AQA GCSE Biology 8461 Complete Course | 86 Ready to Teach Lessons with Topic Tests

What you get

• 86 editable PowerPoint lessons, one hour each, in teaching order
• Including all 10 required practicals, each written as a full lesson rather than a method sheet
• 7 topic tests, one per topic, with a full mark scheme for every question. 333 marks in total
• 7 medium-term plans, one per unit, with the lesson sequence, key ideas, common misconceptions and assessment points
• A curriculum map listing every lesson with its objectives, specification points and tier, filterable, with your own teaching hours and terms to fill in
• A teacher guide explaining how the course is built and where to start
• A Personalised Learning Checklist covering the whole specification for pupils to rate red, amber or green before mocks

How every lesson runs

A title slide with the objectives and a hook to open the conversation. A slide naming the exact AQA specification points, so you can check it against the specification in seconds. A Do Now that retrieves the lesson before, with the answers on the next slide. Then I do, we do, you do, once for each idea: the explanation you talk through, whiteboard questioning and partner talk, then written practice they complete alone. A model answer after every task. An exam-style question with its mark scheme, and an exit ticket to close.

Everything is editable and customisable. The lessons are PowerPoint files and the topic tests are Word files. Change the examples, the names, the numbers and the pace to suit your class.

Who it is for

Heads of Biology building a two or three-year separate science route. Non-specialists teaching Biology outside their subject. Trainees and early career teachers. Tutors and home educators working through the specification with one pupil.

Download the free sample before you buy.

Written by Mrs Hayles, an award-winning science educator, former deputy headteacher and science curriculum author.

Every lesson in the course, in teaching order

All 86 lessons are listed below so you can check the course against your own scheme of work before you buy.

B1 Cell biology

1. Animal, plant and bacterial cells
2. Specialised cells and differentiation
3. Microscopy: magnification and resolution
4. Required practical: Microscopy
5. Culturing microorganisms and aseptic technique
6. Required practical: Culturing Microorganisms
7. Chromosomes, the cell cycle and mitosis
8. Stem cells and their uses
9. Diffusion and exchange surfaces
10. Osmosis and active transport
11. Required practical: Osmosis in Plant Tissue

B2 Organisation

1. The human digestive system
2. The heart, lungs and blood vessels
3. Blood and its components
4. Required practical: Food Tests
5. Required practical: Effect of pH on Enzymes
6. Coronary heart disease and treating the heart
7. Health and disease
8. Lifestyle and non-communicable disease
9. Cancer
10. Plant tissues and the leaf
11. Transport in plants: transpiration and translocation
12. Levels of organisation

B3 Infection and response

1. Pathogens and communicable disease
2. Viral diseases: measles, HIV and TMV
3. Bacterial, fungal and protist diseases
4. Defending the body: white blood cells and vaccination
5. Antibiotics and painkillers
6. Discovery and development of drugs
7. Producing monoclonal antibodies
8. Uses of monoclonal antibodies
9. Detecting and identifying plant diseases
10. Plant defence responses

B4 Bioenergetics

1. The photosynthesis reaction
2. Rate of photosynthesis and limiting factors
3. Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
4. Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
5. Response to exercise
6. Required practical: Light Intensity and Photosynthesis
7. Metabolism

B5 Homeostasis and response

1. The nervous system and reflex arc
2. The brain and the eye
3. Controlling body temperature
4. The human endocrine system
5. Controlling blood glucose
6. The kidneys and water balance
7. Required practical: Reaction Time
8. Required practical: Plant Responses
9. Hormones in human reproduction
10. Contraception
11. Using hormones to treat infertility (Higher tier)
12. Adrenaline, thyroxine and negative feedback
13. Plant hormones: tropisms and their uses
14. Homeostasis and negative feedback

B6 Inheritance, variation and evolution

1. Sexual and asexual reproduction and meiosis
2. Comparing sexual and asexual reproduction
3. DNA and the genome
4. The structure of DNA
5. Genetic inheritance and genetic crosses
6. Inherited disorders and sex determination
7. Variation and mutation
8. Evolution by natural selection
9. Selective breeding
10. Genetic engineering
11. Cloning
12. Darwin and the theory of evolution
13. Wallace and speciation
14. The story of genetics and the evidence for evolution
15. Fossils and extinction
16. Antibiotic resistant bacteria
17. Classification of living organisms

B7 Ecology

1. Communities, competition and interdependence
2. Abiotic and biotic factors
3. Adaptations and extremophiles
4. Food chains, predators, prey and sampling
5. Cycling materials: carbon and water
6. Decay, compost, biogas and environmental change
7. Biodiversity and the waste we produce
8. Land use, deforestation and global warming
9. Required practical: Field Investigations
10. Required practical: Rate of Decay
11. Maintaining biodiversity
12. Trophic levels and pyramids of biomass
13. Transfer of biomass between trophic levels
14. Food security and farming techniques
15. Sustainable fisheries and biotechnology

Licence

One purchase covers one teacher. You can use these lessons with your own classes for as long as you teach, edit them to suit your pupils, print them and share them with the children you teach and their parents.

If your whole department wants to use them, buy one copy per teacher or email info@advisoryscience.com and I will arrange a department price.

Please do not upload the files to a public website, share them outside your own school, or resell them.