'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 whole lesson with activities for the fuses section of the AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2; 2 Exam style AFL questions
3: A fuses literacy activity
4: A circuit breaker activity
5: A 6 mark question for the plenary
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This resource is a lesson investigating 3 different factors that effect the output of solar cells. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A work sheet for students to fill out during the practical
4: A plenary 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the life cycle of a star content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter activity
3: A diagram construction task
4: A micro teaching activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
6: A question 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 nuclear fusion content in the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A card sort activity
4: An information hunt
5: A 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities to enable students to revise the heat transfer section of the AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: Various uses of a 6 mark question
4: A thermos flask modelling activity
5: A thermos flask diagram for students to annotate
6: A heat transfer information sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the speed time relationship content section of the new GCSE Physics specification with a walking dead twist. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A lesson explanation document
3: A key words starter activity game
4: An identifying scalar and vector quantities activity
5: A calculating speed dice game
6: A rearranging an equation activity
7: A zombie chase data collection activity
8: A drawing a graph activity
9: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Hooke’s law content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A practical command word starter game
3: A spring constant equation activity
4: A stretching and squashing explanation
5: A Hooke’s Law investigation design activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
8: A graph analysis activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a bundle of lessons covering the forces content in the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. Most of the resources should work with the forces SOW published by AQA
This resource is a lesson with activities covering a range of space Physics concepts included in the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students trough the lesson
2: A summary sheet
3: An early universe starter game
4: A Big Bang 6 mark, marking activity
6: A snakes & ladders AFL game
7: A set of cards to explain how new elements are made & the life cycle of a star
8: A 6 mark new elements plenary question
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This bundle includes a range of games covering the following areas:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
18: Current electricity
19: Circuits
20: The early Universe
21: Energy from the nucleus
22: Forces
23: Heat transfer
24: Hydraulics
25: Kinetic energy
26: The life cycle of a star
27: Mains electricity
28: Making elements
29: Motion
30: The national grid
31: Power
32: Radiation
33: Renewable energy
34: Resultant force
35: The solar system
36: Sound waves
37: Spring constant
38: The Big Bang
39: The eye
40: Work done
41: X rays
42: Speed
43: Enzymes
44: Digestion
45: Evolution
46: Adaptations
47: Biodiversity
48: Decay
49: Deforestation
50; Diabetes
51: Drug testing
52: Food security
53: Genetic engineering
54: Growing microbes
55: Reproductive hormones
56: Meiosis
57: Mitosis
58: Reflexes
59: Plant hormones
60: Temperature control
61: The use of glucose
62: Tropic levels
63: Using plant hormones
I have also attached a range of other revision materials that you might find helpful to use with your students.
Thanks for looking & good luck with your exams
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the gravity & centre of mass content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A gravity key information starter game
3: An equation dice game
4: A weight on different planets activity
5: A centre of mass suggested practical
6: A 6 mark plenary 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 revision lesson with activities covering the current electricity content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A static electricity dice game
4: Series & parallel circuit activities
5: A resistance activity
6: A resistance graph activity
7: A resistance graph 6 mark question
8: A resistance in a wire 6 mark question
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities covering the motion content of the GCSE Physics 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: A speed dice game
5: An inertial mass game
6: A speed time graph activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a revision lesson with activities covering the work, energy & momentum content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A kinetic energy starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: 4 work games
4: Basic momentum questions
5: A conservation of momentum activity
6: A terminal velocity 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the generating electricity content of the GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A generators starter activity
4: A power station sequencing activity
5: A power station 6 mark question
6: A national grid dice game
7: A renewable energy game
8: A renewable energy 6 mark question
9: A problems with generating energy 6 mark question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the pressure & surfaces content in the 2015 AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A pressure calculations starter game
3: A equation re-arrangement activity
4: A unit conversion activity
5: A suggested practical
6: A series of pressure questions
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This resource is a series of lessons designed to be used when revising GCSE Additional Physics. This resource includes:
1: A lesson on motion
2: A lesson on mains electricity
3: A lesson n current electricity
4: A lesson on work, energy & momentum
5: A lesson on radiation
6: A lesson covering space physics
7: A series of revision grids & booklets
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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: 7 Weekly summary sheets based on tasks
5: 7 Weekly revision resources covering acids & alkalise, fission & fusion, digestion, matter, radiation, water treatment and heat transfer
6: Resources for students to use to put together their own interactive note book
7: 142mb of resources & 168 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 revision lesson covering the fission & fusion content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A fusion card sort
3: A nuclear power station information hunt
4: A summary sheet
5: An interactive notebook activity
6: 2 6 mark questions
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