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Bioscience Rocks

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Bioscience Rocks is a shop that specialises in resources for A-Level Biology and Applied Science students. The resources include a range of activities, starters, worksheets and powerpoints, all of which have been used successfully with students of a wide range of abilities. The author is a National Expert Teacher of Science (awarded by National Science Learning Centre) and also a National Space Academy Lead Educator with a long track record of producing high quality educational resources.

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Bioscience Rocks is a shop that specialises in resources for A-Level Biology and Applied Science students. The resources include a range of activities, starters, worksheets and powerpoints, all of which have been used successfully with students of a wide range of abilities. The author is a National Expert Teacher of Science (awarded by National Science Learning Centre) and also a National Space Academy Lead Educator with a long track record of producing high quality educational resources.
Guidance for the construction of tables
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Guidance for the construction of tables

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A worksheet which gives very clear instructions for the construction of a good quality table of data, as required by most exam boards. The worksheet includes an example of a high quality table and an exercise which requires students to criticise a poorly constructed table.
Disease - an introduction
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Disease - an introduction

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A worksheet aimed at advanced biology students that introduces the concept of disease. The worksheet covers categories of disease (e.g. infectious, lifestyle, inherited), examples of disease, mechanisms of infectious disease, interfaces for pathogens and interpretation of epidemiological patterns.
Setting up a control experiment - understanding the key principles
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Setting up a control experiment - understanding the key principles

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Science students often struggle to understand the concept of a control investigation, something which is regularly examined by most exam board specifications. This worksheet explains clearly what a control investigation is and then provides several practice investigations which require students to describe a suitable control. Finally, the worksheet provides an extra 'challenge' question for more able students to describe how control experiments were important in establishing the germ theory of disease and debunking the myth of spontaneous generation.
Ho w to calculate rates of reactions from graphs
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Ho w to calculate rates of reactions from graphs

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Biology students often struggle to calculate rates of reaction from graphs. This worksheet provides an explanation of how to calculate rates of reaction from graphs followed by two practice examples. This is a useful worksheet to use as preparation for any practical investigation that will require this skill with data analysis.
Transport of molecules and ions across a membrane
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Transport of molecules and ions across a membrane

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A worksheet aimed at advanced biology students which reviews transport of molecules and ions across a cell membrane. The questions include matching definitions of passive and active transport, predicting which molecules or ions can penetrate a plasma membrane and a review of Fick's law. The resource is useful as a starter or plenary activity at the end of a topic on cell membranes and transport.
Cell organelles - quick quiz
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Cell organelles - quick quiz

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A worksheet designed for advanced level biology students that provides a quick quiz of fifteen questions related to the function of different cell organelles. This would be useful as a starter of plenary activity at the end of a topic on cell organelles or could be used as a quick research task using textbooks at the start of the topic. Answers to each question are provided.
Passive and active transport review summary
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Passive and active transport review summary

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A worksheet aimed at advanced biology students consisting of a lengthy passage of text on the topic of passive and active transport. The passage requires key words to be added in the appropriate places. Once complete, students have a written record summary of both passive and active transport processes. This is a good activity to complete at the end of this topic and reinforces key words and vocabulary with students. Suggested answers to each missing space are given at the end of this worksheet
Osmosis - planning a practical investigation into water movement into/out of plant cells
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Osmosis - planning a practical investigation into water movement into/out of plant cells

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A worksheet aimed at biology students aged 14-18 years, this resource provides a series of prompts and questions to help students plan an investigation into osmosis. The practical investigation is a classic one involving potato chips and different concentrations of sucrose solution - the worksheet asks students to consider the variables involved, the range and concentrations of sucrose solution required and then asks students to produce a written plan based on these considerations.
Osmosis - calculating water potential and predicting water movement into and out of cells
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Osmosis - calculating water potential and predicting water movement into and out of cells

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students, this resource has a series of questions that require students to calculate water potential values in order to predict the direction of water movement between different cells. The worksheet also has diagrams of both animal cells and plant cells showing water movement in, out and no net movement - students are required to match each diagram to the circumstance that would cause each effect. A useful worksheet to review understanding of the key ideas involved with osmosis
Calculating magnification of a mitochondrion, role of mitochondrion and electron microscope
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Calculating magnification of a mitochondrion, role of mitochondrion and electron microscope

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students, this resource requires students to calculate the magnification of a mitochondrion by making simple measurements and unit conversions. The final questions are 'challenge questions' that require deeper thought: why mitochondria are required for every cellular activity, the raw materials needed by a mitochondrion and the resolution required to observe mitochondria using a TEM. This worksheet is a useful starter or plenary task to review a previous lesson on these topics.
Units of measurement, calculating magnification of a louse and real size of a red blood cell
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Units of measurement, calculating magnification of a louse and real size of a red blood cell

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A resource aimed at advanced biology students, this worksheet contains question requiring students to convert measurements between millimetres, micrometres and nanometres; the final two questions require students to make measurements in order to work out the magnification of a louse and the real size of a red blood cell. This worksheet is ideal as a starter activity to recap a lesson on magnification and units of measurement.
Units of measurement and calculating magnification, real size and diagram size
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Units of measurement and calculating magnification, real size and diagram size

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A collection of four worksheets aimed at advanced biology students. The first two worksheets require students to suggest appropriate units of measurements for typical investigations and then introduce the idea of converting between millimetres, micrometres and nanometres - an important skill that is required on most exam papers. The last two worksheets require students to practise their skills in making measurements and calculating magnification of cell images and diagrams, including the use of a scale bar.
Calculating magnification, diagram size and real size
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Calculating magnification, diagram size and real size

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A worksheet aimed at advanced biology students, this resource contains a number of exercises that require students to make measurements from diagrams and calculate magnification. The exercises also require changing the subject of the magnification formula to work out real size of cells and using a scale bar to calculate magnification. Finally. there are questions about the nature of magnification and resolution and the electron microscope.
Properties of phospholipids & fluid mosaic structure review
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Properties of phospholipids & fluid mosaic structure review

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students which serves to review the reasons for the hydrophilic/hydrophobic nature of phospholipids. The worksheet also contains simple matching tasks for the name of a component in the fluid mosaic model and its function.
Fluid Mosaic Model - quick review
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Fluid Mosaic Model - quick review

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students as a quick review of the main details of the fluid mosaic structure of cell membranes. There is a clear diagram that requires labelling along with follow-up questions on the function of each component.
Facilitated diffusion
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Facilitated diffusion

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students that reviews the key points about facilitated diffusion across a membrane. The worksheet includes reference to factors that determine whether a substance can pass freely across a membrane, the nature of carrier and channel proteins, the requirement of ATP and graphs comparing rate of uptake via simple diffusion versus facilitated diffusion (this is an oft-asked exam question, so useful for students to review this in lessons).
Electron microscopes - a review of how they function and comparison with a light microscope
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Electron microscopes - a review of how they function and comparison with a light microscope

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This resource consists of two worksheets aimed at advanced biology students or level 3 applied science students. The first worksheet is a simple review of how an electron microscope functions and the key points about magnification, resolution and TEM/SEM (the image is that of a tapeworm head). The second worksheet is a table comparing electron microscopes with light microscopes. Three different web references are given and students are required to use these to complete the table. At the end of the exercise, they should be able to confidently compare and contrast light microscopes with electron microscopes.
Colorimeters - how they work and sources of error
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Colorimeters - how they work and sources of error

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students, this resource is useful as a review of how colorimeters work and how they should be operated. The second worksheet contains a list of questions on different types of error that may result from laboratory investigations, some of which may be experienced when using a colorimeter: zero errors, systematic errors and random errors. The third worksheet is a differentiated version of the above, with an emphasis towards more simple ideas on the difference between qualitative and quantitative errors and calibration curves.
Cell organelles - comprehension task
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Cell organelles - comprehension task

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A worksheet aimed at advanced level biology students, this resource provides a lengthy written passage about the structure and function of cell organelles. The worksheet provides a useful written summary of organelle function in eukaryotic cells for student's revision notes but also requires students to process this information in order to label a diagram of animal cell ultrastructure and explain differences between animal and plant cells.