'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 focused on improving students exam technique when answering questions on Physics 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 questions looking at the resistance required practical
5: A questions looking at the density required practical
6: A questions looking at the stretching a spring required practical
7: A questions looking at the IR required practical
8: A questions looking at the SHC required practical
9: A set of questions for students to work through during the lesson
10: 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 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 Physics 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 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 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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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 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 set of over 30 games that can be used during your revision sessions leading up to the GCSE Physics exam. Some games are by themselves whilst others have information sheets that go with them. All the editable files for the games are in the zip file as there are over 30 individual files. This resource includes games covering:
1: Current electricity
2: Circuits
3: The early Universe
4: Energy from the nucleus
5: Forces
6: Heat transfer
7: Hydraulics
8: Kinetic energy
9: The life cycle of a star
10: Mains electricity
11: Making elements
12: Motion
13: The national grid
14: Power
15: Radiation
16: Renewable energy
17: Resultant force
18: The solar system
19: Sound waves
20: Spring constant
21: The Big Bang
22: The eye
23: Work done
24: X rays
25: Speed
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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 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 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 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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A set of 5 posters covering most of the key mathematical ideas covered in the KS4 syllabus. The posters can be printed out in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
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This resource is a power point containing 50 practice acceleration calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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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 resource is a new lesson with activities covering the discovery of the nucleus content in the new 2016 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A literature analysis starter activity
3: Instructions for a plum pudding role play activity
4: Instructions for a Rutherford experiment demo
5: A experimental results explanation task
6: A 6 mark plenary activity
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the radiation content of the AQA GCSE Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: An information sheet
2: A power point to lead students through the lesson
3: A blockusters starter game
4: A types of radiation 6 mark answered question to mark
5: A half life graph activity
6: An uses of radiation literacy activity
7: An uses of radiation 6 mark plenary question
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This resource is a broken down practice exam question to help improve exam technique when answering exam questions on the motor effect.
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It's pretty straight forward, I remember loving playing battle ships and got inspired. It was one of the greatest moments of my teaching carrier seeing a class of Y11s playing battle ships. How it works is almost self explanatory. Fill the information section in with what ever you want and then fill out the question grid with questions on the information.
I hope anyone who has a go has as much fun as I have