The activity provides a reinforcement opportunity for pupils to demonstrate their knowledge of reflexes for the new born. It could be used as a homework exercise or perhaps as an extended bell work exercise.

The exercise is designed to help scaffold pupil learning and understanding through the use of a story that acts as an analogy for immune cells in heath and disease.

This activity is designed to enhance the students understanding of the condensation reaction in the formation of disaccharides from monosaccharide and the glycosidic bond formed.

This activity should be used to provide a problem solving exercise for pupils to try and work out how blood types are inherited using their previous knowledge. The activity would ideally follow a 5 minute bell work activity that refreshes the pupil’s knowledge of inheritance.

To provide a fun kinaesthetic opportunity to familiarise pupils with the structure of animal and plant cells. It is good way to highlight the 3-D reality of cells and emphasise the interactivity of cell organelles.

Students gain experience of using their height and weight to calculate their BMI. They also learn about why the BMI measure should only be used for guidance and some of its limitations.

Provided are designs of conservation homes for bumble bees and blue tits. These could be made by students in design technology lessons and placed in school grounds. As part of biology lessons in wildlife conservation pupils can see if and how their boxes have been used.

Pupils work in groups to identify micrographs as a specific phase of mitotic cell division before then indentifying which events belong to each phase.