Activity / revision mat about haemoglobin based on AQA past paper questions. Also links in a little bit with protein structure and touches on phylogeny. Answers included.

Revision mat template for skeleton movement and joints. You may want to edit the ‘5 functions’ of the skeleton depending on what you’ve taught previously. We include: movement, making blood cells, protection, shape and support, and storage of minerals.

Using the BBC Bitesize video here: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zxhktv4/video , students complete the story board with information about what happens during each stage of the menstrual cycle. I suggest you watch it at least twice. You could also assign different students key things to listen out for and then they help others to fill theirs in. Could be made into a small group activity. There is a page with suggested answers. This could be modified to differentiate. It’s worth watching the video though to ensure you use similar wording so it’s easy for the students to recognise the correct information.

Here’s a poster, best printed A3, to help your students remember that there’s more to passing the exams than just recall of facts. You could also print smaller copies for their files etc. Original powerpoint file also included in case you want to edit it.

Basic template to review or revise genetic modification for Edexcel iGCSE. I’ve also added a bit about the ethics to think about.

An information sheet and question sheet for a bit of independent work on the roles of the placenta and amniotic sac for edexcel iGCSE. We do this in Year 11 so there are a few synoptic quesitons in there too such as “describe the role of antibodies”, “describe how the mother gets rid of the foetal carbon dioxide”. Feel free to use this Quizizz quiz too: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5bedc6df007091001a7aed67

UPDATED due to a couple of errors (26/04/19). My class were struggling with inheritance, particularly keywords, monohybrid crosses and pedigrees, so I made this booklet. Some of the activities are adapted from a great resource by https://www.tes.com/member/Masfar Exam questions are from Edexcel iGCSE (old spec) Answer booklet included.

Activity for students to learn about what plants do with the glucose they make in photosynthesis. Aimed at GCSE (specifically iGCSE Edexcel) as I’ve tried to link it in with the topic they’ve already done on biomolecules and obviously cell structure. DART stands for Directed Activity Related to Text. It could be used in many ways. For example students read once and highlight in one colour all the chemicals that are mentioned. And then read again and highlight in another colour what they need the various chemicals for. Then they use this information to create a spider diagram, with little picture, to help them remember the information.

An overview of the effects of smoking on the lungs which could be used as an alternative to textbook work or using the internet for research. You could have students turn the information into a table or other format, set some questions for their peers based on it or use it as a basis for discussion.

Spot the mistakes reading activity with answers. Specifically designed for the Edexcel iGCSE specification which requires them to know that CFCs can also act as greenhouse gases.

A reading activity for reviewing or revising ecological concepts for A Level Biology in the context of the 2019/20 Australian bushfires. Some short answer questions to test understanding of keywords and concepts followed by some questions which could be used for class discussion or set as a group exercise. Also includes links to other articles to read and a short video to watch. Source of article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/20/more-than-100-threatened-species-australian-bushfires-towards-extinction

** UPDATED 03/03/20 ** A starting point for talking about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak including facts, pictures and ideas for questions and discussions. Could be used when discussing infectious diseases, viral structure, vaccines, clinical trials, PCR etc. Up to date as of 03-03-20 Made in google slides but hopefully has been translated into Powerpoint ok.

Here are 35, mostly short answer questions that can be used for various quiz formats or as a written task. I use them with the buzzer powerpoint which is basically a slide with 2 pictures of a buzzer on that when tapped make a funny noise (it's not amazing so suggested improvements are welcome!). 2 pupils come to the IWB and a quiz master reads a question from the list. Whoever buzzes first correctly gets to stay at the board, and the other one has to sit down and someone else takes their place (winner stays on). The questions are probably more suitable for higher students.

Pupils must arrange the ‘slides’ in the correct order, then they can staple them together to make a flip-book. They should also write a sentence to explain the main events. Also comes with answer sheet.