'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 set of 26 bespoke 6 mark questions to test students understanding of most of the required practicals in the 2015 AQA Science specification. The questions have been written in a similar style to the practical 6 mark questions in the sample material.
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This set of questions cover the topics included in the AQA Chemistry GCSE. All the questions come with a a mark scheme which can either be used by teachers or students to mark their answers. This resource has been developed over the last three years and has been proven to help students gain more marks in GCSE long answer questions
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the ceramics, polymers and composites content in 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 key information starter game
4: A composite information hunt
5: A composite presentation activity
6: A polymers literacy activity
7: A polymer properties activity
8: A ceramic properties activity
9: A 6 mark assessment question
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This resource is a set of over 100 revision flash cards designed to help students revise GCSE Chemistry. 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: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Rate of Reaction
8: Using Resources
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This resource is a set of 30 graph analysis questions that can be used to help students answer questions involving graphs in the Science GCSE. There are some graphs with questions to discuss with students, some with anomalies for students to identify and some which ask students to describe what the graph shows.
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This resource is a power point containing method cards for the 31 required practicals in the AQA Science specification. The slides can either be printed off for students to use or be used during revision sessions.
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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 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 with activities covering the electrolysis content of the GCSE Chemistry specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A student summary sheet
3: An acids & alkali game
4: An electrolysis dice game
5: An electrolysis snakes & ladders game
6: An electrolysis 6 mark question
7: An electrolysis of brine DARTS activity
8: An electrolysis of brine 6 mark question
9: An electrolysis of aluminium modelling activity
10: An electrolysis of aluminium 6 mark question
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This resource is a full set of lessons covering the content in the Additional Chemistry GCSE. This resource includes lessons covering:
1: Bonding & structures
2: Calculations in chemistry
3: Rates of reaction
4: Electrolysis
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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 resource is a lesson focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on bonding. 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 on atomic structure
4: A questions looking simple ionic bonding
5: A question looking at covalent bonding
6: A question on giant ionic bonding
7: A question on simple covalent molecules
8: A question on giant covalent molecules
9: A question on graphite
10: A question on diamond
11: A question on metallic bonding
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 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 bundle of knowledge organisers coving the content in the 2015 AQA Chemistry specification. This resource contains knowledge organisers covering:
1: Atomic Structure & Periodic Table
2: Bonding
3: Chemical Analysis
4: Chemical Changes
5: Energy Changes
6: Organic Chemistry
7: Using Resources
8: Rate of Reaction
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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 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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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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