'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 chemical bonding section of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A snakes & ladders starter game
2: A student summary sheet
3: A power point to lead students through the lesson
4: An ionic compound formula dice game
5: A drawing covalent molecules activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question on metallic bonding
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This resource is a revision lesson covering the photosynthesis section of the AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource include:
1: A starter 6 mark question marking activity which covers the basics of photosynthesis
2: A how the leaf is adapted to carry out photosynthesis model activity
3: A limiting factors snakes and ladders game
4: A 6 mark plenary activity to bring all of the key points together
5: A photosynthesis summary sheet
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This resource is a set of over 30 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Physics exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. All the editable files for the games are in the zip file as there are over 30 individual files. This resource includes games covering:
1: Current electricity
2: Circuits
3: The early Universe
4: Energy from the nucleus
5: Forces
6: Heat transfer
7: Hydraulics
8: Kinetic energy
9: The life cycle of a star
10: Mains electricity
11: Making elements
12: Motion
13: The national grid
14: Power
15: Radiation
16: Renewable energy
17: Resultant force
18: The solar system
19: Sound waves
20: Spring constant
21: The Big Bang
22: The eye
23: Work done
24: X rays
25: Speed
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This resource is a set of 23 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Biology exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. All the editable files for the games are in the zip file as there are over 30 individual files. This resource includes games covering:
1: Enzymes
2: Digestion
3: Evolution
4: Adaptations
5: Biodiversity
6: Decay
7: Deforestation
8: Diabetes
9: Drug testing
10: Food security
11: Genetic engineering
12: Growing microbes
13: Reproductive hormones
14: Meiosis
15: Mitosis
16: Reflexes
17: Plant hormones
18: Temperature control
19: The use of glucose
20: Tropic levels
21: Using plant hormones
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the phagocytosis section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A modelling activity
4: A student diagram sheet
5: A micro teaching activity
6: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 plant defences section of the 2015 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter game
3: A plant defences modelling activity
4: A student diagram
5: A dice game
6: A micro-teaching activity
7: A assessment question for students to work through
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 mitosis & the cell cycle content in 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 mitosis modeling activity
4: A cell cycle modeling activity
5: A mitosis spag activity
6: A student sheet
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: Videos showing how the modeling activities work
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 with activities covering the Le Chatelier’s principle & Haber Process section of 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 sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
4: A modelling activity
5: A Le Chatelier’s spag activity
6: A group presentation activity
7: An information hunt
8: A 6 mark assessment question
9: A homework activity
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This resources is a selection of photos of large teaching models I've used during lessons. I hope they give you a few ideas & inspiration on how you can use large models within your own lessons.
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the acids & alkali section of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key word starter game
3: A suggested practical
4: A forming salts dice game
5: A definition construction activity
6: A forming ions & equation construction activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the electrolysis of aluminium content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A 6 mark starter activity
2: A aluminium electrolysis model activity
3: A micro teaching task
4: A power point to lead students through the lesson
5: A 6 mark assessment lesson
6: A literacy activity
7: A electrolysis game
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 electrolysis content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A 6 mark question analysis activity
3: A literacy activity
4: A dice AFL game
5: An electrolysis model activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
7: 2 slides that can be used for flipped learning
8: A key information starter game
9: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
10: A set of notes for students to use
11: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
12: 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 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 the work done content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter dice game
3: A sheet for students to work through
4: 4 work done games for the main part of the lesson
5: A blockbusters game
6: A work done question circus
7: 2 graph activities
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 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 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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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the collision theory content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A key information starter game
2: A definition construction activity
3: Various model building activities
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the calculating rate of chemical reactions content in the new 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literacy starter activity
3: A calculations snakes & ladders game
4: A rate of reaction graph activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the non specific immune response content in the 2016 OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes & ladders starter game
3: A blood clotting modelling activity
4: A dice game
5: A multiple choice answer activity
6: A sheet for students to work through during the lesson
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 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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