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

mark scheme for an essay on CVD to help train students in referencing etc as it matches those aspects of the EDEXCEL coursework.

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

use the idea of a record producer to get students to write a song about food and digestion. split the class into 4 groups, each has a different character with a different music style. They have to create a song for their musical character. The pdf is an image for the IWB

a good plenary or starter

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’

a series of diagrams to aid the revision of photosynthesis. image 1 is a summary of how photosynthesis, respiration, plant structure link together (combination of AS and A2 knowledge) image 2 shows the locations of photosynthesis image 3 is the light independent image 4 is the light dependent

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 show the process of respiration

mark scheme for an essay on decomposition of a human body

mark scheme for an essay on viruses

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

use these to encourage students to learn the spelling of some key words and to write their own sentence of explanation

A document that shows students the topics from both the AS and A2 Edexcel biology course (from 2008) that shows how the different topics link together.