This PowerPoint of 8 slides outlines the structure of the chloroplast and examines the smaller structures within. The accompanying work/note-sheet allows students to record the information in a visually engaging way. This is aimed at A-level students (16 to 18 years old) and would serve as an excellent activity as part of an introduction to photosynthesis or in partnership with a chlorophyll chromatography practical activity.

The resource consists of a 16 slide PowerPoint, a short summary worksheet, and practical task worksheet. The PowerPoint details learning objectives and a starter/stimulus activity for students before diverging into four separate sections which can be navigated from the central menu. The four sections deal with: Explaining Refraction; Ray Diagrams; Lenses; and Refraction in real life. Each section consists of animated slides and diagrams which help explain all the necessary content with a few optional extras for those more capable classes. The summary sheet should serve to help students reflect on and revise the taught concepts and ties in with the PowerPoint. The Practical Worksheet talks students through a series of experiments using rayboxes and prisms/lenses (Specifically rectangular prisms and converse lens prisms - though an extension activity allows for further experimentation) and has an open-ended extension activity for more able students.

This sheet, printed at A3 provides a full summary of both the Light Dependent and Light Independent reactions of photosynthesis presented as a detailed flow chart. There is room for annotation as students revise/as you talk through the processes.

These two sheets - one with blanks for students to fill in, the other complete but with space for annotation - are best printed at A3 size and summarise cellular respiration in a clear diagrammatic flow diagram. Students follow the progression of glucose through the entire of cellular respiration. The sheet summarises Glycolysis, Link Reaction, Kreb’s Cycle, the electron transport chain and also anaerobic respiration whilst clearly linking these together in one continuous inter-linked diagram.

This sheet forms a summary of the action of ADH and how it affects water reabsorption in the kidneys. The finished diagram excellently serves to illustrate osmoregulation as part of a negative feedback system.

A double-sided worksheet (with markscheme). The worksheet requires students to work out the efficiency of energy transfers at different trophic levels and consider these in a real world context. Questions examine where energy is lost at each stage and also begins to link this to the sustainability of food production.

Designed to take up around a single lesson of time, this debate is aimed at 14 to 16 year olds but could easily be used with older students too. It splits students into 3 groups with conflicting interests (scientist, politician or fisherman) from a fictional country and challenges them to form a plan of action regarding their country's use of dwindling fish stocks. Split students into groups by role (the scientist and politician roles require perhaps the greatest flexibility of thought, so maybe differentiate your groups allowing for this) and give them 5 to 10 minutes with the source material to discuss in their groups how they feel about the issues and what they're going to be aiming for in their debate. Students then assemble into teams of 3 (one of each role) and have 15 minutes to debate about how they will tackle the issues of overfishing outlined on the accompanying worksheet. They should complete the included worksheet and reach a decision as to how they will move Pandora onwards into the future in a position that will best please everybody. Each group then feeds back their decision and some of the reasoning behind it. This exercise helps students appreciate some of the real world conflicts that exist between human needs and those of the natural world. In my experience it also serves to show how some of these issues may not be as clear-cut as students first assume.

2 Resources Included: 1.) Reflection practical worksheet - looking at specular and diffuse reflection. A more open-ended extension activity for more able students forms the final task and allows further experimentation - with curved mirrors for example. 2.) A consolidation or homework task that puts the emphasis on the correct drawing of ray diagrams.

This PowerPoint is a step-by-step, annotated accounting of the working of the sodium potassium pump. Simple animations show the interactions of pump, ATP, ADP, sodium ions and potassium ions. Also included is a scaffolded notesheet including part-drawn diagrams that students can quickly complete as they learn about the process. Please note: The preview thumbnails have unfortunately created some graphical glitches/artefacts that don’t appear in the actual slides.

This sheet looks at how glucose is transported across epithelial cells of the small intestine and into the blood. It requires students to demonstrate their understanding of active transport (the Sodium-Potassium pump) and co-transport in a series of tasks and questions. A full markscheme is included.

This worksheets consists of 2 sides: The First depicts the Carbon Cycle in diagrammatic form for students to complete either as a summary exercise/recap/or from another source (such as a textbook). The second side consists of a series of questions on the carbon cycle with each questions suggested mark value included.

This sheet and PowerPoint introduce family trees and reinforces work on monohybrid inheritance and punnet squares. The sheet includes interpretation and completion of a family tree alongside some punnet squares and reasoning questions. The Powerpoint of only 4 slides acts as an initial stimulus but also shows the solution to the family tree.

This resource consists of a two page worksheet. The first is a grid and the second is the tiles that should be cut out and stuck on the former to complete it. Cut and stick activities can be unpopular - especially at A-level - but my students have all agreed this is a great summary activity and a fantastic resource for later revision. The finished result is a single sided piece that works through the entire cycle of a single myosin head power stroke. Also included is a printable markscheme and a newly added PowerPoint markscheme where the answers reveal themselves on each click - to allow self assessment.

This is a 2 sided revision summary sheet ideally printed on A3. It has particular relevance to year 11 modules of study and includes annotation of diagrams, a crossword, matching tasks, electron shell diagrams and various cloze activities that link to detailed illustrations. It seeks to remind and reinforce understanding of atomic structure including electron shells, covalent bonding, ionic bonding and hydrogen bonding linking to the dissolving of ionic compounds.

The resource consists of a set of 4 source sheets (one for each level of protein structure) and a summary sheet for students to complete collaboratively. Suggested Lesson Plan: Sort class into 4 groups and give each group access to a few copies of one of the source sheets (potentially on different colours of card with numbers on the back as pictured). Give them a post-it note and allow 6 minutes (adjust as necessary based on your own judgement) to summarise the information on their respective source sheet. Do note the primary and quarternary source sheets are conceptually easier so could be used for differentiation. Then take in the source sheets and ask students to self sort into groups of four consisting of a person from each of the four original groups and help each other complete the note sheet. You can use time intervals to keep this moving on apace. Combined with past paper questions to aid afl this was part of an outstanding lesson when observed.

This package contains resources intended to introduce the subject of Reflection The PowerPoint (made up of 7 slides) is carefully designed to introduce key scientific concepts regarding reflection including virtual images, specular and diffuse reflection, image distance. It includes learning objectives, a starter activity consisting of stimulus image with points for discussion/consideration and a mini practical for students to explore image distance for themselves. Diagrams contain simple animations to help explain key points. The summary worksheet (and mark scheme) also introduces students to the drawing of the normal as well as angles of incidence and reflection.

This PowerPoint of 11 slides covers numerous points to introduce the topic of light to a class. It includes learning objectives, a starter activity and introduces key concepts and scientific terms including luminous and non-luminous objects, transparent, transluscent and opaque, and also light speed. When paired with textbook questions this should prove sufficient for a single period lesson. Some elements include simple (I would prefer to say tastefully understated) animations and/or interactive elements to aid explanation of key concepts.

The lesson could be a single period or part 1 of a double linking eye structure to that of a camera. The PowerPoint of 16 slides outlines the structure of the human eye and it's functioning. Optional slides allow further exploration of its various structures for more able groups. Where appropriate, diagrams are interactive or animated to aid explanation or even facilitate greater pupil involvement. Also included are two sheets: the first consists of 2 A5 printable unlabelled eye diagrams for sticking in books and the second a worksheet based on the contents of the PowerPoint.