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 what photosynthesis is, the word and symbol equation and what is needed/produced. Students should understand how the leaf is adapted for photosynthesis.

For revision purposes

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.

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 should understand the major pathogens and how they cause disease.

students should understand the process of osmosis, and how it differs to diffusion

Complete glossary for revision - remove definition to ensure understanding.

Students should understand what a food chain consists of, what the arrows represent and how to represent members of the food chain.

Key word glossary for revision purposes

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

Students should recap what enzymes are how they work and describe their shape and specificity to certain substrates. Second powerpoint is a research tasks on factors that affect enzyme structure and function.

Use questions for the video: Define the term homeostasis? (1) Name 4 things that have to be kept constant in the body (4) Describe what would happen if waste products built up. (1) Name a waste gas produced by cells.(1) State the process in cells which produces this gas. (1) Where does the waste gas leave the body? (1) How does water enter the body? (2) Name the process in cells which produces water. (1) Describe the urine produced by the body when there are high levels of water present. (2) Name 3 substances found in urine (3) Where is the urine stored in the body? (1) Explain why people sweat? (1) Where is the thermoregulatory centre? (1) State the optimum human body temperature? (1) Explain why cells need a constant supply of glucose (1) Name the organ which monitors and controls blood glucose levels (1) Describe the job (role) of insulin (1) What problem do diabetics have? (1) (25 marks)

Students should understand the importance of contraception and how to evaulate hormonal/non-hormonal methods of contraception. Exam question attached, also to put learning into practice.

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.

Students should understand what factors affect the rate of photosynthesis and how they affect the rate. Students should be able to define what a limiting factor is and describe and explain patterns when 1 or more limiting factor is present.

Student should be able to: Make an informed judgement about embryo screening by evaluating in detail the economic, social, and ethical issues. List advantages and disadvantages of embryo screening. Suggest reasons why embryos might be screened.

Revision activities for Infection and Response for GCSE. Taken from all aspects of the syllabus.

Lesson (including research task on human genome project)