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 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.

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

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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 ££

Lesson 2 of an 8 part series. This introduces students to repeatable and reproducible by undertaking a practical activity Lesson includes a guided powerpoint and the related worksheets Buy this as part of a bundle to save ££

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.

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!

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Bitesize revision timetables for B1, C1 and P1. Takes 4/5 weeks to complete.

Part one of a bitesize revision timetable leading up to the GCSE exams. The rest will follow when it is written.

Practical lesson

PDF of a host of B2 exam questions. Included are the same worksheets with worked answers

Students use the textbooks/internet to answer the questions on the worksheet. They have to answer a specified amount to be "safe" for the lesson and then there are rewards for achieving more points. Very easily a whole lesson of students working on tasks that are self differentiated.

Writing frame to cover the content for this lesson. Page 1 is an easier version, page 2 more challenging

Practical looking into the effects of sweating on the body.

Lesson 6 of an 8 part series. This teaches students how to draw graphs, spot mistakes in graphs and gives them a checklist to work to. Lesson includes a guided powerpoint and the related worksheets (differentiated task) This is a free resource as part of the working scientifically bundle. To purchase the rest of the items, please look for my bundle!