Biology
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- Living, once living, never living
- Looking after our bodies
- Plants and what they need
- Minibeasts in the garden
- My five senses
- Animals and their babies
- Where animals live
- Growing from a seed
- Animal sounds and movement
- Day and night animals
- Baby me: growing and changing
- Taking care of a pet or plant
- Watching a caterpillar change
- How plants and animals are different
- Keeping warm and keeping cool
- Fruits and vegetables: where they grow
Key Stage 1
- Animals and their homes
- What plants need to grow well
- Habitats and food chains
- The parts of a plant
- Naming parts of the body
- Sorting living things into groups
- Asking questions and finding out
- Exercise, food and hygiene
- Growing up: life cycles
- Seeds: how new plants start
- Looking closely: using a magnifying glass
- Evergreen and deciduous trees
- What animals eat: herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
- Taking careful measurements
- The four seasons and living things
- Comparing two habitats
Key Stage 2
- Classification and variation
- Skeleton and muscles
- Teeth and digestion
- Life cycles
- The heart, blood and staying healthy
- Plants and their parts
- Evolution and inheritance
- Food and nutrition
- Grouping living things with keys
- Habitats and how they change
- Growing up and growing old
- How plants reproduce
- Muscles work in pairs
- Comparing the skeletons of different animals
- The parts of a flower
- How water travels through a plant
- Types of teeth and their jobs
- The five groups of vertebrates
- Animals without a backbone
- Food chains and food webs
- Habitats around the world
- The digestive system, organ by organ
- Gestation: growing before birth
- What blood actually does
- How seeds travel away from the parent plant
- Comparing the life cycles of an insect, a bird and a mammal
- Fossils as evidence for evolution
- The heart as a pump
- The effects of exercise on the body
- How drugs and alcohol affect the body
- Camouflage and survival
- What makes something alive: MRS GREN
Key Stage 3
- Cells — the units of life
- Digestion — a journey
- Working scientifically in biology
- Breathing and gas exchange
- Reproduction
- Genetics, DNA and inheritance
- Photosynthesis: how plants make food
- Ecosystems and interdependence
- Health, disease and the immune system
- Specialised cells and their adaptations
- Stem cells and differentiation
- Cell division: mitosis and growth
- Enzymes: the lock and key model
- Diet, nutrients and a balanced plate
- Smoking, lung disease and gas exchange
- Presenting and interpreting biological data
- Puberty and secondary sexual characteristics
- Variation: genetic and environmental causes
- Extinction and the fossil record
- Investigating the rate of photosynthesis
- The carbon cycle
- Predator-prey relationships and population cycles
- Human impact on ecosystems
- Drugs, alcohol and lifestyle diseases: risk factors and evidence
GCSE
- Cell structure and microscopy
- Transport in and out of cells
- Required practicals: biology
- Variation, selection and selective breeding
- Photosynthesis and respiration
- Inheritance, DNA and evolution
- Enzymes
- Homeostasis and the nervous system
- Infection and response
- Ecology
- Hormonal coordination: the menstrual cycle and contraception
- Monoclonal antibodies and their uses
- Plant diseases and defences
- Trophic levels and pyramids of biomass
- Classification and evolutionary trees
- Genetic engineering: technique and applications
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