OCR A Level Biology A lesson on DNA Structure and Modelling. This is one of seven lessons to meet the specification points for 2.1.3 Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids. Objectives for this lesson: Describe the structure of DNA. Understand the synthesis and breakdown of polynucleotides. Explain why DNA has a ‘double helix’ shape. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on The Effect of Substrate and Enzyme concentrations on Rate of Reaction. This is one of eight lessons to meet the specification points for 2.1.4 Enzymes. Objectives for this lesson: • Describe the effect of enzyme concentration and substrate concentration on enzyme activity. • Draw and interpret graphs for rates of reaction. • Estimate the initial rate of reaction from a graph. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Theories of Enzyme Action. This is one of eight lessons to meet the specification points for 2.1.4 Enzymes. Objectives for this lesson: • Recall the role of enzymes. • Explain the mechanism of enzyme action. • Evaluate the use of different models of enzyme action. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Dissection and Histology of Bony Fish Gills. This is one of eight lessons to meet the specification points for 3.1.1 Exchange Surfaces. Specification points: 3.1.1 (f) and (g) Objectives for this lesson: • Recall how the gaseous exchange system of a fish works. • Know how to dissect the gaseous exchange system of a bony fish safely. • Demonstrate how to dissect, examine and draw the gaseous exchange system of a bony fish. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Dissociation Curves. This is one of ten lessons to meet the specification points for 3.1.2 Transport in Animals. Specification points: 3.1.2 (j) Objectives for this lesson: • Recognise the oxygen dissociation curves for human adult and fetal haemoglobin. • Explain the significance of the different affinities for oxygen. • Understand the changes to the dissociation curve at different carbon dioxide concentrations (the Bohr effect). Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Evidence for Evolution. This is one of eight lessons to meet the specification points for 4.2.2 Classification and Evolution. Specification points: 4.2.2 (e) Objectives for this lesson: Recall the theory of evolution by natural selection. Describe the contributions of Darwin and Wallace to the theory of evolution. Explain the different types of evidence for evolution by natural selection. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Primary And Secondary Infection. This is one of thirteen lessons to meet the specification points for 4.1.1 Communicable Diseases, disease prevention and the immune system. Specification points: 4.1.1 (g) Objectives for this lesson: • State the role of T memory cells and B memory cells in the immune response. • Describe the primary and secondary immune responses. • Compare and contrast the primary and secondary immune response. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Biodiversity. This is one of nine lessons to meet the specification points for 4.2.1 Biodiversity. Specification points: 4.2.1 (a) Objectives for this lesson: Define species, habitat and biodiversity. Describe the different levels of biodiversity. Explain, with examples the different levels of biodiversity. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included). Please leave a review.

This resource includes two question revision pyramids aimed at Low ability and mid/high ability for Year 7 on the topic of electricity. Answers are included on separate slides for peer or self assessment in lessons. I normally give the students a set amount of time e.g. 20 minutes for them to complete questions of their choice to reach a total of 100 points. Different level of questions are worth different amounts of points. This means students can choose the low level questions and have more to complete, or can choose the more challenging questions and complete less questions. It is a great revision tool for Year 7s and provides a challenge as students can become competitive to see who can get the most points. It is an engaging activity.

Attached is four resources, the first two are the marking stickers. The topic has been broken down into two different stickers, but you could combine them if needed. The second two are a reference handout for students to use to help them when responding to marking and completing the tasks necessary to fill the gaps in their learning. The final resource is information on specialised cells to be used as reference for one of the DIRT tasks. On the marking sticker, colour code the different learning outcomes when marking their books as either red, amber or green to make it simple for the pupils to see which outcomes they need to focus on and which they are fine with. Or these stickers could be altered by adding an additional column and using WWW and EBI instead. Both are effective methods of providing feedback for pupils. The bottom two boxes allow for tasks to be set and any more generalised feedback to be provided by ticking any relevant boxes. The second attachment is the resources to be used by the pupils in a feedback lesson (DIRT lesson). I print the slides off two to a page, back-to-back with one between two for pupils. This provides them with the tasks necessary to meet the learning objectives and close any gaps in learning. I find these tasks much easier for pupils to use than simply directing them to textbook pages. Some of the pictures and questions taken from other resources and compiled here. Hope these resources help with your marking and feedback, if so please leave a review and feel free to view other resources I have.

Great for a revision lesson on energy and energy resources. Two different levels of pyramids; one for mid to high ability and one for low ability groups. Students use any resources available to them including lesson notes and textbooks to try and complete as many questions as they can to get to 100 points. This is a great differentiated resource as students can attempt harder questions for more points or stick to lower level questions for less points, meaning more questions. Answers are also included for all the questions. Students should only need 20-30 minutes to attempt pyramid and then can self assess.

Complete lesson on Preserving Biodiversity, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for other syllabus’ as well. Includes definitions of extinction and conservation, gene banks and captive breeding. There are you tube videos included to support learning and a challenge grid of questions that can be printed and given to the students. The questions are differentiated with red being lowest level to green being highest with a challenge question in purple to stretch the higher ability students and get them thinking about the importance of conservation. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

Complete lesson on Frequency and Pitch, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. Includes various tasks, calculations and discussions. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. This lesson works great if you have an oscilloscope so students can link frequency to pitch. It also includes a link to a youtube video for a ‘hearing test’ which students love to carry out to see how high a frequency they can hear to. There is a differentiated task on frequencies that animals can hear with low ability students using data to answer questions and high ability students presenting the data in their own graph. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

Complete lesson on the Eye and Vision, designed for the new Activate Scheme but can be used for another syllabus’ as well. Includes various tasks and discussions around how the eye works and what causes vision to be blurry and how to correct. All answers are provided on the slides so students can self/peer assess. It starts with a word serahc on keywords linked to the eye and light to familiarise students with some of the spellings. There is a differentiated worksheet on the structure of the eye and what each structure does. There is a set of information sheets that can be printed on A3 and placed around the room for the students to use to fill in their worksheet. The lower ability information sheets are best printed in colour and have basic information on them needed to complete the diagram label and part and function match up. In contrast, the higher ability worksheet requires students to read a more detailed information sheet and extract the key information to include themselves when annotating the diagram. There is then a gap fill activity on the worksheet that can be completed while discussing short-sighted and long-sighted vision and how to correct. Check out my other resources and if you like this lesson, please leave a review.

KS3 lesson on Genetic modification, looking at what it is, some examples and then discussion on what the problems could potentially be with GMOs. Lesson includes video, discussion, questions and activity where students need to create a cartoon strip on how GMO are created. If you would like to use an alternative activity, you could get students researching and writing a newspaper article on GM crops and the advantages and disadvantages. This would however, require a second lesson with access to computers/GM research. Please leave a review and check out my other resources. Thanks

Challenge Question pyramid based around the initial lessons for science for Year 7. Differentiated questions with easiest questions being worth 5 points and hardest question being worth 30 points. I usually set this as a challenge giving the students 20 mins to try and reach 100 points. Students highlight each question as they attempt them. This challenge can be approached in different ways from picking the easier questions and answering more questions or having less, but more challenging questions. It often surprises me as to how many students will challenge themselves to the harder questions and push themselves. Answers are included so students can self/peer assess. If you like this lesson, please leave a review and check out my other items.

This is a complete lesson on Change of State aimed at a Year 7 class. It includes activities, tasks and questions. I also asked the lab technician for some stearic acid warmed up so students could create a cooling curve. This lesson is designed with no need for printing. Differentiated tasks for differing abilities of students. Please leave a review and check out my other resources.

Differentiated questions for each lesson in the B7 Non-Communicable Diseases topic for AQA GCSE Biology and answers to go with them. These structure strips are designed to be printed off and glued into students books down the margin and then either used throughout the lesson, or as a task after covering theory, the students work their way through the questions. Not all students will be expected to complete the entire structure strip as it depends on target grades. The questions link directly to the learning objectives and ensure the content is covered and allows students to stretch themselves. They could also be given as homework for consolidation or used for targeted revision. Students find these a great way to ensure they have met their objectives and it makes marking books easier. The questions are split into three main groups: Bronze (Red) questions are targeted at Grade 4 Silver (Amber) questions are targeted at Grade 6 Gold (Green) questions are targeted at Grade 8 Star questions are challenge questions. Structure strips are included for the following lessons; Non-Communicable diseases Cancer Smoking and the risk of disease Diet, exercise and disease Alcohol and other carcinogens Answers are included as a powerpoint presentation for all structure strip questions to allow self or peer assessment by students. If you like this resource, please check out my other resources as I will be uploading more structure strips for both KS3 and KS4 topics and please leave a quick review for my resource. Thanks

OCR A Level Biology A lesson on Comparing Protein Structure and Function. This is one of three lessons on proteins to meet the specification points for 2.1.2 Biological Molecules. Objectives for this lesson: Recall the levels of protein structure. Describe the structure and function of globular proteins, including a conjugated protein, using examples. Describe the properties and functions of fibrous proteins, including collagen, keratin and elastin. Check out my other lessons and the accompanying workbook with exam questions (and answer booklet included).