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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on plant diseases and defences for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus but is also applicable to other courses. Related topic Photosynthesis: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12359219
Content Covered:
Symptoms of plant diseases
Diagnosing plant diseases
Barrier, mechanical and chemical defences
Mineral deficiencies
Pests
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New! Lessons on Plant Disease for GCSE Biology
Plant disease and defences: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12949241
Revision lesson topics 1-4 Rose black Spot Case Study: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953529
PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on photosynthesis for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Related topic Respiration: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12360359
Content Covered:
Photosynthesis reaction
Plant uses for glucose
Rate of photosynthesis and limiting factors
Ideal conditions for photosynthesis
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on adrenaline and thyroxine for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Related topic the Endocrine System: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12362835
Content Covered:
Adrenaline regulation of the flight or fight response
Thyroxine regulation of metabolism
Negative feedback graphs
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on sexual and asexual reproduction for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus.
Content Covered:
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Gametes
Flowering plants
Asexual reproduction in plants (runners, tubers and bulbs)
Malaria and fungi
Pros and cons of sexual reproduction
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on genetic engineering for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Cloning. (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12625511) Next topic Fossils and Classification https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12634123
COVER IMAGE: Ingrid Moen (et al) Gene expression in tumor cells and stroma in dsRed 4T1 tumors in eGFP-expressing mice with and without enhanced oxygenation. BMC Cancer. 2012
Content Covered:
-Uses for genetic engineering
-GM crops
-Pros and cons of genetic modification
-Gene therapy
-Genetic engineering method overview
-Insulin producing bacteria
-Genetic modification of multicellular organisms
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on evolution for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. Next topic Cloning: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12625511
Content Covered:
Variation
Competition between animals
Competition between plants
Darwin and Lamarck
Antibiotic resistant bacteria as an example
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on cloning for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Evolution. (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12557498) Next topic Genetic Engineering: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12633773
Content Covered:
-Revision of meristems and therapeutic cloning from previous topics
-Tissue culture cloning
-Cuttings
-Artificial twinning
-Cloning adult animals
-Bioethics of cloning
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on plant hormones for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Related topic Plant Disease: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12357901
Content Covered:
Ethene
Gibberellin
Auxins
Phototropism and geotropism
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on the endocrine system for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Related topic Adrenaline and Thyroxine: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12368302
Content Covered:
Glands of the endocrine system (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, pancreas, ovaries and testes)
Hormone vs. nervous responses
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on fossils and classification for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Evolution. (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12557498) Next topic Speciation: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12635041
Content Covered:
-Linnaean classification system
-Changes in the classification system over time
-The three domain system
-How fossils form
-The origin of life theories
-The binomial system
-How to use evolutionary trees
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on competition and adaptation for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Competition for resources
-Structural adaptation
-Behavioural adaptation
-Functional adaptation
-Adaptation of microorganisms
-Interdependence
-Stable communities
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on food chains and trophic levels for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Food chains and food webs
-Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and tertiary consumers
-Biomass
-Predators and prey
-Trophic levels
-Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
-Apex predators
-Predator/prey cycles
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on pyramids of biomass and biomass transfer for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Why food chains are short
-Loss of biomass between trophic levels
-Loss of energy between trophic levels
-Pyramids of biomass and pyramids of numbers
-Calculating biomass loss between levels
-Calculating efficiency of biomass transfer between levels
-Drawing pyramids of biomass to scale
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New! Biomass Lesson GCSE Biology https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12857063
Key stage 3 ~ year 7 ~ complete lesson on plant and animal cells. In this lesson students will learn how to describe the parts of a cell and what they do and to explain the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells.
Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students.
This lesson includes:
-Title slide with learning objectives
-Starter task (recall from previous lesson)
-Group reading task (literacy)
-Keywords activity (vocabulary: nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane, mitochondria, cell wall, vacuole and chloroplasts)
-Task boxes
-Handout sheet task
-Discussion task
-Numeracy task
-All tasks, including the worksheet have an optional self-assessment slide where needed. This presentation is fully editable.
-Next lesson Specialised Cells https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12650570
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Key stage 3 ~ year 7 ~ complete lesson on specialised cells. In this lesson students will learn how to explain why we need specialised cells and to describe examples of specialised plant and animal cells.
Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students.
This lesson includes:
-Title slide with learning objectives
-Starter task (recall from previous lesson)
-Group reading task (literacy)
-Keywords activity (vocabulary: specialised cell, neuron, haemoglobin, cell surface area and chloroplasts)
-Task boxes
-Handout sheet task (fact file completion)
-Draw and label
-All tasks, including the worksheet have an optional self-assessment slide where needed.
-Next lesson Movement of Substances https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12650646
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Key stage 3 ~ year 7 ~ complete lesson on unicellular organisms. In this lesson students will learn how to explain what a unicellular organism is, describe the structure of an amoeba and explain how euglena has features of both plant and animal cells.
Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students.
This lesson includes:
-Title slide with learning objectives
-Starter task
-Group reading task (literacy)
-Keywords activity (vocabulary: unicellular, multicellular, photosynthesis, flagellum and fission)
-Task boxes
-Handout sheet task
-Draw and label
-Putting the steps in order to describe a process
-All tasks, including the worksheet have an optional self-assessment slide where needed. This presentation is fully editable.
-Next lesson revision cells topic https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12650813
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Key stage 3 ~ year 7 ~ complete lesson on the movement of substances by diffusion. In this lesson students will learn how to describe what diffusion is and to give some examples of substances which diffuse in and out of cells.
Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students.
This lesson includes:
-Title slide with learning objectives
-Starter task
-Group reading task (literacy)
-Keywords activity (vocabulary: glucose, oxygen, respiration, diffusion and concentration)
-Task boxes
-Handout sheet task
-Draw and label
-Putting the steps in order to describe a process
-All tasks, including the worksheet have an optional self-assessment slide where needed. This presentation is fully editable.
-Next lesson Unicellular Organisms https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12650811
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Key stage 3 ~ year 7 ~ complete lesson on levels of gas exchange. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students.
This lesson includes:
-Title slide with learning objectives
-Starter task (recall from previous topic)
-Group reading task (literacy)
-Keywords activity
-Task boxes
-Handout sheet task
-Sorting task
-Guided note taking activity
-Discussion exercise
-Next lesson Breathing https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12652370
All tasks, including the worksheet have an optional self-assessment slide. This presentation is fully editable.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on decay and biogas for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Decomposers and scavengers
-Fertiliser production
-Rate of decay
-The effect of water availability, temperature, oxygen availability and decay organisms on rate of decomposition
-Examples of biomes and their impact on decomposition
-Aerobic and anaerobic decay
-Methane as a biofuel
-Generators (aka fermenters or digestors)
-Batch biogas generators and continuous biogas generators
-Inlets and outlets
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on food security and farming for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Pyramids of Biomass (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12648627)
Content Covered:
-Definition of food security
-Factors affecting food security
-Population increase
-Diet and importing food
-Impact of war on food security
-Environmental change
-New pests and pathogens
-Cost of farming
-Sustainable farming and efficient food production
-Bioethics: restricting the movement of farm animals for more efficient production of food
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