'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 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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the evolution section of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A snakes & ladders starter game
4: A comparing theories of evolution activity
5: A natural selection dice game
6: An evolutionary tree activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the nerves & reflexes content of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A student summary sheet
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A snakes & ladders starter game
4: A reflex action question to mark
5: A synapse modelling activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: A nerve cell information hunt
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This resource is a series of summary sheets covering the nervous system content in the A Level Biology specification. These sheets can be used during revision in lessons, as prompts in lessons or can be sent to students as flipped learning activities. The areas covered in this resource are:
1: Sensory neurones
2: Action potentials
3: Resting potentials
4: Synapses
5: Summation
6: Organisation of the nervous system
7: Neuromuscular junction
8: Sliding filament model
9: Reflexes
10: Neurones
11: The Brain
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This resource is a lesson with resources covering the reproduction & variation content of the KS4 GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: Student summary sheets
3: An inheritance starter activity
4: Types of reproduction card sort
5: Ethics of cloning 6 mark question
6: Genetic engineering modelling activity
7: Genetic engineering 6 mark question
8: Types of reproduction card sort
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This item is a set of Science key words with definitions for the AQA Science course
Each card has a different key word and a description of what the key word means
The cards come in a power point format and simply need printing off and cuting out
The separate slides can also be printed off as A4 sheets and put up to remind students what different key words they can use in the exam to improve their grade
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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 health & immunity content of the AQA Biology GCSE specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A diet & exercise starter question to mark
4: A pathogens & disease 6 mark question
5: A growing bacteria 6 mark question
6: A changing bacteria 6 mark question
7: Immune system snakes & ladders game
8: A human defence mechanisms answer for students to mark
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Useful Metals in the metals 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: Mock exam question on metal alloys
4: Transition metal properties cards
5: Literacy activity
6: A pick out the key points activity
This resource is a series of summary sheets covering the homeostasis content in the AQA 2015 Biology specification. These sheets can be used during revision in lessons, as prompts in lessons or can be sent to students as flipped learning activities. The areas covered in this resource are:
1: Homeostasis
2: Water regulation
3: Temperature regulation
4: Negative feedback
5: The synapse
6: Reaction times
7: The eye
8: Phototropism
9: The endocrine system
10: The brain
11: Reflexes
12: The kidney
13: Dialysis
14: Kidney transplants
15: Hormones in reproduction
16: Glucose regulation
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This resource is a series of summary sheets covering the biological molecules content in A Level Biology specification. These sheets can be used during revision in lessons, as prompts in lessons or can be sent to students as flipped learning activities. The areas covered in this resource are:
1: Water
2: Amino acids
3: Types of protein
4: Protein structure
5: DNA replication
6: Nucleotides
7: Dissacharides
8: Cellulose
9: Starch
10: Lipids
11: Triglycerides
12: Glycogen
13: ATP
14: Transcription
15: Translation
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the adaptation & competition content of the GCSE Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A 6 mark question marking activity
4: An adaptations game
5: A shark adaptation 6 mark question
6: A plant adaptations 6 mark question
7: A plant adaptations card sort
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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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Iron & Steel in the metals 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 point1 leading students through the lesson
3: 6 mark question on types of steel
4: Blast furnace stage cards
5: Uses of different steels activity
6: Mock exam question on the blast furnace
A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2016 GCSE Science specification, Useful Metals in the metals 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: Mock exam question on metal recycling
4: Pros & cons of mining cards
5: 6 mark exam question starter & plenary
6: Collect benefits & drawbacks of building with metals activity
This is an activity that I have used with my Y11 students during their revision. It can be used in a number of ways. The general instructions of how to use it are:
1. Print off the power point slides (2 to a page works well)
2. Set up some tables and outline the shape of the periodic table
3. Put on the labels for the groups and the periods in the correct places
4. Write on a few elements
5. Give each student an element card which gives them a range of things they need to work out about the element as a starter
6. Ask the students to place their element where they think it should be
7. Use the question cards as a basis for a discussion about the periodic table (there are around 25 question cards so most students will be asked at least one thing.
There is lots in the power point and it can easily be differentiated
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This resource is a set of activities that can be used to help introduce new Y7 students to KS3 Science. The resource includes a set series of lessons accompanied by a work booklet for students to work through as well as a number of short standalone activities that can be used to help introduce students to specific skills they will need. This resource includes:
1: A power point to help lead students through lessons
2: A work booklet
3: A homework activity
4: A Hooke’s Law investigation planning activity
5: A reflection investigation results analysis activity
6: A Hooke’s Law data presentation activity
7: A looking at speed graphs activity
8: A respiration data presentation activity
9: A friction investigation data presentation activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the how new elements are formed content of the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A fusion starter game
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A series of demo cards to explain to students how elements are formed
4: A 6 mark plenary 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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