A preceding lesson to food webs/chains for year 7/8/9 age group or a nice refresher for lower ability GCSE groups.
The lesson includes a presentation & R/A/G levelled exam Questions.
The lesson guides students through key terms including symbiosis, competition & variation.
There is opportunity for iPad/laptop/computer room research for a portion of the lesson, as well as suggested hwk for the following lesson, which will be on the human impact.
A full lesson to fit AQA new GCSE Biology spec - Bioenergetics unit.
Includes - differentiated lesson powerpoint
Pre - assessment starter task
Past paper Qs, levelled RAG, and mark schemes for peer marking.
A full lesson more aimed at higher ability students due to the amount of detail covered beyond the spec in places, to give a further understanding.
The lesson includes a starter, presentation, research sheets & past paper Qs, as well as levelled RAG tasks throughout.
The lesson could be accompanied by iPads/computer suite, but the research sheets for the task are all there, along with the table for students to complete.
Lesson 1 of Unit 2, Organisation - AQA GCSE 9-1
Includes
Lesson presentation
Lesson Plan
Activity student sheet
Exam Questions.
Apologies all items are labelled as 'activity', TES drop down menu wasn't playing ball on my mac...
A lesson to finish off the topic on variation, this time linking in evolution.
This lesson is differentiated by RAG and extension tasks.
It also benefits from a research task (iPads/laptops/Computer room) and a nice practical activity relating to Darwin's finches.
The lesson is concluded with a peer assessed exam question.
A practical revision lesson for the new AQA 9-1 Biology. This covers key enzyme concepts and the full RP5, effect of amylase on digestion of starch .
Fully differentiated, with past paper Qs, RAG and scaffolding, and method sheets with extension tasks.
A revision resource for AQA 9-1 GCSE Biology. Suited to 9s and 10s coming up to P1 PPEs.
Content covers,
key terms
Spread of disease
barrier prevention
vaccination
herd immunity (extension)
White blood cell responses (ext)
Fully differentiated and outcome based.
PPQs from exampro included and differentiated, linked to the outcomes.
A full lesson for 9-1 GCSE AQA Biology, reaction times. This is part of unit 5, homeostasis.
Lesson includes differentiated ppt with RAG and challenge tasks, plenty of AFL etc.
Also included method and conversion table from AQA.
Differentiated PPQs and a key practical terms hwk/extra task.
This is an entire lesson for variation, to suit the new AQA 9-1 spec. It covers prior learning inc meiosis & reproduction and is fully differentiated with extension tasks throughout.
Also attached are PPQs RAG levelled plus extension.
A resource to overview respiration & Circulation in the new AQA GCSE, 9-1 Spec.
Past papers includeded, and are differentiated, with Q1 being AO1, Q2 being AO2 and Q3 being AO3. The tasks throughout the ppt also build in RAG differentiation and challenge tasks, as well as modeling of good practice and graphical/data analysis.
A complete lesson on cloning, for 9-1 AQA GCSE cloning. Follows on from Genetic engineering.
Lesson is fully differentiated and contains RAG assessed PPQs, leveled challenge and peer feedback etc.
Also present is homework.
This resource is for AQA 9-1 Combined Trilogy Biology. It is an entire pack for the required practicals, containing methods, graph skills, case studies, practice questions & exam application.
You may wish to use alternative methods to those in here, however these cover the spec.
I have included the ‘mark scheme’ i have put together but it is very much in draft format, but still suitable for use.
A full lesson for 9-1 AQA Classification.
Can be modified, but required Ipads/IT resources unless you print out your own fact sheets.
Includes ppt, with homework, differentiation & challenge tasks.
PPQs to link back to prior topics also included.
An AQA 9-1 lesson including powerpoint & differentiated past paper tasks on Metabolism. Links back to previous topics of Respiration & photosynthesis, and focuses lower ability students on being independent & finding their own resources (from their book notes) to complete some tasks.
Fully differentiated & structured for a Foundation set or crossover set. Suitable for higher ability Y8/9 group.
AQA combined trilogy lesson for lower ability students (Foundation paper) on embryo screening & inherited disorders.
Differentiated outcomes, RAG tasks, mwb assessment & past paper questions included.
Also includes homework & WAGOLLs.
A full lesson for a lower ability KS4 group on DNA.
Covers the following outcomes
State that DNA contains a code to build proteins.
• Describe the basic structure of DNA & it’s importance
• Outline what the human genome project is.
AQA GCSE 9-1 Combined science, Biology lesson on Variation.
This lesson follows the subunit of genetics, and leads into Evolution.
The lesson focuses on human variation, genetic vs environmental & difference between twins/non twins when raised together & apart.
Fully differentiated with lots of challenge and WAGOLL within the lesson.
Aimed at 4/5 grade level, easily adaptable to further stretch.
Includes PPQs.