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The past few weeks, I have been spending my Fridays teaching home educated children in a park and it's been awesome. We have made parachutes to drop from the apparatus, made life size food webs and hunted for bugs and made keys for them (or, as I like to put it, Guess Who games). Education can happen anywhere and it can be great too. It doesn't have to happen inside with books and by writing huge amounts. That part is needed, but it is usually the end part of education when e

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Friday's home ed lesson involved making food webs in the park. Remember the arrows go FROM the organism being eaten to the organism doing the eating. The arrows show a flow of energy. you could think of it as the organism being eaten is going into the stomach of the organism doing the eating. #biology #foodweb

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6 mark questions have been around for years, but they are going to have a few changes with the new GCSE. Based on the specimen papers, there will be two 6 mark questions in the biology paper. This is most likely bought about by the lack of coursework. Almost all 6 mark questions are leveled. They will have a level 1, 2 and 3 example answer. This means that you cannot necessarily get 6 marks by writing 6 points. You can only get 6 marks by addressing all of the parts of the qu

I've been looking through the specimen papers (such as for AQA Trilogy - aka double and Edexcel biology) and I have noticed that the required practicals take up a large amount of each paper. In fact, in the biology papers I have looked at, between 33% and 40% of the marks are related to the procedure in a required practical or the science related to a required practical. There are tons of resources with details of required practicals. First of all, the exam boards themselves