KS4 CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS (iGCSE UNIT 1)
Power point slides to deliver the unit of classification and characteristics of living organisms for GCSE Biology (60 slides approx.). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) but it can be easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 7 parts:
Characteristics of living organisms
Classification.
Kingdoms
Viruses
Animals.
Plants
Keys.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website. Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
This power point presentation follows the 9700 AS Biology Syllabus by CIE and the endorsed book by Jones, Fosbery, Taylor and Gregory (5th edition). The slides cover all the theoretical content for transport in plants and I currently use them with my year 12 group.
Slides include:
Brief explanation of transport needs and vascular system in plants.
Plan diagrams practice of leaves, stems and roots and adding labels. (also included in the activities’ power point)
Mechanism for water transport: cohesion-tension and mass flow
Mechanism for assimilates transport: active loading in phloem
Final slides: include 4 past paper multiple choice questions with answers.
Power point slides I currently use to deliver fully the unit “Cell membrane and movement across the cell” for A level Biology. The slides follow Cambridge syllabus (9700) but they are easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in:
Intro: starter activity
Structure of membranes
Roles of the molecules in the membranes
Cell signalling
Movement of substances across membranes
Also included: unit notes for students to edit or use as revision notes.
All pictures have been sourced from creative commons or made by me.
If you buy this resources and you find them useful, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. In return, I can offer you a free resource of your choice or a compilation of end of unit exams. Just contact me in my Instagram account. Thanks a million!
This is a collection of five impactful games fostering teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking among students. The top two favorites are:
Psychiatrist: Sharpens communication and observation skills through engaging interactions and interpreting cues.
Task Whisperer: It challenges students to navigate intricate scenarios by communicating with precision and by dissecting problems from multiple angles.
You will also find:
The Mystery Classmate: Weaves communication, observation, and collaboration skills together, unraveling classroom mysteries.
Tactile Art Relay: Elevates teamwork and creativity, yielding amusing results.
Creative Connections: Sparks communication and creativity.
These games offer a dynamic learning platform, nurturing essential life skills with engagement and enjoyment.
You will find a set of clear instructions and variations for every game but do not hesitate to contact me if you have doubts.
Everything you need to deliver the unit biomolecules of GCSE Biology (37 slides). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610) and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 6 parts:
The importance of water
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
DNA
Food tests
Progress check: some slides contain revision activities for the different parts of the topic, some are based on the textbook.
The slides have been prepared in power point . All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to use it for revision.
There are 3 more documents included:
Assessment questions in word document.
Practical activity worksheet about diffusion and osmosis.
Power point with a short guidance for student to prepare a display for the unit/revision notes.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
This is a revision guide that covers the key ideas and concepts in clear notes for your Chemistry KS3 students. I use them to guide revision sessions in year 8 and I also give them to students to help them revise independently.
It includes these topics:
• States of matter: particle theory, diffusion, and gas pressure.
• Elements and compounds: atoms and elements, periodic table, compounds, formulae
• Mixtures: compounds and mixtures, separating mixtures, chromatography, solutions, solubility.
• Investigations: variables and graphs.
4 files are included:
• Power point with the revision guide (fully editable) and a pdf to print it.
• Power point with the revision guide without colours (fully editable) and a pdf to print it in a more environmentally friendly way.
Feel free to contact me if you have any doubt.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Inheritance” for GCSE Biology in power point slides with easy navigation. It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
Key Features:
Chromosomes and cell division. Includes an outline of mitosis and meiosis
Inheriting genes: including genetic diagrams, codominance and sex linkage
Genes and protein synthesis
There is a final slide for students to prepare a diagram of the unit and this is in a pdf file ready to print
Also included: student version of the slides that my students use to fill the gaps.
If you buy this presentation and you find it useful, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. In return, I can offer you a free resource of your choice or a compilation of end of unit exams. Just contact me in my Instagram account. Thanks a million!
Everything you need to deliver a unit of nutrition for Year 8. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7 and 9, and for a distance learning approach.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Nutrients: lesson + mini plenary based on 5 questions.
Balanced diet: small discussion + lesson on nutritional deficiencies + plenary based on short research project.
Digestion and absorption: lesson + mini plenary based on an exit ticket
The human digestive system: labelling activity + mini plenary
Teeth: labelling activity + structure of a tooth + dental hygiene
Enzymes: lesson + plenary based on activities with differentiation.
End of unit questions: 3 activities
Revision: 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW.
There are two documents with the relevant images for printing.
There is a revision worksheet with the main learning objectives.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
Everything you need to deliver the unit about light in KS3. Each unit part includes a slide with the main learning objectives.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
How light travels: starter slide with a video + explanatory slide + plenary slide.
How shadows form: explanatory slide.
How reflections form: 2 explanatory slides + exit ticket plenary.
How light bends: explanatory slide + plenary slide.
The spectrum of white light: starter slide + explanatory slide + plenary slide
Coloured light: 2 explanatory slides + activity slide
End of unit questions with 4 activities + answers.
Revision: includes a sudden death quiz + 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment.
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work but can be used alongside others.
There are 5 more files:
• Word document for the exit ticket based on an Instagram post
• Power point with the unit targets for students to revise + printable version in pdf
• Power point with sudden death quiz + show version to share with students.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt or you would like me to share some assessments. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
These slides can be used to teach the part of excretion following the CIE Cambridge syllabus for 0610 Biology but it can easily be adapted to others.
It includes a slide for dialysis and kidney transplant from 2022 syllabus.
It also has some short activities at the end. I hope it is helpful.
This resource is designed to give students a concise revision of the general procedure for gene technology following the CIE syllabus for A Level Biology 9700.
It includes:
Power point slides to guide students through the main definitions, tools and processes. It includes two useful youtube videos and kahoot links.
One of the slides has the student’s worksheet so that it can be edited if needed
The worksheet in PDF with the diagrams for students to complete as they follow the slides
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Human influences on ecosystems” for GCSE Biology in power point slides with easy navigation. It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision and learning objectives are given as a starter for the subtopics covered.
Key Features:
Food supply
Habitat destruction
Pollution
Conservation
Also included: Slides at the end of the presentation with blanks for students to fill it in. And the same slides in pdf ready to use.
If you buy this presentation and you find it useful, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. In return, I can offer you a free resource of your choice or a compilation of end of unit exams. Just contact me in my Instagram account. Thanks a million!
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Reproduction in humans” for GCSE Biology in power point slides with easy navigation. It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
Key Features:
The human reproductive systems, including gametes.
Sexual hormones, including an outline of menstrual cycle.
Sexually transmitted infections
Bonus: You will also receive a separate PowerPoint version designed for students to complete with your guidance in the lessons. This hands-on approach ensures active participation and solidifies knowledge retention.
If you buy this presentation and you find it useful, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. In return, I can offer you a free resource of your choice or a compilation of end of unit exams. Just contact me in my Instagram account. Thanks a million!
These are the slides I currently use to teach AS level Biology ENZYMES (more than 60 slides). Just updated for the 2025-27 syllabus.
It follows Cambridge syllabus (9700) but it is easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Intro: starter activity to refresh GCSE knowledge
What are enzymes?
Modes of action: lock and key, induced fit
Investigating an enzyme-catalysed reaction
Factors affecting enzymes.
Enzyme affinity; Vmax and Km
Inhibitors: competitive and non-competitive.
Immobilising enzymes
Some slides contain notes for extra guidance when teaching, some slides contain activities for students to practice for their exams,
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
This resource includes two presentations in power point to teach a lesson that covers:
Introduction to Biology alternative practical paper for students to know the skills they need to achieve to face this paper
Some activities to cover the basics of several skills such as:
Calculating magnification
Biological drawing
Plan an experiment
Chemical test (DCPIP)
Plot a graph
It includes the answers for students to be able to mark their work.
I hope it is helpful
Everything you need to deliver seven plant practical activities. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7, 8 and 9. Some would also be suitable in year 10. The slides for each activity include the apparatus needed, method, results and conclusion. They can also be performed as demonstrations and most of them can be used in distance learning.
What happens to plants in the absence of light? – This practical can be done in the lab or sent to do it at home in a distance learning approach as little material is needed. It can also be shown as a demonstration.
Leaves under the microscope
Roots for food: web exploring activity that can be easily performed in distance learning.
Seeds feeling gravity: lab activity although it is simple enough to be performed in distance learning.
Transport of water in celery: 2 lab activities included. It could be performed at home with food colouring.
Investigating different colours of light in photosynthesis – theoretically. Can be done in distance learning. All the information given for student to work out on their own the apparatus, risks, results and conclusion.
Check the slides’ notes for some extra info about the activity. Some coincide with Cambridge Science textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW. All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
Please, contact me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated!
Everything you need to deliver a unit about the cardiovascular system in KS3. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS4. Each unit part includes a slide with the main learning objectives.
The topic is divided in 6 parts:
The human circulatory system: includes a starter slide + slide for a full lesson + plenary slide.
The heart: structure and function. It includes a starter slide + slide for a full lesson + plenary slide and a related video.
Blood components: lesson slides + exit ticket plenary.
Blood vessels: lesson slides + plenary activities.
End of unit questions with 4 activities.
Revision: 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment.
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside others.
There are 5 more files:
• Word document for the exit ticket based on an Instagram post
• Power point with the unit targets for students to revise + printable version in pdf
• Power point with some of the diagrams used in the slides.
• Excel spreadsheet with the material needed for a heart dissection practical.
Pictures have been sourced from creative commons or drawn by me.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
Everything you need to deliver 4 activities related to motion. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7- 9. The slides for each activity include the apparatus needed, method and results. They are about 40 minutes long approximately.
Walking with style: students to work out their walking speed. It can be done in a distance learning lesson.
Be the teacher!: students to prepare a battery of questions and swap them. It can be done in a distance learning lesson.
Speed investigations: the typical practical with slopes and toy cars.
The graph of a journey: the students build a distance/time graph from a short story.
These activities can be used alongside any KS3 SOW.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website. Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
This is a Year 8 Science assessment based on past papers and activities from the unit of respiration that I have been using as end of unit test for the Exploring Science book. It is out of 40 marks. It includes a graph activity, labelling, fill in the gaps, etc.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
Power point with a 1 hour lesson about gas exchange in humans, breathing mechanism and differences between inhaled and exhaled air. Aimed to GCSE biology students. It follows CIE syllabus.