A practical lesson designed for AQA GCSE Biology, in which students clone cauliflower and explain how meristematic stem cells are involved in differentiation.

A diagram designed to consolidate & review the LDR and LIR, showing how the various structures interlink. A lesson designed to be delivered as an interactive, Q&A style lesson

An review lesson in which students look at standard form, and are asked to draw upon pre-taught knowledge of fossils. Designed in response to the 2023 and 2024 exam reports, which stated that standard form was a weakness across GCSE Biology papers.

A full lesson to introduce key terms associated with the B17 Ecosystems topic. Includes card sort, exam questions and AFL activities

A lesson designed to help students understand the structure of DNA, and how this forms genes, chromosomes and phenotypes. Contains a card sort, exam questions, and AFL activities

A lesson designed to help students understand accuracy and precision, and how to apply these terms to evaluative AO3 GCSE questions.

A full lesson that reviews Year 12 knowledge of transcription and translation, and asks students to convert a DNA base sequence into a polypeptide, then mutate this code and discuss the impact of different types of mutation on the resulting polypeptide.

A full lesson which covers how to calculate Q10 in a variety of contexts. Contains worked examples, answers and lots of different styles of exam question from the OCR Biology A course.

Used during Covid to model the steps required to calculate standard deviation, and to explain what this tells us about our data. Still used as an independent learning homework or clinic.

This is a complete lesson which involves: Exam question starter to review Evolutionary Trees Introduction to Darwin & Wallace Discussion of the observations used which lead to their theories Model exam answer Student answers to mark / analyse Oracy task to practice use of the model answer Exam questions for students to perfect their own answers Extension activity to show students how theories of modern day natural selection are investigated

An introduction to the mechanisms of control systems, with a table of exam questions to challenge students to apply their knowledge

A lesson that goes through rate calculations and tangents in detail. References to worksheets are from Kerboodle.

A lesson that asks students to use exam-board certified mark schemes to make a playdough model to show how antibodies work in a pregnancy test. Includes animated demonstration on a powerpoint, exemplar work and a challenge tasks that asks students to apply their understanding to a Lateral Flow test.

This lesson covers the transmission of pathogens and non-specific defences. Page references refer to the Kerboodle textbook.

A lesson that asks students to apply their understanding of interdependence to ecosystems, identifying biotic and abiotic within them

Having set pre-reading which asks students to create posters on specialsied cells, this lesson challenges students to link their observations about structure to function.

Having taught about specialsied cells, this lesson asks students to view specialised cells and tissues under microscopes and carry out biological drawings.

This covers tissue types and encourages students to research the effect of smoking, to present their findings to their peers.

A lesson that asks students to compare the relative sizes of sperm and egg cells, and use their calculations to create models of each.

Complete lesson, with practical work and exam questions, designed for OCR’s Cloning topic.