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

Lesson to introduce the idea of neutralisation with student-led practical activities

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 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 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 accuracy and precision, and how to apply these terms to evaluative AO3 GCSE questions.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A lesson to consolidate Scientific Investigation skills, focusing on resolution and the calculation of uncertainty. Designed for AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science.

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

KS3 lesson to be taught alongside the KS3 Activate resources