'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 Chemistry, the atmosphere 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:
The changing atmosphere
Global warming
Composition of the atmosphere
Formation of limestone
Carbon footprint
Acid rain
Carbon cycle
Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.
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his resource is a GCSE Physics, space 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 Physics 2015 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Objects in our solar system
The life cycle of a star
How new elements are made
Orbits
Red shift
The Big Bang
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 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 resource is a lesson with activities covering the cell mediated immunity content of the OCR A Level Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information literacy starter game
3: A key information sheet
4: A cell mediated immunity model activity
5: A micro-teaching activity
6: A Sheet for students to fill out during the lesson
7: A home work sheet
8: A video showing how to model the process
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 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 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 with activities that covers the field investigations content in the required practical section of the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key information starter game
3: A key information literacy activity
4: A sampling area activity
5: A 3 page booklet for students to work through while carrying out the investigation
6: A 6 mark plenary 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 lesson with activities covering the contraceptive content of the 2016 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson with activities
2: A student sheet to fill out during the lesson
3: A type of contraceptive micro teaching activity
4: A exam style plenary activity
5: A set of notes for students to use
6: A version of the lesson that can be used just from the front of the room
7: A link to a bespoke video that goes through the lesson that can be used for remote learning
8: A starter game
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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 A Level Biology, cell division workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
The cell cycle
Mitosis
Meiosis
The organization & specialization of cells
Stem cells
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This resource is a set of 23 A Level Biology games that can be used to help get students describing different concepts within different topics either as part of normal lessons or as revision.
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This resource is a Excretion, Kidneys & the Liver work-booklet that will help enable students to revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the OCR A Level Biology specification on this content. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Structure of the liver
Liver function
Waste products (excretion)
Metabolism
Urea production
Liver cirrhosis
Kidney structure & function
Nephrons
Water regulation
Testing urine
Treating kidney disease
Throughout the booklet are a range of different activities including highlighting text, exam style questions, drawing diagrams, key word tables and lots more.
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This resource is a GCSE chemical changes 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 specification in this section. The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Reactivity of metals
Reactions of acids
Iron extraction
Displacement reactions
Acids & alkalis
Neutralization
Making salts
Titrations
Electrolysis
Electrolysis of aluminium
Electrolysis of water
Electrolysis of brine
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 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 lesson and activities on the structure of the kidney section of the OCR A2 Biology specification. This resource includes
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: An information sheet with questions
3: A starter game
4: A microteaching task
5: A parts of the nephron information hunt
6: A student sheet
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This resource is a lesson with activities covering the trophic levels content in the 2015 AQA Biology specification. This resource includes:
1: A power point to lead students through the lesson
2: A key words starter game
3: A pyramid of biomass task
4: An efficiency dice activity
5: 2 6 mark plenary questions
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This resource is a A Level Biology, transport in plants workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Plant Transport Systems
Water Transport in Plants
Translocation
Plant Adaptations to Water Availability
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This resource is a A Level Biology, evolution and classification workbook that will help enable students to work through and revise this topic and has been written to cover all of the key points in the A Level Biology 2015 specification in this section. This workbook contains:
Notes for each section
Activities for students to work through
Exam style questions to aid with revision
A revision plan for students to use
The main areas covered in this work booklet are:
Classification
The 5 Kingdoms
The 3 Domains
Natural Selection & Evolution
Evidence of Evolution
Variation
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