PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.1.2 Excretion as an example of homeostatic control (b) (i) the structure and functions of the mammalian liver

PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.1.2 Excretion as an example of homeostatic control (d) the control of the water potential of the blood

PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.1.2 Excretion as an example of homeostatic control (e) the effects of kidney failure and its potential treatments

This easy to use resource provides a useful visual aid and series of activities to help students understand the levels of organisation in multicellular organisms.

This creative resource introduces the structure and function of the lungs. It includes useful activities that are engaging for students and helps them master the topic.

This resources provides a useful and easy to use visual aid for introducing human taxonomy, the features that we share with our closest living relatives and the features that make us unique. It introduces a couple of the key hominid fossils that have enabled scientists to understand more about our evolution and includes links to a great online resource on the topic.

This resources provides a useful and easy to use visual aid for a big questions in evolution lesson. It includes two graphs for students to interpret, links to videos, and questions to initiate discussion and research on the topic.

This resource encourages students to research the human genome project. It includes a series of questions to guide their research as well as answers to the questions.

This lesson introduces the key terms for the genetics topic, including: genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, homozygous and heterozygous. It provides a useful visual aid for introducing these key terms and includes a short quiz to test student understanding.

This resource provides an easy to use visual aid for a lesson introducing muscles, joints and antagonistic muscles.

This PowerPoint resource provides is fun and easy-to-use. It includes a series of show and simple activities that introduce students to food chains, what they are and what they represent. It covers several key terms for the topic, including: producer, consumer, herbivore, omnivore and carnivore. This resource also covers disruptions to food chains and why food webs provide a more accurate representation of a natural ecosystem than food chains do.

This resource introduces electron microscopy, compares light and electron microscopy and considers the advantages and disadvantages of light and electron microscopy.

This resources provides a fun and colourful introduction to enzymes. It is both a useful visual aid and includes past paper questions for students to answer. The resource defines enzymes as biological catalysts, made of protein, and breaks this definition down so that it is easy to understand. It introduces the lock and key theory as well as denaturation.

This resource considers four factors that effect the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction: temperature, pH, concentration of enzyme, and concentration of substrate. This resource includes enough information and visual aids to fill 2 or 3 lessons. When I teach this topic, my students carry out a simple experiment, looking at the rate of hydrogen peroxide decomposition, to provide experimental evidence for the effect of pH and temperature on enzyme (catalase) activity.

This resource introduces the different food groups, how and why they are broken down, and the tests used by scientists to find out which food groups different products contain.

This resource introduces anaerobic respiration and compares aerobic and anaerobic respiration. The lesson begins an activity comparing the equations for aerobic and anaerobic respiration, it then explains why people get stitches and pant heavily after exercise. It considers the advantages and disadvantages of anaerobic respiration and how it can be used commercially. The resource includes past paper questions and answers, as well as a graph for students to describe and explain.

This resource on aerobic respiration begins by addressing the misconception that “breathing and respiration are the same”. It then introduces the equation for aerobic respiration before looking at ATP, what it is and what it is used for. This resources includes some past paper questions and answers on the topic.

This resource introduces diffusion and the factors that effect the rate of diffusion, in a fun and interactive way. The lesson includes a simple experiment to test how temperature effects the rate of diffusion.

This resource introduces the limiting factors and the factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis. Students describe and explain a series of graphs before discussing why greenhouses are used to optimise conditions for photosynthesis.

This resource introduces circulatory systems, compares circulatory systems in different vertebrate classes (fish, amphibians and mammals), compares veins arteries and capillaries, and also looks at the impact of fatty deposits on blood pressure. It includes a range of activities and questions for students to answer on the topic.