I'm a teacher working in a leading secondary school and I have always enjoyed resourcing. I resource many of my lessons and these are always well received by my department so I thought I'd try to bring them to a larger audience.
I have a firm belief that worksheets should combine aesthetics with functionality and pride myself on polished, well presented resources that scaffold without leading and encourage critical thinking from students.
I'm a teacher working in a leading secondary school and I have always enjoyed resourcing. I resource many of my lessons and these are always well received by my department so I thought I'd try to bring them to a larger audience.
I have a firm belief that worksheets should combine aesthetics with functionality and pride myself on polished, well presented resources that scaffold without leading and encourage critical thinking from students.
This sheet looks at how glucose is transported across epithelial cells of the small intestine and into the blood. It requires students to demonstrate their understanding of active transport (the Sodium-Potassium pump) and co-transport in a series of tasks and questions.
A full markscheme is included.
This double-sided worksheet consists of 8 comprehension and recall questions, some of them multi-part, targeted at the knowledge and understanding required of AQA A level students.
Questions range through:
Types of muscle and their properties;
Gross overview of muscle structure;
Antagonistic Muscle pairs;
Structure and function of myosin and actin filaments;
With full markscheme it can be used by yourself to assess students or can be peer/self assessed with the markscheme projected on the board, allowing quick afl in your lesson. It can also be used as a revision resource to check recall.
It ties in perfectly with my Muscles PowerPoint and Sliding Filament Theory cut and stick activities also available on here/from my shop and also as part of my Muscles A-level lessons bundle (link below).
This double sided worksheet covers the major structures within eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and, when finished provides an excellent revision resource.
It also references to other relevant topics including microscope types and scales.
This double sided sheet can be printed at A4 but works better as an A3 resource.
This sheet covers the key areas of neuron structure, reflexes and synaptic transmission (including neuromuscular junction, summation, inhibition and drugs). Please note this sheet is part 2 of 2 and, when coupled with Sheet 1, a more comprehensive coverage of the necessary nervous control aspects results.
Individual sections contain marking points/scores so as to allow easy feedback and AFL with the included full mark scheme. This gives you flexibility as to how you use the resource and opens up peer assessment/self assessment opportunities.
Aimed at GCSE this task sheet is intended to guide students through their first attempts at using an optical microscope.
At the end of the task students will have focused their microscope at different magnifications, made a scientific drawing of the onion cells, measured a cell using an eyepiece graticule and calculated the magnification of their drawing.
2 Resources Included:
1.) Reflection practical worksheet - looking at specular and diffuse reflection. A more open-ended extension activity for more able students forms the final task and allows further experimentation - with curved mirrors for example.
2.) A consolidation or homework task that puts the emphasis on the correct drawing of ray diagrams.
This resource serves as an excellent summary of how hormones released by the pancreas regulate blood glucose levels in the body.
Included is the template sheet, a sheet of 2 tile-sets to be cut out and a PowerPoint markscheme that can be projected and used to add tiles one at a time as a stimulus.
The sheet includes content up to A-level (16 to 18 yrs) complexity and details action of the pancreas both as receptor and effector.
This double sided sheet can be printed at A4 but works better as an A3 resource.
This sheet covers the key areas of receptor function in creating a generator potential (specifically the Eye and Pacinian corpuscle), Resting Potential and the propagation of an Action Potential. Please note this sheet is part 1 of 2 and, when coupled with Sheet 2, a more comprehensive coverage of the necessary nervous control aspects will result.
Individual sections contain marking points/scores so as to allow easy feedback and AFL with the included full mark scheme. This gives you flexibility as to how you use the resource and opens up peer assessment/self assessment opportunities.
This double sided sheet can be printed at A4 but works better as an A3 resource.
The sheet covers the key areas of glucosregulation, including:
the organs and cells involved;
the various metabilic processes in affected cells including (but not limited to) gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis and glycogenolysis;
Negative Feedback and antagonistic hormones;
Hormonal effects (insulin, glucagon and adrenaline) at the cellular level for liver, muscle and adipose cells, including an explanation of the second messenger model.
Type I and Type II diabetes
Individual sections are titled so as to allow easy feedback and AFL with the included full mark scheme which can be projected as it is saved as a PowerPoint. This gives you flexibility as to how you use the resource and opens up peer assessment/self assessment opportunities.
This double-sided worksheet introduces students to both light microscopes and both forms of electron microscope. It also challenges them to some magnification calculations.
Students will learn to differentiate between images from scanning and transmission electron microscopes and also be challenged in converting measurements in centimetres and millimetres into micrometres.
The activity serves as an excellent primer for a microscope practical and should follow a demo where a teacher discusses the roles and names of the parts of a microscope.
The sheet is accompanied by a full markscheme.
This 11 mark sheet challenges students to convert units from cm or millimetres into micrometres and to use the magnification formula to complete 3 calculations as well as identify the type of electron microscope used to obtain each image.
The included mark-scheme is a PowerPoint file allowing easy feedback and peer or self assessment.
The resource consists of a set of 4 source sheets (one for each level of protein structure) and a summary sheet for students to complete collaboratively.
Suggested Lesson Plan: Sort class into 4 groups and give each group access to a few copies of one of the source sheets (potentially on different colours of card with numbers on the back as pictured). Give them a post-it note and allow 6 minutes (adjust as necessary based on your own judgement) to summarise the information on their respective source sheet. Do note the primary and quarternary source sheets are conceptually easier so could be used for differentiation.
Then take in the source sheets and ask students to self sort into groups of four consisting of a person from each of the four original groups and help each other complete the note sheet. You can use time intervals to keep this moving on apace.
Combined with past paper questions to aid afl this was part of an outstanding lesson when observed.
This PowerPoint of 8 slides outlines the structure of the chloroplast and examines the smaller structures within.
The accompanying work/note-sheet allows students to record the information in a visually engaging way.
This is aimed at A-level students (16 to 18 years old) and would serve as an excellent activity as part of an introduction to photosynthesis or in partnership with a chlorophyll chromatography practical activity.
This double sided worksheet serves as a summary of the main points of the Nitrogen cycle as covered at A-level and creates a useful revision resource when completed.
The fist question involves a short sequencing/cut and stick activity to create an overview diagram of the cycle with the following questions testing students understanding of the processes it shows.
Later questions tackle leguminous plants and eutrophication as well as how carnivorous plants use alternate strategies to harness nitrogen.
Also included is a full markscheme that can be printed for traditional teacher assessment or projected for peer to peer or self assessment, introducing each answer with a click of the mouse.
This package contains resources intended to introduce the subject of Reflection
The PowerPoint (made up of 7 slides) is carefully designed to introduce key scientific concepts regarding reflection including virtual images, specular and diffuse reflection, image distance. It includes learning objectives, a starter activity consisting of stimulus image with points for discussion/consideration and a mini practical for students to explore image distance for themselves. Diagrams contain simple animations to help explain key points.
The summary worksheet (and mark scheme) also introduces students to the drawing of the normal as well as angles of incidence and reflection.
This sheet, printed at A3 provides a full summary of both the Light Dependent and Light Independent reactions of photosynthesis presented as a detailed flow chart.
There is room for annotation as students revise/as you talk through the processes.
A double sided worksheet looking at the nervous system and its role in homeostasis with a worked example in the form of thermoregulation.
Questions are short answer, complete the diagram or matching so the sheet is suitable for most ability levels as a summary activity.
A full markscheme is included
This relay-style revision quiz has proven extremely popular with my students and uses gentle competition to motivate students even further. Instructions for use are in an included sheet and reproduced below.
Obviously this activity allows opportunities for frequent assessment for learning and also allows stronger students to help inform weaker ones.
Instructions:
Print out the first 4 slides of the PowerPoint file single-sided and use a guillotine to cut them out, staple them into booklets as shown below. Different coloured paper helps but is not essential. Print a markscheme for your own use.
Split your group into differentiated teams of 3 (try to have a mixture of abilities in each team).
Teams have to collect individual sheets from the booklets, complete the question, and then take it to the teacher for marking. If correct, they can collect the next sheet in the booklet and progress. If not they may be given a hint before returning to their team to try again (Note, I find this works best if they are forced to rotate team members through these tasks).
A prize may be offered and periodic announcements of which team is
up to which question can be made to encourage a sense of urgency.
The resource is targeted at a GCSE required practical on the AQA scheme of work.
Contents include a PowerPoint of 9 slides, a foundation and higher level practical worksheet (differentiated around drawing the results table), a purpose made excel spreadsheet for recording class data for detailed analysis and a printable template you can stick on a metre rule to measure reaction time.
The PowerPoint includes a stimulus activity that recaps the nervous pathway and 3 slides outlining animal reaction times/speeds of response for comparison/stimulation of interest.
The practical sheet includes full instructions for students and some summary questions.
The excel spreadsheet is locked for editing aside from an area for students to complete in a central location (ie- projected onto the whiteboard) and will draw a graph complete with range bars based on average class data. The graph can be printed after the practical as required to allow more detailed analysis of class results.
