All the planning for the biology section of the new additional science GCSE for Edexcel.

I have used the level 3 - 5 science APP statements to make an Xbox achievment assessment for the pupils called science live. It works like the achievements on xbox pupils get the black and white sheet for their books then get the coloured stickers when they unlock the achievement it is an easy skill tracker and really hooks the pupils in small prizes can be given for every 200 points unlocked to link in to your schools reward policy.

this uses the open letter to the kansas school board found on the Venganza.org website (or search for the church of the flying spaghetti monster) and in the letter there is a graph that links global warming to the decreasing number of pirates in the world, it is a good lesson on valid data and you can include other strange correlations to prove that not all statistics are good

a lesson I made where pupils learn about DNA then use a given factsheet written by me to produce an infographic

a lesson plan developed on the digestive system - pupils modelled the digestive system with tights and mashed up biscuits and yoghurt however it could be models made by kids - the groupings suggested are 1 - high ability 2 - high medium 3 - low medium 4-low the lesson is differentiated and has a range of collaborative learning in to cover the digestion objectives it worked well with my classes who really enjoyed the practical part and all made progress in the lesson

a simple introduction to disease with collaborative learning strategies built in - the numbered groupings are as follows 1-high ability 2-high medium 3-low medium 4-low you can give the pupils a number in the lesson mine are seated on tables so there is that mixture of pupils always in a group

Some worksheets on cell division and specialised cells. The 'dead or alive' and 'rabbits' sheets are an activity on the seven life processess that is suited to pupils with English as an additional language.

This is all the planning for the new biology core science GCSE planning.

I use this activity as the assessment at the end of the supernatural science topic I teach but it makes a good one off lesson too. Basically, using the pack of cards that are included the pupils can test each other to see if they are psychic (normally one person holds the cards and asks the other person to guess what the top card is and then marks down whether they are right or wrong) Pupils then have to decide what percentage of answers you would need to get correct to be considered psychic, it goes on to look at card counting and statistics so there is a heavy focus on analysing data

some cell structure worksheets of different levels of demand these make a good starter

a collection of SARS resources that could be used for an infectious diseases lesson

credit need to go to some other TES sharer for the diary acivity starter i added to this and changed it slighty but i borrowed heavily from them. I then made differing levels of infographics to go with the information pack for pupils to do some independant research, the infographic sheets could then make a nice display.

a sheet i made that contains a puzzle from the game perplex city about inheritance, a good challenge for pupils of a higher ability

A lesson based around Science writing skills, pupils look at excerpts of writing to find the fiction, develop success criteria for good science writing and then try to produce their own piece- fully differentiated and full of kagan activities, also included are PDF factsheets for the pupils to develop their writing with

a venn diagram starter where pupils have to sort a range of characteristics into a venn diagram of caused by genes the environment or both

2 keywords worksheets one for EAL pupils that allow pupils to find a definiotn of a keyword and draw a picture to help them remember the word

a good set of revision worksheets for the fit and healthy topic

A crossword puzzle worksheet, makes a nice starter for a lesson on circulation

a survival science module i wrote and developed, that covers classification, food chains, populations, it has animal cards to allow pupils to make food chains and food webs. also covers sundials (you can get a template for these online) and rocks as well as containing a level assessed task on distillation

another sheet from the old edexcel coursework activities, could still make a nice class investigation/homework activity