Premium primary and secondary science resources for KS2, KS3, GCSE and A-level. Biology, chemistry and physics for teaching and revision. Email: febolearning@gmail.com
Premium primary and secondary science resources for KS2, KS3, GCSE and A-level. Biology, chemistry and physics for teaching and revision. Email: febolearning@gmail.com
PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on mitosis for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Leads on to Binary Fission: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/binary-fission-slides-and-worksheet-gcse-biology-aqa-12318380
Content Covered:
Chromosomes
The cell cycle
Mitosis
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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New! Mitosis lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12830872
PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on respiration for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus but is also applicable to other courses. Next topic The Nervous System: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12361294
Content Covered:
Processes which use energy from respiration
Aerobic vs anaerobic respiration
Exercise
Anaerobic respiration in plants and yeast
Oxygen debt
Pulse and breathing rate
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on enzymes for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows the AQA Biology GCSE syllabus. Leads on to Digestive Enzymes: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digestive-enzymes-slides-and-worksheet-gcse-biology-aqa-12336629
Content Covered:
Enzymes overview
Active sites and substrates
Lock and key model vs. induced fit model
Effect of pH and temperature
Denaturation
Calculating reaction rate
Digestive enzymes are covered in a separate resource which can be downloaded for free here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digestive-enzymes-with-worksheet-gcse-biology-aqa-12336629
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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New!
Enzymes lesson https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12842558
Enzymes revision lesson (theory) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12903132
Enzymes revision lesson (practical) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12844622
PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on evolution for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. Next topic Cloning: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12625511
Content Covered:
Variation
Competition between animals
Competition between plants
Darwin and Lamarck
Antibiotic resistant bacteria as an example
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on food chains and trophic levels for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Food chains and food webs
-Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and tertiary consumers
-Biomass
-Predators and prey
-Trophic levels
-Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
-Apex predators
-Predator/prey cycles
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on competition and adaptation for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Competition for resources
-Structural adaptation
-Behavioural adaptation
-Functional adaptation
-Adaptation of microorganisms
-Interdependence
-Stable communities
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on fossils and classification for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Evolution. (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12557498) Next topic Speciation: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12635041
Content Covered:
-Linnaean classification system
-Changes in the classification system over time
-The three domain system
-How fossils form
-The origin of life theories
-The binomial system
-How to use evolutionary trees
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on food security and farming for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Pyramids of Biomass (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12648627)
Content Covered:
-Definition of food security
-Factors affecting food security
-Population increase
-Diet and importing food
-Impact of war on food security
-Environmental change
-New pests and pathogens
-Cost of farming
-Sustainable farming and efficient food production
-Bioethics: restricting the movement of farm animals for more efficient production of food
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on pyramids of biomass and biomass transfer for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Why food chains are short
-Loss of biomass between trophic levels
-Loss of energy between trophic levels
-Pyramids of biomass and pyramids of numbers
-Calculating biomass loss between levels
-Calculating efficiency of biomass transfer between levels
-Drawing pyramids of biomass to scale
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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New! Biomass Lesson GCSE Biology https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12857063
PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on decay and biogas for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4.
Content Covered:
-Decomposers and scavengers
-Fertiliser production
-Rate of decay
-The effect of water availability, temperature, oxygen availability and decay organisms on rate of decomposition
-Examples of biomes and their impact on decomposition
-Aerobic and anaerobic decay
-Methane as a biofuel
-Generators (aka fermenters or digestors)
-Batch biogas generators and continuous biogas generators
-Inlets and outlets
Suitable for remote online distance learning and usable by non-specialists, including for homeschooling.
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PowerPoint presentation and worksheet on biotechnology for GCSE biology for teaching and revision. Simple step by step explanations of concepts up to the end of KS4. This resource follows on from Food Security and Farming (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12648627)
Content Covered:
-Genetically engineering bacteria to produce human insulin
-Genetically engineering crops
-Producing meat substitutes from fungi (mycoprotein)
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New! Biotechnology lesson GCSE biology https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12857082
Primary Key Stage 2 - Revision Tools for The Human Body. The content can be split over two lessons. For a single lesson we suggest selecting two or three teach-check-practice cycles to focus on.
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Content Covered
The human life cycle (starter)
Body processes
Skeleton, muscles and joints
Circulation
Teeth
Digestion
Healthy living
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Group reading to review vocabulary (focusing on words which will come up in multiple science topics like develop, function and remove)
Human Body Organs (reteach-check-practice cycle 1)
Movement (cycle 2)
Teeth (cycle 3)
Circulation (cycle 4)
Digestive System (cycle 5)
Healthy living (cycle 6)
Revision practice sheet
Revision challenge sheet
English link (find the adjectives, creative writing, group reading)
Math link (calculations on the topic’s theme)
Opportunities to develop vocabulary, literacy and oracy
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced. Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence. Challenge questions are included for high ability students.
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Return to the start of the topic: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13107304
Learning Objectives
Explain how to measure temperature with a thermometer
State the melting and boiling point of water
Describe how some substances have higher melting points than others
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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Next Lesson Evaporation and the Water Cycle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13174021
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Learning Objectives
Describe evaporation, condensation, freezing and melting
Give everyday examples of state changes
Describe the state changes of water in detail
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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Next Lesson Changing Temperature: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13171923
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Learning Objectives
Give some examples of solids, liquids and gases
Describe the properties of solids, liquids and gases
Identify whether substances are solid, liquid or gas
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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Next Lesson Changing State https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13171541
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Learning Objectives
Describe three different types of soil
Explain how the components of soil affect drainage
Describe the organisms which live in soil
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Challenge worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Learning Objectives
Describe the difference between hard and soft rocks
Explain what is meant by permeable and impermeable rocks with examples
Describe how pebbles and fossils form
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Learning Objectives
Describe how a fossil forms
Explain how the fossil record provides evidence for evolution
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
Primary Key Stage 2 - Full biology lesson on Digestion.
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Learning Objectives
Name 6 parts of the digestive system
Explain the role of the mouth, stomach and intestines in digesting food
State how the nutrients are carried around the body
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Introduction to the keywords
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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Next Lesson Healthy Living: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13155673
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.
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Learning Objectives
Evolution brings together a lot of key concepts such as inheritance, adaptation, species and habitats so this vocabulary is refreshed first
Explanation of how variation can lead to new adaptations in a species over time
Describe some examples of how species have changed over time
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Lesson Includes
Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
Warm-up activity
Vocabulary recap
Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
Self-assessment answer slides
Challenge extension work for higher ability students
Worksheet (optional)
Group reading
SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.