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.

This interactive activity encourages students to discuss similarities and differences between the nervous system and endocrine system. A number of statements are provided for students who then stand in the correct place of the Venn diagram. Also provided are two different worksheets comparing the two systems, choose which is most appropriate for your students.

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

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.

There are three worksheets here all designed to promote thinking and understanding rather than rote learning and copying.

Here are some activities most suitable for foundation students. The role play where the student playing the doctor has to decide on the most suitable treatment for a variety of patients. There are also two worksheets that examine antibiotic resistance, the second of which is built around data handling.

This role play is designed to help students more fully understand the body's normal response to sugar and the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes

These three resources are intended to help students be clear about the differences between the two types of cell division. The Venn diagram activity should promote thinking and discussion and will allow teachers to spot misconceptions. There is also a colouring in worksheet where students identify the types of cells in each division and a simple fill in the gaps sheet. These would also be good revision tools

This activity models selective breeding in cows. Following simple genetic rules, a herd of cows (in picture form!) are change from being a mixture of colours to all being brown. Students then use the selective breeding rules to produce their own selective breeding example. This is followed up by identifying the differences between selective breeding in dogs and natural selection in giraffes. The activity was written with foundation students in mind but it works just as well with more able students.

These resources are all based around BMI with an emphasis on data and handling. This is a sensitive subject and there are some teacher note to suggest how best to manage students as they measure their own BMI . There is a worksheet for students to record their findings along with some follow up work where they measure the BMI of some famous people - all fictitious data!

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

A lesson on the important difference between cause and correlation. The teacher notes give details of examples where there is a strong correlation but no causal link, examples which can be hard to think of on the spot! The presentation is based around air pollution and helps students to understand the key ideas. It can be followed up with the worksheet which includes many examples. For each example students sort the three options given into correlation, cause or no link

Here are instructions and resources for four different hands-on activities that model how a synapse works. All are designed to help students think through the process and develop their understanding of how a synapse works. Choose the activity most appropriate for your students or give them a free choice. Also included in this package is a cut and stick worksheet to reinforce the effects of drugs on synapses.

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.

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.

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.

This is a suite of activities aimed mainly at foundation students. Spilt your class into teams and print a copy of the challenge for each team. The team that can put the statements into the correct order first win! Follow up by telling the story of Edward Jenner with this fun, interactive activity to do whilst showing the painting. Finally, there's a presentation that prompts students to think analytically about the data that's presented to them using the MMR and autism case study

A teacher demo is used to introduce some student practical work comparing, by measuring mass, the amount of sugar in different soft drinks. Students will need to draw up a calibration curve and the practical work will help to develop their ability to use a burette accurately.

Here's a teacher led demonstration to help clarify cloning to students. It's accompanied by a fun, non-threatening starter and a students worksheet about gene therapy.

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.