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GCSE teaching resources for Edexcel Biology

These free teaching resources and practical investigation ideas are referred to directly within the Edexcel GCSE Biology specification, for teaching from 2011.

Many other practical investigations and resources to support your teaching are available throughout the SAPS website. Please go to Secondary Resources for a filterable index of other resources available.


Other SAPS resources referred to

  • Student sheet 21 - Measuring Duckweed Includes student sheet, illustrated worksheet and teachers' notes
  • Student projects - Investigations with Lemma minor A SAPS Student Project Starter outlining some investigative techniques
  • What determines the number of spines on a holly leaf? Includes student sheet and technical and teaching notes


Unit 1

Plant tropisms

  • Phototropism: Practical: Response of Seedlings to Light Includes student sheet, illustrated worksheet and teachers' notes
  • Thigmotropism: Practical: Investigating Thigmotropism Includes student sheet and teachers' notes


Inheritance

  • Kit: Investigations with Rapid Cycling Brassicas


Influences on life

  • Video clip - Light and starch
  • Video clip - chloroplasts and starch


Classification, variation and inheritance

  • Video clip - The binomial system of classification


Unit 2

Enzymes

  • Practical: Microscale investigations with catalase  Includes teaching and technical notes
  • Practical: Phosphatase enzymes in plants  Includes teaching and technical notes


Factors affecting photosynthesis

  • Practical: Investigating photosynthesis using immobilised algal balls Includes student sheet, illustrated worksheet and teachers' notes
  • Practical: Investigations using Cabomba Includes technical and teachers' notes
  • Video clip - Production of oxygen in plants
  • Video clip - Leaf structure, stomata and carbon dioxide


Osmosis

  • Practical: Observing osmosis using potato and the new Chardakov method


Field work and ecology

  • Ecology exercise 1
  • Ecology exercise 2


Leaf adaptations for photosynthesis

  • Practical: Observing stomata Includes teaching and technical notes
  • Video clip - Plant adaptations to overcome environmental limitations.


Transpiration

  • Practical: Comparison of transpiration rates  Includes student sheet and technical notes
  • Practical: Investigations into leaf surface temperature Includes teaching and technical notes and a student worksheet
  • Video clip - Leaf structure, stomata and carbon dioxide


Genes and inheritance

  • Video clip - Variation, inheritance and the work of Mendel.
  • Video clip - Muriel Weldale and complex gene interactions
  • Video clip - William Bateson and patterns of inheritance



Unit 3

Food production enzymes

  • Practical: Fruit juice production Includes student sheet and technical notes


Crop production

  • Video clip - How commercial growers increase crop yield


Genetically modified crops

  • Video clip - The case for genetically modified crop plants
  • Video clip - Genetic engineering to increase productivity in rice
  • Video clip - Norman Borlaug and selective breeding of wheat


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