High-impact teaching resources to help all pupils reach their full potential. I’m an experienced teacher and Assistant Headteacher with more than 35 years of A Level teaching experience. A former Advanced Skills Teacher and coauthor of KS3 Science Textbooks. All these resources have been exclusively created by me. Quality teaching resources you can trust!
High-impact teaching resources to help all pupils reach their full potential. I’m an experienced teacher and Assistant Headteacher with more than 35 years of A Level teaching experience. A former Advanced Skills Teacher and coauthor of KS3 Science Textbooks. All these resources have been exclusively created by me. Quality teaching resources you can trust!
A student workbook with A Level examination questions along with an accompanying teacher PowerPoint which explains how to solve the questions.
The resource goes through several calculations and question types involving a stage micrometer and eyepiece graticule. The PowerPoint and student workbook both have a step by step example of how to calibrate an eyepiece graticule and then how to use the same eyepiece graticule to measure cells and cellular components. The size of cells and organelles are measured using the micrometre (μm) scale. One question also asks student’s to calculate magnification (M) when both the size of the image (I), and the actual size of the specimen (A), is known. A starter activity where students label the parts of a light microscope is also included in both the PowerPoint and student workbook
The A Level OCR examination questions give students practice in calibrating an eyepiece graticule and use images from microscopes. The student booklet contains 6 questions and a range of different question types (calculation, written response and multi-choice) where students use their calculations of the eyepiece graticule to calculate the actual size of some real example images. Useful for exam practice and to build understanding of a tricky topic. Answers included in the animated PowerPoint so that the teacher can explain each step in the calculation. There is also a teacher version of the student workbook with a full mark scheme and examiner’s feedback.
A mini bundle of PSHE resources with a focus on money, budgeting, saving, paying with credit, credit scores, interpreting payslips and tax.
Created for the new statutory 2020/21 PSHE guidelines. Aimed at KS4 students, but could be adapted for KS5, or possibly higher ability KS3 students - all editable and differentiated.
This bundle includes the following lessons:
‘Saving money and budgeting’ where students recognise the importance of budgeting and how to track spending as well as using a budget template.
‘Paying your Way’ where student explore the benefits and risks involved in paying with credit and also find out what a credit score is.
‘Money and Work’ where students evaluate key considerations when choosing a job, interpret a payslip and find out about income tax and national insurance.
All lessons include: a 1-2 hour PowerPoint with clear lesson objectives, new key-term introductions and stimulating and relevant videos embedded.
The resource also includes an accompanying 20 page student workbook containing worksheets with differentiated activities, starter activities and clear measurable learning outcomes.
All lessons come with an accompanying lesson plan and are fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
A complete set of crosswords with answers that follow the OCR Biology AS and A Level specification A.
A free sample of one of the crosswords and answers is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12939443
This resource contains 24 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. The answers to each crossword are also provided.
Topics covered:
Cell Structure
Biological Molecules 1
Biological Molecules 2 – Nucleic Acids
Enzymes
Plasma Membranes
Cell Division
Exchange surfaces
Transport in Animals
Transport in Plants
Classification and Evolution
Biodiversity
Communicable Diseases
The Nervous System
Homeostasis
Plant Responses
Energy for Biological Processes
Respiration
Genetics of Living Systems
Inheritance
Manipulating Genomes
Cloning and Biotechnology
Ecosystems
Populations and Sustainability
Practical Skills
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
A student workbook with magnification questions along with an accompanying teacher PowerPoint which explains how to solve the questions.
The resource goes through several calculations where the magnification (M) of an object can be calculated if both the size of the image (I), and the actual size of the specimen (A), is known. The size of cells and organelles are measured using the micrometre (μm) scale.
Similar to the classic TV show and excellent as a team-based retrieval practice activity.
This game is best played using the glossary at the back of the text book and is ideal for revision at the end of a course or topic.
When the students request a letter the teacher (or another student) randomly selects a word from the glossary which begins with that letter.
The teacher then reads out the glossary definition for that word and the students guess it. The team that wins the letter can then request the next letter and so on…
The PowerPoint has hexagons with ‘triggered animation’ - click on a hexagonal shape containing a letter once and it will change to white, click on it twice and it changes to blue.
The ‘score’ hexagons contain editable text boxes. When one team wins a round click on the ‘0’, delete it and type in ‘1’.
The PowerPoint is macro free and comes with a Word Document instructions sheet.
A complete set of crosswords with answers that follow the AQA COMBINED
SCIENCE: TRILOGY (8464) Specification.
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
A free sample containing one crossword and answers is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12878874
The resource contains** 33 separate crosswords** which cover all modules in the specification. There are also separate crosswords for F-Tier and H-Tier on topics where extra content is included for H-Tier students. The answers to each crossword are also provided. The crosswords are in Word format - so you can edit them if you want to!
Topics covered:
Adaptations
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Cell Biology
Classification of living organisms
Communicable Diseases
Communities
Contraception
Control of blood glucose concentration (F Tier)
Control of blood glucose concentration (H Tier)
DNA and the Genome
Evidence for Evolution
Evolution
Feedback Systems
Genetic Engineering (F Tier)
Genetic Engineering (H Tier)
Genetic Inheritance
Homeostasis
Hormones in human reproduction (F Tier)
Hormones in human reproduction (H Tier)
How materials are cycled
Human Endocrine System
Inherited disorders & Sex determination
Levels of Organisation in an Ecosystem
Meiosis
Organisation Animals
Organisation Plants
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Selective Breeding
Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
The human nervous system
Using Hormones to Treat Infertility
Variation
A complete set of CHEMISTRY crosswords with answers that follow the AQA COMBINED SCIENCE: TRILOGY (8464) Specification.
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
A free sample containing one crossword and answers is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12979476
The resource contains 15 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. The answers to each crossword are also provided. The crosswords are in Word format - so you can edit them if you want to!
Topics covered:
Atomic Structure
The Periodic Table
Structure and Bonding
Chemical Calculations
Chemical Changes
Electrolysis
Energy Changes
Rates of Reaction
Crude Oil and Fuels
Organic Reactions
Polymers
Chemical Analysis
Our Atmosphere
The Earth’s Resources
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An A Level Biology Revision Board game where students need to answer biology questions in order to make progress. A really fun way to revise! The aim of the game is to be the first player to reach the end by moving across the board left to right.
The resource contains an A3 printable board and over 300 question cards based on the OCR Specification A for A Level Biology. There are also over 70 ‘Give me Five’ question cards.
Players shake a dice and advance to the appropriate position on the board.
If a player lands on a question they must answer a question from the cards provided – if they get it correct they advance 3 squares, if they get it wrong they go back 3 squares.
There are also ‘Give me Five’ questions - if a player lands on one of these the opponent reads out a question from a ‘Give me Five’ card and starts the stopwatch. If the player can name all of the five things on the card within 30 seconds they advance forward 5 spaces; if they cannot name all five they go back 5 spaces.
Print out the A3 boards and laminate if possible. Print the questions on green paper or card (I use light green for yr12 and dark green for yr13 – so that you can play the game with year 12 students by removing the dark green questions before play). You’ll also need a dice, some coloured counters and a stopwatch.
A typical game last 30-45 minutes.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the Lac operon content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
A power point to lead students through the lesson (includes several animations which help students to appreciate the steps involved with the lac operon)
A worksheet containing a range of examination questions which test the students’ understanding of the Lac Operon.
The PowerPoint also has the answers to the student question sheet.
A short (3 minute) video (also embedded in the PowerPoint) which explains the Lac Operon really well.
Everything you’ll need to teach a lesson on the Lac Operon.
This resource is a lesson with activities covering the inheritance of epistatic gene content of the A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
A PowerPoint to lead students through the lesson which includes several genetic crosses which help students to appreciate both dominant and recessive epistatic crosses. The use of phenotypic ratios to identify epistasis and explanations of epistatic crosses.
The lesson assumes students already have an understanding of monogenic inheritance and dihybrid inheritance.
A worksheet containing a range of examination questions which test the students’ understanding of epistasis.
The PowerPoint also has the answers to the student question sheet.
Everything you’ll need to teach a lesson on epistasis.
This resource contains a PowerPoint, a video and a student question sheet to help students to:
Explain how hydrogen bonding occurs between water molecules, and relate this, and other properties of water, to the roles of water for living organisms
Describe a range of roles that relate to the properties of water, including solvent, transport medium, coolant and as a habitat.
Everything you’ll need to teach a lesson on the properties and biological Importance of water.
The PowerPoint also has the answers to the student question sheet.
A PowerPoint with triggered animation, suitable as a quiz, a starter or a plenary retrieval practice activity that you can use again and again in multiple subjects and topics.
How to setup: This takes very time to prepare! Just gather suitable retrieval practice questions you want to review with the pupils and go.
How to play the game:
Divide your class into 4 groups and designate each team a space rocket. Whichever team gets the questions right, click on the rocket and it will move part way across the screen. First team to get to the right of the screen wins.
The Powerpoint contains sound effects to increase the enjoyment.
This is a whole lesson on Spearman’s rank Correlation Coefficient including a PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets and exam questions for students. The lesson looks at why it is used, how to calculate it and how to interpret the results to draw a conclusion. This lesson is ready to go, with little preparation required. It is intended that students will collect their own data using holly leaves as these are reasonably abundant – if these are not available the students could still complete it with exemplar data. The resource comes with a 32-slide presentation, a matching student worksheet and examination questions (with answers on the teacher PowerPoint) and an excel file to support.
It includes:
lesson objectives
Explanation of how to select and use an appropriate statistical test
Excellent Teaching slides (with very clear steps on how to calculate and interpret the data)
Several examples
Key examination questions
Excel workbook to support the teacher
Student Handout (which follows the teacher PowerPoint)
Worksheet - exam questions with answers
Extension task
A complete set of PHYSICS crosswords with answers that follow the AQA COMBINED SCIENCE: TRILOGY (8464) Specification.
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
A free sample containing one crossword and answers is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13081274
The resource contains 15 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. The answers to each crossword are also provided. The crosswords are in Word format - so you can edit them if you want to!
Topics covered:
P1 Conservation and Dissipation of Energy
P2 Energy transfer by heating
P3 Energy Resources
P4 Electric Circuits
P5 Electricity in the home
P6 Molecules and Matter
P7 Radioactivity
P8 Forces in Balance
P9 Motion
P10 Force and motion
P11 Wave properties
P12 Electromagnetic waves
P13 Light
P14 Electromagnetism
P15 Space
A PowerPoint with triggered animation, suitable as a starter or plenary retrieval practice activity that you can use again and again in multiple subjects and topics.
How to setup: This takes very time to prepare! Just gather suitable retrieval practice questions you want to review with the pupils and go.
How to play the game:
Divide your class into 4 groups and designate each team an animal. Whichever team gets the questions right, click on the animal and it will move part way across the screen. First team to get their animal to the right of the screen wins.
The PowerPoint contains animal noise sound effects to increase the enjoyment.
A collection of games all made using PowerPoint, designed to be used as a quiz, starter, plenary or retrieval practice activity.
Each game has been designed to be played by any key stage, and year group and for any subject/ topic. The teacher provides the questions.
The games bundle includes:
Blockbusters (based on the original TV game)
Football Game
A ‘Space Race’ game
A ‘Escape the Zoo’ game.
A PowerPoint with triggered animation and editable text boxes, suitable as a quiz, starter or plenary retrieval practice activity that you can use again and again in multiple subjects and topics.
How to setup: This takes very little time to prepare! Just gather suitable retrieval practice questions you want to review with the pupils and go.
How to play the game:
Divide your class into 2 groups and designate each team (blue or red). Whichever team gets the questions right, click on the appropriate action button and it will move the ball part way across the screen. When a team scores a goal the editable text box allows the teacher to display the score. The game can last as long as you want!
The Powerpoint contains sound effects to increase the enjoyment.
This is a free sample of a crossword (and answers). The complete set of crosswords with answers that follow the AQA COMBINED
SCIENCE: TRILOGY (8464) Specification is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12878733
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
The full resource contains 33 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. There are also separate crosswords for F-Tier and H-Tier on topics where extra content is included for H-Tier students. The answers to each crossword are also provided. The crosswords are in Word format - so you can edit them if you want to!
A crosswords with answers that follow the OCR Biology AS and A Level specification A.
This FREE resource is an example of one of the crosswords that is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12792652
which contains 24 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. The answers to each crossword are also provided.
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
This is a free sample of a crossword (and answers). The complete set of CHEMISTRY crosswords with answers that follow the AQA COMBINED SCIENCE: TRILOGY (8464) Specification is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12979470
Great for helping your students to recall and use the subject specific vocabulary by thinking of a concept or meaning and retrieving the correct word. A form of retrieval practice which is essential for fixing new words into long-term memory and helping to remember the words in new situations.
The full resource contains 15 separate crosswords which cover all modules in the specification. The answers to each crossword are also provided. The crosswords are in Word format - so you can edit them if you want to!