KS4 BIOLOGY HOMEWORK GRID

Y10 – Biology Term 1 Each week your teacher will set you at least one of the tasks below. You may at any point during the course

of the term complete the challenge or Exam and assessment tasks/ questions.

Focus Homework Tasks

Current Learning

1. Write a report on the short and long term effects of drugs and alcohol on the body

2. Create a conversation between a doctor and a smoker - www.ifaketext.com

3. Create a newspaper front page explaining why drugs that affect your reaction time are banned from sports.

4. Create a quiz of 10 questions about pathogens and diseases.

5. Storyboard the events of antibiotic resistance

6. Find a food web online. Annotate the diagram with key words. Create a pyramid of numbers and biomass from the web.

7. Design a survival guide for a parasite of your choice

8. Create a documentary explaining the effects of eutrophication on organisms in water

Revision 1. Create a mind map explaining the nitrogen cycle 2. Create a WORDLE or TAGXEDO cloud to help you learn the spellings of key words for

this unit 3. Design and create a revision collage for this unit 4. Create a Padlet page for this unit 5. Write an blog of 300 words describing what you have learnt

Challenge 1. Produce a campaign in favour of alcoholics being allowed to have a liver transplant. 2. Create an obituary for Joseph Lister 3. Create a graph to show how organisms can be used as pollution indicators 4. Produce a radio news report describing the carbon cycle and explaining the effects that humans are having on the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.

Exam and Assessment tasks

1. Complete the past paper questions on the various topics 2. Create a visual mind map for this unit 3. Complete the Activelearn assignment for this topic

KS4 BIOLOGY HOMEWORK GRID

Y10 – Biology Term 2

Each week your teacher will set you at least one of the tasks below. You may at any point during the course

of the term complete the challenge or Exam and assessment tasks/ questions.

Focus Homework Tasks

Current Learning

9. Make a spot the difference activity for a plant, animal and bacterial cell.

10. Make a collage (and annotate) showing the difference between a light and electron microscope.

11. Draw a series of pictures to illustrate the extraction of DNA.

12. Create a quiz on DNA—the structure and function.

13. Create Fakebook profiles for James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page

14. Make a Prezi about cell division (mitosis and meiosis)

15. Create an information leaflet on clones. How they are made? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Revision 6. Create a mind map explaining the nitrogen cycle 7. Create a WORDLE or TAGXEDO cloud to help you learn the spellings of key words for

this unit 8. Design and create a revision collage for this unit 9. Create a Padlet page for this unit 10. Write an blog of 300 words describing what you have learnt

Challenge 1. Write a newspaper article on the invention / discovery of the HGP (human genome project)

2. Write a letter to a farmer explaining the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering

3. Produce a campaign in favour of the use of embryonic stem cells over adult stem cells 4. Design a storyboard (with pictures) displaying the process of protein manufacture and

how mutations can form

Exam and Assessment tasks

4. Complete the past paper questions on the various topics 5. Create a visual mind map for this unit 6. Complete the Activelearn assignment for this topic