Archive for the 'Teaching Ideas' Category

JFK’s Legacy

Monday, January 16th, 2012

If you are teaching this topic for GCSE History this comprehensive resource offers complete coverage of the impact of JFK’s death on America and good and bad points about his presidency. This topic is part of WJEC GCSE History specification (USA 1929-2000) and this illustrated powerpoint covers all of the key points in an engaging way that will inspire discussion in your GCSE History classes.

“This provided an in-depth study of JFK through power points. A tremendous contribution and leading to lots of debate.”

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JFK's Legacy

Resource contributed by Kate Allen.

Preparing for an earthquake

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Teach this GCSE Geography topic with this role-play Decision-Making task where students have to prepare a city for an impending earthquake. The downloads include a peer assessment task where students have to use the levelled mark scheme to decide how many marks to award the answer. The starters/plenaries file contains four activities used for the GCSE Geography AQA A Restless Earth topic on plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the resource includes a quiz.

“A well thought out resource with activities that would be suitable for groups, which could be followed up with class discussion.”

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Earthquake Resource

Resource contributed by James Yeoman.

March of the penguins – KS2 Biology

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

While it’s still feeling cold get your lessons warmed up with this Key Stage 2 Biology resource giving you a fun activity for winter. Students have to hunt for penguins which have been hidden around the classroom. Once found they can then try and make relationships between numbers and colours. This activity is perfect for your primary science or secondary science classes.

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Penguin Hunt

Resource contributed by Simon Perkin.

Running hot and cold? – KS3 Chemistry

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

This Key Stage 3 Chemistry download gives you a fun and colourful quiz to cover the Heating and Cooling topic. Well suited for Secondary Science Year 8 classes, this can also be used with younger classes and is ideal for use on interactive whiteboards. Play this fun quiz to review this topic and challenge misconceptions on the subject.

“A great summary quiz for this year 8 topic!”

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Heating and cooling

Resource contributed by Helen Bate.

Release the catapult! – GCSE Physics

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

An excellent GCSE Physics resource, bound to engage your students using an exciting catapult demo. The animated powerpoint explains: Justification of method; Accuracy; Repeatbility; Hazards; Risk; How to draw a table; How to draw a graph; Why you need a large range; Scatter; Error bars; Lines of best fit. This secondary science resource also has a worksheet that gets students to identify and highlight key features of the method.

“This will be a great tool to help do what is a very difficult job to teach the skills and techniques needed to draw graphs and analyse data.”

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Catapult demo

Resource contributed by Toby Tufton.

2011 Christmas Quiz – Science

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Back by popular demand it’s the Christmas Quiz, great for your secondary Science lessons this week! News, celebrities, music (played backwards!) and science rounds, and you don’t need YouTube in school to use it – there’s a link to download the video itself in the PowerPoint. Get stuck into this fun quiz in your Key Stage 3, GCSE or A Level Science classes and both the kids and staff will love it as classes compete for the highest score. Don’t forget the joker!

“Looking forward to using this!”

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Awesome Christmas Quiz

Resource contributed by Henry Cordy-McKenna.

Christmas present quiz – Maths

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

A great Christmas quiz for small groups or a whole class, perfect for your Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 or GCSE Maths lessons. Answer the questions in the middle to colour your teams Christmas presents, the first team to colour 5 presents wins. Play with hands up or on mini whiteboards. There are 10 quizzes on the powerpoint and you can easily produce more by changing the numbers in the pink squares to make your own questions. Play it today with your primary maths or secondary maths classes.

“A seasonal quiz to enhance maths teaching. Plenty of topic areas covered and a nice touch lighting up the presents.”

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Maths Christmas Quiz

Resource contributed by Joanne Holloway.

Christmas all wrapped up – Humanities

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Great for your Key Stage 1 and 2 Humanities, Citizenship or Science lessons, this is a series of curriculum-matched lesson plans designed to make children aware of all the green activities they can do at home this Christmas and how they affect the environment. Covers electricity usage, recycling of Christmas trees and toys and food miles of the Christmas dinner. Great ready-to-use primary Christmas lesson resources.

“This lesson was able to allow children to continue eco work whilst linking the lesson to Christmas. The children worked well in teams.”

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Christmas all wrapped up

Resource contributed by healthyplanet.org and Teachable Team.

And check out lots of other Christmas teaching resources, ready to go for the last couple of weeks of term.

The renewable energy skills challenge

Monday, November 28th, 2011

This highly interactive resource for your Key Stage 3 Science and GCSE Science students is full of videos, worksheets and interactive experiments to help develop secondary science skills. 6 engaging challenges cover biofuels, using catalysts, cracking, wind and solar energy, and the fractions of crude oil with reference to real life examples from BP’s business. The worksheets and teacher guidance here use the weblink to test relative efficiency of wind turbines.

“A hugely impressive resource package.”

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Renewable energy

Resource contributed by BP Educational Service.

Ready to teach Light and the Electron?

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Ready-to-use with your A Level Physics students, this detailed presentation clearly explains the use of wave and particle models to measure light, together with key formulas. It also discusses spectroscopy, looking at excitation of electrons, absorption and emission spectra and ionisation. The resource is complete with a set of simple animated diagrams, images and some question slides suitable for A Level Science.

“Good detailed graphics. Good clear links between emission and absorption spectral lines.”

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Light and the Electron

Resource contributed by Barnaby Grimble.