Cambridge IGCSE
Make practice reveal the thinking behind the answer.
Prepare original practice around the topic you are teaching. Ask for explanations, explore misconceptions and refine the support before learners try independently.
Explore a practice task ↓Start with the course. Focus on the task.
Ask PLAI™ about Cambridge IGCSE, then move into the subject you teach. Keep the syllabus and examination year in view when checking a resource.
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What do you know about Cambridge IGCSE and planning classroom practice for its subjects?
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More than a correct answer
What is happening, and why?
Does the idea still work in an unfamiliar situation?
What would a mistaken explanation reveal?
Three ways to shape classroom practice.
What do you want the practice to uncover?
Start with an explanation, a misconception or a new situation.
Explain a process
Ask learners to connect a scientific idea with the reasoning behind it.
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Create original practice questions on diffusion, including one that asks learners to explain an unfamiliar situation.
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Explore a misconception
Make space to examine why a plausible explanation is incomplete.
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Create a diffusion question that helps me identify a common misconception, with teacher answer guidance.
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Apply an idea
Move beyond a familiar description and ask learners to use the concept elsewhere.
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Create a diffusion task in an unfamiliar context and ask learners to justify their explanation.
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Teaching another topic? Use your own in the prompt.
Replace diffusion with the topic you are teaching. Keep the kind of thinking you want learners to practise.
Change the support, not the learning goal.
Ask for a clearer route into the task, then leave a question for learners to answer independently. Review the answer guidance alongside the questions.
Continue your conversation
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Add vocabulary support and a worked first step. Keep the final question independent.
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Make it right for your class.
Match the course.
Check the subject, syllabus version and examination year.
Inspect the reasoning.
Check explanations and answer guidance, not only the final answer.
Keep the challenge.
Make sure added support does not remove the thinking you want learners to do.
Questions about using PLAI™ for IGCSE teaching
Are these official Cambridge examination questions?
Do I need to include a syllabus code every time?
Is this page only for biology?
Can I treat the answer guidance as a mark scheme?
Bring your next teaching topic to PLAI™.
Start with one task, inspect the resource and shape the next step for your class.
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