'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 23 revision flash cards for students to fill out to help them revise the forces content in the 2015 AQA Physics specification.
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This resource is a lesson and activities covering the human reproductive content in the new 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point including activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A snakes and ladders starter game
3: An information sheet
4: A card sort activity
5: A hormone concentration graph activity
6: An information hunt activity
7: A 6 mark plenary question
8: An exam style question sheet for students to work through
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 lesson with activities covering the evidence for evolution, fossils & bacterial evolution content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A evolution snakes & ladders game
2: A power to lead students through the lesson
3: A fossils literacy activity
4: A how fossils form presentation activity
5: An AFL dice activity
6: A 6 mark plenary question
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 and activities covering the conservation of mass 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 work through during the lesson]
3: A starter game to re-enforce that mass can not be lost in a reaction
4: A calculating mass of products and reactants activity
5: A balancing equations activity
6: A conservation of mass using RFM activity
7: 50 extra conservation of mass questions
8: A set of notes for students to use
9: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
10: 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 and activities covering the ATP synthesis & electron transport chain content in the OCR (it would be suitable for other exam boards) A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game on the electron transport chain
3: A chemiosmosis activity
4: A ATP structure & synthesis activity
5: An electron transport chain activity
6: An assessment question
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 with activities covering the uses of radiation content of the 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A starter game
3: A radiation information sheet
4: A monitoring the thickness of materials group activity
5: A radiation in smoke alarms key information activity
6: A sheet for students to work through
7: A 6 mark assessment question
8: A 6 mark analysis question
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 lesson with activities covering the resultant force content of the new 2015 AQA Physics specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A calculating basic resultant force starter activity
3: A calculating resultant force of a race car activity
4: A resultant force dice game
5: A literacy activity
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
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This set of 4 lessons include content covering mutations & variation, body plans, the control of gene expression and the Lac Operon. Also included is a student workbook on the genetics of living systems.
General Lesson Design:
Some of the general content that all 4 lessons contain is:
A power point containing notes for students
A power point with activities to use with students
A range of model ideas to use with students
Activity sheets for students to use
Links to bespoke videos
Terms of Use
This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
This resource is a bundle of over 100 multiple choice questions that can be used to help students revise for their GCSE Chemistry exams. This resource includes questions covering:
1: Bonding
2: Chemical analysis
3: Chemical reactions
4: Energy changes
5: Organic chemistry
6: Rate of reaction
7: Using resources
8: Atomic structure
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This resource is a GCSE Physics, required practical workbook that will help enable students to revise tthe required practicals in the GCSE Physics 2015 specification. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Specific heat capacity
Thermal insulation
Resistance
I-V characteristics
Density
Light
Force and extension
Acceleration
Waves
Radiation and absorption
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This resource is a revision lesson covering the photosynthesis section of the AQA GCSE Biology specification. This resource include:
1: A starter 6 mark question marking activity which covers the basics of photosynthesis
2: A how the leaf is adapted to carry out photosynthesis model activity
3: A limiting factors snakes and ladders game
4: A 6 mark plenary activity to bring all of the key points together
5: A photosynthesis summary sheet
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This resource is a power point containing 100 practice magnification calculations for students to work through either individually or as a class
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This bundle includes a range of games covering the following areas:
1: Acids & alkalies
2: Bonding
3: Chemical yield
4: Collision theory
5: Compound mass
6: Electrolysis
7: Elements
8: Empirical formula
9: Ionic bonding
10: Moles
11: Rate of reaction
12: Reaction profiles
13: Recycling
14: Relevant formula mass
15: Sustainable development
16: Fermentation
17: Water treatment
18: Current electricity
19: Circuits
20: The early Universe
21: Energy from the nucleus
22: Forces
23: Heat transfer
24: Hydraulics
25: Kinetic energy
26: The life cycle of a star
27: Mains electricity
28: Making elements
29: Motion
30: The national grid
31: Power
32: Radiation
33: Renewable energy
34: Resultant force
35: The solar system
36: Sound waves
37: Spring constant
38: The Big Bang
39: The eye
40: Work done
41: X rays
42: Speed
43: Enzymes
44: Digestion
45: Evolution
46: Adaptations
47: Biodiversity
48: Decay
49: Deforestation
50; Diabetes
51: Drug testing
52: Food security
53: Genetic engineering
54: Growing microbes
55: Reproductive hormones
56: Meiosis
57: Mitosis
58: Reflexes
59: Plant hormones
60: Temperature control
61: The use of glucose
62: Tropic levels
63: Using plant hormones
I have also attached a range of other revision materials that you might find helpful to use with your students.
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This resource is a power point containing 15 A2 Biology summary sheets. The sheets included cover the following areas:
1: Neuronal communication x 2
2: Reflexes & muscles
3: Hormonal communication
4: Homeostasis
5: Excretion & the kidney
6: Photosynthesis
7: Respiration
8: Patterns of variation
9: Manipulating genomes
10: Genetic engineering & cloning
11: Biotechnology
12: Ecosystems
13: Genetics
14: Plant responces
To accompany the power point is a picture file of each that students can easily get on their phones.
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This lesson covers the A2 light dependent reaction of photosynthesis section of the 2015 A2 Biology specification. This lesson has been designed to be as interactive as possible and gives lots of opportunities to interact with students. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A large interactive light dependent reaction demo
3: A reaction diagram for students to fill in
4: Pictures showing what the demo looks like once it’s set up
5: A sheet for students to work through
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 and activities covering the structure of chloroplasts content in A Level Biology specifications. This resource includes:
1: A power point with activities to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information highlight then summarize activity
4: A sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
5: Examples of models students can make during the lesson
6: A set of notes for students to use
7: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
8: 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 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 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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