I have been teaching Biology for 20 years and I have struggled to find concise and engaging resources for teaching Biology, which is why I have set about creating my own.
I hope that my resources are enjoyed by your pupils and of course support their learning of such an interesting and great subject.
I have been teaching Biology for 20 years and I have struggled to find concise and engaging resources for teaching Biology, which is why I have set about creating my own.
I hope that my resources are enjoyed by your pupils and of course support their learning of such an interesting and great subject.
A visually appealing and well laid out A level worksheet pack focusing on plant responses and the plant hormones involved. There are three worksheets included in the pack, designed for pupils to work through independently. Once completed these worksheets will create a set of useful and detailed revision notes for students.
Worksheets cover the following:
Overview of plant responses and the roles of the 5 main plant hormones. This worksheet comes with 5 information sheets, one for each hormone, that pupils can use to complete the table element of the worksheet.
Plant responses to the environment
Types of plant response (tropisms)
Answer sheets are provided for all three worksheets.
A perfect revision lesson for GCSE Biology students, covering the topic of circulation. All worksheets are designed to be visually engaging and can be worked through independently by students. Each worksheet should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
Included are four worksheets covering the topics:
1.) Heart structure and function (+ a differentiated version to give more support)
2.) Blood vessels: structure and function
3.) Composition of blood
4.) Crossword on blood vessels and blood
Answer sheets are included for the teacher.
This resource features a multiple-choice pack containing 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 12 of the IGCSE CIE course on Respiration.
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
This bundle includes ten visual worksheets for students to complete on some of the core biological principles studied at GCSE.
The worksheets cover:
Cell Biology
Enzymes
Respiration
Biochemical Tests (food tests)
A colour poster detailing the structure of the skin and its role in temperature regulation.
The posters are great for display around the classroom or to give to the students for revision.
The posters have been provided in an A3 and A4 format to allow for printing in either size.
The popular worksheet pack on movement across membranes now includes an investigation into osmosis activity too. The bundle saves 33% overall when buying the two packs together, as opposed to separately.
This Biology GCSE complete lesson resource pack covers the topic of Lung Structure (the respiratory system).
This pack includes a PowerPoint on lung structure (the respiratory system), with an associated worksheet (supported version included) to complete for students’ notes and homework task set on the lesson which can easily be assessed and involves no teacher marking.
The PowerPoint has slides for both the supported version and the non-supported version (you can hide the slides not needed depending on the ability of your students). This lesson should take approximately 25 minutes.
There is also a follow up PowerPoint and recap test sheet (A5, two copies per page and can be easily guillotined) for easy assessment of pupils on this topic. Marking can easily be done via peer marking, saving you time. The recap test should take approximately 10-15 minutes with peer marking and collection of marks by the teacher and makes a great starter activity for the consecutive lesson.
Key features of the PowerPoint and worksheets:
Visually engaging for students
Clearly laid out for students
Encourages pupils to work independently, with clear instructions given
Comprehensive corresponding answer sheets for the teacher
Helpful for lesson preparation for non-specialist science teachers
Familiarisation of students with key words, their correct spelling and definitions
A pack of three pupil-led activities designed to engage learners in the classroom whilst studying the respiratory system topic.
Activity 1 - Card sort on breathing and lung structure.
You could either print this on paper and then cut/guillotine so that pupils could then order them in the correct sequence and glue into their classbook.
Or alternatively print onto card or laminate if on paper to create a resource that can be used again and again.
Activity 2 - Card sort on the mechanism of breathing.
There is a differentiated version of this activity with the higher tier version featuring the internal and external intercostal muscles.
Activity 3 - Loop game on the topic of the respiratory system and respiration. There is a differentiated version of this activity with the higher tier version featuring the internal and external intercostal muscles.
The idea of this activity is that the pupils have to pay close attention to the question being read out as they may have the correct answer to the question. Pupils seem to really enjoy this activity and it not only helps their learning but is fun too. Either print on card or laminate if on paper to make a reusable resource for the classroom.
These activities would be useful as a plenary at the end of the topic or as part of a revision lesson.
Activities such as these are praised in observed lessons as the activity is pupil-led rather than teacher-led; great for when being inspected :)
This resource bundle contains a total of 8 topic multiple-choice packs, each featuring 20 questions.
Topic packs cover:
Characteristics of life
Classification
Identification keys
Cell structure and organisation
Size of specimens
Movement in and out of cells
Biological molecules
Enzymes
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
This resource features a multiple-choice pack containing 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 11 of the IGCSE CIE course Gas Exchange in Humans.
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
This resource features a multiple-choice pack containing 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 5 of the IGCSE CIE course on Enzymes.
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
This resource features a multiple-choice pack containing 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 4 of the IGCSE CIE course on biological molecules.
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
A poster pack covering the external and internal structure of the heart. Ideal for A level Biology students.
The posters are great for display around the classroom or to give to the students for revision.
All posters have been provided in a choice of black and white or colour. The black and white copies could be coloured in by students to aid memory of the heart structure.
Both posters have been provided in an A3 and A4 format to allow for printing in either size.
A colour poster covering the structure of the eye and the functions of the various structures.
The posters are great for display around the classroom or to give to the students for revision.
The posters have been provided in an A3 and A4 format to allow for printing in either size.
This resource features three multiple-choice packs, each containing 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 19 of the IGCSE CIE course and the three subtopics are:
Energy flow, food chains and food webs
Nutrient cycles
Population size
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.
A large colour poster pack covering the following:
skin structure and temperature regulation
structure and function of the kidney
structure of neurones and reflex arcs
structure of animal and plant cells
structure of the eye
structure of a leaf
structure of a flower
The posters are great for display around the classroom or to give to the students for revision.
The posters have been provided in an A3 and A4 format to allow for printing in either size.
A number of worksheets and posters covering the nervous system topic at GCSE.
Worksheets are designed to be visual and encourage the students to work through them independently.
Neurones, the reflex arc, the eye and synapses are all covered.
All worksheets are accompanied by the answer sheet for the teacher.
This pack contains two crosswords focusing on the plant and animal response topics. The content is primarily targeted at the OCR A Biology specification.
The crosswords are designed to enable students to become more familiar with key terminology and definitions.
Possible use of the crosswords could be as a baseline assessment at the start of the topic or as a plenary at the end of teaching the topics.
This is also a nice homework task for students to complete.
Answers to both crosswords are provided for the teacher.
This worksheet bundle covers sexual reproduction in both animals and plants, perfect for GCSE students or could be used with able KS3 pupils.
Worksheets are designed to be visually appealing to students and are clearly laid out.
The sheets are useful as an assessment and/or revision tool.
Answer sheets are included for the teacher.
This resource features two multiple-choice packs, each pack contains 20 questions.
This pack covers Topic 2 of the IGCSE CIE course on organisation of the organisms and the two subtopics are:
Cell structure and organisation
Size of specimens
These packs can be used in a number of ways:
Use as a homework task for consolidation or assessment of prior knowledge of a topic
Multiple-choice challenge, where students either individually or in teams compete against one another to get the most correct answers (15 minutes is a good time allowance to give)
As an assessment (15-20 minutes)
For revision of a topic before an exam
Answers are provided (can be projected to go through the correct answers and allow pupils to self or peer mark), and also an answer grid for students to complete if you would rather reuse the question papers, rather than the students writing on them.