'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 and activities covering the control & coordination content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A starter game with information sheet
3: 2 6 mark AFL questions
4: A group discussion 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 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 contraceptive content of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A type of contraceptive micro teaching activity
4: A exam style plenary 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
8: A starter game
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the liver & excretion content in the 2015 OCR A level Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A literacy game on excretion starter
4: A metabolism group activity
5: A card sort
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the food security content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A blockbusters starter game
3: A Literature activity
4: A types of farming discussion activity
5: An information hunt activity
6: A dice game
7: A micro-teaching 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 trophic levels content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key words starter game
3: A pyramid of biomass task
4: An efficiency dice activity
5: 2 6 mark plenary questions
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, plants & animal cells section. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: A starter game
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: A link to instructions on how to make a cells foldable
4: An information hunt activity
5: 2 mock exam questions with mark schemes & extra help
6: 6 mark question on cell organelles
7: A making a model cell instructions
8: A making a cells game instructions
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 and activities covering the use of plant hormones content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lad students through the lesson
2: A starter game on plant auxin use
3: An information hunt on the use of ethene to ripen fruit
4: A group activity on gibberellins
5: A data analysis plenary question
6: Resources to carry out the plant hormones required practical
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, sexual & asexual reproduction sections. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of reproduction
4: An information hunt activity on the advantages of both types of reproduction
5: Card sort activity
6: Mock exam question on types of reproduction
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 controlling body temperature content in the new 2016 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 6 mark question mark scheme construction task
4: A card sort
5: A summary plenary activity
6: A group discussion 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 A Level Biology, transport in plants workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Plant Transport Systems
Water Transport in Plants
Translocation
Plant Adaptations to Water Availability
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the control of gene expression content in the new 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A literacy key information starter activity
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A multiple choice question activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
5: A post translation discussion activity
6: A transcriptional control dice game
7: An information slide that can be used for flipped learning
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the OCR 2015 Biology A Level specification, introduction to exchange surfaces section. This resource is designed to be taught in 1 lesson and includes activities for students to work through, group work activities as well as lots of opportunities for AFL. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A card sort activity
4: A surface area / volume ratio activity
5: 2 Mock exam questions
6: A homework activity
7: A modeling activity
8: A literacy activity
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Set of 2 lessons covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification on CHD. There are separate lessons on artificial treatments & drug treatments. All 2 lessons include activities for students to work through and there are lots of opportunities for AFL.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the mutations and variation content of the 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A causes of mutations information search activity
4: An effects of variation dice game
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: A flipped learning 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 whole lesson with activities covering the sensory receptors content in the 2015 OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A type of sensory receptor starter card sort
3: A literacy activity
4: A generating a potential large model activity
5: A student sheet covering the lesson
6: A home work task is included
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 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 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 set of 3 workbooks designed for students to work through before having a go at the 3 OCR specimen papers for the 2015 spec A Level Biology. Included in this resource are the 3 workbooks in power point format and a set of preview pictures so you can have a look at what the resource is like. In each workbook there is information to help focus students and a range of different activities to help students use the information.
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This resource is a set of 107 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) AS Biology revision task cards. This resource has been written so that all of the assessment points in the specification are covered.
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