Can be used as a summary sheet/homework/revision aid. Possible use as assessment task.

Why choose this resource? It has easy to follow instructions that individual groups of students can use to extract DNA very successfully. It also has questions suitable for A level or Higher Biology students or a "good" class of Biology Triple GCSE students. Practical guide would be very useful for non-specialists.

This is intended for a low-ability group. It did work well with my bottom-set group. Not surprisingly they did not do well on the question 9 about whether they should believe the facts and figures - but it could open up discussion.

Students have to work out which children have cystic fibrosis and how they have inherited it from the symptoms and other information given on the sheet. Could be used as an assessment of student's understanding.

This is intended for lower ability groups and in my experience works well. The pictures need improving so please do this on your version!

Bioaccumulation This power point gives an increasing number of clues to help students work out why people died in the disaster at Minamata. (Bioacccumulation of mercury in the food chain.) My top set Yr 8s enjoyed the challenge.

Could be used as a homework or a class activity . Assesses ability to analyse and apply infromation.

Meant for a lower ability group but could be adapted. Card sort and pictures for students to present as a poster / flow chart to tell the story of ozone depletion and the ban on CFCs. Powerpoint is to help introduce this - could be added to.

This is for KS3 students to give them practice at collecting and analysing data. It proved to be very effective with a mixed ability group of Year 7 students. Although there is just one document there is enough here to keep a class busy for an hour and they are practising maths skills essential to science and some scientific skills as well

This is for Edexcel A level Biology context-led course. There is information and questions to answer including an exam-style question. I have used and modified some slides from hmc keating's power point on this topic ( on the TES website), and have added some more to suit the teaching of the Edexcel course. Thanks to hmc Keating. The blog link has a little etra about the Red Queen theory of evolution.

Used for old BTEC genetics and with GCSE to teach natural selection. Students can sort cards in order to check their understanding.

This is for a homework and/or an assessment of the student's understanding of the diffusion topic. There is a link to 'Practical Science teaching' Blog that has other activities/information about teaching science.

For AS SNAB Biology. Follow up to a group practical by the class on the effect of temperature on the diffusion of dye from beetroot. Main aim was to evaluate the data and consolidate knowledge and application of terms accuracy and reliability( reproducibility as well?) There are questions to answer on the power point. Eventually this AS class will need to evaluate their own practical coursework at A2.

You can use these to: shuffle and ask pupils to sort them into pros and cons. ask pupils to rank them in order of importance. string a 'washing line' between 2 clampstands and get pupils to position them in rank order of importance/ reasons for and against. Use pegs.

This was used with a low-ability Yr 10 group for GCSE work. Could be adapted for other groups/KS3. Also useful for assessing ability to analyse scientific results.

This worksheet enables students to use key words to describe the structure of graphenes, fullerenes and nanotubesin Cloze passages and a question. It also covers uses of these structures. Suitable for Science GCSE students. Good for a summary, review lesson or homework.

The topics here are action potentials, synapses and COPD. These are worksheets designed so students can do some independent research either in class or for homework on some aspects of the biology part of unit 1. Could be used as revision tasks,

For Biology content of new BTEC Level 3 applied Science. Practice questions about Gram positive and negative bacteria.

This is a worksheet for students to analyse data from Van Helmont’s investigation. It can be used as an introduction to photosynthesis or as an exercise in understanding the scientific method. The unique feature of this is information is given from the original writings and teachers have found this gives an extra stretch and challenge to the problems set. More questions than those given can be added. Could be useful for KS3 or KS4. I have just added a link to a video which gives the background to his investigation and has notes on the video from the Science and Plants for Schools website.

This resource tells you how your students can see some stunning pictures of stomata, without using that fiddly nail varnish! It also has questions which test the student's understanding of the function of stomata, scientific method and the link between decrease in stomatal density and global warming. Suitable for KS4 and possibly useful for KS5.