• About us
  • Contact us
logotype
Search:
Text
  • Home
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Students
  • Library
  • Associates
secondary
  • Home
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Students
  • Library
  • Associates
  • Teaching Resources
  • Key Themes
  • Science Clubs
  • Biology News
  • Specifications
  • CPD
Free resources by e-mail
  • Home>
  • Secondary>
  • Teaching Resources

Displaying articles most recent first.

Investigating Gravitropism with Dandelions

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.

Investigations into eutrophication

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.

Student Sheet 21 - Measuring the biomass of duckweed (Lemna minor)

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.

Light Banks for use in the classroom

Light Banks for use in the classroom

If you're planning to use fast plants in the classroom, you'll need a light bank. Here are some details of suppliers.

Video demo - How do nettles sting?

Video demo - How do nettles sting?

This video demo shows a quick and easy plant practical for your biology lab. Using Universal Indicator paper, students investigate the pH of nettle stings. This can easily be built up into a broader investigation, or used as a quick practical to introduce the topics of plant defences, adaptations and specialised cells.

Floating garlic - growing roots

Floating garlic - growing roots

Here is a simple way of growing garlic roots for the root tip squash practical

The Structure of Flowers

The Structure of Flowers

Diagram of a dissected flower with stamens and carpel, in this case a Brassica rapa (fast plant)

The Structure of a Flowering Plant (Brassica rapa)

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.

A science garden: illustrating various topics in biology

A science garden: illustrating various topics in biology

Ideas for plants for a science garden to illustrate topics including genetic variation, hybridisation, plant evolution, chimeras and mutation.

Growing duckweed - what nutrient level and pH level is recommended?

Growing duckweed - what nutrient level and pH level is recommended?

Notes on growing duckweed in the classroom

Investigating adaptation and defence - spines on holly leaves

Investigating adaptation and defence - spines on holly leaves

Holly trees are well known for their spiny leaves. In this investigation focusing on adaptation and defence, students consider whether there is a relationship between the number of spines on a leaf and its height above the ground.

Student Sheet 18 - Koch's Postulates

Student Sheet 18 - Koch's Postulates

Robert Koch was a bacteriologist who lived from 1843 to 1910. In his work on diseases, he was trying to establish whether a microbe, obtained from a diseased patient, was in fact the cause of the disease. This protocol allows students to demonstrate and test Koch’s Postulates, using apples infected with the fungus Penicillium expansum.

Measuring Stomatal Density

Measuring Stomatal Density

Stomata control the movement of gases in and out of a leaf, making carbon dioxide available for photosynthesis, and controlling the loss of water from the leaf through transpiration. There are a number of ways to measure stomatal density, and the different techniques are explored here. These include using clear nail varnish, Germolene New Skin and water-based varnish.

Microorganisms - a world in a hanging drop

Microorganisms - a world in a hanging drop

Do all microorganisms look the same? Can they move and change shape? What do they feed on? How small are they . . . and are they actually alive? This activities looks microorganisms under a microscope using the hanging drop technique.

Student Sheet 24 - Microscale Investigations with Catalase

Student Sheet 24 - Microscale Investigations with Catalase

A simple yet accurate protocol looking at the results of the enzyme catalase, found in nearly all aerobic cells (animals, plants and microbes).

Student Sheet 14 - Phosphatase Enzymes in Plants

Student Sheet 14 - Phosphatase Enzymes in Plants

A worksheet and accompanying teachers' notes looking at phosphatase enzymes extracted from germinating seeds.

Student Sheet 13 - Effects of sugar on root explants

Student Sheet 13 - Effects of sugar on root explants

This protocol allows students to examine the growth of root explants of a 7 day period. It is a demanding technique, suitable for post-16 students with good lab skills.

Investigating mitosis in allium root tip squash

Investigating mitosis in allium root tip squash

A protocol allowing students to see mitosis in action.

Investigating osmosis: measuring the water potential of a potato cell

Investigating osmosis: measuring the water potential of a potato cell

Two methods to investigate osmosis and the water potential of a potato cell, including the standard measurement by weighing and the more visual, but challenging, Chardakov method.

Student Sheet 20 - Can plants make starch in the dark?

Student Sheet 20 - Can plants make starch in the dark?

Can plants make starch in the dark? In this practical, students investigate the conditions needed for starch production in a leaf, using leaf discs and carrying out the starch test. The resource includes worksheets and teachers' notes.

  • «
  • <
  • 2
  • 3
  • ...
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • ...
  • 11
  • >
  • »
Page 8 of 11

Download Resources

There are currently no resources associated with this article - perhaps you could suggest one

Filter secondary resources by...

Filter results by type:
Category
Text
  • RSS
  • Share
  • Follow Us
Primary
  • Teaching Resources
  • Beyond the Classroom
  • Hints & Tips
Secondary
  • Teaching Resources
  • Science Clubs
  • Key Themes
  • Biology News
  • Specifications
Students
Library
  • Image Library
  • Links
Legal & Other
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Health and Safety
  • Accessibillity
  • Cookie policy

© 2022 Science & Plants for Schools

Free SAPS newsletter by e-mail

notepad Sign up now