Articles tagged as "Post 16"
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A SAPS 'Star Plant' for your lab, with a wonderful example of adaptation. Follow our care tips to ensure the plants flourish in your lab.
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Using Living Stones (Lithops) in the Lab
One of the SAPS 'Star Plants' for your lab, showing an extreme form of adaptation. Follow our care tips to ensure that the plants flourish in your lab.
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Using Mimosa pudica in the Lab
One of the SAPS 'Star Plants' for your lab, these plants collapse their leaflets when touched, an intriguing example of a plant response. Follow our care tips to help the plants flourish in your lab.
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One of the SAPS 'Star Plants' for your lab, the horsetails are a living fossil, and make an excellent introduction to discussing evolution.
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Holly makes a useful resource for the science lab, with investigations around topics including stomata, plant defences, herbivory and adaptation.
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Spinach leaves are easily available all the year round, and make great resources for investigating photosynthesis and chromatography.
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Great plants for the lab, aspidistra make wonderful subjects for a range of classic investigations into photosynthesis.
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Dandelions are a valuable resource for the science lab, for topics including plant responses, gravitropism and, of course, ecology.
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Using Pelargoniums (Geraniums) in the Lab
Geraniums are often found in the school lab, but they're rarely used to their full potential as a scientific resource. Follow our guidance and care tips to ensure they flourish in your lab.
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Potatoes make a reliable and easy to obtain resource for key practicals such as investigating osmosis.
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Cauliflower is a useful resource in the classroom. This explores its classroom uses and how to grow it. Part of our 'Plants in the Classroom' sereis
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Diagrams showing parts of a plant and a flower
Download a powerpoint or an image showing labelled and unlabelled versions of a diagram showing parts of a plant, and a diagram showing parts of a flower
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Cauliflower Cloning - Tissue Culture and Micropropagation
'Cauliflower cloning' is an enjoyable way for students to see totipotency at work, and is now a key practical for GCSE specifications. This updated protocol, including technical instructions and a student sheet, is a reliable way to demonstrate this in the lab, with much less risk of contamination.
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Mathematical modelling in biology
Modelling is key to today's biological research, with computer modelling is set to become one of the main methods biologists use to explain their theories and make predictions. This collection of resources introduces the importance of biological modelling for A-level students and their teachers.
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Investigating Gravitropism with Dandelions
This experiment offers a simple, cheap and fun way to look at gravitropism over the course of a double lesson, using the strong gravitropic response of common dandelions.
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Investigations into eutrophication
This brief resource gives five starter ideas for students and classes who want to investigate eutrophication, with options including using duckweed, algae and other plants.
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Student Sheet 21 - Measuring the biomass of duckweed (Lemna minor)
A useful way to calculate the amount of duckweed in a pond or an aquarium.
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Floating garlic - growing roots
Here is a simple way of growing garlic roots for the root tip squash practical
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Diagram of a dissected flower with stamens and carpel, in this case a Brassica rapa (fast plant)
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The Structure of a Flowering Plant (Brassica rapa)
Diagram of a flowering plant, in this case a Brassica rapa ('fast plant') showing the root and shoot systems.