Students complete their pre reading prior to arriving at the lesson Starter - Students do a short quiz to check pre reading understanding, then do a small task checking knowledge on an element of the last chapter Main - Students have 4 tasks from which to choose from (one is an iPad task) Plenary - Complete the diagram as fast as possible in your groups of four

Students complete the pre reading prior to the lesson. They then take a small test to test their pre reading. Students work through the basic concepts before tackling some exam questions

Starter - Spot the mistakes in the diagram Main - Dissection and dice game Plenary - Exam Questions DIssection worksheet not included as gained from a free resource on TES Pre reading included

Students complete the flipped learning (attached) prior to the lesson. They then arrive and complete a variety of tasks. Starter - Odd one out, with reasons why Main - Labelling EM images of cells Plenary - Exam Questions

Starter - Group the cells Main - Label diagrams, Venn diagram, table to complete Plenary - Kahoot!

Students complete the pre reading prior to the lesson (pre reading included) Starter - Students check their understanding of standard form and the use of micro, nano and milli Main - Menu of activities for students to complete their weakest areas first Plenary - Check understanding based on what they didn't know at the start of the lesson

Students arrive at the lesson having completed their pre reading, and creating a resource for the lesson Starter - Recap on the previous topics in this chapter, and then recap on KS4 knowledge Main - Variety of tasks enabling students to identify the stages of mitosis Plenary - Exam questions on this topic

Starter - thinking about images and the microscopes used to visualise them Main1 - Label a microscope Main2 - Look at cells down a microscope Main3 - Magnification images Plenary - Overview

Students complete the pre reading prior to arriving at the lesson Starter - Activities to label a Plasma Membrane and to recall the definition of Active Transport Main - Activities to describe active transport, compare it to Osmosis and Diffusion and then look at exam questions Plenary - Summarise all three transport pathways

First lesson introducing cells. Starter - Draw a cell Main - Activities looking at the structures and functions of cells. Long answer questions Plenary - Kahoot, or you could use the long answer questions if no Kahoot. All worksheets are in the powerpoint

Students need to arrive to the lesson having complete the pre reading. Starter - Students recal their knowledge of mitosis using diagrams of the phases Starter - Students compare mitosis and meiosis Main - Students complete exam questions where they are required to draw diagrams Plenary - Kahoot quizzes

Students are split into groups of 3. Each has a clue sheet and can only read their clues out loud. Between them they have to be able to put the facts into the correct order by using the clues Requires teamwork! Answers included

Revision sheet for students to complete. Buy these as a bundle and save money. One topic is £3, a bundle of three topics is £5, Complete Unit 1 or 2 are £10 each and the whole GCSE course is £15.

This resource has a front tracking sheet, a connectives sheet and then as many 6 mark questions as I could find. Along with each question is a writing frame which includes a sentence starter. There is also a mark scheme for each question.

Students do the marketplace activity to complete the A3 paper. Quiz at the end to check progress

Students complete a quiz as they enter. Depending on how they do, depends on which tasks they complete in the lesson. The idea is they work on their weakest area

Lesson on meiosis using iPads, although can be adapted

Lesson contains some independent learning, and some genetic crosses, including pedigrees.

Market place version of an immunity lesson. The students create a poster which sums up all the market place stations with an end of lesson quiz.