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Revision topic list for remaining assessments.
Practical 9: Directed study: Respirometer
Practical 9: Respiration home works and feedback videos
Multiple choice quiz practice: Kidney Multiple choice
Multiple choice practice questions: Evolution, classification, Nucleic acids, Mitosis
Practice Multiple Choice Questions
AQA Biology A-Level Specification
AQA Course Textbook
Year 1
Year 2
Exam Papers and Past Paper Questions by topic
Revision notes
Revision placemats
Top 10 Universities for study Biology
Careers - your next steps!
Reading Lists
How to effectively plan Year 1 revision
How your Year 1 folder should be organised.
What does the 4-6 additional hours looks like?
What you need in your file.
Revision video websites
A-level Biology revision notes- Scool
A-level Biology revision notes- Biology guide
A-level Biology revision notes- questions with answers
How to organise your Year 1 folder
AQA essays and what topics to include
Essay titles with spider diagrams of what could be included
Essay Template to help you plan your essays
Link to AQA website with marked and annotated example essays
Inorganic ions include those of NA, PO and H. Describe how these and other inorganic iosn are used in living organisms
Importance of Diffusion in living organisms,
How can offspring look different if the parents are the same.
Energy transfer between organisms essay
The importance of N containing mols in a biological system
Movement in cells
Condensation & hydrolysis and their importance
How structure of organelles is related to their function.
Properties of enzymes and their importance
A cycle is a biological pathway or process which the end product of one cycle becomes the starting point for the next.
Carbon dioxide may affect organisms directly or indirectly.
Specimen essay including examiner marking
Essay support designed by Year 2 students
calculating percentage change questions
Maths homework - exam questions style
General maths practice questions with answers
Difference between Precise and Accuracy.
Graph drawing homework
ANSWERS TO GRAPH RATE SHEET
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.1: Biological molecules
Stretch and Challenege folder for 3.2: Cell structure
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.3: Organisms exchange substances with their environment
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.4: Genetic information, variation and relationships between organisms
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.5: Energy transfer in and between organisms
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.6: Organisms respond to changes in their environment
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.7: Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems
Stretch and Challenge folder for 3.8: The control of gene expression
Teacher Assessment Videos
May Exam YouTube Assessment Video Review Links
AS Paper 1 2014 Assessment Review (Self marked)
What you said, what we've done
Updated plan for rest of year
AQA Biology Textbook
Mitosis and Meiosis assessment
Booklet and Powerpoint
Lesson 1 Binary fission and mitosis
Lesson 2 Meiosis
Lesson 3 Meiosis 2
Lesson 4 Cell cycle and cancer
Mitosis and Meiosis Hand in
Classification Assessment
Student Booklet and Powerpoint
Lesson 1: Species, courtship and the Binomial system
Lesson 2:Taxonomy and phylogenetic
Lesson 3: Interpreting phylogenetic trees
Lesson 4: Practical 6
Classification Assessment and Practical 6 - hand in
Revision activities Week 1
Revision Activities Week 2
Test Hand in
Test and answer grid
Mark scheme for Multiple choice test
Natural Selection Assessment
Booklet
Lesson 1 Variation and Natural Selection
Lesson 2 Types of Selection
Lesson 3 Speciation
Lesson 4 DNA Hybridisation
Natural Selection Assessment Hand in
Energy and Ecosystems Assessment
Energy and ecosystems booklet and PDF PowerPoint
Lesson 1 - ecosystems, biomass and calorimetry
Lesson 2 - Energy flow though ecosystem, GPP and NPP
Lesson 3 - Net production and simplifying food webs
Lesson 4 - Farming practices and efficiency of productivity
Energy & Ecosystems, test reflection sheet hand in
Biodiversity and Populations part 1 Assessment
Biodiversity and Population part 1 and 2 Booklet and powerpoint
Lesson 1- Maths for Biology
Lesson 2- Definitions and Index of Diversity
Lesson 3: Sampling techniques
Lesson 4- Factors and Niches
Evolution revision placemats
Evolution revision placemats
Biodiversity and Populations part 1 Hand in
Biodiversity and Population assessment part 1 talk through
Biodiversity and Populations part 2 Assessment
Lesson 5- Predator, prey relationships
Lesson 6- Succession
Lesson 7- Conservation
Lesson 8- Revision Session
Biodiversity and Populations part 2 Hand in
Nutrient cycles booklet and ppt
Biodiversity and Populations Assessment part 2 talk through
May On line test
Exam question test hand in
AS paper 1 2014
Revision - Biodiversity and Populations part 2
Revision - Energy and Ecosystems
Taught session: AS paper 1 2014 markscheme
Week Beginning June 1st
Independent learning: Revision - Nutrient Cycles
Independent learning- Comprehension skills explained
Independent learning: Comprehension assessment
Comprehension assessment and exam reflection sheet
Year 1 exam revision assesment
Taught session: Year 1 revision topics.
Week beginning 8th June
Independent learning: Practical 2 Root tip squash write up
Independent learning: Kidney- Ultra filtration
Independent learning: Kidney- Selective re absorption
Year 1 revision questions and prac 2 write up
Kidney assessment
Taught session: Year 1 revision topics
Week beginning 15th June
Independent learning: Kidney- Loop of Henle
Independent learning: Kidney - Osmoregulation
Independent learning: Pancreas- Principles of Homeostasis
Kidney assessment hand in
Teacher does through Kidney assessment
Pancreas assessment
Lesson 1: Pancreas - Controlling factors
Lesson 2: Pancreas- Islets, Liver and triggers
Lesson 3: Pancreas- Adrenaline
Lesson 4: Pancreas- Control of diabetes
Revision: Kidneys
Pancreas assessment hand in
Pancreas quiz questions week beginning 29th June
Lesson 1: As paper 2 2014
Lesson 2: Markscheme As paper 2 2014
Lesson 3: Revision of Pancreas
July On-line test
Exam question hand in
Summer work
Directed study Wk beg 14th Sept
Directed study Wk Beg 14th Sept
WK Beg 21st Sept - Nerves 1 & 2, Maths 1, Marked AS paper 1 2015
Directed study Wk Beg 28st Sept- Feedback Nerves 1, 2 & Maths 1
Wk Beg 28th Sept - Maths 2 homework and corrected Nerves 1and 2 and Maths 1 submission
Wk Beg 5th Oct - Maths 3, Corrected AS paper 2 2015, Receptors 1
Directed study Wk Beg 5th Oct- Taxis, kinesis, tropism & Maths 2 feedback
Wk Beg 12 Oct- Receptors 2, Marked Receptors 1, Marked Maths 3
Directed study Wk Beg 12 Oct- Maths homework 3, Receptors homework 1 feedback, Animal transport revision
Wk Beg 19th Oct- Marked AS paper 1 2016, Marked Receptors 2
Wk Beg 19th Oct- Essay skills and Receptors 2 homework feedback
November to December homework pack
Directed study - Intro to photosynthesis
Wk beginning 2nd Nov- Submit Completed Muscles 1, completed photosynthesis booklet pages
Directed study wk beginning 9th Nov- Limiting factor and enzyme theory
Wk Beginning 9th Nov- Completed Muscles 2 homework.
Muscles 1+2 answers
Wk beginning 16th Nov -Corrected Muscles 1 and 2. Completed photosynthesis 1
Directed Study- Week beginning 23rd Nov
Week beginning 23rd Nov- Corrected Year 1 enzyme practice.
Directed study - Week beginning 30th November
Wk beginning 30th Nov- Corrected Photosynthesis 1, completed photosynthesis 2.
Directed study Week beginning 7th December
Wk Beginning 7th Dec - Corrected paper 3 practice, corrected photosynthesis 2
January-Feb Homework
Wk beginning 4th January lesson 2 - Video links for essay work.
Wk beginning 4th January- Biodiversity 2 completed recap posters, Biodiversity 1 and 2 exam questions marked. Full essay and inheritance prep
Wk beginning 11th January- Completed Inheritance 1, completed essay activity - Movement essay
Wk beginning 18th January - Inheritance 1 feedback
Wk beginning 18th January - Corrected inheritance 1. Completed inheritance 2. Corrected A-;evel paper 1 2016
Wk Beginning 25th January- Inheritance 2 feedback, Directed study: Applications and implication booklet pages 4-5
Wk Beginning 25th January- Corrected inheritance 2, Completed Inheritance 3, Completed booklet pages on Genomes booklet
Wk beginning 1st Feb- Inheritance 3 feedback. Complete Practical 8 practical work Complete A-level paper 3 2015
Wk beginning 1st Feb- Corrected inheritance 3, Completed Practical 8 worksheet, Completed practical 8 exam questions practice, Completed A-level paper 3 2015
Wk beginning 8th Feb- Prac 8 exam question feedback
Wk beginning 8th Feb- Completed Recombinant 1, Corrected Prac 8 exam question practice,. Corrected A-level paper 3 2015.
Biology Booster with Gemma
Biology Support tutorial with Kim
Aiming for the A with Beth
Feb- April Homework Pack
Week beginning 22nd Feb- Prac 11 worksheet, Prac 10 worksheet
Week beginning 22nd Feb- Completed Prac 11 worksheet (including Exam questions), Corrected Recombinant 1, Completed Recombinant 2.
Week beginning 1st March- Homeostasis revision, Recombinant 2 feedback, Practical 11 feedback.
Week beginning 1st March: Corrected Recombinant 2, Corrected Practical 11 exam question. Completed Practical 10 (done in class)
Wk beginning 8th March- Practical 11 exam question practice.
Wk beginning 15th March- Revision topics Immunity and Natural selection
Wk beginning 22nd March - Nerves, muscles, Recombinant DNA and Nucleic acids
Cell structure
Cell division (mitosis and Meiosis)
Cell recognition
Biological molecules
Nucleic acids
Gas Exchange
Animal transport
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