'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 measuring the distribution of organisms content of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A quadrat activity
4: A belt transect activity
5: A 6 mark plenary question
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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 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 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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This resource is a GCSE bonding, structure and the properties of matter 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Chemical bonds / ionic bonding / ionic compounds / covalent bonding / metallic bonding.
3 states of matter
properties of ionic compounds, small molecules / polymers / giant covalent structures
Structure and bonding of carbon / diamond / graphite / graphene and fullerenes.
nanoparticles / sizes of particles and properties / uses of nanoparticles.
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 GCSE Chemistry quantitative chemistry 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 Chemistry specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Relative formula mass
Balancing equations
Empirical formula
Yield
Reacting masses
Conservation of mass
Limited reactants
Concentration
Moles
Avogadro number
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 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 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
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, atomic structure 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Atomic structure
Electron structure
Development of atomic theory
Radiation
Uses of radiation
Half life
Background radiation
Fission
Fusion
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 GCSE Biology, homeostasis 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The nervous system
Reflexes
Removing waste
Synapses
Reaction time
The eye
The brain
Temperature regulation
Water regulation
Glucose regulation
Negative feedback
Menstrual cycle
Contraception
Fertility treatment
Plant hormones
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This resource is a bundle of 13 GCSE Science paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 13 sections in the first Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Bioenergetics
4: Infection & Response
5: Atomic structure
6: Electricity
7: Energy
8: Particle model of matter
9: Atomic structure & periodic table
10: Bonding, structure & the properties of matter
11: Chemical change
12: Energy change
13: Quantitative chemistry
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This resource is a bundle of 3 GCSE Biology paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 3 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, inheritance, variation & evolution 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Meiosis
DNA
Genetic variation
Protein synthesis
Inherited disorders
Punnet squares
Genetic engineering
Cloning
Natural selection
Selective breeding
Evolution
Evidence of evolution
Extinction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, magnets & electromagnets 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Magnets
Magnetic fields
Electromagnets
Motor effect
Electromagnetic inductions
Speakers
Microphones
Transformers
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 bundle of 12 GCSE Science paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 12 sections in the second Science paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Ecology
2: Homeostasis
3: Inheritance, variation & evolution
4: Chemical analysis
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: The Atmosphere
8: Using resources
9: Forces
10: Magnets & electromagnetism
11: Space
12: Waves
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the communities section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy activity
3: A key information game
4: A SPAG activity
5: A competition graph activity
6: A stable community modeling 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 with activities covering the chromatography content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A suggested chromatography demo
4: Student sheets designed to lead students through the required practical
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 with activities covering the enzymes in digestion 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 starter game
3: A student sheet that they can fill in about enzymes in digestion
4: Activities on different types of enzymes
5: Assessment activity dice games
6: A 6 mark assessment question
7: Videos going through how to model enzymes in digestion
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the resistance in a wire required practical content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A resistance in circuits starter activity
3: A sheet for students to work through whilst carrying out the practical
4: A graph analysis activity
5: A 6 mark question plenary activity
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