Practical looking into the effects of sweating on the body.

Practical lesson looking at osmosis in plants. Lots of chance for key HSW skills. Graph plotting, variables, good data collection

Place station cards around the room. Students move around the room answering the levelled questions

Lesson Breakdown 1 - B1.1 & B1.2 - Quiz question cards, exam questions and a Tarsia puzzle 2 - B1.3 - Lesson looking at how to answer the "Evaluate" questions. 3 - B1.4 - Dice game questions and exam questions 4 - B1.5 - Revision station activity, lots of different activities to assess this topic. Turnables activity based on exam questions All resources included.

Intro to B1.2 Students work through the senses and sense organs, then plan and carry out an investigation into senses (worksheet attached for the weaker students). Could run this over two lessons and do some good HSW

I designed a website (included) which contains lots of information. Students need to use this to complete the worksheet. Starter activity is the same as plenary to show progress (can use plickers for this)

Students complete pre reading prior to the lesson. Main objective for this lesson is to look at exam technique by looking at some pre-written answers to questions and determining why they lost marks

Nice starter activity to show the decay process working Rotation squares activity. Students start with the question in the middle and then follow the arrows. Each question builds on the previous questions. Answer included

Students complete the pre reading prior to starting the lesson Starter 1 – Students answer the 4 mark question on “What is a species” Starter 2 – Students get a card, they have to find their partner Main activity – Videos and teacher input to then answer the exam questions Plenary – Students in pairs try to remember the 6 marking points for species and courtship You may need to rename the video files to have the .flv file extension, or load them in VLC player. Either way will get them to play if you find they can't play normally, although, you shouldn't have issues.

Students complete pre reading prior to lesson Students look at exam technique in this lesson

Students complete the pre reading before they arrive at the class as this is a flipped lesson. Starter students sort themselves into groups based on the card they are given Main students have a piece of pre-mRNA and make different splicing patterns, then create the a.a sequence from these and have an exam question to answer Plenary students participate in a Kahoot.

A variety of stations which are self assessing and cover the whole topic. Task examples include: Mark the answers Answer the questions Model with lego Draw the pyramids

Learning mats covering the AQA B1 spec, B1,1, B1,2, B1.3 & B1.5. QR codes to videos, past paper questions and worked examples. Enjoy. Past paper questions and worked examples also attached

Students complete the flipped learning prior to the lesson Starter recaps the diagrams they were looking at last lesson on Haploid and Diploid number Main looks at exam questions, some long answer, building to a 25 mark question. Dependent on time, they could plan this lesson, then write it as homework or in the next lesson (How I am doing it) Plenary - Odd One Out. Which is the odd one out and explain why

Starter - Classification and Protein synthesis recaps Main - Students do three activities to look at similarities between species Plenary - Exam questions and MS

Students complete their pre reading prior to arriving at the lesson Starter - Students do a short quiz to check pre reading understanding, then do a small task checking knowledge on an element of the last chapter Main - Students have 4 tasks from which to choose from (one is an iPad task) Plenary - Complete the diagram as fast as possible in your groups of four

Students complete the pre reading prior to the lesson. They then take a small test to test their pre reading. Students work through the basic concepts before tackling some exam questions

Lesson on mitosis using iPads, although can be adapted

Practical based on the popular Twilight film where the students plan a practical looking at whether garlic can act as an antibacterial. Two lessons included The first is them planning and carrying out the practical. The second is them collecting the results and starting the writeup of the practical

Independent learning lesson where the students choose the level of worksheet to understand the LO's for the lesson. Learning assessed by quiz at the end of the lesson.