Written for AQA Trilogy but would suit any GCSE or KS3. Slide 1 - Learning framework Slide 2 - starter sentences Slide 3 - Key words for this lesson. Can be printed off for those that need the spellings. More able students can use it as the basis for a mind map. Slide 4 - looks at a food chain Slide 5 - series of food chains forming a web, can print this slide off so that students can add arrows and labels Slides 6 - builds up the web Slide 7 - contains a link to short video identifying predators and prey Slide 8 - link to BBC animation showing ladybirds and aphids Slide 9 - shows a typical predator/prey graph to use as a visual aid for teaching.

Written for AQA Trilogy but would suit any GCSE. Slide 1 - Learning framework Slide 2 - Key words for this lesson. Can be printed off for those that need the spellings. More able students can use it as the basis for a mind map. Slide 3 - diagram of water cycle Slide 4 - description of water cycle Slide 5 - a different diagram of water cycle Slide 6 - description of main processes Slide 7 - two multiple choice questions Slide 8 - a 2mark question

Aimed at GCSE Trilogy AQA.

This is just four slides so not a whole lesson but hopefully you will be able to copy them into your own lessons and I have done the fiddly work for you. This could be used as a plenary to apply learning to a new situation i.e. labelling a real micrograph of a plant cell. The first two slides show the cell labelled and unlabelled. You need to show this in slideshow in order to label the cell one sub-cellular structure at a time. The second two slides are a cloze activity. Again answers will fill in one at a time in slideshow. I print off the cells onto label sheets, 4 to a page. I’ve supplied these. Stick into centre of the page so that you can add labels around it. Some of my students need missing words on the table in front of them, so I have supplied these. Some also need to fill in gaps on a sheet due to time constraints or poor/slow handwriting, so I’ve supplied these as well.

Written for AQA Trilogy GCSE. Focuses on the transmission of malaria. Slide 2 has a video link that makes a good starter for class discussion about malaria and death in the under 5’s. Slide 3 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 4 could be printed out for each student so that they have the necessary vocabulary and spellings needed for this lesson. Can then be used as the basis of a mind map during the lesson making links between the words. Slide 5 shows a simplified life cycle of the disease and has a video link to an animation to show this . The animation contains the names of the life cycle stages of the protist which are not needed at GCSE any more. If you think this may confuse your class, do not use the link. However I have found that most students are quite happy to know that there are words they don’t need to remember. Slides 6-7 are questions about malaria. Slides 8-9 are general questions about the diseases covered in this and previous lessons.

Aimed at AQA Trilogy GCSE. This is a first lesson to introduce the concept of homeostasis. Slide 1 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 2 asks 'What if?' Slide 3 introduces some vocabulary linkd to water and temperature Slides 4-6 introduction to endocrine system and control of behaviour Slides 7-8 Task looking at balance of water in the body. Slides 9-10 Plenary fill in the gaps with answers. Word doc is 2xA5 ws on an A4 sheet of slides 7-8.

This is preparation for the Reaction time required practical in AQA GCSE Trilogy. Slide 2 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 3 provides the key words for the lesson. Can simply be a visual aid to introduce the vocabulary. I tend to print this slide off for individuals in the class who would benefit from their own copy and for TAs. More able students use this as a basis for a mind map to make links between key words. Slide 4 is a picture diagram of a reflex arc. Slide 5 shows a simplified version of previous slide with questions to answer. Differentiate by number of examples given in Q4. Slide 6 is a fill in the gaps cloze. Slide 7 inserts the answers to slide 6. Slide 8 shows a synapse. Slide 9 gives details of each neurone. Slide 10 is a literacy activity. Slide 11 - instructions for a simple ruler drop test. This is a short practical so that students understand what to do for the Required practical next lesson. Slide 12 - Plenary Two sheets supplied one has the diagrams and the other has the questions and cloze. I include these simply because I find them useful for particular students with my mixed ability classes. If I know a particular student makes a meal of using glue, I will print directly onto labels for them. I keep a supply of 4 labels to a page for this purpose.

This is preparation for the Reaction time required practical in AQA GCSE Trilogy. Slide 1 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 2 provides the key words for the lesson. Can simply be a visual aid to introduce the vocabulary. I tend to print this slide off for individuals in the class who would benefit from their own copy and for TAs. More able students use this as a basis for a mind map to make links between key words. Slide 3-5 are pictures of root hairs Slide 6-7 describe transpiration Slide 8-10 show how stomata work Slide 11 has a link to a YouTube video on 'sticky water’ Slide 12 explains transpiration in more detail Slide 13 Questions Slide 14 diagram of a potometer -need to explain how it works Slide 15 gives a method for setting up a practical on surface area of leaves and rate of transpiration. Two sheets supplied one has diagrams of transpiration to go with slide 12 and the other has diagrams of open and closed stomata to go with slides 9-10. I include these simply because I find them useful for particular students with my mixed ability classes. If I know a particular student makes a meal of using glue, I will print directly onto labels for them. I keep a supply of 4 labels to a page for this purpose.

Written for AQA Trilogy GCSE. Focuses on salmonella - causing food poisoning and gonorrhoea - a sexually transmitted disease. Slide 2 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 3 focuses on how bacteria replicate by binary fission. Slide 4 provides visual aid whilst you explain about the variety of bacterial structures. You then need an up to date text book which will provide the information needed to answer questions on slide 5. Answer all questions for both diseases. (Red questions aimed at LAPS, green questions aimed at MAPS and purple at HAPS.) Extra task could be set as a homework - Slide 6 sets a task to design an on-line leaflet giving advice on one of the diseases. Slides 7 & 8 show examples of what is currently available on-line, not very inspiring. Work sheet 2xA5 on one A4 sheet. Use two colours of highlighter pen, one for each disease. Use as a plenary or as a starter for the next lesson to assess understanding.

Written for AQA Trilogy GCSE. Focuses on Measles, HIV and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Slide 2 is a learning framework for the lesson. Slide 3 focuses on how viruses enter cells in order to replicate. Slides 4 & 5 provide visual aid whilst you explain about the variety of viral structures. You then need an up to date text book which will provide the information needed to answer questions on slide 6. Answer all questions for each disease. (Red questions aimed at LAPS, green questions aimed at MAPS and purple at HAPS.) Work sheet 2xA5 on one A4 sheet. Use three colours of highlighter pen, one for each virus. Use as a plenary or as a starter for the next lesson to assess understanding.

Presentation to introduce abiotic factors Slides 1-9. Slide 10 has a video hyperlink to show woodlice in choice chambers. (Alternatively you could do this as apractical yourself.) Slide 11 shows the set up from the video and slide 12 gives the results from the video clip. Slides 11-12 are also supplied as a worksheet; 2 A5 copies on one A4 sheet. Students should calculate the mean for each condition from the results . Slide 13 works through the calculation answers then in the last slide 14 students have to decide which abiotic factor, light or moisture is most important to the woodlice. Written with AQA Trilogy in mind.

Powerpoint presentation with lesson on microscopes and a video link to clip explaining light, scanning and transmission electron microscopes. Then activity to sort sizes and link to type of microscopes needed to see things. Answers are on the presentation. There is a worksheet for students to fill in as they go around the room to look at the lists of mis-ordered words. This always takes longer than I expect. It is worth putting a time limit on time spent at each list. Leave plenty of time to go through answer slides so that you can discuss any disagreements. It is worth having some electron microscope images for students to guess at as a plenary. The one I use was not done by me so I haven’t included it but I am fairly sure I downloaded it from TES resources. It is called ‘Amazing images through the eyes of the electron microscope’ and the author is Craig Prestidge.

This is written for AQA Trilogy Ecology unit. Ahead of lesson - print up card sorts. I suggest you do this on different coloured card, so that if two sets on same desk they will not get muddled and any odd cards from floor are easily be matched up with the correct set. Slides 5-12 - could be printed off (preferably in colour) on separate sheets and laminated so they can be used in the future.These could be spread around the room for students to visit or passed around tables in rotation. An alternative would be to print 4 slides to a page so that they can be cut up and stuck in books. The way you do this will depend very much on the class you are working with. Slide 1- learning framework for the lesson Slide 2 - starter activity - watch video clip and identify different habitats Slide 3 - Ecology four words to learn, then card sort with 8 words. Slide 4 - differentiated questions to complete with activity LAPS red; MAPS green; HAPS purple Leave this on screen as students complete different habitats. Plenary - Could use different coloured highlighter pens to identify habitats, species (biotic) and abiotic factors.

Numeracy lesson to support the maths needed for science, particularly cell biology. A5 ws are the same as slide 10 in the presentation. Answer sheet also supplied. I have done a slide on ‘Orders of Magnitude’ separately so that it can easily be slipped in as an extra linked activity or it could be done as a starter for another lesson. Do with AQA Trilogy in mind.

Ecology sampling lesson includes exam style questions and answers. Slide 2 is a learning framework Slide 3 contains key words for the lesson LAPS use as a spelling sheet HAPS use as basis for a mindmap Slides 4-11 Sampling invertebrates in a pitfall trap Slides 12-21 Sampling plants using a quadrat Pitfall trap ws is slides 9&11 Quadrat question ws is slides 16-19

Written for AQA Trilogy but would suit any GCSE. Slide 1 - Learning framework Slide 2 - Key words for this lesson. Can be printed off for those that need the spellings. More able students can use it as the basis for a mind map. Slide 3 - details of decay Slides 4-6 - stimulus photos for discussion Slide 7 - conditions needed for decay Slide 8 - carbon cycle diagram Slide 9 - link to activity Slides 10-11 - four multiple choice questions Slides 12-22 - True or false questions Slide 23 - two 1mark questions. Worksheet with a 6mark question can be printed A4 or A5 by printing 2 to a page.