The Skeleton - Activate 2.4 - AQA Activate 8.1.2 - KS3 Biology Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess Also includes worksheet and bone marrow research homework Lesson also includes graph analysis Lesson of video for students who may have missed it here: https://youtu.be/lQVBJAkB_nM

KS3 Biology - Anaerobic Respiration - Activate2: 2.6 (+3.1) - AQA Activate 9.3.2 Challenge opportunities throughout Lesson starts with comparison of 2 types of athletes - one doing aerobic respiration and the other doing anaerobic. Aerobic respiration equation is recalled Anaerobic respiration equation is given Statement as to why anaerobic respiration releases less energy Oxygen debt is defined Equation also given for oxygen debt (lactic acid +O2 --> CO2 + H2O) Anaerobic respiration in plants and yeast - equation and comparison to anaerobic respiration in animals 6 mark question on comparing aerobic and anaerobic respiration Plenary which relates oxygen debt to shortness of breath following exercise Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/_nltNBZnOxE Also convenient for students who may have missed the lesson.

KS3 Biology - Levels of Organisation - Activate 2.1 - AQA Activate 8.1.1 Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See it taught in the video below: https://youtu.be/hp1Wghwaq2U

POWERPOINT CONTAINS MANY ANIMATIONS - READ THE NOTES BELOW THE SLIDES PRIOR TO THE LESSON (or use presenter view) KS3 Biology - Smoking - Activate2: 2.8 - AQA Activate 9.1.2 Challenge opportunities throughout + Worksheet Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess This is a great lesson - but delivery may require a bit of practice =D See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/QhXbWxqR2l8 Also convenient for students who miss the lesson

Movement - Joints - Activate 2.5 - AQA Activate 8.1.3 - KS3 Biology Contains 2 presentations - 1 includes an investigation for pupils to carry out but is dependent on equipment available, the other includes a paper based lesson with no investigation. Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/fvBbjuX_LZM Also convenient for students who miss the lesson

KS3 Biology - Gas Exchange - Activate 2.2 - AQA Activate 8.3.1 Challenge opportunities throughout + worksheet Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/dt-BvuUuBpk also convenient for students who missed the lesson

KS3 Biology - Photosynthsesis: Plant Minerals and Deficiencies AQA Activate 9.4.4 Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess Lesson can viewed here: https://youtu.be/M0R969yH298 Can also be viewed by absent students and those wanting to revise

Activate 2 - Biology 2 - Chapter 2.4 Contains Starter, 3 tasks, + plenary with most answers animating onto the screen Worksheet is included on the last slide of the presentation

KS3 Biology - Observing cells - Activate 1.1 - AQA Activate 8.2.1 Presentation and Worksheet to follow for introduction to microscopy Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

KS3 Biology - Alcohol - Activate2 1.7 - AQA Activate 8.2.4 Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess Requires graph paper and 30cm rulers for reaction time test Worksheet included is the conversation table for catch distance --> reaction time

KS3 Biology - Bacteria and Enzymes in Digestion - Activate2: 1.5 - AQA Activate 8.4.5 Challenge opportunities throughout + Worksheet Very challenging clinical tasks at the end All answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

KS3 Biology - The Human Digestive system - Activate2: 1.4 - AQA Activate 8.3.4 Additional equipment --> whiteboard pens for students Lesson has students lay on tables and desks - students are then drawn around and groups will draw a list of organs within their silhouette. Challenge opportunities throughout + worksheet Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

-READ INFORMATION- KS3 Biology - Food Tests - Activate2: 1.2 - AQA Activate 8.4.2 Lesson is best accompanied by food test practical session but can be delivered without FOOD TESTS is best done in place of TASK 2- Slides 3-6 can be printed and used as instructions for each test at designated stations around the classroom and have them in front of the tests Challenge opportunities throughout Answers for task 1 animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

KS3 Biology - Genetics AQA Activate 10.4.3 More inheritance recap as starter (which is optional as this is a pretty big lesson) Tasks include: Dominant vs recessive Genetic Cross diagrams Interpretation of Cystic Fibrosis Pedigree (Recessive Family tree) Plenary is interpretation of Huntington’s Disease Pedigree (Dominant Family tree) Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

KS3 Biology - Genetic Modification AQA Activate 10.4.4 Huntington’s Disease Pedigree (Dominant Family Tree) as starter 3x Tasks with challenge opportunities throughout + plenary Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess

KS3 Biology - Breathing - Activate 2.2 - AQA Activate 8.3.1 Challenge opportunities throughout - Worksheet included Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/fQ7sm7H_El0 Also convenient for students who missed the lesson

KS3 Biology - Food Webs and Food Chains - Activate2: 2.7 - AQA Activate 9.1.1 Challenge opportunities throughout Students extract food chains from a web -and- Construct a web from a series of chains Answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/oYQdCwb9J48 Also convenient for students who miss the lesson

KS3 Biology - Movement of Substances - Osmosis - Diffusion - Activate 1.4 - AQA Activate 8.2.4 Worksheet included where students have to arrange statements into an order to establish a concentration gradient and diffuse substances into and out of animal cells Challenge opportunities throughout Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess See the lesson taught here: https://youtu.be/nSHL1_jRPN4 Also convenient for students who missed the lesson