'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 speciation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An exam analysis starter activity
3: A suggested model activity & video showing how to carry it out
4: A literacy activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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 and activities covering the meiosis content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A crossing over activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out
5: A meiosis model activity
6: A dice assessment game
7: A 6 mark assessment question
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 activities covering the blood vessels & circulation content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
4: A 6 mark assessment question
5: A circulation homework sheet
6: A blood vessels model example
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 plant adaptations to water availability content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
3: A key information starter game
4: An adaptation to low water activity
5: An adaptation to living in water activity
6: A key information analysis activity
7: A group presentation activity
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 lesson with activities covering the bacterial disease content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A how bacteria spreads key information activity
4: A key information dice game
5: A set of notes for students to use
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 understanding genetics content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A what Mendel discovered activity
4: A punnet (genetic) square activity
5: A discovery of the genome activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A genetic tree activity
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 lesson and activities covering disease transmission in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information annotation activity
4: 3 questions on disease transmission
5: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
6: A discussion activity
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 and activities covering the health issues content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: An alcohol problems starter game
3: A risk factors activity
4: A dangers of smoking activity
5: A dangers of alcohol discussion activity
6: A type 2 diabetes 6 mark question
7: A student sheet for them to work through on the dangers of alcohol
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
11: A potential effects of alcohol on the body demo
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biotic and abiotic factors content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A question sheet for students to work through
4: A 6 mark assessment question
5: A set of notes for students to use
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 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 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 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 and activities covering the reflexes content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A synapse function starter
4: 2 exam style questions
5: A spag activity
6: A reflex model activity
7: A types of reflex group activity
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A flipped learning information slide
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering plant pathogens and disease content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
3: Activities on Ring Rot, Potato Blight, TMV and Black Sigatoka
4: A Key information started game
5: A key information annotation activity
6: A question looking at how plant disease affects food security
7: A group discussion activity
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 lesson with activities covering the protist disease 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 game
3: A Malaria SPAG activity
4: A Malaria group work activity
5: A 6 mark assessment question
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
This resource is a lesson with activities that covers the autoimmune disease content in the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A type 1 diabetes activity
4: A presentation activity
5: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 farming techniques content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy starter activity
3: Information on organic and intensive farming
4: An organic farming activity
5: An intensively farming chickens 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 and activities covering the antibiotics and painkillers 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 game
3: A growing bacteria activity
4: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
5: A section on antibiotic resistance
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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 organisation of the nervous system content in 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: Key information covering the autonomic and somatic nervous system
4: A nervous system questioning activity
5: A set of notes for students to use
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 carbon cycle 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 game
3: A key information sheet for students to use
4: A model activity which can be potentially be used
5: A series of key questions to ask students
6: A presentation activity
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A key information slide that can be used for flipped learning
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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