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My idea is ... A cheap way of making mini whiteboards is to laminate white paper. I use these in a pack each with a cloth/sponge and a pen. I often use these to play games like pictionary,...		 9/05/10
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My idea is ... To have four cards laminated and bind them together with string. Have written on them A,B,C & D to use when playing games like millionnaire....		 9/05/10
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My idea is ...To get mini flip cards laminated of four colours and you can use these for quiz games like the odd one out where pupils hold up the colour that represents the correct answer....		 9/05/10
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My idea is ...To use giant arrows for pupils to place of a picture/diagram to assess understanding of force diagrams....		 9/05/10
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My idea is ...To measure the time it takes for a car to travel a set distance to calculate the speed that the car was travelling. This can also be good for linking in speed limits on roads....		 9/05/10
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My idea is ... To ask pupils to bring in any wind up toys to race and use the results to workout speed....		 9/05/10
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My idea is ... to get pupils to race to get some figures to do speed calculations....		 9/05/10
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When teaching Newton's 3 laws you could show them this rap and provide them with lyrics to sing-a-long with it....		 9/05/10
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When teaching organic farming you could ask pupils to taste test organic and non-organic foods and make general comparisons to size, tast and texture. The best foods to use i find are:- apples,...		 4/05/10
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To use a link to the worlds fastest car to introduce speed to pupils....		 4/05/10
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For B3 Edexcel Topic of behaviour- you could use some footage of animals and ask pupils to observe them and interprit their 'non-verbal' communication which is lesson 10 i think....		 4/05/10
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I have just taught B3 section on non verbal communication. I introduced the lesson using a youtube clip called 'celebrity poses' and asked pupils to consider the reasin for their pose. I then used a...		 4/05/10
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To teach pupils about classical conditioning i make them do a roleplay of Pavlov's dog. i shop them a ppt and the footage to reinforce it....		 16/04/10
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To use a ruler and a balloon to measure tidal volume. See worksheet....		 16/04/10
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My idea is ... To get pupils to make a board game on a topic. I asked year 11 pupils to do this about genetics. I was very impressed with what they came up with. We had snakes and ladders with...		 30/01/10
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To use the student dominoes template as a starter or plenary task....		 3/10/09
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to help pupils learn definitions play pictionary. give pupils mini whiteboards, they also could use a stop clock to limit the time on each word....		 29/09/09
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To encourage pupils to learn definitions of keywords- play bingo where the clue to the keyword is given but not the answer.  ...		 29/09/09
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My idea is ...for a lesson on opaque, transparaent and translucent materials. Using light sensors you can set up an investigation where pupils must record the reading and design a pair of sun glasses...		 12/09/09
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My idea is ... When teaching about safety to year 7s you could use MR EGG. You simply draw a face and where the eyes go you have two petri dishes with eggs it (raw)then if you squirt conc HCl into...		 10/09/09
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Make a lava lamp to demonstrate convection- there is a you tube clip showing you how to....		 8/09/09
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My idea is ... to demonstrate covection by creating a tea bag rocket. There is a you tube clip to show you how to set it up....		 8/09/09
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For chemistry games quizzes, videos, experiments and lesson plans go to http://sciencekids.co.nz/videos/chemistry.html...		 6/09/09
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I have found a good website with loads of chemistry videos. http://www.chemistry-videos.org.uk/chem%20clips/home.html...		 6/09/09
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This website provides a worksheet for estimating population size. http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/estimatepop.html...		 1/09/09
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my Idea is to get students to reflect on the information they have just been given. have a 'carpet bag' full of objects   a la Mary Poppins. Students pick out an object and have  to...		 28/08/09
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Science in the movies Contact and Apollo 13 are pretty scientifically accurate movies that do a lot of things right and have some illustrative scenes.  ...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies A Space Odyssey does a great job of getting realistic gravity from spinning a ship or space station...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies The island This film can be linked to cloning and the ethical considerations of cloning. There is a population of human clones that live on an island and their role is...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies Never Cry Wolf   —  A young and inexperienced researcher is sent on a mission to Alaska to learn about the lives of wolves. The movie is the story of...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies March of the Penguins   —   This beautiful and informative documentary tells the fascinating story of a year in the life of an Emperor Penguin colony....		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies Lorenzo's Oil   —  At age five Lorenzo Odone was diagnosed with a fatal sex-linked genetic based disease. Disregarding their doctor's advice to resign...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies Gorillas in the Mist   —  This movie portrays the first affectionate communication between a human being and a mountain gorilla in the wild. It also...		 27/08/09
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Science in the movies Gattaca   —  This movie is a science fiction thriller about a genetically engineered dystopia sometime in the near future. It raises interesting...		 27/08/09
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Check out this website for creative chemistry ideas and resources.   http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/...		 26/08/09
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An interesting way to teach mark release recapture sampling technique is in the form of a treasure hunt- maybe in the class room. You could use something like roses to make it interesting....		 26/08/09
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To teach about mark release recapture you could use something like pasta. You get a tray of pasta, the pupils take a handful mark them , release them and shake the tray. They then take a...		 26/08/09
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To make teaching pyramids of biomass you could collect bags of leaf litter which hopefully will contain creepy crawlies and give each group a bag and get them to weigh the suspected herbivores and...		 26/08/09
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When teaching about the particle theory- if you have used balloons to get pupils to arrange themselves and the balloons respresent the particle you could have a plenary question hidden inside the...		 26/08/09
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If you pupils are in to role play then a good idea for one is of jeremy kyle show. I have used this for a discussion on stem cell research, designer babies and i am sure there are many more other...		 26/08/09
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If you have alot of window space you can try and create the periodic table on them using acetates and marker pens. Give a pupil and element ask them to findout about it and draw the symbol or the...		 26/08/09
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A christmas themed idea- chromatogrphy cards. Get pupils to do a picture or write merry xmas on chromatography paper and attach them to the fron t of a card....		 26/08/09
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Another idea for induction day- balloon rockets- very simple you need ballons, straws , sellotape and string attached to clamp stands. Pupils can try different variables and even decorate their...		 26/08/09
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An idea for induction day- pupils love making fatty putty which is basically PVA glue and borax solution. You may add dye but i will warn you it is very messy. I advice disposable cups so kids can...		 26/08/09
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How to make teaching genetics more practical- i have used sweets before to build a Double helix as a class practical allowing pupils to eat them afterwards....		 26/08/09
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When teaching about light you could link it to magic and illusions. I you place a test tube (i think it must be pyrex) into a plastic bottle of cooking oil it will appear to disappear....		 26/08/09
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Another way to deliver a lesson on food webs- you could try and find a huge food web of even two interlocking ones. Then give each pupil a factsheet about their organism. They must then work out...		 26/08/09
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When teaching about food webs- use photographs of organisms to arrange on a wall. Get them to work in groups a team building exercise where they must work together to figure out a food web and build...		 26/08/09
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When teaching the particle theory- get pupils to design a particle hat (Party hat) and get them to do an activity in the hall or on a field where they must arrange themselves according. The hat...		 26/08/09
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If you are taching about the brain at all then why not buy a brain mould http://www.shop4props.com/brain-mould-37-p.asp £14.99...		 25/08/09
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If you have access to computers try using http://goanimate.com/welcome This is a site where pupils can use aninmation to demonstrate understanding of a topic, theory or concept....		 25/08/09
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To introduce anaerobic respiration get the pupils to go out on the field and do a 100m sprint. If less adventurous then try press-ups. Choose 2 or 3 pupils to have a competition to do as many...		 25/08/09
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To get pupils to link a topic to their faourite song to help demonstrate understanding and the motivate them to learn and improve recall during assessment. See the example of a childs work for plant...		 25/08/09
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To create model eyes use plastic egg cartons for front and back string to represent optic nerve cotton wall for inside to make it appear white coloured card circle- iris black smaller...		 25/08/09
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There is a really good website  http://www.sporcle.com/  that has lots of quizzes and trivia on. Used as a lesson starter....		 25/08/09
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Keep up to date with the news, show pupils articles news reports that link to lesson content- will make it more meaningful. For example I was teaching microbes and disease topic and i decided to link...		 25/08/09
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Try and link music to a topic, play the song during the lesson, pupils will associate the song to the topic....		 25/08/09
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To use playdoh or plasticine to create models of certain things in science such as:- red blood cell, electrical symbol, element symbol and to show cell division process....		 25/08/09
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To show pictures at the start of the lesson and ask pupils to work out what the lesson is going to be about....		 25/08/09
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To use lego/action figures to create a story to show a model or a theory. You can also record them on video or using a camera to take stills....		 25/08/09
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If you have a low ability class, then i find creating larger than the exercise book models/diagrams etc. You can then take a photograph and place that in their exercise book....		 25/08/09
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Did you know there are many videos to download on http://www.teachers.tv/ Scientific eye particularly good to use in lessons....		 24/08/09