PAPER 2 REVISION (Edexcel SNAB)

This detailed lesson has been intricately planned to support student revision in the build up to their PAPER 2 mocks or final assessment. The wide range of tasks and activities will challenge students on their knowledge of topics 1 - 4, 7 & 8 of the Pearson Edexcel A-level biology A specification, allowing them to recognise those areas which require further attention before the examinations.

Included in the range of tasks are exam-style questions and understanding checks and all answers are embedded into the PowerPoint. There are quiz rounds to maintain engagement and to encourage healthy competition, as well as guided discussion periods to provide opportunities for students to support each other.

The following content is directly covered by this revision lesson:

Allopatric and sympatric speciation
Saltatory conduction
The structure of neurones
Depolarisation and the initiation of an action potential
Hardy-Weinberg principle
Genetic terminology
Sex linkage and autosomal linkage
Aerobic respiration
The lower yield of ATP from anaerobic respiration
The sliding filament model of muscle contraction
The ultrastructure of skeletal muscle
Slow and fast twitch muscle fibres
The control of heart rate
The functions of the different parts of the brain
Calculating cardiac output
Gene expression as demonstrated by the lac operon
The events of atherosclerosis
Epigenetics

This is an extensive lesson with many tasks so it is estimated that it will take over 3 hours of teaching time if covered in full, but teachers may choose to use sections to focus on a specific topic.