GCSE Biology paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
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This resource is a Communicable Disease & Immunity Revision Workbook that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the OCR A Level Biology specification on this content. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Plant & animal diseases
Types of pathogen
Disease transmission
Plant defences
Non specific immunity
Antibodies
Humoral immunity
Acquired immunity
Phagocytosis
Throughout the booklet are a range of different activities including highlighting text, exam style questions, drawing diagrams, key word tables and lots more.
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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 lesson with activities covering the biological organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson
A plant tissues dice game
2 modeling activities
6 mark question marking activities
An organs game
2 card sorts
A gas movement in the lungs snakes & ladders game
6 mark questions
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