I am a highly qualified and experienced secondary school teacher with a passion for providing an inspirational, high-quality education to students aged 11-18. My resources provide useful visual support for teachers during lessons and activities to aid learning of scientific concepts.
I am a highly qualified and experienced secondary school teacher with a passion for providing an inspirational, high-quality education to students aged 11-18. My resources provide useful visual support for teachers during lessons and activities to aid learning of scientific concepts.
This creative, fun and easy-to-use resource helps explain the difference between heat energy and temperature. It includes questions for students to answer and a link to a useful video on the topic.
This resources provides useful images and videos to help stimulate discussion and learning about the evolution of life on earth. Students use the internet to help them construct diagrams of the geological time scale, including the times and names for the geological eras and periods, as well as descriptions of important events of life on Earth.
This resource introduces the menstrual cycle and the main hormones involved in regulating the cycle. It includes a fun snakes-and-ladders game to help students learn more about what happens at each stage of the cycle and encourages students to create their own summary resource.
This creative and easy-to-use resource introduces leaf structure and function. It begins with a discussion about adaptions and the structures that make leaves specially adapted for their function. It includes cross-sectional diagrams through the leaf for students to label, before inviting students to design an experiment to investigate whether plants lose more water from the upper or lower leaf surface. It includes a writing frame to help support students as they design, carry out and evaluate their experiments, as well as a true or false quiz to finish.
PowerPoint, worksheet and model answer sheet covering OCR Biology A 5.2.1 Photosynthesis (e) the fixation of carbon dioxide and the light independent stage of photosynthesis
This engaging and easy to use resource provides a useful visual aid for introducing the changes that occur in lungs during during inhalation and exhalation, how lung volume can be measured and the factors that effect it. If you have a bell jar model of the lungs available to you, then the lesson is supported well with a demonstration.
This high quality and easy-to-use resource on ‘plant responses to the environment’ is specifically designed for students studying OCR A-Level Biology. It includes information about the process of leaf abscission.
Students should begin by watching my video tutorial on this topic, which is freely available via my YouTube channel: BiologyWithNewhouse. I have included a link to the video tutorial in the activity sheet. Students should then use information from the video tutorial and the PowerPoint slides to help them complete the activity sheet. This can be done entirely independently, as a flip-learning exercise, or with teacher support.
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 creative, fun and easy-to-use resource introduces the Bunsen Burner, what the different parts of the Bunsen Burner are called and how to use it. It includes a worksheet that can be printed out to support the practical activity and assessment-for-learning activities.
This lesson covers OCR A Level Biology A - 2.1.2 (d) (e) Monosaccharides and Glycosidic Bonds, This resource pack includes a PowerPoint, worksheet, and answer sheet.
This lesson covers OCR A Level Biology A - 2.1.2 (f) (g) Structure and Function of Polysaccharides. This resource pack includes a PowerPoint, worksheet, and answer sheet.
This lesson covers OCR A Level Biology A - 2.1.2 (n) (o) Globular and Fibrous Proteins. This resource pack includes a PowerPoint, worksheet, and answer sheet.
