NEW AND UPDATED A tracker for monitoring student progress in the new AQA A Level Biology required practical tasks for the CPAC skills INCLUDING THE SUB COMPETENCIES The tracker will monitor attendance for each student. Monitor the attainment of CPAC skills for the students in each RP activity. Produce a print out showing the individual performance of each student showing the CPAC skills they have acquired from each RP activity. The tracker can be modified to match the RP activities for Chemistry and Physics by changing the RP titles and use of apparatus criteria on the Titles sheet.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. Has 9 games each focusing on a different module of technical terms that fit in with the AQA GCSE Trilogy & Triple Biology specification. A free restricted evaluation version of this quiz can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-biology-blockbuster-vocabulary-reinforcement-revision-quiz-free-evaluation-version-12228577 The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised. Each of the 9 games focuses on 20 technical terms. You can easily edit the questions and answers to suit the ability of your pupils. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during the teaching of a module or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz requires macros to carry out the automated functions, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

A full lesson pack upon mutations suitable for higher level GCSE pupils. A comprehensive lesson plan, power point and worksheets is included. The lesson covers: A recap upon DNA structure and function Leveled work focusing upon: 3 Types of mutations, substitution, insertion and deletion, looking at how they alter DNA and their effects upon protein structure. How mutations are caused (radiation, chemicals, viruses, copying errors. Examples of genetic diseases and their mutations Exam questions The worksheet/booklet follows the power point with exercises for pupils to undertake including review and plenary questions. A demo video of the power point contents can be found at https://youtu.be/rN9aMeCc_eg Also included is a second power point version with a different colour scheme to the preview video which has a white background and black text.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. Has over 1000 questions targeted at building up the vocabulary of A Level Biology students. All question revealing, answer revealing, changing of hexagon colours, scoring, identifying a winning run and assigning hexagons a random letter are carried out AUTOMATICALLY by the game, all you need to do is click on the screen. A free restricted evaluation version of this quiz can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-vocabulary-technical-terms-blockbuster-style-quiz-free-evaluation-version-12230087 The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each game consists of 8 rounds with the winning team’s score for each round being shown on a scoreboard. Though you can play single rounds if you want to. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised as are the questions chosen from a bank of over 1000 technical terms appropriate for A Level Biology. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during your teaching or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz uses macros to carry out the automated functions which you select to run on first opening the power point, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

A Hangman game preloaded with 70 GCSE Biology words in a word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank of 70 words and hints can easily be edited by deleting existing words and over-typing new words. The game will cope with word(s) up to 32 characters long including any spaces. A free evaluation version of the game can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

Quickly create weekly science equipment requisitions which can be automatically printed or emailed to your technician with the click of a single button. The spreadsheet uses macros to automate functions and so will only run with the Windows version of excel. Automatically creates a timetable with the number of lessons per day to suit your needs with the click of a single button. A blank master timetable is created which you populate with your groups and room numbers where groups or locations can be colour coded. The spreadsheet copies the blank timetable to create new weekly timetables which are date stamped with a single click of a button. Scrolling to the right of these weekly timetables allows previous weeks requests to be seen and if necessary requests can be copied and pasted into the current/upcoming week. This enables a record of experiments to be kept and speeds up creating future requests. Once the current week’s request information has been entered it can be easily printed out to automatically fill a complete A4 landscape page again with the click of a single button. The current/upcoming week’s request sheet can be emailed to your technician with a single click of a button. The email includes an attached spreadsheet titled with your name and the week date that contains your current week’s requests. Macros must be enabled for the spreadsheet to run.

A power point that goes through the biochemistry of the light dependent and light independent reactions, which animates the movement of molecules, electrons and protons. Suitable for A Level Biology groups.

A series of powerpoints and a pdf document showing the steps involved in aerobic respiration. The 1st powerpoint goes through each process step by step for aerobic respiration. The 2nd powerpoint shows animated diagrams for each step showing the movement of molecules and how molecules change during each step, all with accompanying explanations. The pdf shows step by step the reactions that occur during aerobic respiration, covering glycolysis, the link-reaction, the Kreb’s citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain. Suitable for A Level Biology.

A tracker to record up to 20 separate test results and provide an analysis of the results. Caters for grades A-E, so is suitable for any A Level subject. Entering grade boundaries for each test the tracker will calculate %'s and show the grades for each student, their ranked position and a summary of all their test results and position overall in their teaching group. Allows up to 40 students to be tracked at a time. Individual student summary page can be produced that can be used when mentoring students or for parent evenings, showing their progress over the year.

ppt showing the 4 ways molecules can move across cell membranes - diffusion, facilitated diffusion, osmosis and active transport. Suitable for year 12 A Level. Includes animations of the methods and explains how different factors affect the rate of movement. Differentiates between passive and active movements. See a demo video at https://youtu.be/m7lqbMB0SGA

A power point presentation upon nerve cells, the formation of the resting potential, how an action potential is produced when an impulse is transmitted along a neurone. How the message is carried on to a 2nd neurone by the synapse. All processes are demonstrated using animations to show the movement of positive ions by active transport, the opening/closing of gates, the movement of vesicles and neurotransmitter molecules in the synapse. Suitable for A Level Biology students. A sample video of the ppt is available at https://youtu.be/SDckofymhC4 The version you purchase will not have the Biology Store watermark banner

Preparation presentation for A Level Biology students prior to their microscopy required practical. Covers: How to measure the size of objects using a microscope. Using a mechanical stage and how to read its vernier scale. How to measure the Field of View of a microscope lens Using a stage micrometer and eye piece graticule. How to calibrate an eye piece graticule. How to measure the size of a specimen using an eye piece graticule. How to calculate sizes using Image size = actual size / magnification. Microscopy units of scale and how to convert between measurement. A video of this presentation is available at https://youtu.be/CyKUwTZiFaE

Interactive powerpoint and spreadsheet to demonstrate and calculate the following statistical functions required for A Level Biology: Standard Error Standard Deviation Chi-Squared for ecological studies Chi-Squared for phenotype ratios Student’s t-test for unpaired data Student’s t-test for paired data Spearman’s Ranked Coefficient of Correlation Where degrees of freedom and p=0.05 confidence levels are used they are automatically calculated from the inputted data and an indication is shown as to whether a null hypothesis for the data is to be accepted or rejected. The power point goes step by step through each statistical test, describing how to use it, how to calculate each one and what the results mean. The work sheet contains exam style questions and answers upon chi-squared which is covered with a step by step explanation at the end of the power point. A watermarked preview video if the ppt can be found at https://youtu.be/1LcW3EO0MpU

Complete lesson ppt for pairs to research how reflexes occur and produce a newspaper front page. Pupils then undertake peer assessment and self reflection upon the task. Includes timed exercises and all worksheet and assessment forms. Suitable for 14-16 year old pupils to be completed in a 1 hour lesson.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. This is the restricted free version the full paid for version has over 1000 questions targeted at building up the vocabulary of A Level Biology students. All question revealing, answer revealing, changing of hexagon colours, scoring, identifying a winning run and assigning hexagons a random letter are carried out AUTOMATICALLY by the game, all you need to do is click on the screen. This restricted version is limited to 5 moves per game and 5 questions from each letter. The full version allowing full games and over 1000 questions of this evaluation quiz can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-biology-vocabulary-technical-term-quiz-based-on-blockbusters-12230069 The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each game consists of 8 rounds with the winning team’s score for each round being shown on a scoreboard. Though you can play single rounds if you want to. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised as are the questions chosen from a bank of over 1000 technical terms appropriate for A Level Biology. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during your teaching or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz uses macros to carry out the automated functions which you select to run on first opening the power point, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. This is a free evaluation version that has been limited to one game topic and only 5 moves. the full paid for version is unrestricted. The full version can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-biology-blockbuster-vocabulary-reinforcement-revision-quiz-12228147 Has 9 games each focusing on a different module of technical terms that fit in with the AQA GCSE Trilogy & Triple Biology specification. The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised. Each of the 9 games focuses on 20 technical terms. You can easily edit the questions and answers to suit the ability of your pupils. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during the teaching of a module or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz requires macros to carry out the automated functions, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

This is a free evaluation version of Hangman, limited to 5 words and a maximum length of 6 letters per word. The full paid for version is described below: A Hangman game preloaded with 70 GCSE Biology words in a word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank of 70 words and hints can easily be edited by deleting existing words and over-typing new words. The game will cope with word(s) up to 32 characters long including any spaces. A the full version of the game can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-with-70-gcse-biology-words-12233742 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.