A powerpoint I wrote to review the immune response with my class. Just click through to tell the story. Rustic but hopefully effective!

Lesson covering the different components of blood and their roles. The lesson is designed to be able to be taught by a non specialist. Some of the student resources are at the end of the powerpoint which is designed to lead students through the lesson. Thanks to those who have provided resources which i have based activities on.

Students use sheet to track their progress through the unit against 'I can' statements (foundation + higher). End of each lesson students can tick off statements covered and record their understanding (i get them to draw smiley or sad faces next to the statements). Students can use the record to target revision on areas of least understanding, track revision and show progress by indicating where understanding has improved i.e. a sad face has become a smiley face. Students can also set targets against the statements and indicate areas where they are in need of support.

First of two lessons which guide students through the controversy surrounding the use of mercury based dental fillings. Source information is analysed by students to practice extracting and analysing ideas from sources.

Second lesson on the evidence regarding the potential benefits and risks form mercury filings. This lesson outlines evidence for risks associated with mercury fillings. Students use source material to summarise and evidence the arguement.

Booklet i wrote for year 9s ahead of their end of year exams. Goes through why exams are important, what makes good revision, some revsion techniques, what to do in exams, exam tips, how to make a revison timetable, etc.

Students use sheet to track their progress through the unit against 'I can' statements (higher tier only in bold). End of each lesson students can tick off statements covered and record their understanding . Students can use the record to target revision on areas of least understanding, track revision and show progress by indicating where understanding has improved. Students can also set targets against the statements and indicate areas where they are in need of support.

Students to use the wordsearch to find keywords to complete the cloze paragraph. Revision activity covering year 8 light topic: seeing colour, refraction, reflection. Includes extension activity slides (2+3) on refraction.

This is the first lesson of 12 for OCR 21C unit B4 Homeostasis. The lesson covers an introduction to homeostasis, effectors, receptors etc. In the notes section below the slides i have written my lesson notes. Have also attached the worksheet. Hope this proves of use.

Revision exercise for the light topic. Students use the words contained in the wordsearch to fill in the gaps from the paragraph at the bottom of the page. I normaly use this as a plenary / revision exercise with lower ability groups. hope it helps.

Taboo cards with instructions for variation topic. I have not written this resource myself but dont know where i downloaded it from! If you are the original author please drop me a mail.

Brief worksheet. Students enter the key terms that match the defintion.

Taboo cards to accompany OCR B1 you and your genes. Terms include: variation, clone, allele, dominant, reccesive, chromosome,carrier. I have not made this resource but cant remember where i originally downloaded from. If you created this and would like to be acknowledged / the resource removed please drop me a mail,

Lesson ppt,worksheets+lesson outline. Review lesson for low ability group to show how to use general equations to work out products for reactions of metals + metal compounds. Uses a cut out jigsaw method to show how ion and spectator ions re-arrange and includes reactions for students to model.

Students to use wordsearch to find the key words to complete the cloze paragraph. Created as a revision activity for OCR B2 Keeping Healthy. Includes: Microorganisms, immune system and white blood cells.

A collection of questions for AS students covering, phospholipids, bilayer formation, membrane components, plasma membrane, role of cholesterol, cell signalling. Ideal for homework, revision, exam practice or self directed study. The student workbook contains the questions. The teacher workbook contains the answers!

A workbook i put together for my OCR AS class to use for homework whilst studying membrane structure. Contains a selection of questions and tasks.

PowerPoint for OCR 21st C B1 lesson 1. PowerPoint includes lesson plan and card sort activity. Covers spec points: B1.1. 1. recall that instructions to control how an organism develops and functions are found in the nucleus of its cells and are called genes 5. understand that some characteristics are determined by genes (eg dimples), some are determined by environmental factors (eg scars), and some are determined by a combination of genes and the environment (eg weight) 6. understand that many characteristics are determined by several genes working together (eg eye colour).

Lesson powerpoint and exam questions on the link reaction and krebs cycle. The first part of the powerpoint is a review of glycolysis. The resources required by students for the activities are at the end of the ppt. The Krebs cycle slides are more detailed than required for A Level. I use this as a stimulus for the students to annotate the simplified krebs cycle on the last slide. Hope its useful!

This is a double sided planning sheet i use with my 6th form biology classes to help them plan their examination answers and hopefully improve exam technique. There are three different types of plant ot be used with different types of questions. I laminate these and then students write on with OHP pens to form a plan for their answers. Then just wipe off and plan for the next answer.