Activity / revision mat about haemoglobin based on AQA past paper questions. Also links in a little bit with protein structure and touches on phylogeny. Answers included.

Relates to specification points : "The factors affecting biodiversity" and "the ecological, economic and aesthetic reasons for maintaining biodiversity" Print off the statements and stick onto centre of large piece of paper. Students move between each piece of paper, adding their comments or questions about each statement - in silence. After a certain amount of time they are then allowed to comment on each other's comments. The teacher could get involved too. For more details search internet for 'silent debate'.

A few slides from a lesson I do with lower ability year 7's to help them plot graphs. The first slide is used to illustrate using the battleships game concept in order to get the idea of counting numbers across and then up. They'll need some 1cm square paper for this and then graph paper for moving on to other graphs.

Picture round as part of an end of term quiz. If you want a kahoot here is the link (this is a slightly modified version from another user on kahoot). https://create.kahoot.it/share/duplicate-of-aqa-as-biology/7ff7365b-946a-4f6a-b636-c375dba94349

UPDATED due to a couple of errors (26/04/19). My class were struggling with inheritance, particularly keywords, monohybrid crosses and pedigrees, so I made this booklet. Some of the activities are adapted from a great resource by https://www.tes.com/member/Masfar Exam questions are from Edexcel iGCSE (old spec) Answer booklet included.

Powerpoint and hand out for students to fill in about the components of the blood, functions and a bit about blood donation for extension. Originally produced for teaching edexcel iGCSE but fully editable for use with all exam boards. Includes a link to a kahoot quiz.

Wordsearch activity designed for Y9 iGCSE (edexcel) ecology, but could could also be used for KS3 and other exam boards. It’s easy to adapt if you want to tweak the definitions. Comes with answers. Students can either find words first and write them in the box, then match up with definitions. Or do the other way around, or maybe a combination of both.

Made for my Year 8s to review their Year 7 work on acids and alkalis at the start of the Year 8 topic. Also includes a couple of clues relating to reactivity series which they had done in previous topic.

Revision mat template for skeleton movement and joints. You may want to edit the ‘5 functions’ of the skeleton depending on what you’ve taught previously. We include: movement, making blood cells, protection, shape and support, and storage of minerals.

For 2012 OCR 21st Century. Word documents using the 'review&'/&';comments' function to show students what is good and bad about exam answers. The comments can be turned off initially to allow them to discuss (or provided on paper) and then they can be shown the comments. You could also get them to write and analyse each others. This would work better on Google Docs if you can access this in school.

A reading activity for reviewing or revising ecological concepts for A Level Biology in the context of the 2019/20 Australian bushfires. Some short answer questions to test understanding of keywords and concepts followed by some questions which could be used for class discussion or set as a group exercise. Also includes links to other articles to read and a short video to watch.

An information sheet and question sheet for a bit of independent work on the roles of the placenta and amniotic sac for edexcel iGCSE. We do this in Year 11 so there are a few synoptic quesitons in there too such as “describe the role of antibodies”, “describe how the mother gets rid of the foetal carbon dioxide”. Feel free to use this Quizizz quiz too: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5bedc6df007091001a7aed67

Powerpoint for the teaching of synapses and reflexes at A Level.

Quiz number for a quick multiple choice quiz useful for lower sets preparing for the 2012 Additional Science Ideas in Context (Dangers and Delights of chlorine and bromine). If you don't know what Socrative is then have a look at this TES page: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6193929

Students struggle to revise well so I thought I’d make a template for them to make some revision cards. Not particularly revolutionary but if it saves you a job it’s worth it! Also has some photos of example revision cards on the second page. Print out for them on card (or get them to do it themselves on paper) and they follow the cues at the top of each card to help them revise all the relevant information. Once they’ve done this a couple of times they should then hopefully get better at making their own revision resources.

Upload this to Google Drive or similar, convert into 'sheets' and then share the link with your students, checking you have ticked the 'allow edit' box. They then go online and red, amber, green each of the skills to give you and them an idea of any gaps in knowledge and trouble spots. It could also be used to highlight 'experts' on a particular skill. The document saves automatically and can be locked, or reviewed again at a later date. Possible drawback, depending on your point of view, is that they can see each other's self-assessment. I've also made a similar one based on the content in the specification, but it was based on a pixl sheet. I'm sure you could do something similar!

An overview of the effects of smoking on the lungs which could be used as an alternative to textbook work or using the internet for research. You could have students turn the information into a table or other format, set some questions for their peers based on it or use it as a basis for discussion.

A template poster / revision mat for pulling together all mentions of enzymes from B1, B4 and B7 plus a bit of protein sysnthesis (old OCR Triple Biology A specification)

Diagram for labeling and table to complete to compare the structure and function of rod cells and cone cells. Students use textbook or information from the lesson to complete.

Designed as a review quiz which could be done for homework or in class (on own devices or in an IT room). I have a feeling you can only access and edit if you have a Microsoft account though. Use the image with your QR reader or copy the link below. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ShareFormPage.aspx?id=IazNI3M3LE2SKi9uPOC_9aO57Ce6bztLqdXtYxlk689UQklVRVJCTUU4RTNPRFJFN1o4NUQ2TTRYNS4u&sharetoken=JeRBw7OBsxdsh03T51k3