'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 ventilation in insects content of the 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lea students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A modeling activity
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A student sheet to use during the lesson
6: An AFL dice game
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This resource is a GCSE biological organisation revision workbook 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 this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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This resource is a set of 93 OCR (however they would also be appropriate for other exam boards) A2 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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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the animal & plant pathogens section of A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: A hexagon question activity
4: A virus dice activity
5: A multiple choice question activity
6: A fungi diagram activity
7: A modes of action discussion activity
8: A key information activity
9: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the heart & cardiac content in the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet with home work task
3: A diagram starter activity
4: A set of heart part functions cards
5: A cardiac cycle card sort
6: A micro teaching activity
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the monoclonal antibodies content of the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: An information hunt activity
4: A 6 mark question mark scheme construction activity
5: A micro teaching task
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
9: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the antibiotic resistance content in A Level specifications. This resource includes:
1: A discovery of antibiotics starter game
2: A how antibiotics effect bacteria activity
3: A model activity
4: A how bacteria deal with antibiotics activity
5: A antibiotic resistance development activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the biodiversity content of the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A pair questioning activity
4: A what effects biodiversity information hunt
5: A micro teaching plenary activity
6: Maintaining biodiversity student notes
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 nerves & co-ordination content in the AQA & OCR A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
An instruction video cut into 3 sections due to file size restrictions
Interactive notebook activities covering the following sections
1: Maintaining a resting potential
2: Action potentials
3: Synapses
4: Action potential propagation
5: Neuromuscular junctions
6: The sliding filament model
This resource also includes 3 summary information sheets which can also be used with students.
If you choose to buy this resource it’s a lot of fun to use and my students got lots out of it, however, if you need any extra information or help please get in contact and only give it a go after watching the correct section in the instructional video.
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the negative feedback section of the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A questioning dice game
3: An information sheet
4: A literacy questioning activity
5: A card sort activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the symplast & apoplast pathway of water movement in plants content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A block busters starter literacy game
3: A water movement modelling activity
4: A water pathway dice game
5: A presentation activity
6: A sheet for students to work through
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 body plans content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A homeobox genes key information highlighting activity
3: A building a fly embryo starter activity
4: A AFL dice game
5: A apoptosis modelling 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 full lesson with activities for the limiting factors section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource contains:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A dice AFL game
3: A literacy activity
4: A snakes and ladders game
5: A case study activity
6: A 6 mark question AFL question
7: 4 different limiting factors work sheets
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 animal 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 Influenza, TB, HIV and Malaria
4: A Key information started game
5: A key information annotation activity
6: Questions on the different pathogens
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 and activities covering the control of blood glucose content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 2 graph analysis activities
3: Control of blood glucose diagrams
4: A circus of information on glucose regulation
5: A plenary 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson covering the structure and function of the nervous system content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including leading students through the lesson
2: A nerve structure starter activity
3: A structure of the nervous system literacy activity
4: A activity showing students what happens at the synapse
5: A synapse 6 mark AFL question
6: A synapse interactive notebook activity
7: A synapse modeling 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 GCSE infection & responce 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 this 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.
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Active Transport section. Included is the following:
1: An overall lesson plan
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: Active transport darts activity
4: Active transport literacy starter
5: Mock exam question analysis activity
6: Labeling a villi activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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 student question sheet
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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 resource is a lesson and resources covering the controlling body water concentration content in the new 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities includes
2: A 6 mark analysis activity
3: A renal system labeling activity
4: A pair literacy activity
5: A plenary discussion activity on ADH
6: A sheet for students to fill out
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A literacy key information starter game
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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