Starter - Spot the mistakes in the diagram Main - Dissection and dice game Plenary - Exam Questions DIssection worksheet not included as gained from a free resource on TES Pre reading included

DNA Extraction lesson and practical. Lesson covers DNA and genetic materials with a thought provoking starter on the length of DNA in a cell. A simple variation of the lesson could be to extract DNA from one fruit, but this lesson looks at comparing different fruits and the challenges faced with that. Easy to follow worksheet

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

Revision sheets for students to complete. Covers the main points from these lessons.

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This lesson students would have had an assessment feedback which highlights their strong and weak command words. This lesson uses HIV content to allow them to address this

PDF of a host of B2 exam questions. Included are the same worksheets with worked answers

Students use the textbooks/internet to answer the questions on the worksheet. They have to answer a specified amount to be "safe" for the lesson and then there are rewards for achieving more points. Very easily a whole lesson of students working on tasks that are self differentiated.

Writing frame to cover the content for this lesson. Page 1 is an easier version, page 2 more challenging

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.