This document will walk you through how to give a guided tour of microscope slides or demonstrate slides of various organ tissue. It provides links to easyzoom for leading the class from a projector or interactive board and descriptions on what to point out when looking at prepared slides. All tailored for use at schools. It makes delivering the biology curriculum more engaging by giving opportunities for more use of microscopes with 10-15 min activities or longer activities with drawing and measuring cell sizes. This document includes slides and information on: Blood and blood diseases Veins and Arteries Heart Lung Tissue Foot Kidney Colon (small intestine/gut) Bone Mitosis Testes Nervous System Specialised Cells Basic Animal and Plant Cells Digestive System Endocrine System Check out my youtube video below for more info!

A complete overhaul on the Edexcel pH and Enzymes Core Practical were students use disposable dimple tiles, reliable salivary amylase and re purposed Covid19 dropper bottles to take accurate data for the practical. Although this practical comes with added risks due to using salivary amylase results are reliable and can be used as a demonstration with a particularly challenging class or a full practical. This sheet comes with full notes on how to set up and run the practical as well as methods and RA’s

This is the ultimate heart dissection walk through. Students make careful incisions using seekers and scalpels to explore the four chambers of the heart and has always been a crowd pleaser with our year 11’s This method is a unique method that we developed ourselves over many years over many lesson because some of the other methods were not very conducive to the skills and content we wanted to teach. This document was put together by teachers and technicians had It includes where to source resources, diagrams, methods, RA’s and notes for all eventualities during dissections. These resources are designed to give teachers or technicians full confidence to walk students through dissections and the technical notes are thorough and accurate. Your technicians well be very happy you’ve been so thorough! This document also comes with access to a full 25min video explaining how to where I dissect three hearts and explain what you are going to see and how conduct heart dissections classroom as well as useful hints and tips for the lesson.

Any technician or teacher worth their salt can prepare an onion slide, but how much do you really know about onion slides? This document if perfect for new technicians or teachers and has a fool proof method for sectioning and mounting perfect 1 cell thick sections. It also has a little extra information on ideas to experiment with including species, stains and dilutions of iodine for the more seasoned members of the science faculty. This lesson is a favourite of mine and students first experiences of cells and microscopes should be done justice!

Full sheet for a 100% guaranteed method for making photosynthesis work every time. Perfect for new technicians and teachers or experienced lab techs looking to really understand whats going on. Find the free complimentary videos on my YouTube channel all about the practical! Includes method, RA’s, background information, equipment and resourcing. Enjoy!