Dynamic Quiz-Quiz-Swap activity that not only challenges students but also promotes collaborative learning and topic revision.
Developed with 9 questions taken from past papers from 9700 CIE Biology relevant to selection and evolution.
What’s Included:
A power point with: clear instructions for easy implementation and notes with suggestions for conducting the activity and the 9 quiz questions
A pdf with the questions+answers ready to print and cut
A word document with the questions in case you want to change the format.
This activity will help you to reinforce key concepts covered in class, foster peer learning and collaboration and provide an enjoyable and educational experience for students.
I hope you enjoy it!
Comprehensive, concise notes designed to help students thoroughly revise the ‘Cell Membranes and transport’ unit for CIE AS Biology (9700). Aligned with the updated Cambridge syllabus (2025-27), editable version included so also easily adaptable for other syllabi or levels. PDF version ready to print also included.
The unit is organised into clear sections:
Structure of membranes.
Roles of molecules in the membranes.
Cell signalling.
Movement of substances across the membranes: diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis and exocytosis.
Comprehensive, concise notes designed to help students thoroughly revise the ‘Enzymes’ unit for CIE AS Biology (9700). Aligned with the updated Cambridge syllabus (2025-27), editable version so also easily adaptable for other syllabi or levels. PDF version ready to print also included.
The unit is organised into clear sections:
Features of enzymes.
Mode of action.
Investigating the progress of an enzyme-catalysed reaction.
Factors that affect enzyme action.
Comparing enzyme affinities.
Enzyme inhibitors.
Immobilised enzymes.
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Comprehensive, concise notes designed to help students thoroughly revise the ‘Biological Molecules’ unit for CIE AS Biology (9700). Aligned with the updated Cambridge syllabus (2025-27), editable version so also easily adaptable for other syllabi or levels. PDF version ready to print also included.
The unit is organised into clear sections:
The building blocks of life
Monomers, polymers and macromolecules
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Water
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Comprehensive, concise notes designed to help students thoroughly revise the ‘Structure of Cells and Microscopes’ unit for CIE AS Biology (9700). Aligned with the updated Cambridge syllabus (2025-27), editable version so also easily adaptable for other syllabi or levels. PDF version ready to print also included.
The unit is organized into clear sections:
Introduction to Cell Theory
Cell Biology and Microscopy
Plant and Animal Cells under Light Microscopy
Magnification and Calculations
Electron Microscopy
Plant and Animal Cells under Electron Microscopy
Bacteria
Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
Viruses
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Everything you need to deliver the unit “Reproduction in plants” 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 Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
Key Features:
Asexual and sexual reproduction
Reproduction in plants: includes flower parts, pollination and fertilisation.
Comparison between types of reproduction.
**Progress check: ** 2 short revision activities.
Bonus: You will also receive a separate PowerPoint version designed for students to complete with your guidance. 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!
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 activities in the slides can be used on their own as revision/assessment or as part of my power point “AS Biology transport in plants”.
Answers are also provided for the activities.
Activities include:
Two revision kahoot quizzes: links provided for playing them directly.
Plan diagrams practice of leaves, stems and roots and adding labels.
Xylem and phloem comparison activities
Final slides: include revision activities and some exam-style questions.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “plant nutrition” for GCSE Biology in power point slides (more than 40slides). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 3 parts:
Making carbohydrates using light energy
Leaves: structure and adaptations
Factors affecting photosynthesis: including many slides to explain relevant experiments and limiting factors
Progress check: some slides contain revision activities for the different parts of the topic.
The slides have been prepared in power point . All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website or shapes. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to use it for revision.
This Biology revision guide covers several units following the Biology GCSE CIE Cambridge syllabus 0970/0610 for 2023-25 but can be used for others.
The units included are:
Classification of living organisms, Kingdoms and keys
Cells, specialised cells and magnification
Movement across the cell: Diffusion, Osmosis and active transport.
You will find 2 files per unit: one editable and one directly printable (pdf).
You will also find a power point with the three units together (and the printable version).
This guide is used by my students to prepare the official exams.
If you find something missing let me know so that I can add it.
These slides can be used to teach fully the unit of “Organisms and their environment” following the CIE Cambridge syllabus for 0610/0970/0654/0973 Biology for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. I usually teach the content to my students in 2 hours.
Key Features:
Syllabus and Checklist slide
Energy flows and food chains
Nutrient cycles for carbon and nitrogen
Population growth including the sigmoid curve
Also included: Student version with half-blank slides for students to fill it in and flashcards templates.
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 “Biotechnology and gene modification” 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:
Biotechnology: including definition and examples as the use of anaerobic respiration in yeast, using enzymes and penicillin.
Gene modification: including an outline of the process, GM crops as example and pros and cons.
Also included: Blank Slides for students to fill it in and a printable version.
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 “Variation and selection” 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. These slides allow me to teach this unit in 3 lessons of 1h each.
Key Features:
Variation
Selection
Natural selection
Selective breeding
A second presentation also included with blanks for students to fill it in.
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 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.
Everything you need to deliver the unit of selection and evolution from A level Biology (more than 50 power point slides). It follows Cambridge syllabus (9700) but it is easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Variation
Natural selection.
Evolution
Artificial selection
Darwin-Wallace Theory of Evolution.
Species and speciation.
Molecular comparisons.
Extinctions.
There are two extra files:
Power point with a worksheet on “Sources of genetic variation” to complete the information in part 1.
A word document with a small project about endangered species to complete part 8.
Power point with revision questions for the unit with the answers.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website, some are my own diagrams.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
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 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 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 the unit “animal transport” for GCSE Biology in power point slides (more than 50 slides with easy navigation). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. Learning objectives are included and also added to relevant slides.
The topic is divided in 4 parts:
Circulatory system
Heart structure
Blood vessels: structure and function
Blood components: structure and function
**Progress check: **some slides contain revision activities for the different parts of the topic.
End of unit questions: slides at the end offer revision activities.
Targets: I have included a separate file with the targets. I give it to my students so that they can use it as checklist.
The slides have been prepared in power point . All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website, power point or mines. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to use it for revision.
These slides can be used to teach the unit of “Excretion and homeostasis” following the CIE Cambridge syllabus for 0610/0970/0654/0973 Biology for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. I usually teach the content to my students in 3 hours.
Key Features:
Checklist slide
Excretion: urea formation and kidneys
Homeostasis and negative feedback: outline
Control of blood glucose concentration
Control of body temperature.
Also included: Student version with half-blank slides for students to fill it in.
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!