A PDF worksheet focusing on the A level Biology content for photosynthesis.
The worksheet features the chloroplast to label and describe the role of the structures; the pigments found in chlorophyll; the absorption spectrum; Engelmann´s experiment regarding the action spectrum.
Useful for class notes or as a formative assessment.
Markscheme included.
A pdf worksheet focusing on the cascade of events which leads to the formation of fibrin. There are a series of exam-style questions to check understanding.
Can be used in addition to class notes or as a formative assessment.
Answer sheet included.
A PDF worksheet based on electrolysis of bauxite. Can be used once students have some knowledge of the topic or as an independent learning task (flipped class). There are focused questions included and and an answer sheet.
A pdf worksheet highlighting the different routes taken by carbon dioxide in the blood (dissolved in plasma or carried in red blood cells). Useful as an independent learning task.
There are also focused questions to ensure students understand the process.
An answer sheet is included.
A PDF file containing a diagram of DNA to label and focused questions to check understanding.
Suitable for A level biology or stretching a GCSE class (grade 8/9).
Useful as a formative assessment task or independent learning/homework.
There is an answer sheet included.
A PDF worksheet focusing on the structure of the pregnant woman and the developing foetus. The students label the diagram and describe the function of each part. There are GCSE focused questions related to placenta function.
An answer sheet is included.
A PDF worksheet focusing on the structure and function of sperm and egg cells. Can be used as an independent learning task or formative assessment.
Students label the main organelles/structures within both cells. There are exam-style questions to check understanding of acrosome and cortical reactions.
An answer sheet is included.
The ONLINE Among Us escape room focuses on the Characteristics of Living Things.
It matches the IGCSE Edexcel specification but can be used with any specification focusing on the following specification points:
understand how living organisms share the following characteristics:
• they require nutrition
• they respire
• they excrete their waste
• they respond to their surroundings
• they move
• they control their internal conditions
• they reproduce
• they grow and develop
Digital Escape rooms are an interactive activity which promote both individual learning and peer collaboration through problem solving.
Each escape room has a range of activities to challenge the students whilst also covering the specification.
The escape room focuses on the IGCSE specification. This means they are an excellent resource to use a revision tool. All the activities are online, eliminating the need for printing materials.
Students will be given a link to access the digital escape room. There is a timer included in the challenge but can be ignored as it has no effect on the outcome.
You do not need to provide an email address or have a google account to access the material. Escape rooms can be completed on laptops, tablets
and mobile phones so they can be set as homework or used in cover lessons.
Students enjoy working through the challenges with a partner but they can be completed alone.
Students will need to look closely at the images on the link. Once clicked, the image links to a clue or activity which needs to be completed in the lock form.
The lock form aids the student by providing direction as to which images to click.
Answers should be written in CAPITAL letters and no spaces between the numbers.
There is a teacher answer sheet provided if you need to guide students.
A PDF worksheet focusing on the sigmoidal curve due to oxygen interaction with haemoglobin. There are a series of exam-style questions focusing on the changing affinity haemoglobin has for oxygen at different partial pressures.
Suitable for formative assessment.
Answer sheet included.
A PDF worksheet with a copy of the cardiac cycle graph. Students label the opening and closing of the valves. There are also exam-style questions to check students’ understanding. Can be used as a formative assessment task or indeoendent learning task.
Answer sheet included.
2 worksheets that focus on the structure and function of blood cells. Higher worksheet - independent learning as students can research information. Lower worksheet - cloze exercise where students are more supported in the information they need to find.
This task has an answer sheet.
A worksheet of a bacterial cell that students can label independently or with teacher guidance. The diagram could be used in assessment too rather than just as a class activity. Students can also find the function of the organelles and add 3 more organelles to the diagram (mesosome, flagellum and capsule)
There is an answer sheet included.
A worksheet with the villus that students can label independently or with teacher guidance. The diagram can be colored to highlight different tissues.
There are guided questions to highlight the main adaptations for absorption of nutrients.
There is an answer sheet included.
A worksheet of pregnancy that students can label independently or with teacher guidance. Students also included the function of each part.
The diagram can be colored to highlight different tissues.
There is an answer sheet included.
An A3 PDF worksheet with diagrams of the kidney and nephron to label plus exam-style questions to check student understanding. Can be completed as an assessment task.
There is an answer sheet included.
A PDF worksheet with the processes of protein synthesis split into transcription and translation. Students label the diagram and describe the process. There are keywords for prompting students.
Perfect for A level or higher GCSE biology
An answer sheet is included.
A PDF worksheet covering the action of the rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus. Students label the diagram showing the process from transcription to exocytosis. There is also an analysis question to check student understanding.
Can be used as a formative assessment.
A PDF worksheet on the structure of the eye. The function of each part is included in the table to help students in labeling and understand the role of the eye. Answer sheet included.
This resource is great for:
In-class worksheet
Formative assessment
Pre/post-test (retrieval practice)
Homework assignment
Support work
The ONLINE Asylum escape room focuses on movement of substances in and out of cells.
It matches the IGCSE Edexcel specification but can be used with any specification focusing on the following specification points:
understand the processes of diffusion, osmosis and active transport by which
substances move into and out of cells
understand how factors affect the rate of movement of substances into and out of cells, including the effects of surface area to volume ratio and concentration gradient
practical: investigate diffusion and osmosis using living and non-living systems
Digital Escape rooms are an interactive activity which promote both individual learning and peer collaboration through problem solving.
Each escape room has a range of activities to challenge the students whilst also covering the specification.
The escape room focuses on the IGCSE specification. This means they are an excellent resource to use a revision tool. All the activities are online, eliminating the need for printing materials.
Students will be given a link to access the digital escape room. There is a timer included in the challenge but can be ignored as it has no effect on the outcome.
You do not need to provide an email address or have a google account to access the material. Escape rooms can be completed on laptops, tablets
and mobile phones so they can be set as homework or used in cover lessons.
Students enjoy working through the challenges with a partner but they can be completed alone.
Students will need to look closely at the images on the link. Once clicked, the image links to a clue or activity which needs to be completed in the lock form.
The lock form aids the student by providing direction as to which images to click.
Answers should be written in CAPITAL letters and no spaces between the numbers.
There is a teacher answer sheet provided if you need to guide students.