Comprehension activity to cover key areas of conservation including legislation (CITEs, SSSIs), seed banks and national parks. Loop activity which I ran as a group competition.

Set for a year 8 class (could be for year 7) when I was at a course, and the cover teacher did not want them to do a practical activity. Second piece of cover work included was a task to summarise learning on nutrition. Good practice for drawing graphs and analysing results.

Used with a high ability year 7 class to develop their ability to evaluate different sides of an argument, and to develop constructive debating skills.

Lesson used to introduce respiration. Includes practical with yeast, leads to conclusion that respiration requires glucose.

Used as part of the AQA transition course with a year 8 class, but could be adapted and used with older or younger learners.

Used with high ability year 12 class to go through the impacts of farming on diversity within an ecosystem - in conjunction with the Oxford A level Biology textbook.

Used with year 9 and 10 classes (high ability) studying the new GCSE Biology course. The challenge sheet (shown on the ppt) near the end of the lesson was downloaded from another author on TES and is a fantastic resource (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/surface-area-to-volume-ratio-logic-challenge-11313026)

I have compiled this document using the AQA AS syllabus, for my year 12 classes to use to focus their revision over the Easter holiday.

Used with high ability year 8 class, following a lesson on sexual and asexual reproduction. I chose to laminate the info sheets for use with several groups and to save future spending on photocopying! Would work really well in a school with iPads/class IT access so they could do their own research or as an extension find out about another animal.

Used with my high ability year 8 class - taught separate sciences so this passport is titled Biology, which can obviously be amended. Glued the passport into the front of their books, and added their 'passport photo' in which they drew themselves as scientists. Investigation skills linked heavily to the KS3 National Curriculum. Following a practical students write the data in the table heading, and tick off the skills they have developed/demonstrated. Could enhance this with a red amber green system to show the progress they are making towards a skill. When writing up a practical I encourage them to finish with a reflection in which they link back to these skills. I found previously they struggled to describe skills so this gives them a prompt. Aim to demonstrate each skill through a range of different practicals across the year, such that by then end they may hope to achieve 'expert' status. I produced this to link to the idea of the new A-level CPAC criteria and the idea of demonstrating mastery of practical techniques. With each new book they may receive a new passport.

Used with high ability year 9 GCSE Biology class.

Used with high ability year 13 class. Covers key definitions, Hardy-Weinberg, Natural selection and Speciation. Practical activity to demonstrate the example of Peppered Moths. I also used a circus activity with 15 questions on HW equilibrium. I laminated the questions on separate sheets, with the answer to the previous question on the back, and spread these around the room for students to have a go at.

Resource used over a series of lessons with a high ability class - covering adaptations of leaves, pigments, and the light dependent and independent reactions. According to the new AQA A level syllabus. - first cover a simplified version of the Light Dependent Reaction (as per the textbook), and then went through the version no longer specified in the syllabus (photosystems and cyclic/non-cyclic) - can be tailored according to class ability.

Used with a high ability year 11 class. - Covers intro to the topic, with key definitions. - Graphs to allow some analysis (e.g. comparing the main causes of death in developed vs less developed countries, comparisons between incomes within countries, and genders --> great for developing critical analysis and reasoning). - Case studies of Communicable diseases (including video links, and discussion of sociocultural and economic impacts) - Introduction to immune system --> I used plasticine and got them to make stop motion videos of phagocytes and lymphocytes, using their phone (worked really well!)

Used with a high ability year 11 class.

Used with a high ability year 11 class. Range of learning preferences included - videos, discussion, exam questions.

Used over a series of lessons with a high ability year 13 class. - Aerobic respiration including glycolysis, link reaction, Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation - Other respiratory substrates - Anaerobic respiration

Used with a high ability year 10 group (and year 11 for revision)

Used with a high ability year 13 class over a series of lessons to cover: - Types of neurone - Action potentials - Synapses - Skeletal muscle

Powerpoint and Comprehension activity used with a high ability year 11 class.