'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, forces 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 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Resultant force
Weight
Work done
Spring constant
Hooke’s Law
Stretching a spring
Moments
Gears & levers
Floating & sinking
Air pressure
Distance & displacement
Speed
Acceleration
Terminal velocity
Newton’s Laws
Moments
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 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 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 lesson with activities covering the potable water content of the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
3: A desalination information hunt pair activity
4: A 6 mark plenary question on distillation
5: A suggested demo on distillation to carry out
6: A desalination modeling activity
7: Flipped learning information slide
8: A key information starter game
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This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on group 1, 7 & 0 elements. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: Questions on group 1 elements
4: Questions on group 7 elements
5: A question on group 0 elements
6: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
7: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a new lesson and activities covering the blood vessels content in the new 2015 OCR AS Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A sheet for students to fill out throughout the lesson
3: An information hunt
4: A model activity
5: A group presentation activity
6: Activities that can be used for homework
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This resource is a GCSE Biology, ecology 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 Biology 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Species
Classification
Distribution of organisms
Sampling
Predator prey graphs
Adaptations
Pyramids of biomass
Carbon cycle
Water cycle
Eutrophication
Global warming
Food security
Sustainable fisheries
Microprotein
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 5 GCSE Chemistry paper 2 work-booklets that will help enable students to revise the 5 sections in the second Biology paper. The workbooks in this resource cover:
1: Chemical analysis
2: Organic chemistry
3: Rate of reaction
4: The atmosphere
5: Using resources
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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 24 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the Biological Organisation content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the energy changes section of the new AQA Chemistry 2016 specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A counting the types of bond in a compound activity
3: A step by step guild on how energy change is calculated
4: A calculating total bond energy in a compound activity
5: A using energy change to draw an energy level diagram plenary activity
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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, Culturing microorganisms 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: A practical sheet for students to work through
2: A power point with activities leading students through the lesson
3: Calculating bacteria activity
4: Growing bacteria cards
5: 6 mark exam question plenary
6: Bacterial colony size activity
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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A new lesson covering all the points in the new AQA 2015 GCSE Science specification, drug development 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: A drugs starter question
2: A power point leading students through the lesson
3: A starter game
4: Drug development card sort
5: 6 mark question
6: A question sheet for students to work through
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 focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on Biology required practicals. For each required practical there is an explanation of how to carry it out, a long answer question looking at getting students to write methods, a diagram / model to help students write a method and an answer to each question. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A slide on key vocabulary to do with practicals
4: A question looking at the osmosis required practical
5: A question looking at the photosynthesis required practical
6: A question looking at the sampling required practical
7: A question looking at the growing microbes required practical
8: A question looking at the plant tropisms required practical
9: A question looking at the reaction time required practical
10: A question looking at the plant tropisms required practical
11: A question looking at the decay required practical
12: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
13: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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This resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on pathogens & immunity. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: 4 slides on how to generally improve Science exam technique
3: A question about Semmelweiss
4: A question on gonorrhoea
5: A question on Salmonella
6: A question on viral diseases
7: A question on fungal disease
8: A question on immunity
9: A question on vaccination
10: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
11: A version of the power point for students to use
This lesson is designed to take 1 hour. After taking to students generally about exam technique the lesson has been designed to go through content, get students to complete exam style questions then go through the answers with students which are integrated into the power point.
This resource can be used with individual classes or if you have a hall free to use, for intervention sessions with large groups of students. The structure of the lesson has been designed to enable students to work at a fast pace and reflect on their own progress throughout as well as giving the teacher the opportunity to spot any gaps in students knowledge
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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 resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on photosynthesis investigations.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on hydrogen fuel cells.
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on investigations involving the production of gas
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