Big Picture online resource collection
Explore our collection of quality-assured resources to give you ideas and inspiration for your post-16 biology lessons. Each topic contains a selection of videos, posters and activities to help you bring your lessons to life.
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The cell
Videos, presentations and lesson plans covering most aspects of cell biology for post-16 students.
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Drug development
Investigate the role of pharmaceuticals in modern life and where we might go in the future.
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Fat
Find out what fats and lipids do, not just inside us and other organisms, but in the world around us.
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Genes, genomes and health
Explore how science can help us to understand our genes and genetic identity.
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Health and climate change
Investigate climate change and what can be done to minimise the risks.
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Immune system
Articles, posters and activities to help you learn about health and the immune system.
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Inside the brain
Explore how imaging research has changed the way we look inside the brain.
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Number crunching
A range of articles explaining how data and statistics can help us to understand the world.
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Plants
Information and activities to help you investigate flowering plants and their uses.
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populations
Learn about how populations grow, change and move, and why understanding them is so important.
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Proteins
Explore how proteins carry messages around our bodies, support the immune system and catalyse chemical reactions.
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Space biology
Looks at life in space from several perspectives: how it began and the effects of space as an extreme habitat.