I am a highly qualified and experienced secondary school teacher with a passion for providing an inspirational, high-quality education to students aged 11-18. My resources provide useful visual support for teachers during lessons and activities to aid learning of scientific concepts.
I am a highly qualified and experienced secondary school teacher with a passion for providing an inspirational, high-quality education to students aged 11-18. My resources provide useful visual support for teachers during lessons and activities to aid learning of scientific concepts.
This resource begins with a starter slight, that encourages students to revise their knowledge of DNA structure. The second slide includes two useful visual aids to help you explain the processes of transcription and translation. The third slide includes three useful links to videos on protein synthesis and invites students to create their own summary resource on the topic. This activity can be set for homework or can fill a full lesson. Depending on the ability of my class, I then present students with the Genetic Code diagram that shows which codons code for which amino acids and ask them to explain what it shows. After comparing DNA and RNA using the venn diagramm on slide 5, students then complete the quick quiz on slide 6 and finally the two past paper questions on protein synthesis.
This PowerPoint provides a useful and easy-to-use visual aid for discussing the similarities and differences between molecules and compounds. It follows on from my ‘Atoms and Elements’ lesson (available on TES) and introduces the idea that compounds have different properties to the elements that make them up.
This resource provides an easy to use, simple and useful introduction to the differences between physical and chemical changes. The first slide can be used as a starter, to initiate discussion and inspire students to offer up ideas about the differences between physical and chemical changes. The second and third slides provide a useful visual that can be used to help explain the differences between physical and chemical changes. The resource also includes some fun, quick quizzes to help assess the class’s understanding of the differences between physical and chemical changes.
This creative, fun and easy-to-use resource helps explain the difference between heat energy and temperature. It includes questions for students to answer and a link to a useful video on the topic.
This lesson guides students through the body’s three main lines of defence again disease. Students begin by considering and discussing what the immune system is and why it is useful. Students then look at the difference between physical and chemical barriers to infection before learning about the process of phagocytosis. Students are introduced the B and T cells, before creating an artistic piece about a pathogen trying to avoid each of the body’s defences.
These resources are perfect for an introductory lesson on the organisation of multicellular organisms. At the start of the lesson, students are provided with a printed out version of the worksheet. As a starter activity, students label the human body with as many organs as they can. To stretch the top students, I ask them to describe the structure and function of any organs they have named. The PowerPoint resources can be used as a visual stimulus throughout the lesson, to guide students on which activity they should be focusing on. The PowerPoint also includes the answers to the activities on the worksheet. Included within this resource is also a research task which works well as a homework activity.
PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 3.1.1 Exchange surfaces (f) the mechanisms of ventilation and gas exchange in bony fish and insects
PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 2.1.5 Biological membranes (d) (i) the movement of molecules across membranes - Active Transport
PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.2.1 Photosynthesis (b) the structure of a chloroplast and the sites of the two main stages of photosynthesis
PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.2.2 Respiration (d) the link reaction and its site in the cell (e) the process and site of the Krebs cycle (f) the importance of coenzymes in cellular respiration
This resource provides an incredibly useful visual aid for the topic of ‘colours of light’. It covers everything from refraction and dispersion, to colour filters and explanations for why objects appear differently in different colours of light.
This resource introduces the phrases of the moon and how solar and lunar eclipses form. It is an incredibly useful visual aid and includes a series of questions about eclipses for students to respond to.
This resource introduces the equation for calculating pressure in solids and invites students to measure the pressure they exert on earth (graph paper is required for this activity). The resource includes a link to a video about lying on a bed of nails as well as a simple plenery that assesses student knowledge and understanding of the topic.
This resource introduces the limiting factors and the factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis. Students describe and explain a series of graphs before discussing why greenhouses are used to optimise conditions for photosynthesis.
This resource introduces a series of experiments relating to the reactants and products of photosynthesis. The experiments provide evidence that carbon dioxide, chlorophyll and sunlight are required for photosynthesis to occur, and that oxygen and glucose are produced.
This resources revises the difference between plant and animal cells, introduces the main cell organelles, their structure and function, as well as the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
This resource covers the control of blood sugar and what happens if you are unable to produce enough insulin. It includes useful links to animations on blood glucose control and questions for students to answer.
