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A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 8 - Investigate the effect of light or gravity on the growth of newly germinated seedlings
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record length and time), AT 3 (selecting appropriate apparatus and techniques to measure the growth of shoots or roots), AT 4 (safe and ethical use of plants to measure physiological function of growth in response to light or gravity), AT 7 (observations of biological specimens to produce labelled scientific drawings) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on phototropisms and geotropisms
Aim
Required apparatus
A suitable method
A suitable results table to record data
A look at the variables in this experiment
How to draw biological drawings
Past paper exam questions
Summary
A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 7 - Plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record time), AT 3 (selecting appropriate apparatus and techniques to measure the process of reaction time), AT 4 (safe and ethical use of humans to measure physiological function of reaction time and responses to a chosen factor) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on responding to stimuli (receptors, coordination centres, effectors, response etc.) and which parts of the body are invovled
Required apparatus
A suitable method
Biology behind what is happening
A look at the variables in this experiment
A suitable results table to record data
Safety concerns & improvements
Past paper exam questions
Summary
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Carbon & Water Cycles
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Cycles in Biology (the role of autotrophs, decomposers and detrivores, the cycling of nutrients)
The Water Cycle (evaporation & precipitation)
The importance of the water cycle
The carbon cyle (photosynthesis, respiration & combustion)
The future of the carbon cycle (how humans are upsetting the balance by releasing more CO2)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Global Warming and Maintaining Biodiversity
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Greenhouse Gases
Concept of Global Warming & Cliamte Change
Human impact on greenhoue gas emissions
Why climate change is a complex topic to study
Biological Consequences of Global Warming (loss of habitat, changes in distribution, changes in migration, reduced biodiversity, changes in weather)
Ways to maintain biodiversity in the face of change (breeding programmes, protection of rare habitats, reintroduction of hedgerows, reduction of deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions, recycling resources rather than dumping waste in landfill)
Exam pracise questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Quadrats & Transects
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Measuring abundance and distribution
Quadrats (how to use them, having large sample size & random samples)
Calculating mean, median, range and mode
Transects (when to use them, line & belt transects)
Calculating areas to workout abundance (worked examples)
The impact of change (effect of change in temperature, water and atmospheric gases)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Biodiversity and Waste Management
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What is Biodiversity
Managing Waste
Land Pollution (from landfill and from toxic chemicals)
Water Pollution (from sewage, fertiliser or toxic chemicals)
Air Pollution (from smoke and acidic gases)
The impact of pollution on biodiveristy
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on DNA & Protein Synthesis
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Key Words
Function & Structure of DNA (including nucleotide structure)
The Human Genome & the importance of understanding it
Protein Synthesis
* Concept of a gene coding for a protein
* Main stages of Protein Synthesis
Gene Expression (the role of non-coding DNA)
Tyeps of mutations
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Fossils
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Fossil Formation (the 3 ways fossils can form)
Using fossils to explain evolution (identifying how organisms have and haven’t changed over time e.g. horses vs. sharks)
Why the fossil record is incomplete
Extinction
Factors causing extinction
* New Diseases
* New Predators
* New Competitors
* Physical Factors (Ice Age, Drought, Flooding)
* Catastrophic Events
Exam Questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Antibiotic Resistance
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What are antibiotics?
Why antibiotics don’t work against viruses
How antibitoic resistance arises
MRSA
How to reduce the rate of development of antibiotic resistant strains
Exam Practise with model answers
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Classification
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Carl Linneaus and the Linnean System
Concept of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus & Species
How classification systems have changed over time
The 3 domain system (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota) & Carl Woese
The Binomial Naming System
How to read evolutionary trees (phylogenetics)
Exam Practise
A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 6 -Investigate the effect of light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis using an aquatic organism such as pondweed
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record the rate of production of oxygen gas produced; and to measure and control the temperature of water in a large beaker that acts as a ‘heat shield’), AT 2 (use a thermometer to measure and control temperature of water bath), AT 3 (use appropriate apparatus and techniques to observe and measure the process of oxygen gas production), AT 4 (safe and ethical use and disposal of living pondweed to measure physiological functions and responses to light), AT 5 (measuring rate of reaction by oxygen gas production) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on how the rate of photosynthesis is affected by light intensity & wavelength, temperature, CO2 concentration and the amount of chlorophyll
Aim of the practical
Required apparatus
A suitable method
A look at results
A suitable results table to record data
Details of the Inverse Square Law
Practise calculations of Light Intensity
Safety concerns & improvements
Past paper exam questions on
Summary
A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed for Required Practical 4 containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 4 -Use qualitative reagents to test for a range of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins to include: Benedict’s test for sugars; iodine test for starch; emulsion test for lipids; and Biuret reagent for protein.
This powerpoint covers AT 2 (safe use of a Bunsen burner and a boiling water bath), AT 8 (use of qualitative reagents to identify biological molecules) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on Digestion and food tests
Aim of the practical
Required apparatus
A suitable method for each test
Explanation of the Biology behind the experiment
A suitable results table to record data
Safety concerns
Past paper exam questions
Concise summary table of each food test
A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed, containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 5 - Investigate the effect of pH on the rate of reaction of amylase enzyme
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record mass and time), AT 2 (safe use of a water bath or electric heater), AT 5 (measure the rate of osmosis by water uptake), AT 8 (use of qualitative iodine reagent to identify starch by continuous sampling) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required at GCSE
The powerpoint covers:
Background on Amylase & Enzymes
Aim of the practical
Required apparatus
A suitable method
Explanation of the Biology behind the experiment
A suitable results table to record data
How to draw graphs and analyse the data collected
Consideration of variables
How to calculate rate of reaction
Safety concerns & possible improvements
Past paper exam questions on Required Practical #5
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Food Chains & Predator-Prey Cycles
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Food Chains: Producers
Food Chains: Consumers (Primary, secondary, tertiary, apex predators, decomposers)
Identifying consupers / producers in food chains
Predator and Prey
Predator-Prey Cycles (with example of field mice & owls)
Exam Practise
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1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Pre
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Pyramids of Biomass & Trophic Levels
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Trophic Levels
How to read Pyramids of Biomass and key features
Why is there energy loss between trophic levels (not all eaten, not all absorbed, faeces, respiration etc.)
Working with biomass (concept of dry biomass)
Calculating efficiency of biomass transfers
Drawing pyramids of biomass
Decomposers
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Food Security, Farming & Fishing
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Concept of Food Secuirty
Biological factors which are threatening food security (Increasing birth rate, changing diets in developed countries, new pests and pathogens, environmental changes, cost of agricultural inputs and conflicts)
Increasing the efficiency of food production (restricting movement, conserving heat, high protein diet)
Problems behind intensive farming
Sustainable Fisheries (introducing fishing quotas and net sizes)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Land Use & Deforestation
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
How humans reduce land use (building, quarrying, farming, dumping waste)
Deforestation
* Reasons for it
* Consequences of deforestation (reduced biodiversity, more CO2 in atmosphere, more methane, creation of monocultures etc.)
Peat Bogs
* Their importance
* What happens when beat bogs are destroyed
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Decay
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The concept of decay (role of detrivores)
Factors affecting decomposition (temperature, water availability, oxygen, presence of decomposers/detrivores)
Using decay to make compost (use as a fertilizer)
Best conditions for decay
How to design a compost bin
Making Biogas (production of methane)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Intro to Ecology (Communities, Competition and Biotic & Abiotic Factors)
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes
Ecology Key Terms
Ecosystems, Communities and Competition
What is interdependence?
Stable communities
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Food webs
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Save with the Unit 7 Lessons BUNDLE
1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Adaptations
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Types of Adaptations (Structural, behavioural & functional)
Adaptations in animals (Polar bear, artic fox, camels)
Adaptations in plants (Marram grass, cactus)
Extremophiles (Bacteria in deep sea vents and other examples)
Exam Practise
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Save with the Unit 7 Lessons BUNDLE
1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Ada
3 - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology