Hello! Welcome to my shop. Please take a moment to browse. You’ll find high quality biology resources that are fun, engaging and pupil-led. As a teacher I've implemented the things I've always wanted in my lessons, into my resources. That is, resources of excellent quality that truly impact learning. As we know, efficiency is paramount therefore my full-lessons incorporate mark-schemes too, all ready to go! Leaving you with more time to focus on being present for your students.
Hello! Welcome to my shop. Please take a moment to browse. You’ll find high quality biology resources that are fun, engaging and pupil-led. As a teacher I've implemented the things I've always wanted in my lessons, into my resources. That is, resources of excellent quality that truly impact learning. As we know, efficiency is paramount therefore my full-lessons incorporate mark-schemes too, all ready to go! Leaving you with more time to focus on being present for your students.
GCSE biology (Grade 1-9) resources for the following lessons:
Types of Reproduction (sexual and asexual)
Production of gametes by Meiosis
The advantages of sexual and asexual reproduction
DNA and the genome
DNA structure and protein synthesis
All student activities and corresponding mark schemes are embedded into the PowerPoints but can be easily exported to pdf format for printing (or just print directly from the PowerPoint).
Some of this material is for the biology only* award (*triple science course) and some of this material is for the combined science award (double award otherwise known as the trilogy course).
This set of resources provides an in depth revision activity for AS biology students studying Animal Transport. It is suitable for the OCR exam board but has vast overlap with AQA.
The contents are differentiated to include 5 worksheets with compatible information cards (to support students). Each worksheet has a corresponding mark scheme. And each topic comes with a selection of exam questions and mark schemes.
If you find these resources useful please leave a review. If you leave three reviews I will send you a resource of the same price for free via email. Any questions please contact me at Mestestest@gmail.com.
This resource focuses on the following lesson objectives for exam boards AQA/OCR:
Describe anaerobic respiration
Develop practical skills to investigate anaerobic respiration
Explain observations from an investigation
It uses a series of three different experiments that are simple but effective investigations looking at anaerobic respiration in yeast. Each experiment can be set up by one pair or group of students and then students can move around the room and view the set up of the other experiments and make their own predictions and observations for each.
The entire lesson with all activities, crib sheets/mark schemes is contained within one file (ready for printing), however I have included separate pdf files if you prefer to print the worksheets and resources from single files. The Equipment Help Cards, Questions to Consider and Sentence Starters and Endings all lend themselves to supporting lower ability students to complete the activities to the best of their ability. Extension activities are included as well as a choice of Exam practice questions that could be used as homework tasks.
This resource is designed for the new AQA GCSE (Grade 1-9) TRIPLE Biology ONLY* specification. Everything you need is within the PowerPoint - just print the activities from there, but I have also included the exam questions as a separate file in case you prefer to print from individual files. The complete lesson includes multiple lesson activities, mini-plenaries and exam practice built into high quality PowerPoint slides.
The following learning objectives are covered within this lesson:
Recall the base paired structure of DNA (Grade 4) - video, recap questions
Explain steps in the process of protein synthesis (Grade 6) - information slides, summary, practice exam questions
Link the mutations in the DNA code to the proteins made (Grade 8) - information slides, practice exam question (longer answer - 5 marker).
Both the slides and the word document contain the mark scheme and can be used for peer/self-assessment.
I have now included the mini-plenary task as a separate file so that you can print straight from pdf rather than printing slides from the PowerPoint.
*Biology ONLY content is the triple GCSE award in science
A first class quality scheme of work with all resources included for the following topics:
Cellular Control
Patterns of Inheritance
Manipulating Genomes
Each topic includes a series of PowerPoint presentations, totalling over 400 slides, which are partitioned into deliverable lessons with identifiable lesson objectives. Each lesson is complete with information slides and a variety of pupil tasks to complete. You won’t need any other resources to deliver these topics to your students.
Information slides are slotted between learning tasks so that delivery of the course content remains pupil-led with an engaging array of activities. All practice questions come with integrated answers/mark schemes so you’re not hunting around or trying to find out answers.
Please let me know what you think.
This is an entire lesson series for the Chapter: Cloning and Biotechnology for the NEW OCR A-level specification which has vast overlap with the AQA spec. There are a total of 124 PowerPoint presentation slides partitioned into individual lessons with identifiable lesson objectives. The scheme of work has been developed to engage your students through an array of different learning activities and will form the basis for the entire lesson series. It comes complete with answers to activities and practice exam questions so you don’t need to spend the time hunting for answers.
It includes accurate and high quality information slides interspersed with pupil activities for the following sub-topics within the Chapter Cloning and Biotechnology:
Natural clones: vegetative propagation
Clones in plants: tissue culture, micropropagation, artificial cloning
Artificial clones in animals: reproductive cloning, embryo splitting, somatic cell nuclear transfer, non-reproductive cloning
Biotechnology: today and yesterday, advantages of using microorganisms
Using biotechnology to make food: yoghurt, cheese, baking, alcohol, single-cell protein
Other processes involving biotechnology, antibiotic and insulin production, bioremediation, asepsis
Microorganism cultures: aseptic technique, practical (in pictures) using dye to streak agar
Population growth: serial dilution practical, growth curve data to plot, phases of growth
Immobilised enzymes: Advantages of use, methods for immobilisation, Industrial uses of immobilised enzymes, practical using alginate beads
This is a 5-part lesson series of PowerPoint presentations (over 100 slides) covering the entire topic of Cellular Control. It is written to the NEW OCR A-level specification.
It includes accurate and high quality information slides and pupil activities for the following lessons within Cellular Control:
1) Gene Mutations
2) The effect of Gene Mutations on Protein Production and Function
3) Regulatory Mechanisms (The lac operon, oestrogen, transcriptional, post-transcriptional and post-translational control)
4) Genetic Control of Body Plan Development (Homeobox genes)
5) Importance of Mitosis and Apoptosis in Controlling Development
These PowerPoint can be used to form the basis for the entire series of lessons on Cellular Control.
New AQA specification for Year 12 biology.
This lesson plan and PowerPoint presentation includes all the integrated pupil led activities and integrated answers to achieve the following learning objectives:
1) Describe why meiosis is necessary
2) Describe the process of meiosis
3) Explain how meiosis creates genetic variation
This Powerpoint presentation provides a student activities interspersed by information slides to keep learning active. It provides a complete lesson for the delivery of the following graded lesson objectives:
Describe the factors that determine population size
Explain the impact of limiting factors on carrying capacity and final population size
Compare how r- and k-Strategists are adapted to reach carrying capacity
Students are then able to use the the graded lesson objectives provided to reflect on their learning at the end of the lesson.
This resource is sold as a single lesson and provides an example of the content and quality of my resources for GCSE and A Level biology, many of which are sold as a much larger series of lessons.
Lesson plan and activities to achieve the following learning objectives:
1) Describe the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells - starter: guess the organelle from a series of images that make up each syllable
2) Explain the structure and function of all the different organelles that form the eukaryotic cell ultrastructure - label ultracellular structures of an animal; table of structures and functions with core and extension questions where pupils read about one organelle then teach each other; making cells using plasticine; group essay/challenge with 10-mark QWC exam question - mark scheme included
3) Summarise the differences in ultrastructure between plant, animal, fungi and algae cells - homework task to create a table to compare the similarities and differences in the organelles and structures found in plant, animal, algae and fungi
Finishes with a pupil self evaluation task where they reflect on their learning objectives and identify their corresponding grade.
This 45-slide PowerPoint includes all the activities (in one file) required to achieve the following learning objectives:
1) Describe the stimuli that plants respond to
2) Describe plant growth factors such as IAA
3) Explain phototropism in flowering plants
4) Explain gravitropism in flowering plants
All answers to the activities are included and fully integrated into the PowerPoint.
This section of the A-level biology course lends itself to student led activities as it is focuses on three case studies: The Terai region, Maasai Mara and Peat bogs.
This Powerpoint presentation provides everything you need to run a student led lesson of research and class presentations complete with information cards for printing and laminating and also a question sheet to complete. There are a set of cards included to provide each student with a specified role within their working group so that all students contribute equally to the task.
The lesson is structured towards the following graded lesson objectives:
Describe using examples effective conservation programs
Explain the effects of human activities on environmental resources
Explain how management of an ecosystem can provide resources in a sustainable way
The students are then able to use these to reflect on their learning at the end of the lesson.
This resource is sold as a single lesson and provides an example of the content and quality of my resources for GCSE and A-level biology, many of which are sold as a series of lessons.
Your feedback is much appreciated.
This PowerPoint contains everything you need to teach this lesson on Treating Diabetes in order to achieve the following learning objectives:
To describe the differences in the way type 1 and type 2 diabetes are treated
To interpret the results of the Benedict’s test for glucose
To explain why blood glucose concentration changes with exercise or after a meal
There are a variety of differentiated exercises from a practical activity (testing urine for glucose); follow-up practical questions (with integrated answers); cloze activity (with answers) and printing option for a mini-plenary for medium to low ability; an activity sheet on blood glucose concentration graphs (with integrated answers in the PowerPoint) with a printing option and differentiated tasks; and exam questions (including answers).
GCSE biology Grade 1-9 AQA specification. This resource provides all the material you need to teach these three lessons. Resources are all contained within one file however for those that prefer to print from single files I have included the practise exam questions as a separate file too. It covers the following learning objectives (1-3) including speciation* and the activities associated with each objective are described. *Note speciation is for Triple Biology students only - Biology only.
Recall Wallace’s ideas and how they influenced Darwin (aiming for grade 4):
Starter - Finish the sentences to recap lesson of fossils - mark scheme included for peer/self-assessment
Discussion - Information slides on Darwin and Wallace
Discussion - Information slides on what the fossil record shows
Task - Identify the true and false statements about fossils
Optional plenary task - Self-assessment questions
Explain how organisms become extinct and describe how mass extinction can occur (aiming for grade 6):
Discussion - Information slides about organisms that cause extinction and how mass extinctions occur
Activity - link to movie trailer for Deep Impact
Discussion - information slides and animations on the effects of meteorite strike
Summary Questions - Think, pair, share and summarise responses
Exam Questions - mark scheme included
Optional plenary task - Self-assessment questions
Explain how species arise and the importance of isolation* (aiming for grade 8) *Biology only:
Video - link to trailer for Disney film Up
Video - Discussion of table-top maintain and link to video on The history of Venezuela’s ancient Tepuis
Discussion - information slides to describe and discuss the process of speciation and the importance of isolation
Task - long answer QWC exam question - mark scheme included
Optional plenary - link to clip from the Might Boosh ‘Isolation’ and task to adapt lyrics (included) to describe how a new species is generated.
Your feedback on this resource would be gratefully received.
Twenty five slides (two complete lessons) of fun and engaging activities with integrated answers compiled for the NEW GCSE Biology specification. Aligned to the AQA exam board.
Prepared with differentiated activities to achieve the following learning objectives:
Bacteria multiply by simple cell division - starter video of bacterial division and discussion; video on different microorganisms - identify as many as you can!
How to grow (at lower temperatures) and use uncontaminated cultures of bacteria - sterile technique (aseptic technique) information slides; extended writing task to describe the process using the diagrams and video information - scaffolding with identified key words/terms to include; storage of plates information and brief writing task; linking activity on culture mediums; ordering task of the steps involved in growing microorganisms in the lab.
Calculate the number of bacteria in a population - enumeration of bacteria information slide and worked example to try followed by differentiated questions to calculate bacterial populations with fully integrated answers.
The effect of disinfectants and antibiotics on bacterial growth - the great microbiology quiz activity; plenary linking terms to their roles in preventing bacterial growth.
Section 1. Biological molecules. 1.4 Starch, glycogen and cellulose Year 12 AQA Biology
This lesson plan/presentation provides you with a high quality lesson that includes all the necessary activities and resources for the following learning objectives:
1) Explain how a-glucose is linked together in starch and glycogen - engaging starter WHO AM I? activity where pupils are shown images of starch, glycogen and cellulose and given clues/descriptions and they must identify each image from the clues. Clues are listed in the notes of the first slide - answers provided.
2) Compare this to the different structure in the polymer of b-glucose in cellulose - information slides are provided on starch, glycogen and cellulose - activity to complete the table by filling it in whilst being presented with the information - there are periodic checks where pupils correct their work from the answers in the powerpoint. Table is prepared for you as a hidden slide - just print! Answers provided in the powerpoint for peer or self review (AfL). Additional summary task: identify the diasaccharide/polysaccharide produced from each monosaccharide - pupils fill in the gaps.
3) Link how the structure of the different polymers are linked to their function in organisms - Exam Question sheet provided in word document. Exam questions are also provided in the powerpoint - pupils can self or peer review answers from the powerpoint.
The lesson finishes with a self-evaluation where pupils can reflect on their learning objectives and identify their corresponding level.
Lesson plan and activities to achieve the following learning objectives:
1) Plan an investigation
2) Explain how your method will test the hypothesis
3) Explain why you have chosen your range of data or observations
This PowerPoint contains all the activities (in one file) to achieve the following learning objectives:
1) Describe how plants exchange gases
2) Describe the structure of a dicotyledonous plant leaf
3) Explain the adaptations of leaves for efficient gas exchange
There are a range of different tasks including, labelling the cross section of a leaf, ordering task of steps involved in stomata opening, sorting statements for function and adaptation of different features in the leaf and practise exam questions. All questions and answers for each task are fully integrated into the PowerPoint and can be used for self/peer assessment of tasks.
This revision resource is designed for OCR A-level Biology but is equally suitable for other boards.
This resource contains:
a worksheet for the topic on Transport in Animals: Tissue fluid, Lymph and Exchange at the capillaries
model answers for the worksheet
information card
exam questions
mark scheme.
This resource is easily differentiated by students choosing to use the information card or completing the worksheet independently. The model answer sheet/key is included for either peer/self assessment. Students that finish early can be looking to extend their understanding by completing the exam questions with mark schemes.
The worksheet and information slides are very detailed therefore it is recommended that they be printed in A3 for use. I have included pdf versions in addition to the powerpoint files as powerpoint, opened in different versions, can cause some formatting issues. The powerpoint files are there so that you can edit the resources, if you wish to do so.
Topics include: Arterioles and venules; The Formation of Tissue Fluid; The Formation of Lymph; The lymphatic system; Reabsorption of tissue fluid.
Other individual worksheets and exam questions are available to complete this series of lessons on Mass Transport. There is also a Bundle that includes all 5 worksheets with corresponding information sheets and exam questions.
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