With the increased demand of practical questions in the new spec papers, i have put together a booklet on the required practicals which contain concise, detailed notes for each practical AND common questions that i have found from my vast research through endless papers!
Included is also an application question for each practical along with a challenging insect dissection question i have made.
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7 detailed lessons on AQA A Level Biology Homeostasis, covering temperature regulation, glucose control, the hormones involved in glucose control, the second messenger model, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and finally the Kidneys and osmoregulation.
This is designed for AQA but can easily be adapted for other exam boards.
There are over 16 files with specifically chosen exam questions to develop recall, practical skills and challenging application questions scattered throughout to refine knowledge.
The lessons are concise and detailed with plenty of room for consolidation and engaging activities/AfL to support teaching.
This resource is invaluable considering the sparsity of new specification papers.
I often produce my own end of topic tests and decided to produce a whole exam paper. I have also produced a sample Paper 3 which can be found and bought.
This is a demanding and challenging paper designed to stretch candidates. A suggested mark scheme has been included.
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Eight full lessons on exploration of the gene expression, cancer, epigentics, the human genome project, protein synthesis and mutations
This is designed for AQA but can easily be adapted for other exam boards.
There are over 24 files with specifically chosen exam questions to develop recall, practical skills and challenging application questions scattered throughout to refine knowledge.
The lessons are concise and detailed with plenty of room for consolidation and engaging activities/AfL to support teaching.
Uncertainity and percentage error calculations are new to the AQA specification in Biology and something which will be assessed a lot more moving forward. These questions can be used for any exam board on the whole and explore what uncertainity is and means, the concept of resolution and plenty of exam questions for students to try.
This booklet was designed for biology students to complete during the Christmas holidays; a “12 days of Christmas” booklet with tasks and exam practise on the different areas within the “Exchange with the Environment” topic of AQA AS Biology.
The booklet is designed as a revision booklet for student to recap their learning but it can easily be changed into an in-lesson learning booklet to support teaching materials. There are tasks for each day staring with the 25th December. (!)
As mentioned before, there is lots of necessary exam practise with challenging application-style questions. The booklet was given to students on the last day of term, wrapped up as a present! Students were instructed to open this on Christmas. What a great present!
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This folder comes with 10 lessons for each of the parts of the stimulus and response topic, including relevant exam practise and also required practical 10 alongside practical skills to do with IAA - from responses and reflexes to receptors and finally control of the heart rate.
The following parts of the spec are covered:
• Organisms increase their chance of survival by responding to changes in their environment. In flowering plants, specific growth factors move from growing regions to other tissues, where they regulate growth in response to directional stimuli.
• The effect of different concentrations of indoleacetic acid (IAA) on cell elongation in the roots and shoots of flowering plants as an explanation of gravitropism and phototropism in flowering plants.
• Taxes and kineses as simple responses that can maintain a mobile organism in a favourable environment.
• The protective effect of a simple reflex, exemplified by a three neurone simple reflex.
• AT h Students could design and carry out investigations into the effects of indoleacetic acid on root growth in seedlings.
• Required practical 10: Investigation into the effect of an environmental variable on the movement of an animal using either a choice chamber or a maze.
• The Pacinian corpuscle should be used as an example of a receptor to illustrate that:
• receptors respond only to specific stimuli
• stimulation of a receptor leads to the establishment of a generator potential.
• The basic structure of a Pacinian corpuscle.
• Deformation of stretch-mediated sodium ion channels in a Pacinian corpuscle leads to the establishment of a generator potential.
• The human retina in sufficient detail to show how differences in sensitivity to light, sensitivity to colour and visual acuity are explained by differences in the optical pigments of rods and cones and the connections rods and cones make in the optic nerve.
• Myogenic stimulation of the heart and transmission of a subsequent wave of electrical activity.
• The roles of the sinoatrial node (SAN), atrioventricular node (AVN) and Purkyne tissue in the bundle of His.
• The roles and locations of chemoreceptors and pressure receptors and the roles of the autonomic nervous system and effectors in controlling heart rate.
• AT h Students could design and carry out an investigation into the effect of a named variable on human pulse rate.
• MS 2.2 Students could use values of heart rate ® and stroke volume (V) to calculate cardiac output (CO), using the formula CO = R × V
For Christmas, i made students complete a “12 days of Christmas” revision booklet to consolidate our topic on recombinant DNA Technology.
Equally, this booklet can easily be transferred into homework tasks for students studying the topic or even used in lessons for students to record their notes in. The booklet is full of practise summary questions, learning tasks and exam questions to help refine students’ learning.
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Over 100 questions on biological molecules and nucleic acids. The nucleic acids questions are less so and constrained to DNA and RNA as majority of questions link this part of the spec to Variation (so they’re all in there).
Mark schemes included.
A challenge exam paper with many application questions and data analysis on homeostasis and the kidneys.
Designed for AQA but can easily be adapted for any exam board.
8 concise, specific and accurate lessons on Proteins and Enzymes designed for the AQA A Level exam board, but easily adjustible for any board.
The lessons explore amino acid structure, the structure of proteins and their importance, enzymes and factors that affect enzyme action along with competitive and non-competitive inhibition, as well as a practical looking at the effect of temperature on the action of Trypsin.
The lessons focus on how to answer exam questions using specific and exact exam terminology. L8 is a lesson dedicated to exam practice via challenging questions on novel concepts, graphs and maths.
Throughout the lessons there is dedicated AfL, challenging and creative tasks, clearly presented information and relevant exam questions to test knowledge, application and practical skills.
Heavy focus on A02/A03 (application and data analysis/maths/stats) in the questions on the paper, many of which have been self-made.
List of topics:
3.5.1 Photosynthesis
• 3.2.2 All cells arise from other cells (including Required Practical 2)
• 3.8.4 Gene technologies allow the study and alteration of gene function allowing better understanding of organism function and the design of new industrial and medical
processes
• 3.6.2 Nervous coordination
• 3.3.4 Mass transport
• 3.4.2 DNA and protein synthesis
• 3.1.4 Proteins
• 3.6.1 Stimuli, both internal and external, are detected and lead to a response
A 360+ page booklet covering all the topics of A2 AQA A Level Biology with concise and high-yield notes for each topic, coupled with buckets of exam questions and mark schemes.
Booklet designed to supplement home learning / revision via notes providing some concise content and revision and the exam questions allowing for assessment of knowledge and application.
Challenging application and practical-based questions designed for AQA A Level Biology. These have all been created by me and designed to match the difficulties of the exam.
Suggested mark schemes included.
A challenging 15 marker passage/prose/comprehension style question created by me designed for AQA A Level Biology (but can easily be used for other exam boards).
The passage is written by me and looks at proteins, prions and neurodegenerative diseases as a challenging application question for students.
A suggested mark scheme is included.
Introductory lesson back to A Level Biology / Chemistry / Physics. Workbooks cover essential maths skills needed for sciences, statistics introduction, data handling and interpretation and getting to grips with critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and challenging exam styles.
Maths skills covered:
Standard Form
Equations and re-arranging
Ratios and simplifying
Percentages
Percentage change
Unit conversion and orders of magnitude
Prefix and symbols of units
Handling and deriving units
Temperature change and conversion
Density, mass and volume
Logs
pH
Uncertainty and Percentage Error