KS4 CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS (iGCSE UNIT 1)
Power point slides to deliver the unit of classification and characteristics of living organisms for GCSE Biology (60 slides approx.). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) but it can be easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 7 parts:
Characteristics of living organisms
Classification.
Kingdoms
Viruses
Animals.
Plants
Keys.
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This is a collection of five impactful games fostering teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking among students. The top two favorites are:
Psychiatrist: Sharpens communication and observation skills through engaging interactions and interpreting cues.
Task Whisperer: It challenges students to navigate intricate scenarios by communicating with precision and by dissecting problems from multiple angles.
You will also find:
The Mystery Classmate: Weaves communication, observation, and collaboration skills together, unraveling classroom mysteries.
Tactile Art Relay: Elevates teamwork and creativity, yielding amusing results.
Creative Connections: Sparks communication and creativity.
These games offer a dynamic learning platform, nurturing essential life skills with engagement and enjoyment.
You will find a set of clear instructions and variations for every game but do not hesitate to contact me if you have doubts.
Everything you need to deliver a unit about the cardiovascular system in KS3. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS4. Each unit part includes a slide with the main learning objectives.
The topic is divided in 6 parts:
The human circulatory system: includes a starter slide + slide for a full lesson + plenary slide.
The heart: structure and function. It includes a starter slide + slide for a full lesson + plenary slide and a related video.
Blood components: lesson slides + exit ticket plenary.
Blood vessels: lesson slides + plenary activities.
End of unit questions with 4 activities.
Revision: 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment.
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside others.
There are 5 more files:
• Word document for the exit ticket based on an Instagram post
• Power point with the unit targets for students to revise + printable version in pdf
• Power point with some of the diagrams used in the slides.
• Excel spreadsheet with the material needed for a heart dissection practical.
Pictures have been sourced from creative commons or drawn by me.
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Equip your students with all the tools they need to master line graphs and bar charts this easy-to-use power point presentation designed specifically for Science KS3 students.
What’s Included:
Tips for creating the perfect graph.
WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like): step by step
Activities: Hands-on exercises to reinforce learning and build confidence.
Reflective Questions: Thought-provoking questions to deepen understanding and promote metacognition.
I am currently using these resources with my year 8s during a lesson and half. I hope it helps.
Everything you need to deliver a unit of nutrition for Year 8. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7 and 9, and for a distance learning approach.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Nutrients: lesson + mini plenary based on 5 questions.
Balanced diet: small discussion + lesson on nutritional deficiencies + plenary based on short research project.
Digestion and absorption: lesson + mini plenary based on an exit ticket
The human digestive system: labelling activity + mini plenary
Teeth: labelling activity + structure of a tooth + dental hygiene
Enzymes: lesson + plenary based on activities with differentiation.
End of unit questions: 3 activities
Revision: 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW.
There are two documents with the relevant images for printing.
There is a revision worksheet with the main learning objectives.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
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Everything you need to deliver the unit of selection and evolution from A level Biology (more than 50 power point slides). It follows Cambridge syllabus (9700) but it is easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Variation
Natural selection.
Evolution
Artificial selection
Darwin-Wallace Theory of Evolution.
Species and speciation.
Molecular comparisons.
Extinctions.
There are two extra files:
Power point with a worksheet on “Sources of genetic variation” to complete the information in part 1.
A word document with a small project about endangered species to complete part 8.
Power point with revision questions for the unit with the answers.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website, some are my own diagrams.
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Everything you need to deliver the unit “Pathogens and immunity” for GCSE Biology in power point slides (more than 35 slides with easy navigation). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
The topic is divided in 2 parts:
Transmission of pathogens
The immune system
**Progress check: ** 2 slides contain revision activities.
A separate power point and pdf include an outline for the defences activity.
The slides have been prepared in power point . All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website, power point or mines. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to use it for revision.
This resource is designed to enhance Biology students skills in simple and serial dilutions.
Mastering dilution techniques is fundamental for paper 3, practical exam for CIE and these slides provide several examples for students to practice the most common ones.
They also gain hands-on experience through these slides as I provide them with the material needed to prepare the dilutions after working out the numbers.
I use this presentation in combination with “Practical skills booklet” so that they can also practice past paper questions and other required skills such as graphs and planning investigations.
I hope you find it helpful.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Reproduction in plants” for GCSE Biology in power point slides with easy navigation. It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
Key Features:
Asexual and sexual reproduction
Reproduction in plants: includes flower parts, pollination and fertilisation.
Comparison between types of reproduction.
**Progress check: ** 2 short revision activities.
Bonus: You will also receive a separate PowerPoint version designed for students to complete with your guidance. This hands-on approach ensures active participation and solidifies knowledge retention.
If you buy this presentation and you find it useful, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. In return, I can offer you a free resource of your choice or a compilation of end of unit exams. Just contact me in my Instagram account. Thanks a million!
Everything you need to deliver the unit of cells GCSE Biology (60 slides approx.). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610) and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition but it is easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 7 parts:
Introduction: brief with a video about cell theory and photomicrographs
The cell: structures and function.
Animal and plant cell comparison
Specialised cells review
Different levels of organisation.
Magnification and micrometers
End of unit questions.
Progress check: 7 slides are revision activities for the different parts of the topic.
The slides have been prepared in power point. All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to used it for their revision.
A pdf is included for students to follow the part of specialised cells. The editable version is included.
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Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
Everything you need to deliver fully the unit of cells and microscopes for CIE AS Biology. The slides follow Cambridge syllabus (9700) but they are easily adaptable for other syllabus or level.
The topic is divided in:
Intro: cell theory
Cell biology and microscopy.
Plant and animal cells under light microscope.
Magnification and calculations
Electron microscopy.
Plant and animal cells under electron microscope.
Bacteria
Prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes
Viruses
All pictures have been sourced from creative commons or drawn by me.
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A lesson designed for the Safer Internet Day but it can be used for PSHE to tackle disinformation and encourage fact-checking through education.
It includes:
Basic online practices that spread disinformation to raise awareness and discuss where they have seen these techniques used in the internet.
Two videos for students to learn about fake news and their fast spread.
Activity for students to search for examples of the studied terms and discuss their consequences with a handout to fill in.
Slides to share with students tools that can help them to spot disinformation
Developed using the guidelines from the European commission.
Everything you need to deliver the unit about light in KS3. Each unit part includes a slide with the main learning objectives.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
How light travels: starter slide with a video + explanatory slide + plenary slide.
How shadows form: explanatory slide.
How reflections form: 2 explanatory slides + exit ticket plenary.
How light bends: explanatory slide + plenary slide.
The spectrum of white light: starter slide + explanatory slide + plenary slide
Coloured light: 2 explanatory slides + activity slide
End of unit questions with 4 activities + answers.
Revision: includes a sudden death quiz + 35 minutes of revision activities + slides to check the proper answers. It can be used as a revision or assessment.
Coincides with Cambridge Checkpoint textbook/scheme of work but can be used alongside others.
There are 5 more files:
• Word document for the exit ticket based on an Instagram post
• Power point with the unit targets for students to revise + printable version in pdf
• Power point with sudden death quiz + show version to share with students.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt or you would like me to share some assessments. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
This power point presentation follows the 9700 AS Biology Syllabus by CIE and the endorsed book by Jones, Fosbery, Taylor and Gregory (5th edition). The slides cover all the theoretical content for transport in plants and I currently use them with my year 12 group.
Slides include:
Brief explanation of transport needs and vascular system in plants.
Plan diagrams practice of leaves, stems and roots and adding labels. (also included in the activities’ power point)
Mechanism for water transport: cohesion-tension and mass flow
Mechanism for assimilates transport: active loading in phloem
Final slides: include 4 past paper multiple choice questions with answers.
A bunch of slides with class rules, safety rules in the lab, lab equipment, hazard labels…to be used for the first lesson with your students. Adapt it to your needs or your subject.
Booklet that combines the most important skills required for AS Biology students. Three crucial areas included:
Serial and simple dilutions
Graphs practice
The theory behind the practicals
You will find a compilation of activities for students to fill that also includes some math skills and planning investigations so that they have in this booklet everything they need for their official exams (except plan diagrams).
I use this booklet in combination with the “Dilutions for AS Biology” power point so that I can explain the method before they complete the activities.
This resource is designed to give students a concise revision of the general procedure for gene technology following the CIE syllabus for A Level Biology 9700.
It includes:
Power point slides to guide students through the main definitions, tools and processes. It includes two useful youtube videos and kahoot links.
One of the slides has the student’s worksheet so that it can be edited if needed
The worksheet in PDF with the diagrams for students to complete as they follow the slides
Everything you need to deliver the unit of gene technology for A level Biology (82 slides)
It follows Cambridge syllabus (9700) but it is easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in 5 parts:
Genetic engineering: introduction to the topic.
Tools for Gene technology: restriction enzymes, DNA ligase, promoters, vectors, markers, electrophoresis and PCR explained. Bioinformatics and the need to deal with the information.
Genetic technology and medicine: proteins for medicinal uses and genetic screening.
Gene therapy: studying the case of cystic fibrosis
Gene technology and agriculture: GMOs crops and animals and social implications.
There are two extra power points:
Power point with activities for revision using past papers.
Power point with revision using videos.
Check the slides’ notes as some of them have background information, links or suggestions for activities.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
Everything you need to deliver seven plant practical activities. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7, 8 and 9. Some would also be suitable in year 10. The slides for each activity include the apparatus needed, method, results and conclusion. They can also be performed as demonstrations and most of them can be used in distance learning.
What happens to plants in the absence of light? – This practical can be done in the lab or sent to do it at home in a distance learning approach as little material is needed. It can also be shown as a demonstration.
Leaves under the microscope
Roots for food: web exploring activity that can be easily performed in distance learning.
Seeds feeling gravity: lab activity although it is simple enough to be performed in distance learning.
Transport of water in celery: 2 lab activities included. It could be performed at home with food colouring.
Investigating different colours of light in photosynthesis – theoretically. Can be done in distance learning. All the information given for student to work out on their own the apparatus, risks, results and conclusion.
Check the slides’ notes for some extra info about the activity. Some coincide with Cambridge Science textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW. All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
Please, contact me if you have any doubt. Constructive feedback would be much appreciated!
Power point with a 1 hour lesson about gas exchange in humans, breathing mechanism and differences between inhaled and exhaled air. Aimed to GCSE biology students. It follows CIE syllabus.