This activity introduces children working at primary level to ideas about evolution in the context of habitats and the environment. Children think of several possible features they would like humans to evolve and discuss how they would help us to survive more easily in modern habitats. They then design an...

A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The module begins by considering variation within humans and in other species and how this could arise. The gene theory of inheritance is then studied, and finally the structure and function...

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called ‘Variation and inheritance’. This X unit provided enough material for eight double periods. It could be selected to complete either a Science or a Further Science course. The teachers’ guide...

In this activity from ARKive students look for similarities between the basic body plan of different vertebrates as evidence of evolutionary change.

Please note that the ARKive.org website is no longer available, where links are listed for additional information within the Teachers' notes.The Teachers'...

In this activity from ARKive students observe images of different primates. The activity presents evidence for a common ancestor shared by different animal groups.

Please note that the ARKive.org website is no longer available, where links are listed for additional information within the Teachers' notes...

In this activity from ARKive students observe images and video material (with web access) of pale and dark forms of peppered moth. The activity uses the relative number of pale and dark forms in different environments as a model for evolution.

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This practical activity explores beak adaptations in bird populations and looks at the way in which variation in beak shape is related to the available food sources within an environment. Using different tools to model different beak shapes children are provided with different kinds of food to pick up. The...

From Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), this practical activity was developed for Scottish Highers specifications, but the protocol can equally well be used for other specifications. 

Students prepare and stain roots, and then examine them to establish the frequency of mycorrhizae. 

The...

This teaching guide provides a range of ideas and resources for teaching about exchange surfaces at A level. Curriculum links include gas exchange, surface area, ventilation, diffusion gradients, spirometer, partial pressure gradient

Although produced to support the teaching of OCR AS and A Level Biology A...

This resource consists of ten topics, each section containing a brief explanation, examples and exercises.

Sets begins with a definition of a set and continues with the elements of a set, set notation, subsets, intersection and union of sets, Venn diagrams, the laws of sets and concludes...

Produced by the Centre for Science Education, this Science Assessment Task for More Able Students, comprises of two investigations with a space-related theme. Students investigate what needs to be considered if humans are to colonise our solar system.

They look at:

* forces and the force of gravity...

In this activity developed by the Institute of Physics, students use simple diffraction gratings to observe the spectra from different sources, and deduce how scientists can work out which chemicals are present in an exoplanet’s atmosphere. When an exoplanet passes in front of its star, some of the starlight is...