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.
Ready to print, 10 double sided Q&A cards covering AQA GCSE Biology/Science specification 4.2.3. Each card asks thoughtful questions designed to support students exam skills by testing assessment objectives AO1, 2 & 3 with a range of recall, describe & explain style questions (answers on back).
I will use these in the run up to exams as a fun revision activity for my Yr11s, to keep them focused and on target for paper 1!
Print packs for students (or they can self print) for handy starter, plenary, revision sessions. There is also a full set for specification 4.2 content Unit 2 - Organisation (50 cards including this set) available as a bundle, check out my shop. If you have time and like my resources please think about leaving a review.
Infection & response
This revision/plenary resource covers the complete specification for AQA Combined Science & triple Biology unit 4.3 Infection &response.
Updated to include fully editable final slide!
The PowerPoint contains an intricate mindmap that encourages students to develop links within this topic; which teaches about communicable disease, pathogens, defense systems, vaccination, drug discovery & development, BIOLOGY ONLY 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
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be really 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!
Cell organelles (structures) keyword & function card based quiz. Eukaryote and prokaryote organelles included and clearly labelled with questions & answers. Simply print slides 2-5 double sided (short side) for a quick easy plenary knowledge check! The question cards are ready to print so you don’t have to spend time lining up and tweaking, just print, cut and go!
This fun and informative complete lesson covers all content from AQA specification 3.8.4.1 Recombinant DNA technology (A-level only) and is the first of a series of 5 available as a bundle.
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 lesson is well structured and uses helpful diagrams to explain the gene machine and sticky ends. Targeted questioning to support students learning. Worksheets are included for students to complete (all answers are present) with a variety of activities such as keyword recall, individual challenges and answering exam style questions.
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!
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
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be really grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
Revision lesson from AQA Unit 4.2 Organisation GCSE Biology, suitable for both triple and combined science awards.
The resource includes content on digestion and enzymes, plus exam practice specific to 6 mark questions.
Updated to include fully editable final slide!
This revision/plenary resource covers the complete specification for AQA Combined Science – Trilogy unit 4.3 Infection & response (Biology only content add-on available separately).
The PowerPoint contains an intricate mindmap that encourages students to develop links within this topic; which teaches about communicable disease, pathogens, defense systems, vaccination, and drug discovery & development; 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
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be really grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
AQA specification 4.2 complete set of Q&A cards, 2 x PowerPoint based quiz, and lesson PowerPoint.
The cards support students in learning content by asking a range of questions that test assessment objectives AO1, 2 & 3. Using a range of state, describe, explain style questions students can work together, independently to review and reinforce their understanding of unit 2.
The cards are easy to print double sided with matching questions and answers on each side. Can be used by students for paired/individual revision activity or as a whole class quiz.
50 cards in bundle on the hierarchy of organisation, digestion, circulatory system, non-communicable disease and plants incl transpiration.
20 question (and answer) powerpoint for class activity plus 25 question PowerPoint on circulatory system etc.
Full lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification 3.8.4.1 Recombinant DNA technology & 3.8.4.2 Differences in DNA between individuals of the same species can be exploited for identification of heritable conditions (A-level only) & 3.8.4.3 Genetic fingerprinting (A-level only). Each lesson should take about 1hour to teach, but you can easily adapt them to your own lesson timings.
Making DNA fragments
In vivo gene
In vitro gene cloning & polymerase chain reaction.
Locating genes, genetic screening, and counselling
Genetic fingerprinting
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 uses real life examples of genetic diseases to enhance the learning of the students. Worksheets are included as PDFs 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.
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 COMPLETE revision set.
22 photosynthesis Q&A cards, copy, cut and use. Question on one side with answer on the back.
Covers ALL the content for Photosynthesis from the bioenergetics unit.
Use as revision, summary or quick quiz when teaching the unit. Great fun activity for review, revision or plenary to check understanding!
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!
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!
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!
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
One last thing, if you use and enjoy my resource, I’d be grateful if you could please try to leave a positive review!
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!
Photosynthesis full set of lessons that teach all the content from AQA specification Unit 4 Bioenergetics, 4.4.1 Photosynthesis. PLUS revision resources.
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)
Revision cards.
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).
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.
A quiz that covers all the content from GCSE trilogy & triple Biology 4.2.1 & 4.2.2 AQA unit Organisation.
This is a fun, colourful, quiz (also available a Q&A cards) students can work individually or in teams to answer 20 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.
