A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about: the principles of selective breeding and examples of this.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Evaluate the process of selective breeding and justify why farmers use it.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
Identify characteristics in organisms.
Describe how to selectively breed.
Explain why selective breeding is used.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides.
Resource designed to use when delivering the Pearsons iBTEC Applied Science:
Unit 1: Principles and Applications of Biology I
Success criteria:
Identify some of the main bones in the body.
Describe what is meant by different fractures.
Explain why children are more likely to break their bones.
Originally created for the BTEC Applied Science level 3 qualification Unit 5 - Physics.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Recall the equations for efficiency.
Describe how to calculate efficiency by using heat in and heat out.
Explain how the Carnot Revolution equation is derived.
The resource contains past paper questions and mark scheme answers.
Slides were originally created using google slides, opening in microsoft powerpoint might cause slight misalignment - open in google slides to avoid this.
A series of 3 lessons which teach students the principles of industrial fermentation.
**Lesson 1: Bacteria and yoghurt **
Learning objective: Evaluate the conditions needed for bacteria to thrive and produce insulin / yoghurt.
Success criteria:
Identify the steps of yogurt production.
Describe the role of bacteria in fermentation.
Evaluate the use of industrial fermenters.
21 slides.
Lesson 2: Yeast and bread
Learning objective: Explain why yeast is used in the process of manufacturing bread.
Success criteria:
Identify the equation for fermentation.
Describe how bread is made.
Explain why people don’t become drunk from eating bread…
8 slides
Lesson 3: practical investigation
Learning objective: Analyse how factors affect the growth of yeast and justify your conclusions.
Success criteria:
I can identify independent and dependent variables.
I can describe control variables that will impact the investigation.
I can evaluate how temperature affects growth.
23 slides
Each activity offered is differentiated and each lesson includes progress checks.
Past paper questions are also included to ensure adequate challenge is set to students.
Content was made for iGCSE students for edexcel 9-1 combined science.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about the process of genetic engineering using restriction and ligase enzymes. Examples of its use in insulin production and how this has improved crop production.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Evaluate the use of genetic engineering…
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can identify the enzymes responsible in genetic engineering.
I can describe the process of genetic engineering.
I can explain why genetic engineering is important.
Powerpoint contains 22 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about the universe and its contents. Students will then progress to learn about our solar system and orbiting objects in space.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Develop an understanding of what makes up our universe.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can identify components of the universe.
I can describe our solar system.
I can explain why gravity is needed for solar systems to survive.
Powerpoint contains 31 slides.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about charges and how these charges contribute towards static electricity. Students will then progress to find how these charges interact with another and generate current.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Justify how charges behave and how this contributes to electricity.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
Identify the 2 charges.
Describe how materials can become charged.
Explain why static shocks occur.
Powerpoint contains 20 slides.
A worksheet is also included to complement the Van Der Graaf.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students the basics of what is meant by voltage and resistance. Students will be given the opportunity to practice the E = QV and V = IR equations as well as learn how to used a voltmeter in a circuit successfully.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
State what’s meant by voltage and resistance.
Describe how temperature affects resistance.
Explain why a high voltage is dangerous.
A checkpoint style plenary is used to assess understanding.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students the basics of what makes an isotope and how relative isotopic mass can be calculated.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
State what is meant by an Isotope.
Describe how to calculate the relative atomic mass.
Work backwords to calculate the relative abundance.
Plenary checkpoint style question is used to assess understanding.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about factors that influence the size of a star, the journey through the life of an average sized star and a high mass star and how the colours of stars indicate their energy being released.
Progress checks are available following each success criteria
Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.
Learning objective: Understand the process of stellar evolution
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I identify the forces at play in a star.
I can describe stellar evolution
I can compare different coloured stars.
Powerpoint contains 18 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about orbits, how their instantaneous velocity impacts their orbital radius and stability and how to calculate orbital speeds.
Learning objective: Explain why orbital speeds change during elliptical orbits.
By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:
Success criteria:
I can describe how orbital speeds change with the size of the orbit.
I can compare the different types of orbits.
I can calculate orbital speeds.
Powerpoint contains 28 slides.
Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 9 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award biology. Section 9 - Uses of biological molecules
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 8 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award biology. Section 8 - Ecology and the environment
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 2 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award biology. Section 2 - Human nutrition
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 1 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award biology. Section 1 - The nature and variety of organisms
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.
A revision poster that includes material needed for section 3 of the edexcel iGCSE combined science double award biology. Section 3 - Plant nutrition and transport.
A blank copy for students to fill in is also included for students to test their knowledge.
I would recommend to print these in A3 and guide the students through the answers using the completed revision poster attached.
Due to the amount of detail needed to squeeze into one poster, the font is small in some sections which might need some further zooming in on presenting devices.