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

mark scheme for an essay on antibiotics and C.difficile and MRSA to help train students in referencing

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

mark scheme for an essay on decomposition of a human body

a good plenary or starter

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

I have used this sheet only with a practice ISA to help students to learn how to research their topic. It can be edited for whichever hypothesis you want and we got the students to use this in the computer room to research their ISA planning sheet. They then use the full information to write their ISA notes sheet. This also means that they can keep this sheet for revision to revise from before their tests and to help them to remember what their notes sheet means. For the real thing, they will create their own.

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

These tasks each focus on a different part of the additional science investigation (or the core science data analysis) and can be used as practices to get students used to the format. Each contains a mark scheme and some have parts that can be given as homework to train students in researching for these tasks!

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

table showing what topics students need to revise for the route 2 AQA A science exam on the 12th june 2012 linked to CGP revision guide pages (higher or foundation)

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’

mark scheme for an essay on viruses

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