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.
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These are the slides I currently use to teach AS level Biology ENZYMES (56 slides)
It follows Cambridge syllabus (9700) but it is easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in 8 parts:
Intro: starter activity to refresh GCSE knowledge
What are enzymes?
Modes of action: lock and key, induced fit
Investigating an enzyme-catalysed reaction
Factors affecting enzymes.
Enzyme affinity; Vmax and Km
Inhibitors: competitive and non-competitive.
Immobilising enzymes
Some slides contain notes for extra guidance when teaching, some slides contain activities for students to practice for their exams,
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The objective of this activity is to introduce students to science while fostering team collaboration and getting to know each other.
Divide the group and give them the science-themed question cards, students will work together in groups to answer questions and share their responses, simultaneously introducing themselves to their peers and teacher.
The resources include the power point presentation I follow on my first day of Science so that I set expectations for they year and an icebreaker activity.
All resources are editable for you to add or remove items and customise it for your needs.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Human influences on ecosystems” 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, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision and learning objectives are given as a starter for the subtopics covered.
Key Features:
Food supply
Habitat destruction
Pollution
Conservation
Also included: Slides at the end of the presentation with blanks for students to fill it in. And the same slides in pdf ready to use.
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Power point slides I currently use to deliver fully the unit “Transport in mammals” for AS Biology. The slides follow Cambridge syllabus (9700) but they are easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in:
Intro: starter activity
Transport system in animals: outlines the need for a transport system
The mammalian circulatory system: describes the main features of the circulatory system
Blood vessels: function and wall structures of arteries, veins and capillaries. With a summary table.
Tissue fluid: composition and formation. It includes past paper questions and answers
Blood: components and function. It includes Hb, dissociation curve, Bohr shift and carbon dioxide transport.
The heart: external and internal structure.
Some activities to check student’s understanding also included at the end with some past paper multiple choice questions
Notes in word document and the slides with blanks for students added as token.
If you buy these resources and you find them 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 “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.
Power point slides I currently use to deliver fully the unit “Cell membrane and movement across the cell” for A level Biology. The slides follow Cambridge syllabus (9700) but they are easily adaptable to others.
The topic is divided in:
Intro: starter activity
Structure of membranes
Roles of the molecules in the membranes
Cell signalling
Movement of substances across membranes
Also included: unit notes for students to edit or use as revision notes.
All pictures have been sourced from creative commons or made by me.
If you buy this resources and you find them 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!
Power point slides I currently use to deliver fully the unit “Gas exchange” for AS Biology. The slides follow Cambridge syllabus (9700) but they are easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in:
Intro: starter activity
Gas exchange: adaptations outline.
The lungs: structure
Warming and cleaning the air
The alveoli: adaptations
Some activities to check student’s understanding also included at the end with some past paper multiple choice questions
Notes in word document and the slides with blanks for students added as token.
If you buy these resources and you find them 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 9 Science practical activities in Year 8. Three Biology practicals, three Chemistry practicals and 3 for Physics. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7 and 9. Some would also be suitable in GCSE. The slides for each activity include the apparatus needed, method and results. I have been using most of these activities in KS3 for several courses now and they work very well, they are one hour long approximately. They can also be performed as demonstrations.
Proper use of the microscope.
Growing bacteria. This is one of my favourite activities because they enjoy it a lot.
Virtual experiment on disease transmission. This simply follows a video in the Cambridge Hub where you can find many others that can be used for distance learning or if labs are not available.
Temperature and solubility. Investigation on how temperature affects the solubility of salt in water.
Investigating water. The students work out the amount of salt in two different water samples.
Chromatography of ink
Testing insulation. Investigation on which is the best material for insulating walls.
Conduction star. Investigation on which metal is the best heat conductor.
Cooling wax activity to study the freezing point of wax.
Coincides with Exploring Science textbook/scheme of work, but can be used alongside any other SOW.
Technician notes and basic risk assessment are included for all practical activities in an excel document and two word docs.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
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All you need to deliver the lesson in unit 8C Doctors and Disease in Exploring Science. The power point includes:
What are microbes?
How are microbes useful.
Mini-Plenary
Diseases and spread mechanisms
Virtual experiment: disease transmission.
Body defences.
Beating infections.
I used it in distance learning and it worked really well. I hope it helps.
I am currently using these slides to deliver the unit about drugs in Yr11. It is based on videos.
The topic is divided in:
• What is a drug?.
• Medicinal drugs: antibiotics.
• Misuse of drugs: heroin, alcohol and tobacco
• Smoking and lung cancer correlation
• Revision questions
The presentation follows Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is editable to meet your needs.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt or you would like me to share some assessments.
Constructive feedback would be much appreciated.
I use this resource to teach the basics for paper 5 for 9700 Biology A Level. I teach this over 3 full hour lessons or a bit more. It includes:
Lesson 1 (slides 1-10): students learn how to plan an investigation.
Lesson 2 (slides 11-24): students learn about independent, dependent and controlled variables, describing the steps in an investigation, assessing risks and start the basic math skills for evaluating data by using statistics to include mean, range, interval…
Lesson 3 (slides 25-end): more statistics to include standard deviation, standard error and confidence intervals, error bars, t-test and tips to best evaluate their evidence and state a relevant conclusion.
The slides include some activities so that students can practice these skills.
I hope you find it useful.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “Inheritance” 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, but it is easily adaptable to others. A Checklist slide is included for students to use for their revision.
Key Features:
Chromosomes and cell division. Includes an outline of mitosis and meiosis
Inheriting genes: including genetic diagrams, codominance and sex linkage
Genes and protein synthesis
There is a final slide for students to prepare a diagram of the unit and this is in a pdf file ready to print
Also included: student version of the slides that my students use to fill the gaps.
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!
These slides can be used to teach fully the unit of “Organisms and their environment” following the CIE Cambridge syllabus for 0610/0970/0654/0973 Biology for 2023-2025 and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones, but it is easily adaptable to others. I usually teach the content to my students in 2 hours.
Key Features:
Syllabus and Checklist slide
Energy flows and food chains
Nutrient cycles for carbon and nitrogen
Population growth including the sigmoid curve
Also included: Student version with half-blank slides for students to fill it in and flashcards templates.
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 a whole unit of plants for Year 8. Easily adaptable and suitable for Year 7, 9 and for an online learning approach.
The topic is divided in 7 parts:
Photosynthesis: lesson + mini plenary based on an exit ticket.
Leaves: lesson + mini plenary based on an activity to boost the students’ memory with a label exercise.
Two investigations that can be followed without lab practical so that it can also be easily done in online learning.
Roots: lesson + 3 self-assessment questions
Transport of water and minerals: lesson
End of unit questions
Revision: 20 minutes of revision activities + slides for students to check the right answers. It can be used as revision or assessment.
Several slides contain notes with suggestions for the lessons such as starters, links with other topics or opportunities for differentiation.
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 and a target list for students to revise.
All pictures have been sourced from the creative commons website.
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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Everything you need to deliver the unit “Enzymes” of GCSE Biology in power point slides. It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 3 parts:
Biological catalysts
Factors that affect enzymes: including temperature and pH
End of unit questions
Progress check: 2 slides contain 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 use it for revision.
Please, DM me if you have any doubt.
Everything you need to deliver the unit “plant nutrition” for GCSE Biology in power point slides (more than 40slides). It follows Cambridge syllabus (0610/0970) and Cambridge IGCSE endorsed book by Jones and Jones Third edition, but it is easily adaptable to others. The topic is divided in 3 parts:
Making carbohydrates using light energy
Leaves: structure and adaptations
Factors affecting photosynthesis: including many slides to explain relevant experiments and limiting factors
Progress check: some slides contain 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 or shapes. The power point is very easy to navigate for students to be able to use it for revision.
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.