A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the Edexcel B A level biology course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed. The version that I have written for the previous Edexcel biology A level course have been quite successful and popular with students to support revision. The sheet can be teamed with some practice practical questions. please do leave a review if you purchase as anything to help to improve this resource would be appreciated.

worksheet looking at characterisitics in 5 cows and 5 bulls. Student answer the questions by selecting the correct pair from their description.

Revision sheet for AS biology for the core practicals, including summary of method, expected results and possible evaluation issues. This is for the old 2008 Edexcel biology A level course but it will still be relevant in part to the new Edexcel Biology A course

A task to get students to re-enact (sort of!) what Dr John Snow did in terms of identifying the causes of an outbreak of cholera in london. finding the real cause - story of Snow finding the real cause graph - a gridded version of the map of London where Snow did his work finding the real cause graph data - points to plot on the graph showing the water pumps and the cases (fictional) of cholera students then have to assess their graph and decide what it tells them and then what they shoudl do next

Summary for all of the practicals for Edexcel A2 biology This is for the old 2008 Edexcel biology A level course but it will still be relevant in part to the new Edexcel Biology A course

co-ordinates and basic map for students to plot, (in different colours) earthquakes and volcanoes. The aim is for them to see that the majority occur near the edges of the plates. adapted from an old Hodder B KS3 science resource

A good homework activity. Simple comprehension on penicillin and its discovery. Good how science works.

an analogy that I have written to help students to understand the basic process for protein synthesis. Students seem to really like it and understand from the analogy.

a booklet that I have constructed to give to year 10 (and 11) for support in the ISA. We add in a copy of the definitions from AQA as well

These tasks each focus on a different part of the additional science investigation (or the core science data analysis) and can be used as practices to get students used to the format. Each contains a mark scheme and some have parts that can be given as homework to train students in researching for these tasks!

a simple comprehension task on smallpox and immunisation

An activity to learn how to use excel to draw detailed bar graphs (with all gridlines and labels etc) The sheets can be adapted to add instructions for scatter graphs etc

this has 3 levels of difficulty, the first with a word bank and starting letters, the second with just the word bank and the third with no clues. This is a good summary challenge after doing food tests.

a diagram drawn to help students to revise kidney structure and function.

mark scheme for an essay on DNA profiling

mark scheme for essay titled ’ How did the work of other scientists help Crick and Watson to develop their theory for the structure of DNA’

hand drawn (and scanned) cartoon showing a simple nitrogen and a simple carbon cycle

a diagram drawn to aid revision of how an action potential passes along a neuron and crosses a synapse.

A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the AQA GCSE Trilogy biology part of the course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed.

A summary sheet for students to help them to revise for the core practicals in the Edexcel B A level biology course. The sheet provides independent, dependent variables (where relevant), controls, equipment list, summary method and key evaluation points for each practical to enable students to review the practicals that they have completed. The version that I have written for the previous Edexcel biology A level course have been quite successful and popular with students to support revision. The sheet can be teamed with some practice practical questions.