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 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 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.

This resource introduces photosynthesis, the work and symbol equation for photosynthesis, what happens to the glucose produced in photosynthesis and compares photosynthesis and respiration. The lesson concludes with three short answer past paper questions on photosynthesis.

This resource introduces prokaryotic cells. It describes and explains the features that enable prokaryotic cells to perform their functions.

This resources revises the difference between plant and animal cells, introduces the main cell organelles, their structure and function, as well as the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

This PowerPoint resource provides a useful visual aid for a lesson on the discovery and structure of DNA. It includes activities, questions and video links. I usually begin the lesson by inviting students to write down everything they already know about DNA in a black pen. I then introduce Watson and Crick, and the structure of DNA, using all the key terms on the slide. I then give my students minutes to answer the 6 mark question on the structure of DNA. Students then self-mark their answer using the mark scheme included in the PowerPoint, and show me on their fingers how many marks out of 6 they achieved for the question. If students have access to their own laptops I then invite students to watch a few of the video links that go into slightly greater detail about the structure of DNA. At the end of the lesson I ask the students to return to the list they made at the beginning of the lesson about everything they already knew about DNA. I invite the students to spend a couple of minutes adding to their list in a green pen with everything they now know about DNA.

This resource, provides an easy to use, simple visual for an introductory lesson on mitosis and the cell cycle. The resources includes a couple of useful links to videos as well as a true false quiz on the topic.

This resources goes step-by-step through the stages of the cells cycle. It provides useful visual aids for explanations as well as short descriptions about what happens at each stage.

This resource begins by introducing stem cells and their uses, before inviting students to write a clearly balanced account of the arguments surrounding the use of stem cells in research. It then moves on to introduce designer babies and encourages students to write a clearly balanced account of the arguments surrounding designer babies. This lesson provides excellent opportunities for class discussions on ethically challenging topics and an opportunity for students to complete extended pieces of writing. The resource includes links to useful videos on the topic.

This resource provides useful images and links to videos to help stimulate discussion on genetic modification and CRISPR. It also includes a list of questions for students to answer on the topic of genetic engineering and biotechnology.

This resources is best used after a lesson, or series of lessons, on fossils and how they provide evidence for evolution. This resource provides a visual aid for introducing some of the other forms of evidence for evolution and invites students to create a presentation to deliver to the class on one piece of evidence. The resource concludes with a big question that can be answered in class or as a longer homework assignment.

This PowerPoint resource helps students label and use the light microscope. I usually print off the second slide in advance of the lesson to use as a worksheet for students to complete. The worksheet instructs students to label a light microscope using the information available. The PowerPoint resource includes a quick quiz to test student knowledge and instructions on how to use a light microscope.

This graph drawing resource functions as both a checklist and marking framework for students. At the start of my graph drawing activity, I hand students a copy of the marking framework and remind the students how to draw a scientific graph. Students then use the checklist as they draw their graphs to ensure they have included everything they need for full marks. Students then either hand in their graphs or swap graphs with their peers and the marking framework is used to give students a grade for their graphs.