'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 Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes a run through of the stages involved with the lac operon
2: A key information highlighting activity
3: Key word definitions
4: A lac operon modelling activity with explanation picture & video
5: A dice game AFL activity
6: A micro teaching activity
7: A sheet for students to fill in during the lesson
8: A homework activity
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 revision lesson covering the fission & fusion content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A fusion card sort
3: A nuclear power station information hunt
4: A summary sheet
5: An interactive notebook activity
6: 2 6 mark questions
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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.
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This resource is a GCSE chemical changes 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:
Reactivity of metals
Reactions of acids
Iron extraction
Displacement reactions
Acids & alkalis
Neutralization
Making salts
Titrations
Electrolysis
Electrolysis of aluminium
Electrolysis of water
Electrolysis of brine
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 Physics paper 1 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 4 sections in the first Physics paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Atomic structure
2: Electricity
3: Energy
4: Particle model of matter
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This resource is a series of well resourced lessons covering the bioenergetics section of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. These lessons fit in with the SOW released by AQA.
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This resource is a set of over 300 revision activities that will enable students to put together their own revision flashcards. This resource has been put together using the 2015 AQA Science specification and covers all the specification points.
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This resource is a set of flash cards to help students revise the transport in plants content in the OCR A Level Biology specification. Each card gives help on what students need to include.
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This resource is a set of 20 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the homeostasis content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification.
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This resource is a set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Biology. 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: Cells
2: Biological Organisation
3: Homeostasis
4: Ecology
5: Bioenergetics
6: Infection & Response
7: Inheritance & Evolution
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This resource is a set of 19 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the organic chemistry content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification.
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The Massive start of the year icebreaker Quiz with over 100 questions and 9 rounds. This quiz will definitely give your students an amusing end of term and caters for every taste, is editable and best suited to secondary students.
The main rounds include:
1: Movies
2: TV
3: Science
4: Places
5: Sport
6: Books
7: History
8: Words
9: Art
There are also bonus rounds on:
1: Celebrities hiding in sand castles
2: USA landmarks
3: Cartoon characters
4: Scrabble
5: Computer games
6: Anagrams
7: Animals
8: Movie scenes
All answers are included. These are on slides at the end of each round, so groups can quickly swap their answer sheets and mark each others.
There are also 8 getting to know your classmates activities that can be used throughout.
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise the required practicals in the GCSE Biology 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Microscopy
Microbiology
Food tests
Germination
Osmosis
Field Investigations
Photosynthesis
Enzyme
Reaction Time
Decay
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the heat transfers content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information maze starter game
3: A sheet for students to fill out on conduction, convection and radiation
4: A group presentation activity
5: A key information analysis activity
6: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a lesson and activities designed for KS3 students covering the cells to organ systems content within the national curriculum. The objectives covered in this lesson are:
Know the hierarchy of a living organism
Define cell, tissue, organ and organ system
Apply your knowledge of organisation to explain how the systems of the body are arranged
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 what students already understand diagnosis activity
4: Slides on cells, tissues, organs & organ systems
5: A modelling activity demo that works well with students
6: A multiple choice plenary activity
7: A summary sheet for students
8: A cells to organ system card sort
9: An organisation diagram activity
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A series of well resourced lessons covering the cells section of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. These lessons fit in with the SOW released by AQA.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on the Haber process.
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