use the idea of a record producer to get students to write a song about food and digestion. split the class into 4 groups, each has a different character with a different music style. They have to create a song for their musical character. The pdf is an image for the IWB

a good plenary or starter

mark scheme for essay titled ’ How did the work of other scientists help Crick and Watson to develop their theory for the structure of DNA’

a series of diagrams to aid the revision of photosynthesis. image 1 is a summary of how photosynthesis, respiration, plant structure link together (combination of AS and A2 knowledge) image 2 shows the locations of photosynthesis image 3 is the light independent image 4 is the light dependent

this has 3 levels of difficulty, the first with a word bank and starting letters, the second with just the word bank and the third with no clues. This is a good summary challenge after doing food tests.

a diagram drawn to show the process of respiration

mark scheme for an essay on decomposition of a human body

mark scheme for an essay on viruses

An activity to learn how to use excel to draw detailed bar graphs (with all gridlines and labels etc) The sheets can be adapted to add instructions for scatter graphs etc

use these to encourage students to learn the spelling of some key words and to write their own sentence of explanation

A document that shows students the topics from both the AS and A2 Edexcel biology course (from 2008) that shows how the different topics link together.

A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the AQA GCSE Trilogy biology part of the course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed.

A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the Edexcel B A level biology course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed. The version that I have written for the previous Edexcel biology A level course have been quite successful and popular with students to support revision. The sheet can be teamed with some practice practical questions.

A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the Edexcel B A level biology course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed. The version that I have written for the previous Edexcel biology A level course have been quite successful and popular with students to support revision. The sheet can be teamed with some practice practical questions. please do leave a review if you purchase as anything to help to improve this resource would be appreciated.