Students should understand what abiotic and biotic factors affect ecosystems and to maintain a stable ecosystem. Also detail on adaptation and competition in plants/animals.

Students should understand the equation for calculating magnifaction. Examples given. Students should understand what magnification is and how microscopes work, comparing electron and light microscope.

All: Recall that alleles can either be dominant or recessive Most: Explain why offspring look the way they do in relation to the alleles they inherit Some: Independently Construct your own Punnet squares to show inheritance in offspring

Students should understand the process of interdependence and adaptations of predators and prey (and interpret predator-prey cycle data).

Students should understand the importance of the skeleton and why a skeleton is needed. Students should be able to label bones of the body. Includes worksheets: questions from activate and design your own skeleton

Students should understand what a balanced diet is, why it is important to have a balanced diet and effects of being overweight/underweight. Include mini debate

Students should understand the importance of food testing. Students should understand how to test for certain nutrients and the outcomes for positive/negative results.

Students to recap briefly on optimum enzyme function and the pH that amylase functions at its optimum level at. Includes questions to test knowledge/understanding of the practical. Answers below:

For year 8 students, based on competition and adaptation. Students should understand the concepts of competition and adaptation, what animals and plants compete for and why it is important for them to adapt to their environment.

An independent research project for KS4 students covering metabolism. It has a quick starter, and the basics of what students need to know about with regards to metabolism: what it is, how the liver plays a part in metabolism and various metabolic reactions.

Suitable for Year 7 students, based on activate textbook 1. Students should understand concepts of ‘The Body’ and use the instructions and boardgame template and questions to help them out. Students can design their own questions if necessary, too.

Students should understand the causes of cancer, how cancer develops and how it is treated, and why it is difficult to treat.

Components of blood. Students should understand what constitutes blood. Print off slides 9-14 to place around the room as a market place activity

Students should understand how to conduct the required practical on reaction time and analyse the results and data from it. Ruler drop investigation.

Students should understand that there are: medicinal, recreational and illegal drugs. They should understand addiction and withdrawal symptoms. They will do a market place task with a range of drug sheet information.

Students should understand the major pathogens and how they cause disease.

Students should understand what vaccines are, how they are made, giving applications of commonly used vaccines and the body’s response. Exam questions follow Evaluation of MMR - autism controversy.

Student should understand how to classify organisms and why it is important to do so. Students should practice using binomial system.

Students should understand extinction, what it is and reasons for extinction. Understand factors that cause extinction. Highlight factors that we can do to prevent extinction

Engaging lesson about stem cells: adult and embryonic Stem cell uses and applications Evaluation of embryonic stem cells - HA