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A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 7 - Plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record time), AT 3 (selecting appropriate apparatus and techniques to measure the process of reaction time), AT 4 (safe and ethical use of humans to measure physiological function of reaction time and responses to a chosen factor) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on responding to stimuli (receptors, coordination centres, effectors, response etc.) and which parts of the body are invovled
Required apparatus
A suitable method
Biology behind what is happening
A look at the variables in this experiment
A suitable results table to record data
Safety concerns & improvements
Past paper exam questions
Summary
A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
Required Practical 8 - Investigate the effect of light or gravity on the growth of newly germinated seedlings
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record length and time), AT 3 (selecting appropriate apparatus and techniques to measure the growth of shoots or roots), AT 4 (safe and ethical use of plants to measure physiological function of growth in response to light or gravity), AT 7 (observations of biological specimens to produce labelled scientific drawings) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on phototropisms and geotropisms
Aim
Required apparatus
A suitable method
A suitable results table to record data
A look at the variables in this experiment
How to draw biological drawings
Past paper exam questions
Summary
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Genetic Disorders & Sex Determination
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
X & Y chromsomes and sex determination
Sex determination using punnet sqaures
Inherited Disorders
* Polydactly
* Cystic Fibrosis
How to intepret family trees / pedigrees
Screening for genetic disoders
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Contraception & Treating Infertility
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Hormonal contraception
* Oral Contraceptives
* Injection, implant or skin patch
* Intrauterine devices
Non-hormonal contraception
* Barrier methods
* Intrauterine devices
* Spermicidal agents
* Abstinence
* Surgical methods of sterilisation
Infertility
Treating Infertility
* Fertility Drug
* In-vitro Fertilisation
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Plant Hormones
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The role of auxin in phototropisms & gravitropisms
The role of gibberlines and ethene
The uses of plant hormones
* Auxin - killing weeds, growing from cuttings, promoting growth in cultures
* Gibberellin - controlling dormancy, promoting flowering, increasing fruitsize
* Ethene - control ripening of fruit during storage and transport
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Genetic Engineering
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Genetic Engineering and examples of it use in agriculture, medicine, fight diseases and treating inherited disorders
Stages of Genetic Engineering
GM Crops and concerns surrounding their use
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Classification
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Carl Linneaus and the Linnean System
Concept of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus & Species
How classification systems have changed over time
The 3 domain system (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota) & Carl Woese
The Binomial Naming System
How to read evolutionary trees (phylogenetics)
Exam Practise
A revision powerpoint covering all information needed for Required Practical 1 for GCSE Biology
Required Practical 1 - Use a light microscope to observe, draw and label a selection of plant and animal cells.
This revision powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record length and area) & AT 7 (use a microscope to make observations of biological specimens and produce labelled scientific drawings)
As always there are practise questions throughout to test your knowledge
A easy to use and visually appealing revision resource outling the key processes of mitosis and the behaviour of chromosomes.
Gaps for students to draw in the chromosomes for each stage
Resource includes:
Overview of Mitosis
The Cell Cycle
Key details of Interphase
Details of prophase, metaphase, telophase & anaphase
Cytokensis and differences in plants and animals
GCSE Biology Revision Powerpoint on Stem Cells
Full revision powerpoint including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Stem Cell definition
Types of Stem Cells (Embryonic, Adult & Meristem)
The use of Stem Cells in Medicine
The use of Meristem Cells in saving Rare Plant Species & Cloning Plants with Useful Features
Therapeutic Cloning
Evaluating Cloning
A 2 page worksheet designed for AQA GCSE Biology on The Heart & Blood Vessels
Worksheet is designed to accompany my lesson / revision powerpoint on this topic avaialbe for purchase here
Worksheet is designed to take 10-15 minutes and be suitable for all abilities
A full lesson for teachers or revision resoruce for learners in GCSE Biology
This carefully presented and detailed powerpoint includes all content required by AQA, practise exam questions with answers and a summary page of all the main revision points. All teaching points are well explained and supporting diagrams are included to bring everything to life!
A workbook that follows the powerpoint and is designed to take 10-15 minutes is included in this download.
How to use this resource: use the powerpoint in lessons to teach and explain tricky concepts. It will guide you step by step through each topic. Then, work through the exam questions with students as a class before giving them the worksheet to complete.
Lesson includes:
What are enzymes?
Active site, subtrate, complimentarity etc.
Lock and Key Hypothesis & The Induced Fit Hypothesis
Factors affecting the rate of enzyme activity e.g. temperature and pH
How to interpret graphs relating to enzyme activity
How enzymes denature
Practise questions
Summary slide
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Food Chains & Predator-Prey Cycles
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Food Chains: Producers
Food Chains: Consumers (Primary, secondary, tertiary, apex predators, decomposers)
Identifying consupers / producers in food chains
Predator and Prey
Predator-Prey Cycles (with example of field mice & owls)
Exam Practise
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Save with the Unit 7 Lessons BUNDLE
1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Pre
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Decay
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The concept of decay (role of detrivores)
Factors affecting decomposition (temperature, water availability, oxygen, presence of decomposers/detrivores)
Using decay to make compost (use as a fertilizer)
Best conditions for decay
How to design a compost bin
Making Biogas (production of methane)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Vaccines
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
How vaccines work
Passive vs Active Immunity
Herd Immunity
Worldwide vaccination programmes & Covid-19
Advantages and Disadvantages of vaccines
Practise Questions
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1 - Communicable Diseases
2 - The Immune System
3 - Vaccines
4 - Antibiotics & Drugs
5 - Monoclonal Antibodies
6 - Plant Disease & Defence
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Antibitoics and Drugs
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The difference between Antibiotic and Painkillers
Discoveries of Alexander Flemming
Antibiotic Resistance, how it occurs & how to prevent it
Antibiotics vs. viruses
How drugs are discovered (digitalis and asprin)
Drug Development (testing, blind and double blind trials, placebos etc.)
Need another lesson from this topic? Check out our other downloads below:
1 - Communicable Diseases
2 - The Immune System
3 - Vaccines
4 - Antibiotics & Drugs
5 - Monoclonal Antibodies
6 - Plant Disease & Defence
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Digestion
Full powerpoint including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included.
Purshase the worksheet to go along with the lesson here or see all worksheets for the organization topic here.
Includes:
Principles of tissue organisation
The main types of biological molecules
Structure and function of the main parts of the digestive system
The role of amylase, protease and lipase
The role of bile & the emulsification of fats
Abroption of the products of digestion through villi in small intestine
Practise questions
Need another lesson from this topic? Check out our other downloads below:
1 - Enzymes & Metabolism
2 - Digestion
3 - The heart & Blood Vessels
4 - The Lungs & Blood Composition
5 - CHD & Health Issues
6 - Effect of Lifestyle on Disease & Cancer
7 - Plant Tissues #1
8 - Plant Tissues #2
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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A huge bundle containing powerpoints for each of the required practicals for GCSE Biology
These powerpoints include:
Background on the theory of the practical
Aims
Apparatus
Metholodlogy
Displaying results
Safety and improvements
Exam techniques and tips
Key mathmatetical and practical skills
Practise exam questions WITH ANSWERS
Summary slides
This bundle includes all 10 practicals:
Microscopy
Microbiology
Osmosis
Food Tests
Enzymes
Photosynthesis
Reaction Time
Plant Responses
Field Investigations
Decay
Check out each of the topics for GCSE Biology these practicals belong to below:
1. Cell Biology
2. Organization
3. Infection & Response
4. Bioenergetics
5. Homeostasis & Response
6. Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
7. Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Lungs and Blood Composition
Full powerpoint including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included.
Purchase the worksheets to go alongside this lesson here. Or view a pack containing worksheets for the whole GCSE Biology organization topic here
Includes:
Lungs, bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli
Structure of alveoli related to function
Gas exchange
Calculating breathing rate
A close look at blood: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets
How to recognise blood components from diagrams
The role of blood plasma and substances found within it
Need another lesson from this topic? Check out our other downloads below:
1 - Enzymes & Metabolism
2 - Digestion
3 - The heart & Blood Vessels
4 - The Lungs & Blood Composition
5 - CHD & Health Issues
6 - Effect of Lifestyle on Disease & Cancer
7 - Plant Tissues #1
8 - Plant Tissues #2
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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An entire set of detailed revision notes on the Immunity topic for A Level Biology
These notes include details on defence mechansims, the role of T cells and B cells in cell mediated and humoral immunity, cytotoxic T cells, antibody structure, vaccines, herd immunity, passive and active immunity, HIV & AIDS and monoclonal antibodies