This lesson is designed for spec point 4.1.1.5 for the AQA trilogy course. It also has some activities for looking at microscope slides, in preparation for the required practical. One of the resources in this has been taken from the AQA website and adapted for the lesson. I hope this helps anybody teaching the course out there :)

For each of the biology only combined science required practicals, I have made a slide of quick fire questions, linked to the topic the RP is about (not necessarily just focused on the required practical), the next slide has pictures of the RP, that you can use for discussion and it has some prompts e.g. what are the variables? And the next slide contain the mark schemes and examiner reports for some past paper questions linked to the required practicals and the general topics they are based on. For each of them, I have also included a pdf of past paper questions linked to the required practical or based on the topic (if I was unable to find a suitable question linked to the RP). I really hope people find this useful, as a basis of running through/revising the required practicals.

OCR A Level Biology Communication and homeostasis revision. This is a revision resource, with prompt questions to help students recap the whole topic. I print it A3 double sided.

A3 sized sheet with prompt questions and spaces to draw diagrams etc to revise the whole respiration topic.

A3 sized sheet with prompt questions and spaces to draw diagrams etc to revise the whole photosynthesis topic.

All the key pieces of information needed for this topic. It includes the combined knowledge and triple knowledge needed and I have clearly boxed off the triple information. I hope this helps students with their revision.

OCR 21st Century Biology B1 Revision Resources. The crib sheet just helps mind map information that students need to know. I cut the hexagons up and get students to match keywords that they can connect and write (using whiteboard pens) on their tables why they matched those keywords. With the board game questions, students either try and answer as many questions as they can in a set amount of time, or they play a board game e.g. snakes and ladders and if they get the question correct they can have another roll of the dice.

OCR 21st Century Biology B7 crib sheets. Due to the module being large I split it into the three main sections with one A4 page of questions for each section. I have tried to incorporate as many key questions linked to the specification as I can onto one page of A4 for each section.

A crib sheet with questions and spaces to answer them about all spec points from Edexcel B3 Part 1 'Control Systems'.

I made these documents so when we go through a specification point in class students can keep a track. There is also space for them to date and RAG each time they go back over each specification point. This is a really quick and easy way for the student to track what they can do and what areas they need to improve on.

OCR 21st Century Biology B4 Revision Resources. The crib sheet is a mind map of things students need to know for B4. I print the keywords two sides per page and double sided so they all fit on one A4 page and students can write down definitions of all the keywords; they can then test each other. I cut the board game questions up on card; the question is at the top and the answer is in italics beneath the question. Students can use these how ever they want e.g. see how many their partner can answer in one minute, or play a board game like snakes and ladders and they get an extra roll of the dice for every question they get correct.

OCR 21st Century Biology B5 Revision Resources. The crib sheet has got questions for students to answer about all the things they need to know for B5. The hexagons have keywords and examples written on them; I cut them up on card and get students to match up words that they can connect together and then they write on the table (using a whiteboard pen) why they have connected those keywords. The keywords table has the answers on the first two pages and just the definitions on the last two pages, so students can research and fill in the keywords.

Two sided A4 sheet of questions linked to the spec. I made this for students to use as homework revision for the end of topic test.

A3 sized sheet with prompt questions and spaces to draw diagrams etc to revise the whole responding to the environment topic. *I printed these back to back.

OCR 21st Century Biology B6 Revision Resource. Crib sheet of questions, to help students revise B6.

Quick fire questions and answers for the digestion, cells, microscopes and photosynthesis topics. Students can use these to help memorise the basic knowledge for these topics. They can be used in many ways, such as with a board game, where students have to answer a question correctly to go forward the number of spaces on the dice and backwards that number of spaces if they get the question incorrect.

Keywords sheet (the first pages have all the answers and the last ones have the the definitions and a space for students to fill in the keyword). I cut out the hexagons and get students to match up the keywords they think are connected and then they annotate on the table (using a whiteboard pen) why they matched certain keywords together. The revision sheet is a mind map of things students need to know for B3 (I print it double sided so they have the Carbon and Nitrogen cycles on one side and the other information on the other side).

I have designed these to question the knowledge required from the specification. The higher content is highlighted with (HIGHER). Any ideas for improvements are welcomed :)

The PDF pages are A4, so you can print them 4 pages on one on card, back to back, so the ‘State the equation linking…’ is on one side and the equation answer is on the other side. This is just designed to help students memorise the physics equations and easy to use for self testing or testing in partners. I have printed the different units on different coloured card so they are easy to separate for particular revision sessions too.

A checklist for pupils to use to tick off the specification points they have covered in lesson and then again in revision.