Kidney summary worksheets for A-level Biology.
What’s included?
Structure of the nephron & formation of glomerular filtrate.
Selective reabsorption (including co-transport of glucose).
The role of the loop of Henle in water reabsorption (maintenance of a sodium ion gradient) - one version suitable for AQA, one version suitable for OCR (includes chloride ions in the explanation).
Osmoregulation (role of ADH)
Includes differentiated versions of each worksheet (one scaffolded ‘fill in the blank’ style worksheet, and one with completly blank answer spaces).
Full answer sheets are included, which could also be used as a handout.
Encourage students to add colour to the worksheets to aid formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheet available for:
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Protein synthesis
Inheritance
Epigenetics
Carbon dioxide transport
Tissue fluid formation
AQA GCSE required practical revision notes/sheets covering all of the Biology Required Practicals (for triple science).
Despite being worth 15% of the marks, so many students don’t allocate specific revision time to the required practicals. I designed these sheets for my own students to encourage specific revision of the practicals and have seen a great improvement in practical knowledge and the ability to answer practical-based questions.
Each sheet includes an example method and most importantly, exam-style questions and model answers.
The model answers for the exam-style questions have been written based on previous mark schemes, but I cannot guarantee that future mark schemes will be exactly the same. The model answers are for guidance only. Students should be encouraged to use these sheets as a starting point and update/annotate them with any further information as needed.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Photosynthesis pack Includes 4 worksheets covering:
structure/function of chloroplasts
light dependent reaction
light independent reaction *
limiting factors of photosynthesis
2 different light independent reaction worksheets are included - one with ‘TP’ for AQA/OCR, and the other with ‘GALP’, for those teaching the Edexcel specification.
For each worksheet, differentiated versions are included:
a version containing just the diagram, for more confident students to annotate themselves.
a scaffolded version, with ‘fill in the gap’ structure.
Completed versions with answers are also included.
APOLOGIES - typo on the light independent reaction is now corrected (original version stated triglycerides were synthesised from GP, this sentence should have read ‘fatty acids are synthesised from GP’).
Respiration pack Includes 5 worksheets covering:
structure of mitochondria / sites of aerobic respiration
glycolysis
the link reaction & Krebs cycle
oxidative phosphorylation
anaerobic respiration (lactate fermentation and alcoholic fermentation).
For most worksheets, differentiated versions are included:
where appropriate, a version containing just the diagram, for more confident students to annotate themselves.
a scaffolded version, with ‘fill in the gap’ structure.
Completed versions with answers are also included (for oxidative phosphorylation, answers for both permutations of total ATP produced are included, in order to cover all exam boards i.e. 32 / 38 total ATP).
AQA GCSE required practical revision notes/sheets covering all of the Physics Required Practicals (for triple science).
Despite being worth 15% of the marks, so many students don’t allocate specific revision time to the required practicals. I designed these sheets for my own students to encourage specific revision of the practicals and have seen a great improvement in practical knowledge and the ability to answer practical-based questions.
Each sheet includes an example method and most importantly, exam-style questions and model answers.
The model answers for the exam-style questions have been written based on previous mark schemes, but I cannot guarantee that future mark schemes will be exactly the same. The model answers are for guidance only. Students should be encouraged to use these sheets as a starting point and update/annotate them with any further information as needed.
Also available as part of a bundle containing all of the required practicals for Biology, Chemistry & Physics AQA GCSE.
AQA A-level Biology Spaced Repetition Timetable for the last 6 months of Year 13 2023-2024.
The timetable has 5 repetitions of each topic scheduled (efforts have been made to group together topics that are often linked in synoptic questions at least once).
Includes instructions for use and a list of essays that students should try and complete each month (2 essays per month). Please note no mark schemes are included for the essays, the essay list is included to encourage spaced practice of a broad-range of essay titles.
A blank version of the timetable is also included (with only topics and dates completed) in case students wish to plan their own timings for repetitions.
Four worksheets covering part of the immune response topic for A-level Biology:
Phagocytosis
The Cellular Immune Response
The Humoral Immune Response
Antibodies (includes 2 versions, one which mentions opsonins for OCR and one without for AQA).
(Where relevant, a gap-fill style version and a blank version is included).
Full answer sheets are included, which could alternatively be used as handouts/revision sheets.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheets available on:
Cell structure
Carbon dioxide transport
Tissue fluid formation
Protein synthesis
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Nutrient Cycles
Energy transfers
Protein synthesis
Epigenetics
Inheritance
Control of blood glucose concentration
The kidney
Receptors
Nerve Impulses
Epigenetics A-level summary worksheet covering the epigenetic mechanisms of methylation and acetylation. Suitable for any exam board which covers the epigenetics topic.
Includes differentiated versions - one scaffolded ‘fill in the word’ style worksheet for less confident students and a less scaffolded version for more confident students. Also includes an answer sheet (which could be used as a handout).
Designed for colour to be added by each individual student, to aid the formation of visual memories.
Useful as a revision or homework exercise to check understanding. Completed worksheets can then form part of the student’s revision notes.
Similar style worksheets available for:
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Protein synthesis
Tissue fluid
Inheritance
These worksheets cover primary and secondary succession. Also included is a page showing the diagrams used in the worksheets in colour .
To accommodate all exam boards, one version of one of the worksheets includes the terms ‘deflected succession’ and ‘plagioclimax’, the other version does not.
Full answer sheets are included, which could alternatively be used as handouts/revision sheets.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheets available on:
Cell structure
Carbon dioxide transport
Tissue fluid formation
Protein synthesis
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Nutrient Cycles
Energy transfers
Protein synthesis
Epigenetics
Inheritance
The kidney
Receptors
Nerve Impulses
If you find these worksheets useful I would really appreciate a positive review. Equally, any constructive feedback would be gratefully received and changes can be made accordingly!
UPDATED with coloured diagrams on answer sheets.
Visually appealing worksheets covering the inheritance topic of A-level Biology. Designed with the AQA exam board in mind (incomplete dominance is not relevant to AQA, but has been included to allow teachers of other exam boards to use this resource - codominance and incomplete dominance are not the same thing!).
Includes 7 worksheets covering:
Multiple alleles
Codominant alleles
Incomplete dominance
Dihybrid crosses
Sex linkage
Autosomal linkage
Dominant and recessive epistasis
Due the complexity of this topic, I find these worksheets are useful to introduce each type of inheritance, before moving onto exam-style questions.
Also useful as a revision / homework exercise.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Full answer sheets are included.
Similar worksheets are available for:
Cell structure
Protein Synthesis
Tissue fluid formation
Carbon dioxide transport
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Energy transfers
Nutrient Cycles
Receptors
Nerve Impulses
The Kidney
Epigenetics
*Now updated with improved fonts and new-style answer sheet!
These worksheets are part of the AQA Section 5 A-level Biology Worksheet Bundle.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Includes 5 worksheets covering:
structure of mitochondria / sites of aerobic respiration
glycolysis
the link reaction & Krebs cycle
oxidative phosphorylation
anaerobic respiration (lactate fermentation and alcoholic fermentation).
For most worksheets, differentiated versions are included:
where appropriate, a version containing just the diagram for more confident students to annotate themselves.
a scaffolded version, with ‘fill in the gap’ structure.
Completed versions are included (for oxidative phosphorylation, answers for both permutations of total ATP produced are included, in order to cover all exam boards i.e. 32 / 38 total ATP). These could be used as handouts if you are short of time.
*Similar style worksheets also available for:
Protein synthesis
Tissue fluid formation
CO2 transport
Photosynthesis
Energy transfers
Nutrient cycles
Epistasis
Inheritance
Kidney
Receptors
Nervous Impulses
If you find these worksheets useful I would really appreciate a positive review. Equally, any constructive feedback would be gratefully received and changes can be made accordingly!
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Includes 2 worksheets covering:
control of blood glucose concentration by insulin & glucagon (two versions included, one with blank boxes for students to fill in or another ‘cut & stick’ option.)
control of insulin secretion (OCR only) (blank option for more confident students or a ‘gap fill’ version.
Completed versions of both worksheets are included which can be used as a handout or for students to self-mark (or great for a cover teacher to use!).
*Similar style worksheets also available for:
Protein synthesis
Tissue fluid formation
CO2 transport
Respiration
Energy transfers
Nutrient cycles
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Epistasis
Inheritance
Kidney
Receptors
Nervous Impulses
If you find these worksheets useful I would really appreciate a positive review. Equally, any constructive feedback would be gratefully received and changes can be made accordingly!
These worksheets are part of the AQA Section 5 A-level Biology Worksheet Bundle.
3 worksheets covering the Section 5, Nutrient Cycles section of the AQA A-level Biology Specification.
Full answer sheets are included, which could alternatively be used as handouts/revision sheets.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheets available on:
Protein Synthesis
Tissue fluid formation
CO2 transport
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Energy and Ecosystems
Protein synthesis
Epigenetics
Inheritance
The kidney
Receptors
Nerve Impulses
If you find these worksheets useful I would really appreciate a positive review. Equally, any constructive feedback would be gratefully received and changes can be made accordingly!
Ensure your students understand how to interpret cardiac cycle pressure change graphs with this worksheet.
Includes differentiated versions (one worksheet with blank boxes to explain the opening & closing of valves on the cardiac pressure graph & one gap-fill worksheet to help less confident students).
Tests knowledge of
why the atrioventricular and semilunar valves open and close during the cardiac cycle.
how to calculate heart rate using a pressure change graph.
the cardiac output equation.
differences in pressure between atria & ventricles.
Many other similar style worksheets available for other A-level Biology topics, including:
tissue fluid formation
transport of carbon dioxide
protein synthesis
photosynthesis
respiration
the kidney
inheritance
epigenetic modifications
Three worksheets covering part of Section 8 of the AQA A-level Biology specification:
Producing DNA fragments (reverse transcriptase, restriction endonucleases & gene machines).
In vivo cloning (summary of isolation - insertion - transformation - identification - culturing). Please note that a DETAILED EXPLANATION OF SPECIFIC MARKER GENES is NOT INCLUDED in this resource.
In vitro cloning / PCR
(Where relevant, a scaffolded gap-fill style version and a blank version is included).
Full answer sheets are included, which could alternatively be used as handouts/revision sheets.
My students love completing these visually appealing worksheets, which break topics down into manageable chunks. Useful as a revision exercise or as a quick assessment.
All worksheets are black and white to allow students to add colour to the diagrams, a process which is thought to aid the formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheets available on:
Cell structure
Immune response
Carbon dioxide transport
Tissue fluid formation
Protein synthesis
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Nutrient Cycles
Energy transfers
Protein synthesis
Epigenetics
Inheritance
Control of blood glucose concentration
The kidney
Receptors
Nerve Impulses
Printable revision timetables ideal for GCSE and A-level students.
Download contains 4 different colour options, plus one black and white version.
For each different colour, there is an option with time slots already completed & a blank version for students to choose their own timings for each session.
The two hour slots at the beginning & end of each day are for completing past papers - for any other revision, make sure you have a break after 1 hour of revising. I personally don’t suggest students timetable revision for early in the morning and late in the evening on the same day - choosing one or the other is usually best, depending on when students work best.
Over 800 questions and answers covering the AQA A-level Biology specification.
Fantastic resource for self-assessment or for students to test each other.
Nerve Impulses (AQA Section 6) summary worksheets for A-level Biology.
3 worksheets:
The action potential
Refractory period + propagation of a nerve impulse along a non-myelinated neurone.
Factors which affect speed of conduction (temperature, axon diameter, myelination).
Since introducing these visual summary worksheets, I have seen improvements across all abilities.
Download includes differentiated versions for the second two worksheets (one scaffolded ‘fill in the blank’ style worksheet, and one with blank answer spaces).
Full answer sheets are included, which could also be used as a handout.
The action potential worksheet is available as a fully completed version, to be used as a revision sheet or a version with the just the diagram and graph, for students to add their own text to. This leaves teachers free to explain each section of the graph as they prefer (i.e. some teachers prefer to include the term ‘voltage-gated’ ion channels, some don’t).
Encourage students to add colour to the worksheets to aid formation of visual memories.
Similar worksheets available for:
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Protein synthesis
Inheritance
Epigenetics
Carbon dioxide transport
Tissue fluid formation
The Kidney
Energy transfers
Nutrient cycles
Receptors
Get organised for the new school year with these printable PDFs for GCSE & A-level.
Weekly revision timetable split into half-hourly sessions (8am - 9pm).
Monthly exam timetable planner.
Clickable powerpoint quiz (10 multiple choice questions of varying difficulty) to quickly assess understanding of the carbohydrates topic of A-level Biology.
Press play on the Powerpoint & click on the ‘click to begin button’. The embedded links will automatically take students to a page telling them if their selected answers are correct or incorrect. Where applicable, information is given as to why their answer is incorrect (this is not given for all questions as extra information woudl would give the answer away in some cases).
Revision checklist for AQA A-level Biology. Designed for use with the following revision method:
Step 1: make revision resources for a topic e.g. bullet-point notes, flashcards, mindmap.
Step 2: use these revision resources to actively revise the topic.
Step 3: complete topic-specific exam questions.
Step 4: mark questions and annotate revision notes with any missed information.
Step 5: repeat until you are achieving a mark that is comparable to your desired final grade.
Step 6: move onto the next topic!