The extension content you need for the separate science GCSEs
Boardworks GCSE Separate Sciences has all the extra content you need to teach GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics as separate GCSEs in line with the 2011 specifications. It’s packed with the interactive content you need to get your point across, like this step-by-step animation explaining how mycoprotein is made.
- Contains the extension content for teaching the individual Biology, Chemistry and Physics GCSEs.
- Designed to cover the Controlled Assessment and the 'How Science Works' elements of the new GCSE specification.
- Boardworks GCSE Separate Sciences is being extensively updated in line with the 2011 specifications for AQA, OCR 21st Century Science, OCR Gateway Science and Edexcel.
- The resources are also mapped to the Cambridge and Edexcel IGCSE specifications.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All presentations are logically structured and enhanced by a wide range of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about magnifying glasses, combine the main teaching points, clearly conveyed, with informative illustrative material.
- The interactive menu system allows you to browse the resources by specification or by topic, making it easy to find and select the material you want to teach with.
- Accurate diagrams and topical illustrations supplement key facts and aid overall understanding of the subject.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Click-to-reveal activities, like this one about the structure of yeast, help explain complex processes and theories in an appealing and informative way.
- Interesting and varied interactives enhance lessons and motivate your students.
- Detailed virtual experiments and simulations clarify scientific concepts and provide extension opportunities.
- Summary and revision activities aid and enhance learning.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore science in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. For example, this activity on the reactivity of alcohols, in which students touch the lighted splint to each dish, gets the whole class involved and inspired.
- Use your whiteboard technology to facilitate class discussion and encourage and focus lively debates.
- Inspire your students with stimulating games, interactive graphs and thoughtful animations.
- Hundreds of interactive activities are embedded throughout the lessons.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Present important scientific ideas and theories in a visually appealing and easily recalled way. In this virtual experiment, for example, students drag each lens into the light rays to find out its focal length.
- Support and enhance practical lessons with thought-provoking virtual experiments and animations.
- Simplify complex scientific theories with interactive diagrams and step-by-step simulations.
- Encourage class discussion of topical, science-based issues using voting charts, true-or-false exercises and opinion panel activities.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks GCSE Separate Sciences, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This true-or-false activity about alcohols can be used as a precursor to a lesson to test what students already know, or for summary or revision purposes.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and to meet the different learning needs of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations contain numerous additional features which can enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. For example, the wealth of worksheets in the resources, which accompany each presentation, are great for homework or for extension activities.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, by topic or by specification, and easily incorporate it into your lesson structure.
- The detailed contents guides that accompany the resources are well-organised, easily navigable and great for lesson planning.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with engaging summary activities. For example, use this multiple-choice quiz to review the key facts covered in the Lenses topic. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a subject from start to finish.
- Motivating summary material helps students to master the subject and facilitates revision.
- End-of-topic anagram plenaries reinforce understanding of scientific terms and concepts.
- Multiple-choice quizzes and evaluative exercises cover the entire content of the course.
