'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 revision resource is designed for AQA GCSE Combined/Biology revision 9-1 but is equally suitable for other boards.
Topics include; Cell Biology, Organisation, Infection & Response, Bioenergetics, Homeostasis & Response, Inheritance Variation & Evolution and Ecology.
This resource includes
1: Power points coving GCSE Biology containing more than 250 slides of content
2: 55 short answer exam style questions with mark schemes built into the power points
3: 25 long answer questions with mark schemes
4: 32 revision activities designed to improve exam technique
Due to the number of files, most are contained in a zip file.
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This resource is a power point containing 15 A2 Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Neuronal communication x 2
2: Reflexes & muscles
3: Hormonal communication
4: Homeostasis
5: Excretion & the kidney
6: Photosynthesis
7: Respiration
8: Patterns of variation
9: Manipulating genomes
10: Genetic engineering & cloning
11: Biotechnology
12: Ecosystems
13: Genetics
14: Plant responces
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 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 set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: Photosynthesis
2: Osmosis
3: Reaction time
4: Culturing microbes
5: Decay
6: Germination
7: Field investigations
8: Enzymes
9: Food tests
10: Microscopy
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. Each lesson includes some background information or practical skill task, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical when appropriate and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: SHC
2: Insulation
3: Density
4: Resistance
5: I-V Charecteristics
6: Insulation
7: Light
8: Radiation & absorption
9: Force & stretching
10: Acceleration
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This resource is a set of 33 Science Literacy games that can be used within normal lessons or as revision. Each game contains text that students need to read through and then a game with questions based on that text around it. The games included cover:
1: 2 on speed
2: Evolution
3: Rate of reaction
4: Organs
5: Classification
6: Adaptations
7: Understanding genetics
8: Electromagnetic induction
9: Protein synthesis
10: The cell cycle
11: Magnets
12: Bacteria
13: The atmosphere
14: Current
15: Neutralisation
16: Distance & displacement
17: Electrolysis
18: Atomic theory
19: States of matter
20: Blood
21: Sewage treatment
22: Anaerobic respiration
23: Natural polymers
24: Renewable energy
25: Drug testing
26: Meiosis
27: Acids & alkalis
28: Levels of organisation
29: Types of muscle
30: Power & Pd
31: Recycling
32: States of matter
All of these games are tried & tested and really help engage students. After students have played the game you can also ask students questions off the boards as a quick form of AFL.
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This resource is a set of lessons to help students work through the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question. The practicals covered in this resource are:
1: Chromatography
2: Testing for ions
3: Rate of reaction
4: Making salts
5: Neutralisation
6: Temperature changes
7: Water purification
8: Electrolysis
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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 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 infection & response 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.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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This resource is a GCSE Bioenergetics 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:
Photosynthesis
Rate of photosynthesis
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Respiration – aerobic and anaerobic
Response to exercise
Metabolism
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content. In particular there are lots of data analysis activities to help prepare students for the increase in maths content within the exams.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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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
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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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 biological organisation section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Animal tissues
organs and organ systems
human digestive system
heart and blood vessels
blood
coronary heart disease
health issues
life style and non-communicable diseases / cancer.
Plant tissues and organ systems.
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
Also included to accompany this work booklet is a revision lesson with a range of activities which will help students fill it out.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Biology 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. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Biology spec
2: The Nitrogen Cycle
3: The Heart
4: Genetic engineering
5: Cloning
6: Blood vessels
7: Cancer
8: Transpiration
9: The Kidney
8: Diffusion
9: Active Transport
10: Biodiversity
11: Decay
12: The carbon cycle
13: ADH
14: The immune system
15: Homeostasis
16: Malaria
17: Reflexes
18: HIV
19: Extinction
20: Evolution
These questions act as goo AFL activities at the end of the lesson and the mark schemes will allow students to see what the exam board want within long answer questions.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry 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. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
1: The required practicals in the GCSE Chemistry spec
2: A number of questions looking at practicals students may be asked about other than required practicals
3: Electrolysis
4: Combustion
5: LCA
6: Metals
7: Acids & alkalis
8: The periodic table
9: Reactions
10: Allotropes of carbon
11: States of matter
12: The Haber process
13: The Earth
14: Molecules
15: And lots more
This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Physics 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. Some of the areas covered by this resource are:
The required practicals in the GCSE Physics spec
Radiation
Heat
Electricity
The Big Bang
Red shift
Forces
Stretching
Sound
Magnetism
Space
The national grid
Insulation
Graphs
Falling objects
Electromagnets
States of matter
Centre of mass
Motors
And lots more
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This resource is a set of 20 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the A Level Biology exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. This resource includes games covering:
1: Evolution
2: Animal & plant pathogens
3: Antibodies
4: Controlling heart rate
5: Controlling blood glucose
6: Excretion
7: Immunology
8: Insect ventilation
9: The brain
10: Mutations & variation
11: Non specific immunity
12: Organisation of the nervous system
13: Water transport
14: Phagocytosis
15: Plant defences
16: Sliding filament model
17: The structure of the kidney
18: Types of circulation
19: Vaccination
20: Variation
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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 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 set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Physics. Each card has criteria on one side, and students need to use it to put together their own flash card on the reverse. The areas covered by these cards are:
1: Atomic Structure
2: Electricity
3: Energy
4: Forces
5: Magnets & Electromagnets
6: Particle Model of Matter
7: Space
8: Waves
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