'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 GCSE Physics, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise tthe required practicals in the GCSE Physics 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Specific heat capacity
Thermal insulation
Resistance
I-V characteristics
Density
Light
Force and extension
Acceleration
Waves
Radiation and absorption
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the molar gas volume content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A gas volume maze starter game
3: A moles in different volumes of gas activity
4: A calculating mass activity
5: A calculating volume activity
6: A volume of gas produced during an investigation activity
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This resource is a set of 10 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the atomic structure content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a set of 19 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the using resources content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Biology exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bioenergetics
2: Cells
3: Ecology
4: Homeostasis
5: Inheritance
6: Infection & response
7: Biological organisation
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the specialised cells content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
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Name some specialised cells
Identify the features of specialised cells
Explain how the features of a specialised cell makes it good at its job
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A comparing real life jobs to cell jobs starter activity
4: Information on a range of specialised cells
5: A information hunt and table for students to fill in
6: A scientific writing plenary activity
7: An extension activity
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the muscular system content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
State the function of the muscles
Annotate a diagram of a joint and describe the function of its parts
Explain how muscles work in pairs to make the body move
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: A function of the skeleton recall activity
4: A diagnosis question
5: Information on the function of muscles
6: An antagonistic muscle pairs activity
7: A worksheet for students to work through
8: A muscles recall activity
9: A code breaker plenary
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This set of 4 lessons include content covering the cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis and stem cells. There is also a work book and revision flash cards included
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
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This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This resource is a lesson and activities covering the rate of reaction content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A command word starter game
3: A rate of reaction practical modelling activity
4: A looking at methods activity
5: A method construction activity
6: A calculating rate activity
7: A 6 mark assessment activity
8: A homework task
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This is a set of 300 questions that cover the topics included in the AQA Science GCSE 2015 specification. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. All the questions come with mark schemes using the 1-9 grading system and can be used for revision or as assessment at the end of the lesson.
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This resource is a lesson & activities covering the structure & function of the brain section of the new OCR A Level Biology 2015 specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student sheet
3: A suggested build a brain activity
4: Information cards on the sections of the brain
5: An information sheet on ways to look at the brain
6: A snakes & ladders game
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 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.
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This resource is a power point containing 17 AS Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Cells
2: Carbohydrates
3: Amino Acid & Lipids
4: Proteins
5: DNA
6: Enzymes
7: Membranes
8: Cell division
9: Substance movement
10: Exchange surfaces
11: Transport in animals
12: Transport in plants
13: Blood, tissue fluid & lymph
14: Classification & evolution
15: Biodiversity
16: Animal & plant pathogens
17: The immune system
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, electricity 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:
Circuit diagrams
Charge
Resistance
Series circuits
Parallel circuits
Resistance graphs
Plugs & cables
Mains electricity
AC DC
National grid
Static electricity
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 over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Chemistry exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bonding
2: Chemical analysis
3: Chemical reactions
4: Energy changes
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: Using resources
8: Atomic structure
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This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Physics exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Magnets & electromagnets
2: Atomic structure
3: Electricity
4: Forces
5: Space
6: Particle model of matter
7: Waves
8: Energy
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the impact of exercise, asthma & smoking on human gas exchange content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
State the problems caused by smoking and asthma
Describe how to treat problems caused by smoking and asthma
Explain the effects of exercise on breathing
This resource has a range of activities enabling the lesson to be easily differentiated including:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A version of the power point for students to use independently
3: Alveoli recall activity
4: A diagnosis question
5: A smoking leaflet activity
6: A asthma & smoking paired questioning activity
7: An effect of exercise on breathing practical
8: A key question plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the rates of reaction content in the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: A collision theory starter game
4: A calculating rate of reaction activity
5: A rate of reaction explanation activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a Excretion, Kidneys & the Liver work-booklet 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:
Structure of the liver
Liver function
Waste products (excretion)
Metabolism
Urea production
Liver cirrhosis
Kidney structure & function
Nephrons
Water regulation
Testing urine
Treating kidney disease
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 GCSE Physics energy 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:
Types of energy
Work done
Efficiency
Sanky diagrams
Kinetic energy
Elastic energy
GPE
Power
Energy dissipation
Conduction, convection & radiation
Energy sources
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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