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
This booklet contains one Level 2 and one Level 3 question per topic in B1. The front cover allows the students or the teacher to track their common mistakes.
The booklet also contains a set of relevant 6 mark questions at the back, including a scaffolded writing sheet.
Also attached is the raw word document which contains the answers to the questions
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
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
Students complete the flipped learning (attached) prior to the lesson. They then arrive and complete a variety of tasks.
Starter - Odd one out, with reasons why
Main - Labelling EM images of cells
Plenary - Exam Questions
Students complete the pre reading prior to the lesson (pre reading included)
Starter - Students check their understanding of standard form and the use of micro, nano and milli
Main - Menu of activities for students to complete their weakest areas first
Plenary - Check understanding based on what they didn't know at the start of the lesson
Students arrive at the lesson having completed their pre reading, and creating a resource for the lesson
Starter - Recap on the previous topics in this chapter, and then recap on KS4 knowledge
Main - Variety of tasks enabling students to identify the stages of mitosis
Plenary - Exam questions on this topic
Starter - thinking about images and the microscopes used to visualise them
Main1 - Label a microscope
Main2 - Look at cells down a microscope
Main3 - Magnification images
Plenary - Overview
Students complete the pre reading prior to arriving at the lesson
Starter - Activities to label a Plasma Membrane and to recall the definition of Active Transport
Main - Activities to describe active transport, compare it to Osmosis and Diffusion and then look at exam questions
Plenary - Summarise all three transport pathways
First lesson introducing cells.
Starter - Draw a cell
Main - Activities looking at the structures and functions of cells. Long answer questions
Plenary - Kahoot, or you could use the long answer questions if no Kahoot.
All worksheets are in the powerpoint
Students need to arrive to the lesson having complete the pre reading.
Starter - Students recal their knowledge of mitosis using diagrams of the phases
Starter - Students compare mitosis and meiosis
Main - Students complete exam questions where they are required to draw diagrams
Plenary - Kahoot quizzes
Revision sheet for students to complete.
Buy these as a bundle and save money. One topic is £3, a bundle of three topics is £5, Complete Unit 1 or 2 are £10 each and the whole GCSE course is £15.
This resource has a front tracking sheet, a connectives sheet and then as many 6 mark questions as I could find. Along with each question is a writing frame which includes a sentence starter. There is also a mark scheme for each question.