A Science teacher by trade, I've also been known to be found teaching Maths and PE! However, strange as it may seem, my real love is designing resources that can be used by other teachers to maximise the experience of the students. I am constantly thinking of new ways to engage a student with a topic and try to implement that in the design of the lessons.
A Science teacher by trade, I've also been known to be found teaching Maths and PE! However, strange as it may seem, my real love is designing resources that can be used by other teachers to maximise the experience of the students. I am constantly thinking of new ways to engage a student with a topic and try to implement that in the design of the lessons.
This bundle of 4 lessons covers the majority of the content in the sub-topic C3.3 (Types of chemical reactions) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Combined Science specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include:
Explain reduction and oxidation in terms of the loss or gain of oxygen and the loss or gain of electrons
Recall that acids form hydrogen ions when they dissolve in water and solutions of alkalis contain hydroxide ions
Recognise and describe neutralisation reactions
Write balanced equations for the reactions of carbonates and metals with acids
Recall that relative acidity and alkalinity are measured by pH and describe techniques and apparatus to take these measures
All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
This bundle contains 7 fully-resourced and detailed lessons that have been designed to cover the content of topic 15.1 of the CIE International A-level Biology specification which concerns the control and coordination in mammals. The wide range of activities included in each lesson will engage the students whilst the detailed content is covered and the understanding and previous knowledge checks allow them to assess their progress on the current topic as well as challenging them to make links to other related topics. Most of the tasks are differentiated to allow differing abilities to access the work and be challenged.
The following sub-topics are covered in this bundle of lessons:
The structure of sensory neurones and motor neurones
The transmission of an action potential along a myelinated neurone
The importance of the myelin sheath
The structure of a cholinergic synapse
The roles of the synapse
The roles of the NMJ, transverse tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum in the stimulation of striated muscle
The ultrastructure of striated muscle
The sliding filament model of muscular contraction
If you want to see the quality of the lessons before purchasing then the lesson on the structure and role of the cholinergic synapse is a free resource to download
This bundle of 4 revision lessons have been designed to provide the students with lots of opportunities to evaluate their understanding of the topics found in module 4 of the OCR A-level Biology A specification.
The bundle includes lessons which cover the three sub modules 4.1.1 (Communicable diseases), 4.2.1 (Biodiversity) and 4.2.2 (Classification and evolution) as well as a lesson to cover all of module 4 (Biodiversity, evolution and disease).
As this module is often taught near to the end of the AS year, it doesn’t always receive the time that the other modules do. With this in mind, each of the lessons has been written to include a wide range of activities that allow the important details to be covered and any misconceptions addressed.
This bundle of 6 fully-resourced lessons have been designed to cover the content as detailed in topic 1.4 of the Edexcel A-level Biology B specification. The specification points in this DNA and protein synthesis topic which are covered by the lessons are as follows:
The structure of DNA
The semi-conservative replication of DNA
A gene is a sequence of bases on DNA that codes for an amino acid sequence
The structure of mRNA
The structure of tRNA
The process of transcription
The process of translation
Base deletions, insertions and substitutions as gene mutations
The effect of point mutations on amino acid sequences
The engaging PowerPoint lessons and accompanying resources contain a wide range of activities and tasks that include exam-style questions with displayed mark schemes, quick quiz competitions, useful hints and discussion periods.
If you would like to see the quality of the lessons then download the structure of DNA and transcription lessons as these have been uploaded for free.
This lesson bundle contains 4 lessons, which are fully-resourced and are filled with a range of tasks to engage and motivate the students whilst covering the following specification points in topic 10 of the CIE A-level Biology specification:
10.1
[a]: Define the term disease and explain the difference between an infectious disease and a non-infectious disease
[b]: State the name and type of causative organism of cholera, malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, smallpox and measles
[c]: Explain how cholera, malaria, TB and HIV are transmitted
10.2
[a]: Outline how penicillin acts on bacteria and why antibiotics do not affect viruses
[b]: Explain in outline how bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics with reference to mutation and selection
[c]: Discuss the consequences of antibiotic resistance and the steps that can be taken to reduce its impact
Included in the tasks are exam-style questions, and the mark schemes for each of these are embedded into the PowerPoint to allow the students to assess their progress
This bundle of 6 lessons has been designed to cover the following specification points in topic 3 of A2 unit 4 of the WJEC A-level Biology specification:
[a]: alleles as different forms of the same gene
[b]: the principles of monohybrid Mendelian inheritance including simple crosses involving codominance
[c]: the principles of dihybrid Mendelian inheritance including simple crosses involving linkage
[d]: the use of the chi squared test
[e]: sex linkage as illustrated by haemophilia and Duchenne muscular hypertrophy
[f]: gene mutation as illustrated by sickle cell anaemia and chromosome mutations as illustrated by Down syndrome
Each of the lessons is fully-resourced and contains a wide range of tasks that will engage and motivate the students whilst covering the detailed content of this topic. Any exam questions that are found in the resources have markschemes embedded into the PowerPoint
If you would like to see the quality of lessons included in this bundle, then download the alleles & monohybrid inheritance and gene mutation lessons as these have been shared for free
This bundle includes 4 revision lessons which use multiple-choice questions to challenge the students on their knowledge and understanding of the content of topics 5 - 8 of the AQA A-level biology specification. Each lesson includes a multiple-choice assessment, consisting of 20 questions from across the topic, and a PowerPoint that contains the answers (with explanations), as well as additional questions that challenge the students to add detail and also check on prior knowledge.
If you would like to view the quality of these lessons, then download the topic 6 revision lesson as this has been uploaded for free.
This bundle includes 4 revision lessons which use multiple-choice questions to challenge the students on their knowledge and understanding of the content of topics 1 - 4 of the AQA A-level biology specification. Each lesson includes a multiple-choice assessment, consisting of 20 questions from across the topic, and a PowerPoint that contains the answers (with explanations), as well as additional questions that challenge the students to add detail and also check on prior knowledge.
If you would like to view the quality of these lessons, then download the topic 1 revision lesson as this has been uploaded for free.
The 5 lesson PowerPoints and multiple accompanying resources that are included in this bundle are highly-detailed and engaging. A wide variety of tasks, which include exam-style questions, differentiated tasks, discussion points and quiz competitions will check on the student understanding of the following specification points in topic 4.4 of the Edexcel A-level Biology B specification:
The structure of the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries
The advantages of a double circulatory system
The sequence of events of the cardiac cycle
The roles of the SAN, AVN and the bundle of His in the myogenic stimulation of the heart
Interpreting ECG traces and pressure changes in the cardiac cycle
The role of platelets and plasma proteins in the sequence of events leading to blood clotting
The heart & blood vessels and the double circulatory system lesson have been uploaded for free so you can sample the quality of this bundle by downloading those
The 5 lessons included in this bundle are all fully-resourced and contain a wide range of activities that will motivate and engage the students whilst covering the content as detailed in topic 11 of the CIE A-level Biology specification (Immunity).
Exam-style questions which check on current and prior understanding, differentiated tasks, discussion points and quick quiz competitions cover the following specification points:
Phagocytes have their origin in bone marrow
Phagocytosis
The modes of action of B and T lymphocytes
The meaning of term immune response, with reference to the terms antigen, self and non-self
The role of memory cells in long term immunity
Autoimmune diseases
The relationship between the structure and function of antibodies
Distinguish between active and passive immunity
The use of vaccinations to control disease
If you would like to sample the quality of these lessons, download the phagocytes and phagocytosis lesson as this has been uploaded for free
The 4 lesson PowerPoints included in this bundle are highly detailed and along with their accompanying resources, they have been designed to engage and motivate the students whilst the Pearson Edexcel A-level Biology A (Salters Nuffield) specification points concerning photosynthesis are covered.
These specification points are 5.5, 5.7, 5.8 (i) & (ii) and 5.9 and these state that students should:
Understand the overall reaction of photosynthesis as requiring energy from light to split apart the strong bonds in water molecules, storing the hydrogen in a fuel (glucose) by combining it with carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.
Understand the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis including how light energy is trapped by exciting electrons in chlorophyll and the role of these electrons in generating ATP, reducing NADP in photophosphorylation and producing oxygen through photolysis of water
Understand the light-independent reactions as reduction of carbon dioxide using the products of the light-dependent reactions (carbon fixation in the Calvin cycle, the role of GP, GALP, RuBP and RUBISCO).
Know that the products are simple sugars that are used by plants, animals and other organisms in respiration and the synthesis of new biological molecules (polysaccharides, amino acids, lipids and nucleic acids).
Understand the structure of chloroplasts in relation to their role in photosynthesis.
If you would like to sample the quality of these lessons, then please download the light-independent reactions lesson as this has been shared for free
This bundle of 4 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C1g (Covalent bonding) of the Edexcel iGCSE Chemistry specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include:
Know that covalent bonding involves the sharing of electrons
Be able to draw dot and cross diagrams for a range of structures involving covalent bonds
Describe the structure of simple covalent substances and relate this to their properties
Explain why substances with giant covalent structures are solids with high melting and boiling points
Explain how the structures of diamond, graphite and buckminsterfullerene affects their physical properties
All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
This bundle of 4 lessons covers the majority of the content in Topic C1d (The Periodic Table) of the Edexcel iGCSE Chemistry specification. The topics and specification points covered within these lessons include:
Understand how elements are arranged in the Periodic Table
Deduce the electron configurations of the first 20 elements
Identify elements as metals and non-metals according to their properties and position in the Periodic Table
Understand why the Noble gases do not readily react
All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding.
All 5 lessons included in this bundle have been filled with a variety of tasks to engage the students whilst covering the content of topic 6.1 of the AQA A-level biology specification, titled “Stimuli, both internal and external, are detected and lead to a response”. These tasks include understanding and prior knowledge checks to allow the students to assess their progress against the current topic, as well as making links to relevant topics from earlier in the course.
This bundle of detailed lesson PowerPoints and accompanying resources have been designed to cover the content of topic 5.1 (Photosynthesis) in the AQA A-level Biology specification. This cellular reaction can prove difficult for the students to understand, so extra planning has gone into these 4 lessons to ensure that the key details of the reactions are embedded and understanding is constantly checked through a variety of activities. All of the exam-style questions which are used in these current understanding and prior knowledge checks have mark schemes that are included in the PowerPoint to allow the students to assess their work.
If you would like to sample the quality of these lessons, download the chloroplast structure lesson as this has been uploaded for free.
This bundle of 5 lessons covers all of the content in the sub-topic C4.1 (Predicting chemical reactions) of the OCR Gateway A GCSE Chemistry specification. The topics covered within these lessons include:
The alkali metals
The halogens
Displacement reactions of the halogens
The noble gases
The transition metals
Reactivity of elements
All of these lesson presentations and accompanying resources are detailed and engaging and contain regular progress checks to allow the students to constantly assess their understanding
As cells are the building blocks of living organisms, and Biology is the study of life, it’s fairly obvious that a clear understanding of cell structure is going to be critical for the success of an A-level student on the OCR A-level Biology A course. The 6 lessons included in this bundle are highly detailed and have been intricately planned to contain the detail needed at this level and to make links to topics in the other modules of the specification.
The lesson PowerPoints and accompanying resources contain a wide range of tasks which will engage and motivate the students whilst covering the following specification points in module 2.1.1:
The use of microscopy to observe and investigate different types of cell and cell structure in a range of eukaryotic organisms
The use of the eyepiece graticule and stage micrometer
The use of staining in light microscopy
The use and manipulation of the magnification formula
The difference between resolution and magnification
The ultrastructure of eukaryotic cells and the functions of the different cellular components
The interrelationship between the organelles involved in the production and secretion of proteins
The importance of the cytoskeleton
The similarities and differences in the structure and ultrastructure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
If you would like to sample the quality of the lessons included in this bundle, then download “The use of microscopy” and “cytoskeleton” lessons as these have been uploaded for free
This lesson bundle contains 7 lessons which have been designed to cover the Pearson Edexcel A-level Biology A (Salters Nuffield) specification points which focus on the structure of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and the functions of their components. The lesson PowerPoints are highly detailed, and along with the accompanying worksheets, they have been planned at length to contain a wide range of engaging tasks which cover the following A-level Biology content found in topics 2, 3 and 4 of the course:
2.2 (i): Know the structure and function of cell membranes
3.1: Know that all living organisms are made of cells, sharing some common features
3.2: Know the ultrastructure of eukaryotic cells, including nucleus, nucleolus, ribosomes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, centrioles, lysosomes, and Golgi apparatus
3.3: Understand the role of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) and the Golgi apparatus in protein transport within cells, including their role in the formation of extracellular enzymes
3.4: Know the ultrastructure of prokaryotic cells, including cell wall, capsule, plasmid, flagellum, pili, ribosomes, mesosomes and circular DNA
3.6: Understand how mammalian gametes are specialised for their functions (including the acrosome in sperm and the zona pellucida in the egg)
3.13: Understand how the cells of multicellular organisms are organised into tissues, tissues into organs and organs into systems
4.7: Know the ultrastructure of plant cells (cell walls, chloroplasts, amyloplasts, vacuole, tonoplast, plasmodesmata, pits and middle lamella) and be able to compare it with animal cells.
All of the lessons in this bundle are fully-resourced and have been designed to challenge the students on their knowledge of the topics which can be assessed in PAPER 2 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Physics specification.
The content in the following topics is covered by these lessons:
Topic 1: Key concepts in Physics
Topic 8: Energy - forces doing work
Topic 9: Forces and their effects
Topic 10: Electricity and circuits
Topic 12: Magnetism and the motor effect
Topic 13: Electromagnetic induction
Topic 14: Particle model
Topic 15: Forces and matter
The PowerPoints and accompanying resources contain a wide range of activities which include exam-style questions with clear explanations of the answer, differentiated tasks and quiz competitions. There is also a big emphasis on the mathematical element of the specification and students are guided through the use of a range of skills which include the conversion of units and the rearrange of formulae to change the subject.