This thought provoking and interactive whole class activity will help students to think through their understanding and views on a number of different scenarios. Two interesting ways of recording views are given and are short to lead to discussion and debate.

A simple worksheet designed for foundation students to help them distinguish between genotype and phenotype. No writing required!

This suite of resources includes an interactive activity and a worksheet on the topic of genes and the environment. There is also an activity that makes visible each students individual genetic profile along with a colouring in worksheet to help students think through what they already know about this topic with some built in stretch for more able students.

In this fun simulation, written in excel, students find out how many hamsters live in Hamster Land. After releasing the hamsters, students are presented with data from a set of randomly placed virtual quadrats. By working through the accompanying worksheet, both foundation and higher versions are provided, they calculate the population of hamsters. Remember to click on "enable content" when opening the spreadsheet.

Your students can use this simulation, written in excel, to investigate the factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis. Move the sliders to adjust light levels, temperature or carbon dioxide levels before recording the length of the oxygen bubble produced. It's great for collecting data and then drawing graphs. There is also an accompanying planning sheet to help students think through the entire investigation. Remember to click on "enable content" when you open the spreadsheet.

A fun practical activity that introduces the idea about accuracy of measurement and using the appropriate piece of equipment. The teacher sheet is backed up by a worksheet for students. It is aimed at keystage 3 students but is likely to be useful for less able keystage 4 students.

A teacher led demonstration activity to help students understand how errors in measurement are inevitable. The accompanying worksheet allows students to record the errors as they occur in the demonstration and then provides an opportunity to think through what they learnt.

This is a suite of materials containing a number of different activities. It starts with lots of fun mini experiments where students record the differences between them. Their results are used to examine the differences between continuous and discontinuous variation. Variation in other species is examined too with an emphasis on data handling.

It's hard to find much practical work to do around food chains. Here's a very active demonstration that turns into a student race and brings home all the key ideas that students need to understand. It's accompanied by a crossword puzzle.

This group of activities provides a fun and active way to introduce cells including building squidgy model cells. It includes investigative work to find out the conditions that cells need to grow best. All the activities are backed up by student worksheets.

Here students consider the genetic and environmental causes of variation by building a model human. Students enjoy making the models which make clear the different types of variation. There is a worksheet to use as a follow up to the activity which extends the key ideas and promotes thinking.

A fun role play activity to help students understand the concept of bioaccumulation. There's also a worksheet for students to complete which consolidates the concept. Students of all abilities will be able to take part