DNA Extraction lesson and practical. Lesson covers DNA and genetic materials with a thought provoking starter on the length of DNA in a cell. A simple variation of the lesson could be to extract DNA from one fruit, but this lesson looks at comparing different fruits and the challenges faced with that. Easy to follow worksheet

Using carbon to extract copper

Students paint the underside of a leaf and look at the stomata Whilst the nail varnish is drying the students will complete the worksheet.

Complete KS3 and KS4 fully differentiated lesson on Adaptation Two versions of the lesson for the price of one. One version is suitable for KS3, one version is suitable for KS4. Starter KS3 KS4 - BoB’s big five. A recap over the last few lessons in 5 questions that they complete in the back of their books (Hence BoB). There are then the answers on the next slides for students to self or peer mark. This is to encourage memory retention over a series of lessons and has had a great impact in my classroom. Followed by a series of images showing animals that have adapted to their surroundings. Main KS3 & KS4 - Place the station cards from the PPT file around the room. Students then have copies of the station cards from the word file and have to move around the room completing the cards. There are helper sheets to support students if needed, or for your LSA’s. Helper sheets are for any LSA’s you may have Plenary KS3 & KS4 - Beach ball questioning. You need a beach ball. Throw to a student, ask a question, they then throw the ball to another student, who you then ask the next question to.

A worksheet for students to work on either as part of the lessons on reflection and refraction, or, as I used them as a topic recap.

Complete lesson based on the Simple Inheritance topic of the AQA Biology/Trilogy new specification GCSE course, also known as B13.7 from the Nelson Thornes text books. This lesson contains: Starter BoB’s big five. A recap over the last few lessons in 5 questions that they complete in the back of their books (Hence BoB). There are then the answers on the next slides for students to self or peer mark. This is to encourage memory retention over a series of lessons and has had a great impact in my classroom. Main Introduction to the keywords and then guided through some genetic crosses. Emphasis given to the correct working out that needs to be written down in order to gain ALL the marks. Students are then expected to complete any of the next tasks. If you have iPads in the classroom then I would print out the QR code scanner (See note at bottom) sheet and students can choose the PDFs to load (and save paper) and either complete on the iPads, or in their books. Answers are provided for all three activities. Activity 1 - Harry Potter genetics. Students use information from Harry Potter to get used to the punnet square approach to these tasks. Activity 2 - Moving on from Harry Potter, students have to do more work. There is a lot of repetition here so I would advise students to move on when happy. Answers are again provided. Activity 3 - Exam questions, a series of exam questions to challenge the students, with mark scheme. Plenary Students complete an EBI and WWW for the lesson Bonus The final slide contains an optional task that can be a cover lesson, or just a less teacher focused lesson. NOTE ABOUT QR CODE SHEET - The QR codes on there will NOT work, you will need to upload the PDFs to a location on your schools network and then use a QR code generator website to generate the QR codes.

This resource has as many 6 mark questions as I could find, or have the time to write myself. Along with each question is a writing frame which includes a sentence starter. There is also a mark scheme for each question.

This booklet contains one Level 2 and one Level 3 question per topic in C1. The front cover allows the students or the teacher to track their common mistakes. The booklet also contains a set of relevant 6 mark questions at the back, including a scaffolded writing sheet. Also attached is the raw word document which contains the answers to the questions

Posters for GCSE AQA Science past papers and mark schemes. Use a QR reader to quickly download the files.

Lesson 4 of an 8 part series. This introduces students to precision and accuracy by completing a class practical Lesson includes a guided powerpoint and the related worksheet Buy this as part of a bundle to save ££

Using ramps and cars the students plan their investigation using the planning sheet, and then carry out the investigation. This can all be done in one lesson. I then set them the task of writing up the investigation (using the level ladder) as homework, but could be done in a subsequent lesson

Practical lesson

Differentiated worksheets using the speed = distance / time formula

Practical to get the students understanding stability and how to work out the centre of mass of an object

Revision sheet for students to complete

This is for a 100 minute lesson, but there are two tasks which could be split over two 50 min lessons. The Timeline Poster is one activity and the Darwin text based activity is the second activity. The text may be too textual for low ability or low reading age students, my low reading age group had an LSA and they were ACE!

This booklet contains one Level 2 and one Level 3 question per topic in B1. The front cover allows the students or the teacher to track their common mistakes. The booklet also contains a set of relevant 6 mark questions at the back, including a scaffolded writing sheet. Also attached is the raw word document which contains the answers to the questions

Students use the information in the PPT to create their own little comic strips of bonding. Bondings increase in their difficulty

This is my first draft of a takeaway homework template, taken from @TeacherToolkit on twitter. It was designed for Science, but is easily adaptable.