A science teacher since 2008 and exam board assessor (GCSE & Alevel) I bring all my experience together to create fun educational resources that can be easily taught to any class. My resources are designed to teach content, build understanding and increase exam skills. There are many differentiated resources within the complete lessons and revision sets.
A science teacher since 2008 and exam board assessor (GCSE & Alevel) I bring all my experience together to create fun educational resources that can be easily taught to any class. My resources are designed to teach content, build understanding and increase exam skills. There are many differentiated resources within the complete lessons and revision sets.
Photosynthesis complete lesson
Lesson 2 of 3 teaches AQA specification 4.4.1.1 Photosynthetic reaction 4.4.1.3 Uses of glucose from photosynthesis.
Complete lesson teaches the uses of glucose in plants with fun tasks and links to prior learning from Unit 4.2.2.1 Food Tests.
22 slide PowerPoint
Worksheet
A brief summary of the lesson content:
Recap eukaryote cell structure.
Using a range of engaging activities students discover the 5 uses of glucose, learning keywords along the way, different style of activity for each use.
Food tests (Required practical 4) are recapped in fun ‘say what you see’ & ‘find the word’ speed rounds - completely linked to the learning objectives.
Exam question practise questions finish this lesson (with extension question for higher tier students) this builds on the previous exam technique advice in lesson 1 and allows both students to self assess and you to monitor progress.
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged. There is also a worksheet to scaffold the classwork.
This is lesson 2 of 3 in the AQA Bioenergetics - PHOTOSYNTHESIS unit.
In vivo cloning - complete lesson.
AQA A level Biology: 3.8.4.1 Recombinant DNA technology (part 2).
This is a complete lesson (second in series of 5) following AQA A Level Biology specification section “3.8.4 Gene technologies allow the study and alteration of gene function allowing a better understanding of organism function and the design of new industrial and medical processes”.
This resource covers the specification points on “In vivo cloning” from 3.8.4.1 Recombinant DNA technology.
The resource contains:
an interactive PowerPoint (47 slides)
2 worksheets
The PowerPoint contains the answers to all tasks.
This is aimed to be an easy to use resource, very straight forward with all answers to all questions (including exam style practice questions). Lots of opportunity to reinforce prior learning through a range of fun quizzes, team competitions and individual work.
This lesson will teach your students both content and skill enabling to perform well in their A level.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
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This fun and informative complete lesson covers all content from AQA specification content on ‘anaerobic respiration in yeast and plants’.
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The range of challenges encourage students to learn new key words, and recall prior content (research shows recall activities helps children to remember so I try to include these in most of my lessons). The lesson structure challenges students to apply their new knowledge to exam style questions whilst also giving them expert exam tips.
Included in the PowerPoint & worksheet (with all answers) are the following activities:
Describe the anaerobic respiration equation for yeast and plants.
Describe fermentation.
Describe & explain the factors that affect the rate of reaction in fermentation.
Final activity further application of lesson keyword consolidation in the form of a fun crossword…
You should find the lesson is self-explanatory in that you can simply click through, and it flows through the content. My students have really enjoyed all the lessons in this unit so far, so I hope yours do too!
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
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Updated to include fully editable final slide!
This revision/plenary resource covers Biology only content AQA specification points 4.3.2 & .3. Use in combination with the first mindmap that contains all other content for Infection & response AQA spec 4.3 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/infection-and-response-revision-12977284 complete set available with a discount as a bundle.
The PowerPoint contains an intricate mindmap that encourages students to develop links within this topic; which teaches about monoclonal antibodies and plant disease; helping them to gain a greater depth of understanding of the unit.
To use this resource, print out any of the slides (best on A3) then students can use their own notes/textbooks to fill in the bubbles and make the links. Can be used as a timed team game – allow each member of the team 1 minute to view the complete version then they race to fill in as much of their copy in 2 minutes as they can remember, repeat for each team member. Then ask the team to reflect on their mindmap and fill in any gaps using their own knowledge. It also works well as an individual task for a quiet summary/revision activity.
For students that find it overwhelming to view the whole sheet I suggest covering half with plain paper and working on a section at a time to gradually build up the full picture.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
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Biology Paper 1 revision.
A selection of revision resources covering AQA Biology:
Unit 1 Cell biology
Unit 2 Organisation
Unit 3 Infection & response
Unit 4 Bioenergetics
Includes:
5 sets of Q&A cards (72 in total) for independent/group activities, 2 PowerPoint based class quizzes, a (very) detailed mindmap (with helpful suggestions on how to use it) complete lesson on aerobic respiration to use for recap and a cell biology quiz plenary activity.
The cards are designed to print, cut and go, you are welcome to give these to students for them to use outside of the classroom for independent revision. I tend to give them to my students for this purpose and they love them!
Each quiz can take quite a good portion of a lesson (40mins to answer in teams and go through the answers) to get through, it took my class a little longer than I expected but again the students really enjoyed the format of it and the team challenge element.
The mindmap covers the whole of infection & response including the biology only content as a seperate map.
The aerobic respiration lesson can be used to recap skills as well as content.
I hope you find the range of activities engages and supports your students in their revision, good luck for the 10th May!
As always please email me at shropshirescienceteacher@gmail.com with any queries, and I’m always grateful for postive reviews!
Respiration full set of lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification Unit 4 Bioenergetics, 4.4.2 Respiration.
Each lesson should take about 1hour to teach, but you can easily adapt them to your own lesson timings.
Aerobic respiration
Aerobic respiration (& the effect of exercise)
Anaerobic respiration in yeast & plants
Metabolism
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The lessons are well structured and include differentiated activities. Worksheets are included for students to complete (all answers are present on the PowerPoint) with a variety of activities such as labelling diagrams and answering exam style questions (plus exam tips from an experienced exam board assessor).
The lessons are self-explanatory in that you can simply click through, and it flows through the content. I use them in my own teaching and my students really enjoy them.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
Photosynthesis full set of lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification Unit 4 Bioenergetics, 4.4.1 Photosynthesis.
Each lesson should take about 1hour to teach, but you can easily adapt them to your own lesson timings.
Photosynthesis & rate of photosynthesis
Limiting factors
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
Required practical - effect of light intensity on pondweed - skills based lesson
Inverse square law (higher tier)
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The lessons are well structured and include differentiated activities. Worksheets are included for students to complete (all answers are present on the PowerPoint) with a variety of activities such as labelling diagrams and answering exam style questions (plus exam tips from an experienced exam board assessor).
The lessons are designed to be straight forward for the teacher to deliver (whether you are an ECT or non-specialist) and engaging for your students. Learning objectives are used to monitor learning and all questions have detailed answers. Just click through, and the lessons flows through the content.
There are lots of opportunities for your students to develop and practise their understanding and exam skills. There is both scaffolding and challenge so differentiation runs throughout (most of my classes are mixed ability so I am used to have to both nurture and extend at the same time!) .
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
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4.4 Bioenergetics - all specification points taught
Photosynthesis full set of lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification Unit 4 Bioenergetics, 4.4.1 Photosynthesis.
Each lesson should take about 1hour to teach, but you can easily adapt them to your own lesson timings.
Photosynthesis & rate of photosynthesis
Limiting factors
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
Required practical - effect of light intensity on pondweed - skills based lesson
Inverse square law (higher tier)
Respiration full set of lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification Unit 4 Bioenergetics, 4.4.2 Respiration.
Each lesson should take about 1hour to teach, but you can easily adapt them to your own lesson timings.
Aerobic respiration
Aerobic respiration (& the effect of exercise)
Anaerobic respiration in yeast & plants
Metabolism
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The lessons are well structured and include differentiated activities. Worksheets are included for students to complete (all answers are present on the PowerPoint) with a variety of activities such as labelling diagrams and answering exam style questions (plus exam tips from an experienced exam board assessor).
Also includes some revision materials, perfect to support your Year 11 students before sitting their exams.
The lessons are self-explanatory in that you can simply click through, and it flows through the content. I use them in my own teaching and my students really enjoy them.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
A quiz that covers the content from GCSE trilogy & triple Biology AQA unit Organisation.
Questions are based on the following specification points:
4.2.2.2 The heart and blood vessels
4.2.2.3 Blood
4.2.2.4 Coronary heart disease: a non-communicable disease
4.2.2.5 Health issues
4.2.2.6 The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases
4.2.2.7 Cancer
This is a fun, colourful, quiz (also available a Q&A cards) students can work individually or in teams to answer 25 targeted questions.
Can be used as part of a revision lesson or as a fun plenary.
The activity supports revision and recall of the unit. Helps students to differentiate between describe and explain questions.
Please see my other quizzes from this unit.
Photosynthesis
10 question and answer cards on AQA sppecification 4.4.1 Photosynthesis higher tier content, ready to copy, cut and use.
The questions challenge students to recall prior learning, and to apply this knowledge to describe and explain style challenge.
This pack (b) contains higher tier content to use alone or add onto the main pack (a).
Also available as a bundle
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
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Photosynthesis activity - Unit 4 Bioenergetics.
12 ready to copy, cut and use question & answer cards!
Can be used in a variety of ways, great for a quick recap activity, starter, plenary or revision lesson.
Includes content from Unit 4 Bioenergetics - Photosynthesis.
OCR specification B1.4f explain the interaction of factors in limiting the rate of photosynthesis.
Complete lesson ready to use, just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
Lesson contains:
Concise learning objectives - referred to through the lesson to check learning has occurred.
Describe factors effecting the rate of reaction.
Describe and explain limiting factors.
Includes detailed answers to all tasks.
Teaching time approx 1hour.
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged following the traditional starter, main, plenary format. There is also a worksheet for independent work (graph paper is needed).
Students will learn new content and will have opportunity to practise exam and data analysis skills as per the specification.
Fully resourced with 1 worksheet and a 23 slide PowerPoint.
If you are looking for more resources to teach and revise this unit check out my shop or click [photosynthesis revision]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970397)
I aim to make my lessons really easy to deliver, just click through to each task.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could leave a positive review!
Plant adaptations & plant extremophiles. Complete lesson to teach the plant based part of AQA specification 4.7.1.4 Adaptations.
Complete lesson ready to use just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
Includes:
Easy-to-follow PowerPoint:
• all answers to each fun activity are present on the PowerPoint.
• helpful notes present on some slides to support non-specialists or first-time teachers of this topic.
• Differentiated resources - alternate versions of task 2 available to support lower ability students.
Worksheet on Word:
• The worksheet allow students to develop understanding of extremophiles.
• All answers are given on the PowerPoint.
Summary of main points of lesson:
Concise learning objectives.
Recap the basic structure of a plant.
Beautiful photos demonstrate to students some of the variety within the plant kingdom.
Fun task: Identify and explain the different adaptations plants have for defence (using 3 common examples from the British countryside). This leads into a written exam style question task (with answers for self/peer assessment).
Fun class keyword activity.
Paired discussion activity leading to short written task.
Pollination task - exam style thinking and question task.
Demonstration of seed dispersal adaptations (both wind and animal).
Introduction of extremophiles.
Final task: Worksheet based comprehension task using a specific extremophile.
Includes:
26 slide PowerPoint
1 worksheet (on Word so editable)
Detailed answers to all tasks on PowerPoint.
I also found a great video ‘Bang goes the theory’ explaining how nettle stings work, its brilliant and fits in well after slide 10. I haven’t included it due to copyright laws but would encourage you to google it (BBC One Bang goes the theory, How do stinging nettles sting?)!
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged.
I hope you find this lesson to be quite easy to deliver, you can simply click through, and flow through the content.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
Rate of transpiration - transport in plants. AQA specification 4.2.3.1 Plant tissues, 4.2.3.2 Plant organ system.
Complete lesson ready to use just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
Includes:
Easy-to-follow engaging PowerPoint:
• all answers to each fun activity are present on the PowerPoint.
• helpful notes present on some slides to support non-specialists or first-time teachers of this topic.
• This lesson includes details of using a potometer.
Mathematical skills MS 4a&c. Draw a graph from a set of data, then interpret the graph through exam style questions.
Worksheets on Word:
• Each of the worksheets has a strong focus on keywords and essential skills, they therefore allow students to develop their exam technique.
• All answers are given on the PowerPoint.
As an experienced exam assessor, a key theme to all my lessons is to encourage students to practise essential exam skills with many helpful tips and practise questions scattered through each unit of work.
Follow this link for a free revision guide on this subject Q&A
Follow this link for the first lesson in this series on Transpiration
Transpiration - transport in plants. AQA specification 4.2.3.1 Plant tissues, 4.2.3.2 Plant organ system (transpiration content only).
Complete lesson ready to use just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
Includes:
Easy-to-follow PowerPoint:
• all answers to each fun activity are present on the PowerPoint.
• helpful notes present on some slides to support non-specialists or first-time teachers of this topic.
• This lesson includes a microscope practical, I have included a series of slides which contain photos of the practical you can use to show students exactly what to do to complete the practical work or they can be used instead of the practical itself
Worksheets on Word:
• Each of the worksheets has a strong focus on language and therefore allow students to develop their understanding of keywords.
• All answers are given on the PowerPoint.
As an experienced exam assessor, a key theme to all my lessons is to encourage students to practise essential exam skills with many helpful tips and practise questions scattered through each unit of work.
Follow this link for a free revision guide on this subject Q&A cards
This fun and informative complete lesson covers all content from AQA specification content on ‘anaerobic respiration and effect of exercise’.
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The range of challenges encourage students to learn new key words, practice their ability to balance an equation and recall chemical formula. The lesson structure challenges students to apply their new knowledge to exam style questions whilst also giving them expert exam tips.
Included in the PowerPoint & worksheet are the following activities:
Discover the meaning of anaerobic.
Describe the anaerobic respiration equation.
Describe oxygen debt.
Explain the role of the liver (HT) in metabolism of lactic acid.
Final activity further application of lesson & exam style questions.
You should find the lesson is self-explanatory in that you can simply click through, and it flows through the content. My students have really enjoyed all the lessons in this unit so far, so I hope yours do too!
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
AQA specification 4.4.1.2 Rate of photosynthesis.
Complete lesson ready to use, just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
Lesson contains:
Concise learning objectives - referred to through the lesson to check learning has occurred.
Describe factors effecting the rate of reaction.
Describe and explain limiting factors.
Includes detailed answers to all tasks.
Teaching time approx 1hour.
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged following the traditional starter, main, plenary format. There is also a worksheet for independent work (graph paper is needed).
Students will learn new content and will have opportunity to practise exam and data analysis skills as per the specification.
Fully resourced with 1 worksheet and a 23 slide PowerPoint.
If you are looking for more resources to teach and revise this unit check out my shop or click [photosynthesis revision]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970397)
I aim to make my lessons really easy to deliver, just click through to each task.
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could leave a positive review!
This fun and informative COMPLETE LESSON covers all content from AQA specification content on ‘aerobic respiration’.
Includes: 1 x PowerPoint and Word document worksheet
Using a detailed and engaging PowerPoint the students work their way through the content with a range of whole class quizzes, paired and individual activities. The range of challenges encourage students to learn new key words, practise their ability to balance an equation and recall chemical formula. The lesson structure challenges students to apply their new knowledge to exam style questions whilst also giving them expert exam tips.
Included in the PowerPoint & worksheet are the following activities:
Recall the structure of an animal cell.
Recall the function of cell organelles.
Discover the meaning of aerobic.
Describe the respiration equation (and where the reactants come from) includes a section on balancing equations.
State that respiration is exothermic.
Describe why organisms need to respire.
Summary task using differentiated questions to apply learning and enable the teacher to check on progress (least to most challenge).
Final activity further application of lesson & linking to prior units.
Check my fun, informative lessons on photosynthesis
You should find the lesson is self-explanatory in that you can simply click through, and it flows through the content. My students have really enjoyed all the lessons in this unit so far, so I hope yours do too!
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
AQA specification 4.4.1.1 Photosynthetic reaction 4.4.1.2 Rate of photosynthesis.
Complete lesson ready to use just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
A brief summary of the lesson content:
Concise learning objectives - referred to through the lesson to check learning has occurred.
Recap leaf structure.
Develop better understanding of biological terms by looking at the etymology of words.
Discover the chemical reaction and learn the word & balanced symbol equation for photosynthesis.
Describe factors effecting the rate of reaction.
Includes:
26 slide PowerPoint
2 worksheets (on Word so editable)
Detailed answers to all tasks on PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged following the traditional starter, main, plenary format. There is also a worksheet to scaffold the classwork.
I hope you find this lesson to be quite easy to deliver, you can simply click through, and flow through the content.
Looking for helpful revision resources for this unit, check out these brilliant question cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970397
My students have really enjoyed all the lessons in this unit so far, so I hope yours do too!
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could leave a positive review!
OCR specification B1.4(abce) Photosynthesis
Complete lesson ready to use just download, print and go!
Designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists) but I have found more & more students need to access resources independently so my lessons are structured in a way that students can navigate for remote learning or to catch up on missed content. Can also be used for a flipped learning approach.
A brief summary of the lesson content:
Concise learning objectives - referred to through the lesson to check learning has occurred.
Recap leaf structure.
Develop better understanding of biological terms by looking at the etymology of words.
Discover the chemical reaction and learn the word & balanced symbol equation for photosynthesis.
Describe factors effecting the rate of reaction.
Includes:
42 slide PowerPoint
2 worksheets (on Word so editable)
Detailed answers to all tasks on PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint is fun and interactive with a range of tasks to keep students engaged following the traditional starter, main, plenary format. There is also a worksheet to scaffold the classwork.
I hope you find this lesson to be quite easy to deliver, you can simply click through, and flow through the content.
Check out my photosynthesis revision question cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970397
My students have really enjoyed all the lessons in this unit so far, so I hope yours do too!
If you have any questions about this, or any of my resources, please message me at: shropshiresciencetutor@gmail.com
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could leave a positive review!