Popular resources for Biology students of GCSE, AS, A Level, BTEC and Access to Science courses.
From cell biology to genetics, the resources include PPT quizzes and comprehensive whole unit booklets.
Popular resources for Biology students of GCSE, AS, A Level, BTEC and Access to Science courses.
From cell biology to genetics, the resources include PPT quizzes and comprehensive whole unit booklets.
KS3 Miccrobes: Famous microbiologists, the black death, bacteria reproduction BUNDLE OF 8 RESOURCES
1. Alexander Fleming,
2. Bread making using yeast
3. Edward Jenner
4. Famous microbiologists and fermentation H/W
5. Louis Pasteur
6. The Black Death handout
7. The black Death PPT
8. Bacterial reproduction PPT and Task
Taxonomy for Biology (GCSE/A Level) : Introduction with 9 examples to complete
A PPT of 15 slides including:
- An introduction into the biological classification system
- Examples of Kingdoms, Orders and Classes
- 9 Examples to complete
A Level Digestion, including detail on macromolecules - PPT and booklet
Covering:
Dietary needs and deficiency disorders
Adaptations of the stomach and small intestine
Lipid and protein digestion
Health risks associated with a high fat diet including: Artheroma, heart attack, formation of a thrombosis, embolism, and aneurysm.
To cover both GCSE and A Level/Access Biology courses on the Skeletal System
8 RESOURCES PPTs and Booklets
PPT 1 - GCSE Level - Bones and Blood
Objectives:
Describe how our skeleton, joints and muscles support our body and allow us to move
Describe how we can monitor our level of fitness
Summarise a day in the life of a physiotherapist
PPT 2- The Skeletal System - A Level/Access Biology
Objectives:
1. Describe how our skeleton, joints and muscles support our body and allow us to move
2. Give the functions of cells of the bone
3. Label the parts of a long bone
PPT 3 - The Skeletal System - A Level/Access Biology
Objectives
To recap the functions of the skeletal system
To give the different shapes of bone
To give the different types of joints
To describe the stages of bone formation
To label the Haversian system
To identify the different types of vertebra
Hand-out 1 - GCSE Bones and Blood
The skeleton:
● Label the skeleton
● Describe the three types of joints
● Joints and Bones: Key terms
● Antagonistic pairs of muscles
● A day in the life of a physiotherapist
The heart, the blood and circulation
● Label the heart and give the three stages of the heartbeat.
● Give the differences between arteries, capillaries and veins
● Give the components of blood and their functions
Hand-out 2
- An Introduction to the skeletal system
Hand-out 3
Labelling a long bone
Bone development
Compact and spongy bones
Key word list
Muscle contraction
Hand-out 4
Revision of functions of the skeletal system
Types of joints
Bone development
Labelling of the Haversian System
The vertebrae
Hand-out 5
Further Revision
Bone Shapes
Type of Joints
The Vertebrae
The Haversian System
Muscle contraction
GCSE: Cell Transport - Movement in and out of cells: PPT and Booklet
Covering diffusion, facilitated diffusion, osmosis and active transport, speed of diffusion and examples.
GCSE: Genetic diseases, punnet squares, stem cells, ethics and new technologies - 4 RESOURCES
Genetic diseases and ethics - PPT and booklet
Stem cells, cloning and new technologies - PPT and booklet
Speciation & evidence for evolution: The Wallace line, fossils: 5 RESOURCES KS3/GCSE/A Level Biology
1. Evidence for evolution: Booklet
2. Evolution Crossword
3. Fossils - Activity
4. The Wallace line- handout
5. Speciation - PPT of 90 slides with activities on evolution and speciation
GCSE Revision: Specialised cells, cell transport & enzymes - PPT and booklet
PPT of 63 Slides of revision quizzes on specialised cells and cell transport
3 Page revision booklet on enzymes, cells and cell transport.
2 PPT presentations:
1. 22 PowerPoint slides covering plant transport, suitable for A Level Biology and similar courses:
• A Recap of the function of the xylem and phloem
• Identifying the sources and sinks of plants
• Describing the process of translocation
• Explaining why translocation is an energy requiring process
• The pressure flow hypothesis
2. Presentation 2 with quizzes/Questions:
- A recap of photosynthesis, a cross section of the leaf
- Transpiration
- Transport in plants
- Adaptations of xerophytes
- Translocation
- Quiz
- Illustration of plasmodesmata
- Apoplast and Symplast routes of water movement through roots.
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GCSE: Pathogens, vaccines, antibiotics, drug development.
A PPT of 72 slides to cover:
Pathogens: Bacteria, viruses, fungi.
The immune system, phagocytosis, inflammation.
White blood cells.
Lines of defence.
Vaccines
Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance
Drug development.